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Haleon, the former consumer healthcare business of GSK, has raised its full-year revenue forecasts after sales were boosted by price rises. The FTSE 100 company said revenue had risen 10.4 per cent to...
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The answer comes back to financial accounting. The unstated point behind moving to unlimited vacation policies is what gets dropped in the process, and that is accrued vacation time, which you earn by...
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Passengers were left stranded inside a bus by the landmark Angel of the North sculpture after the driver abandoned the vehicle mid-journey, reportedly saying: “You can stuff your job.” Hmm, well, OK....
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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has said it is suing Elon Musk’s SpaceX, alleging the rocket firm discriminates against refugees and asylum seekers in its hiring practices. The DoJ says SpaceX...
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In Scotland, where the Scottish Government introduced a ban on evictions for all rented housing, the private rental sector has contracted and caused serious shortages of accommodation for students....
View ArticleNo assortative mating for you!
The head of oil giant BP has resigned as chief executive amid a review of his personal relationships with colleagues. In a shock late evening announcement, the firm said Bernard Looney, who had led the...
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The Pablo was part of a growing fleet of shadow tankers, transporting sanctioned oil with little regard for industry regulations. Hidden behind shell companies, shadow vessels are characterised by...
View ArticleCalling poetic parodists – well paid gig available
This is not retirement sort of money on offer, but it is take a lady friend to dinner with a brandy afterwards sort of money. One of my weirder gigs has come back to me and asked if I write poetry. No,...
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With relatively tight budgets, controversy has become the lifeblood of GB News. It describes itself as the “home of free speech” and is widely viewed as Britain’s answer to Fox News. But the latest...
View ArticleNow this is fascinating
Well, to me, someone with a buddy who supplies (military) aviation parts. Yes, it’s a hugely paperwork based industry. Parts with the paper are many times the price of the parts without. Yes, it’s an...
View ArticleNonsense
Amazon launches humanoid robots to do ‘mundane and repetitive’ tasks Tech giant says the machines will ‘work collaboratively’ with warehouse workers, not replace them Of course it will replace workers....
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Before she was one of the thousands of employees Musk laid off from Twitter at the end of last year, Melissa Ingle worked on a team responsible for civic integrity and tackling the spread of political...
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For news outlets, the emergence of the new technology brings back uncomfortable memories of the growth of tech giants like Facebook and Google, which upended the way people consume news and...
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Rene Benko’s wild ride at the helm of Signa Lots of real estate bought with cheap money, problems ariving……and then the tell: Early backers included the diamond dealer Benny Steinmetz Ah, yes, the...
View ArticleThose bastards at Google
I bet there will be at least someone taking the wrong lesson from this. The bastards at Google with their market power! Google’s 36% search revenue share with Apple is 3x what Android OEMs get Wrong...
View ArticleBleedin’ lucky at that
Alex Chesterman, the founder of Cazoo, will have his shareholding in the company almost wiped out as bondholders take control of the loss-making online car seller. Cazoo bondholders have agreed to swap...
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It calls for policymakers to reform the governance of UK businesses by changing the Companies Act and adding a duty for directors to consider the social, economic and environmental impact of their...
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Ryanair has found “fake parts” in two of its aircraft engines during scheduled maintenance checks, becoming the latest airline to be impacted by a brewing scandal. The parts were discovered during...
View ArticleGosh, really, Business leaders?
The UK government should stop ignoring the science and block a bee-killing pesticide from being used, business leaders have said. Yes, really, business leaders In a letter to Mark Spencer, the farming...
View ArticleMight solve itself actually
But experts say new net zero rules intended to boost the eco-credentials of office blocks, and the continued trend of working from home, means the outlook is bleak. “Valuations have been hugely...
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