We are all supposed to be pragmatists now, except in sport. There is an old joke that the US lived out its socialism through American sports (where redistribution and competitive equipoise are common ...

Rachel Reeves felt like she had done enough. This was in every sense exactly as the chancellor billed it: a Labour budget with Labour values. Higher taxes, higher welfare spending, all calibrated with ...

Thea Green has grown up with her business, which she founded in the late 1990s. “For a long time I was the ‘young girl’ figure of my own business,” says Green, “because there were people much older ...

When Hair Syrup founder Lucie Macloud first told her parents she planned to start selling hair oils, their response was swift. “They said, ‘you won’t be doing this under our roof’,” she recalls, ...

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) is transforming the way organisations operate, driving efficiencies and improving productivity. However, the adoption and use of this technology is associated ...

Established in 1998 by Richard Reed, Adam Balon and Jon Wright, Innocent Drinks started out selling smoothies at a music festival in London. From these beginnings, it has grown into a global ...

99% of the UK’s on-site construction workers are male. Of the women making up just 11% of the entire construction workforce, 87% are limited to desk, design and secretarial roles. These shocking ...

Monday.com is a cloud-based platform that lets companies build their own work and project management tools. This approach is often referred to as 'low code, no code'. It gives teams the flexibility to ...

Husband-and-wife team Guy and Leeanne Hundleby have built handbag maker Strathberry from their in-home office to one of Scotland’s best-known luxury brands. Started in 2013, all the bags are designed ...

Marks & Spencer is probably the best-known business in Britain. But when Stuart Machin joined in 2018 it had been struggling for years. Since then he has led an extraordinary turnaround of the high ...

Anthony Eskinazi founded the start-up JustPark in 2006, two years before Airbnb launched. Originally called ParkatmyHouse, the idea was to let people rent out their driveways or parking spaces on a ...

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses,” Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, once quipped. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, didn’t conduct focus groups ...