UK long-term unemployment has climbed to a ten-year high of 474,000, piling pressure on SMEs as employer National Insurance, minimum wage rises and youth jobless rates squeeze hiring budgets. Read…
Angela Rayner has urged Sir Keir Starmer to ban social media for under-16s, but Labour is split over an Australian-style measure that early evidence suggests is being widely circumvented. Read…
Rural SMEs say the Iran war has pushed diesel and heating oil to breaking point — and households will be next to feel the pain Read more: Hauliers, hotels and…
Promoters in the recruitment and temporary labour sector are pushing a bogus payment ‘trick’ that HMRC says has no legal foundation — and SMEs further down the supply chain risk…
Belgian neurotech ReVision Implant secures an oversubscribed €4m round to bring cortical visual prosthesis manufacturing in-house ahead of first-in-human trials in Q3 2026. Read more: Revision Implant lands oversubscribed €4m…
Goalhanger launches Goalhanger Ventures, taking an equity stake in Invisible Media and a commercial partnership with Backyard Cricket as it bets on Britain's creator economy. Read more: Goalhanger Ventures opens…
Fuel prices, which are currently over $4 in every US state, are akin to a constantly displayed economic scorecard Read Full Article at RT.com
Nigel Farage will scrap income tax on overtime for workers earning under £75,000 — a £5bn Reform UK pledge with major implications for SME payroll. Read more: Farage promises tax-free…
Skills minister Baroness Smith says securing a UK apprenticeship is now tougher than winning an Oxbridge place, as ministers promise £600m to create 60,000 new posts amid a youth jobs…
Charlotte Tilbury's payout demand has derailed the £30bn Estée Lauder–Puig beauty mega-merger, with a change-of-control clause proving the deal-breaker. Read more: Charlotte Tilbury’s payout demand scuppers £30bn Estée Lauder–Puig beauty…