Buc-ee’s: Free-Market Triumph or Simply Capitalist Oppression?
Buc-ee’s—the roadside travel phenomenon—seems to cater to the extremes in our society. Either customers love shopping at the place or ...
AI Is Remaking Election Speech. That’s Not Necessarily a Bad Thing.
David Inserra For a while now, experts and policymakers have been growing increasingly worried about the threat that generative AI ...
Nightlife chief brands Chancellor’s summer VAT cut a ‘superficial fix’ that abandons clubs and festivals
The Government’s headline-grabbing summer VAT giveaway has been dismissed as politically convenient window-dressing by the head of the UK’s night-time ...
Buc-ee’s: Free-Market Triumph or Simply Capitalist Oppression?
Buc-ee’s—the roadside travel phenomenon—seems to cater to the extremes in our society. Either customers love shopping at the place or ...
Reeves serves up summer of savings with VAT cut on family days out
Rachel Reeves has rolled out a package of consumer-facing tax cuts in a bid to put more cash in family ...
Manual gearboxes set to vanish by 2030 and diesel is tailgating its demise
The traditional gear stick, that small, mechanical talisman of British motoring, is being quietly stripped out of new car ranges, ...
The Economics of Value
One of the prevailing myths today is the belief that AI can help to “automate” the economy. That is impossible, ...
Andrew trade envoy files: Queen ‘very keen’ ex-prince led UK plc abroad, Whitehall papers reveal
The late Queen Elizabeth II was “very keen” that her second son, then the Duke of York, take on a ...
UK vending and automated retail sector hits £3.78bn as smart fridges and cashless tech outpace the wider economy
Britain’s vending, coffee services and automated retail industry has quietly become one of the most resilient and technologically progressive corners ...
HS2 reset to punch £33bn black hole in Britain’s public finances
The Treasury faces the unenviable task of plugging a shortfall of up to £33bn after ministers conceded that the latest ...
