Successful budgets are meant to be boring affairs, occasionally sweetened by a surprise giveaway. William Gladstone’s offering in April 1853 wasn’t so much a speech as an endur ance test, clocking in ...

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 ...

Many prime ministers don’t make it to 10 years in office. US presidents only get eight at most to secure their legacy. Katharine Viner has had a decade and counting as editor-in-chief at The Guardian.

Sir Rocco Forte succeeded his father as chief executive of the family business, Forte Group, in 1992. Forte Group was one of the biggest businesses in the UK at this point. It owned luxury hotels, ...

The worldwide television phenomenon, Game of Thrones has delighted its rabid fanbase despite being off our screens for years. Game of Thrones’ US TV network HBO reported viewing figures in excess of ...

In this instalment of our weekly video series, My Business Leader Secret, we talk to Jack Zhang, the founder and CEO of Airwallex. Zhang has built from scratch a global payments platform that is ...

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 ...

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are two terms that are used when discussing how socially conscious a business is. But as there is some overlap ...

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 ...

“If you pitched the idea of The Social Hub on Dragons’ Den, I think the Dragons would have a few questions,” says Abdul Eneser, with a wry smile. He is a final-year law student at the University of ...

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 ...

In less than 10 years, founder and CEO Greg Jackson has powered Octopus Energy from plucky green start-up into the UK’s largest domestic energy supplier. There are now almost 13 million household ...