Zero hours crackdown could cost firms up to £2.9bn a year
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The government analysis found that hospitality and retail companies would be mo...
How rising oil prices make food more expensive
Global food prices have hit their highest level in over three years. We are told this is due to rising oil and energy co...
Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs’ AI agenda? | Robert Reich
The dangers of AI become clearer every day. Why are we still acting as if we have no choice about our future?Rather than...
What We Know About Taylor Farms’ Food Recalls
Just weeks after the company recalled lettuce and other produce suspected of being tainted by the cyclosporiasis parasit...
America Wants to Make Its Own Humanoid Robots. That Won’t Be Easy.
China already manufactures humanoid robots by the thousands. A new generation of U.S. start-ups is betting that there is...
The Golden Age of Mexican Food Is Here. And It’s Complicated.
Even at a time of anti-immigration politics, there has never been a richer variety of Mexican restaurants in the United ...
Disney+ secures rights to Gary Neville’s Overlap content in riposte to Lineker’s Netflix deal
Multimillion-pound deal puts podcast in streaming battleRooney and Mark Goldbridge join forces for new showDisney+ has s...
Britain's scorched fields mean a food crisis – and the government is ignoring the one measure that would help | George Monbiot
This summer’s extreme weather and wars in Iran and Ukraine have made our need for food stockpiles more pressing than eve...
UK economy grows by 0.4% in second quarter as some businesses helped by World Cup and hot weather – business live
Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as GDP rises in June despite Iran war after stagnati...
Sun and World Cup helped some UK businesses as economy grew in April to June
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Sunny weather helped business in JunePublished13 August 2026, 07:17 BSTUpdated ...
Charity awarded £100k for back to school support
Image source, Maraya Gibbs PhotographyImage caption, The Crisis and Resilience Fund is a three-year UK government fundin...
Too smart to eat? Why octopus farms are such a slippery problem
As a controversial Spanish plan for sustainable meat on an industrial scale is dropped, it has revived the ethical debat...