Swansea tidal lagoon: Taxpayers loaned companies £2.5m
Tidal lagoon: ‘Welsh Government loans kept firm afloat’ £2.5m of taxpayers’ money was loaned to companies behind the snubbed Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project. First…
US plans to curb nicotine in tobacco
Getty Images The new rules will affect e-cigarettes as well The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking to limit nicotine content in tobacco…
Rio Olympics 2016: Did the IOC’s gamble pay off or did Brazil fail to deliver?
As an experience, Tokyo will be more polished, more high-tech and more intense than anything we have witnessed in Rio. The Japanese capital is one…
Martin Scorsese’s editor Thelma Schoonmaker on his hatred of eyebrows
Getty Images Schoonmaker and Scorsese edit his films together but she says “we don’t fight” Martin Scorsese’s long-time collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker has said it would…
Are we ready to live more of our lives online?
Getty Images Baroness Lane Fox says technology will “recede” in our lives Lockdown has catapulted us into a future where we live more of our…
The shock of rising prices in Japan
BBC While many parts of Asia grew richer over the last three decades Japan’s prosperity stagnated As a child growing up in Japan, things very…
Can mum-centric talent platforms solve work-family balance?
Alamy Many mums want to work a flexible, non-linear schedule to be able to accommodate family obligations (Credit: Alamy) Emerging platforms enable mothers to build…
The rules banning mums taking part are ‘discriminatory’
Brighton Pictures Veronika Didusenko has a five-year-old son “The entry requirements for Miss World are discriminatory… there is no place for them in the 21st…
Germany votes for 50m euro social media fines
Getty Images Facebook risks large fines unless its community managers handle extremist content quickly enough Social media companies in Germany face fines of up to…
Ex-UKFast boss Lawrence Jones denies drugging and raping women
Other Lawrence Jones of Hale, Greater Manchester, denies two counts of rape A hotel bar piano player-turned-tech entrepreneur has told a jury he had “absolutely…