11 h. ago Edinburgh and Glasgow Russell & Bromley stores at risk after administration

Russell & Bromley currently runs 36 stores and nine concessions across the UK and Ireland, employing around 440 people.

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5 d. ago Hydrogen distribution bottleneck putting net zero targets at risk

“Distribution requires massive pipeline networks and liquefaction plants that need billions in capital investment” – Dr David Dekker, lead author

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7 d. ago Full list of Russell & Bromley stores at risk of closure amid rumoured takeover

Next, and a liquidation specialist called Retail Realisation, have reportedly pursued plans to take over the brand

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7 d. ago Economic conflicts are world’s greatest risk, WEF survey suggests

Extreme weather events and biodiversity loss identified as the biggest global threats over a 10-year timeframeEconomic conflicts between major powers are the greatest risk facing the world over the next two years, according to experts polled ahead of next week’s Davos summit.Among 1,300 business leaders, academics and civil society figures surveyed by the World Economic Forum (WEF), “geoeconomic confrontation” was identified as the most pressing threat. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago What's on the economic horizon: The Standard's Business Editor Jonathan Prynn on the year ahead

A survey of finance chiefs from accounting firm Deloitte found “geopolitical risk” ranked the number one concern among major UK businesses

Economics

1 week ago Coups, uprisings and oil wars: strap in for a turbulent year

A survey of finance chiefs from accounting firm Deloitte found “geopolitical risk” ranked the number one concern among major UK businesses

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1 week ago Why Scottish businesses must wake up to a new era of geopolitical risk

Businesses can’t afford to treat geopolitics as distant headlines

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2 w. ago Scottish businesses face a new visibility risk as AI replaces search

Generative AI is changing how businesses are discovered. New evidence suggests Scottish firms that fail to adapt risk losing visibility altogether.

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2 w. ago Reeves urged to scrap inheritance tax raid on family firms in full after humiliating climbdown

Rachel Reeves is facing fresh calls to scrap an inheritance tax raid that threatens to destroy family firms across Britain.

Economics

2 w. ago AI’s reckoning with reality represents a growing economic risk for 2026

Revenues may be rising rapidly, but not by nearly enough to cover the wild levels of investment under wayThe US dictionary Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 was “slop”, which it defines as “digital content of low quality that is produced, usually in quantity, by means of artificial intelligence”.The choice underlined the fact that while AI is being widely embraced, not least by corporate bosses keen to cut payroll costs, its downsides are also becoming obvious. As 2026 gets underway, a reckoning with reality for AI represents a growing economic risk. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The cost of slop poses a risk to all of us as AI reckons with reality in 2026

Revenues may be rising rapidly, but not by nearly enough to cover the wild levels of investment under wayThe US dictionary Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 was “slop”, which it defines as “digital content of low quality that is produced, usually in quantity, by means of artificial intelligence”. The choice underlined the fact that while AI is being widely embraced, not least by corporate bosses keen to cut payroll costs, its downsides are also becoming obvious. In 2026, a reckoning with reality for AI represents a growing economic risk.Ed Zitron, the foul-mouthed figurehead of AI scepticism, argues pretty convincingly that, as things stand, the “unit economics” of the entire industry – the cost of servicing the requests of a single customer against the price companies are able to charge them – just don’t add up. In typically colourful language, he calls them “dogshit”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The cost of AI slop could cause a rethink that shakes the global economy in 2026

Revenues may be rising rapidly, but not by nearly enough to cover the wild levels of investment under wayThe US dictionary Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 was “slop”, which it defines as “digital content of low quality that is produced, usually in quantity, by means of artificial intelligence”. The choice underlined the fact that while AI is being widely embraced, not least by corporate bosses keen to cut payroll costs, its downsides are also becoming obvious. In 2026, a reckoning with reality for AI represents a growing economic risk.Ed Zitron, the foul-mouthed figurehead of AI scepticism, argues pretty convincingly that, as things stand, the “unit economics” of the entire industry – the cost of servicing the requests of a single customer against the price companies are able to charge them – just don’t add up. In typically colourful language, he calls them “dogshit”. Continue reading...

Economics

3 w. ago I quit Google and ended my path to a US green card to cofound a startup in London. It's a huge risk, but I want to live an exciting life.

I quit Google and ended my path to a US green card to cofound a startup in London. It's a huge risk, but I want to live an exciting life.  Business Insider

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3 w. ago Sir James Dyson says Rachel Reeves' 'really damaging' inheritance tax changes have put his family business at risk

The billionaire founder of Dyson said today that he fears being unable to pass his business onto his children because of the Labour Chancellor's alterations to Business Property Relief.

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