The Bank of England's quantitative tightening regime is moving up the agenda. The rate the Bank sells gilts could determine whether the Chancellor meets her fiscal rules. But can the Treaury change its relationship with the Bank to remove uncertainty? Read my piece here 👇 lnkd.in/eBqfQ5wN
For the Spectator I argue that the government should not scrap the Digital services tax in exchange for a deal with the Donald www.spectator.co.uk/article/star...
Starmer mustn't let Trump kill the Digital Services Tax
There are good reasons to think a trade deal should not give either party the right to interfere with the other’s domestic tax policies.
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Tomorrow's City AM front page: Businesses on the brink. My analysis finds corporate winding up orders have reached a level not seen since the financial crisis
Agree with this from @jackkessler.bsky.social and to it I would add: first class has also become distinctly shitter on British trains
In case you were wondering who the government is going to get to do all its AI stuff www.uktech.news/government-p...
DSIT officials met with Google, Anthropic to discuss AI in public services - UKTN
Senior officials at the UK government's tech department met with Google and Anthropic to explore the use of AI in public services as chancellor Rachel
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This is true if you don't count tuition fee repayments as a tax. If you do, you can add up to 15%. That's a big change since 2010.
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2y agoUK taxes are not 'extremely high'. For most earners they are lower than they were in 2010 and the overall tax burden is not high compared to the rest of the OECD.
It's not just US research that will be impacted by DOGE funding cuts -- UK firms are also starting to fret www.uktech.news/news/oxford-...
Oxford Nanopore warns of 'risks to US federal funding' as shares slip - UKTN
Shares in Oxford Nanopore sunk as much as 12% in early trade as the biotech business warned of the potential knock to sales of a cut in US federal
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Some personal news: pleased to share I’ve just joined @news.sky.com UK as a data journalist! Looking forward to working with the talented reporters on the Data & Forensics team.
Good scoop here from @oscarhornstein.bsky.social -- UK gov appears a bit rattled by the Macron €109bn AI pledge and now looks to be plotting something in response www.uktech.news/ai/well-foll...
‘We’ll follow that quickly’: UK AI minister on Macron’s €109bn AI plan - UKTN
The UK government will quickly “follow” the €109bn investment announcement from France’s President Macron, AI Minister Feryal Clark has said.
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8 months ago, UKTN reported doubts as to whether autonomous vehicle startup Conigital had really raised £500m like it said it had. Now the firm has gone bust. Excellent reporting from @oscarhornstein.bsky.social www.uktech.news/ai/conigital...
Conigital: Autonomous vehicle startup appoints liquidators after claiming to raise £500m - UKTN
Conigital, an autonomous vehicle company that announced it had raised half a billion pounds in 2023, has appointed a liquidator.
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🤯Wow. Tesla sales slipped 12% in January despite it being the best-ever start to the year for the EV market in the UK. www.uktech.news/evs/tesla-sa...
Tesla sales sunk 12% in January despite best-ever start to the year for EV market - UKTN
Sales of Tesla vehicles slipped as much as 12% in January despite it being the best month on record for the EV market in the UK, fresh data has found. A
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Lime have finally conceded they have a parking problem and are finally trying to do something about it (ft the superb photography of @tomdavidson92.bsky.social) www.uktech.news/travel/lime-...
Lime vows to sort out e-bike parking with £20m 'action plan' - UKTN
The biggest operator of e-bikes in London has vowed to sort out the capital's e-bike parking problem after unveiling a £20m 'action plan'. The
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Could trade unions be gaining ground in the UK’s tech industry? Precarious working conditions and the spectre of AI taking jobs has raised union bosses’ hopes of a surge in membership growth www.uktech.news/news/could-t...
Could trade unions be gaining ground in the UK’s tech industry? - UKTN
For decades, trade unions held next to no sway in the UK’s tech sector, as an abundance of high-paying jobs and the freewheeling attitude of industry
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My top reservation with BlueSky right now is there's too much of a "please keep your voice down, this is a library" vibe. The occasional tit-for-tat exchange is part of what made the other place interesting
Edwin Hayward@edwinhayward.com · 2y agoSadly, some people seem to have adopted the Twitter habit of resorting to personal insults when they don't like the thrust of a particular argument being made. Ad hominem attacks earn an instant block. No ifs, no buts. Bluesky is a nicer place, and should remain a nicer place.
Here's what Ofcom have told us about Meta's plans to cut down on content moderation www.uktech.news/news/governm...
Meta ‘will have to assess the risk’ of fact-checking and content moderation says Ofcom - UKTN
Social media “will have to assess the risk of any changes” made to content moderation, Ofcom said following a controversial announcement from Mark Zuckerberg.
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It's the moment you've been waiting for: the 2025 stock predictions from UKTN www.uktech.news/markets/2025...
2025 stock predictions from the UKTN team - UKTN
2024 was a wild year for stocks. The Nasdaq Composite saw one of its best years, rising by as much as a third between January and December. But things
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A long read from me today on the immense British success story that is Arm. www.uktech.news/semiconducto...
How Arm became Britain's most successful tech company - UKTN
In 2023, Hermann Hauser, the co-founder of London-based Amadeus Capital Partners, was added to a WhatsApp group packed with billionaire US investors,
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A long read from me today on the immense British success story that is Arm. www.uktech.news/semiconducto...
How Arm became Britain's most successful tech company - UKTN
In 2023, Hermann Hauser, the co-founder of London-based Amadeus Capital Partners, was added to a WhatsApp group packed with billionaire US investors,
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🚨 New from me: AI corporate registrations rose to fresh highs in the UK in the fourth quarter, topping 500 for the first time:
New: Hundreds of staff have checked out of checkout.com after UK sales fall www.uktech.news/fintech/chec...
Checkout.com axes 230 staff as UK sales slip after ties cut with Binance - UKTN
One of the UK's most valuable fintechs has cut hundreds of jobs, UKTN understands, after suffering a fall in revenue following the loss of one of its
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Sure DHL, I'd love to save you money by letting you dump my delivery outside my block of flats so it can be stolen again...
My op ed in @uktn.bsky.social on tech predictions for 2025 - Happy New Year! @techlondonadv.bsky.social @globaltechadv.bsky.social @uktechweek.bsky.social www.uktech.news/ai/2025-pred...
2025 predictions: What does the year have in store for tech? - UKTN
With several major elections around the world and persistent economic instability, 2024 can perhaps best be summarised as a year of profound change. This
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The biggest tech gaffes of 2024 via @uktn.bsky.social @simon-hunt.bsky.social www.uktech.news/news/here-ar...
Here are the biggest tech gaffes of 2024 - UKTN
Yes, the time has once again come around to pause and reflect on the year that has past. To reminisce about the good, the bad, and the downright silly. So
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There are more than 10m children in school in the UK…but, per Times, 3,000 might move to state sector because of VAT rise…so Whitehall is “braced” 😲😲😲 Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported. You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.
