Romania’s High Court of Cassation and Justice, equivalent to the UK’s Supreme Court, fully acquitted Gabriel ‘Puiu’ Popoviciu in a ruling on 15 January 2025. This ruling is final and irrevocable and it maintains the Bucharest Court of Appeal resolution from July 2024, through which all the defendants were acquitted in the case surrounding the […]
Let me start by saying that I, like every self-respecting political junkie, have watched and adored The West Wing — all seven seasons, multiple times. So before you roll your eyes and think here we go again, another musings-on-Sorkin piece, let me declare it plainly: the show remains as close as modern television gets to […]
‘Russian oligarch’ has become a buzzword for Western audiences in the last two decades, but Alekszej Fedoricsev insists that he is neither an oligarch nor Russian. Born in the Soviet Union, values-driven and self-made businessman has Hungarian, not Russian, citizenship, and he likes to make clear that his primary business operations have been in Ukraine, […]
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Britain has recorded its highest number of company closures for two decades, with the final quarter of 2024 seeing 198,046 businesses struck off the official register. The figure, revealed by research firm Beauhurst, surpasses levels last reached in 2021 and in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Henry Whorwood, managing director of research and […]
Tie-ups with retailers such as B&Q, Screwfix and Ann Summers have helped Deliveroo to raise its profit forecast, after the food delivery group recorded a strong uptick in orders. The FTSE 250 firm, which debuted on the London Stock Exchange in 2021, told shareholders that adjusted underlying profit for the year to 31 December is […]
The Small Business Charter (SBC) has appointed entrepreneur Byron Dixon OBE, founder and chief executive of freshness-technology firm Micro-Fresh, as its new chair. Dixon takes over from outgoing chair Michael Hayman MBE, marking a key leadership shift as the organisation celebrates its tenth anniversary. Dixon is best known for establishing Micro-Fresh, a multi-award-winning business that […]
Workers in the North of the UK have become more likely to receive a pay rise than their Southern counterparts, according to the new Salary Trends Report 2025 from Totaljobs. The research, drawing on 17.5 million online job adverts and a survey of 3,000 people, found that 84% of employees in the North East benefited […]
The UK’s economy grew by just 0.1 per cent in November, below forecasts of 0.2 per cent, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The subdued figure, announced on Friday, underscores the continued weakness in Britain’s recovery as Labour’s new government grapples with stubborn inflation, lukewarm consumer confidence, and looming global trade risks. The […]
Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, has joined the contest to succeed Justin Trudeau as leader of Canada’s ruling Liberal Party. His announcement comes just over a week after Trudeau stepped down, amid dismal polling and growing discontent from his own MPs, ending a nine-year tenure at the helm of Canadian […]