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AJ Bell: DIY investment platform’s business booms

January 28, 2025

AJ Bell saw assets under administration jump to £89.5bn by the end of 2024, as customers on the do-it-yourself investment platform surged eight per cent throughout the year. The trading platform’s assets under administration jumped 17 per cent throughout last year, and three per cent in the last quarter, it said in a trading update [...]

Breakfast and brunch fuel sales surge at pub giant Butcombe

January 28, 2025

A surge in customers ordering breakfast and brunch has helped sales surge at pub and brewing group Butcombe. The North Somerset-headquartered group has reported an increase in its total managed like-for-like sales of 7.8 per cent for the year to 25 January, 2025. Its food category jumped by 12 per cent while both accommodation and [...]

London’s top spot for super-prime property crowned

January 28, 2025

Belgravia has taken the crown as London’s most-sought-after super prime neighbourhood, home to more than a tenth of sales in the capital last year and overtaking Chelsea for the first time since 2020. The area was even home to London’s first super prime deal of 2025, a £38m mansion on Wilton Crescent. “Belgravia has benefited from [...]

Year of the Snake: China faces ‘short term pain for long term gain’

January 28, 2025

As China welcomes in the new year today, markets are hopeful that the government’s strategy of ‘short term pain for long term gain’ is enough to push the Chinese economy to a new stage of development. In traditional Chinese culture, the Year of the Snake embodies qualities of introspection, transformation and adaptability. That year seems fitting for 2025, as [...]

Cornwall hopes for tin mining revival as metals firm lands £56m injection

January 28, 2025

After the belts whirred to a halt and workers left Cornwall’s last operating tin mine for a final time in March 1998, a question was painted on its outer wall: “Cornish lads are fishermen and Cornish lads are miners too. But when the fish and tin are gone, what are the Cornish boys to do?” [...]

GB News challenge over breaking Ofcom broadcasting rules heads to High Court

January 28, 2025

GB News is seeking a judicial reviews to contest Ofcom's rulings over breaches of impartiality in broadcasts, including the presentation of State of the Nation by politicians

Is this the age of the unfiltered CEO?

January 28, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg’s recent conversation with podcaster Joe Rogan stays in my mind for a number of reasons. The idea of the world’s Nerd-in-Chief stripping off and shooting pigs with a bow and arrow was one of the more bizarre images to emerge from the chat, along with his slightly cringeworthy enthusiasm for fighting other men [...]

Digital IDs and biometric data: Welcome to Labour’s tech dystopia

January 28, 2025

The approval of digital IDs heralds is heralding in a tech dystopia, and Labour is welcoming it, writes Silkie Carlo.

How to pick a financial adviser

January 28, 2025

In a world of volatile markets and ever-changing regulation, having a financial adviser in your corner could be a shrewd move to protect your finances and ensure that you have enough money for a comfortable retirement. The use of financial advisers in the UK has slowly crept upwards in recent years. In 2022, 8.3 per [...]

Big Law and the four-day workweek? No, they’re moving the other way

January 28, 2025

Big Law is resisting the four-day workweek trend, with City firms opting for at least four days in the office, and sometimes more

Government must improve its cybersecurity, warns UK watchdog

January 28, 2025

The government must fix its significant deficiencies as the cyber threat landscape outpaces its current defensive strategies, UK watchdog has warned. According to Wednesday’s report by the National Audit Office (NAO), the UK has a huge shortage of skilled cyber security professionals within its government departments. Gareth Davies, head of NAO, said: “The risk of [...]

Want Gen Z to believe in democracy? Why not actually try it

January 28, 2025

Reports that Gen Z are increasingly disillusioned with democracy aren’t surprising. Too many powers in Britain have been handed to unelected quangocrats with no skin in the game while autocracies like China and the UAE are offering superficially attractive alternatives, says James Price “Democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms [...]

Starmer must remember humans respond to incentives, not rules

January 28, 2025

Rules are important to any civilised society, but Starmer has forgotten that humans respond far better to incentives, writes Paul Ormerod.

London’s women-only members’ club AllBright enters administration

January 28, 2025

The female-only Mayfair townhouse operated by women’s collective AllBright is set to close as the company enters administration. The networking and events business, launched by co-chair of the Invest in Women Taskforce Debbie Wosskow and Telegraph Media Group’s chief executive Anna Jones in 2017, will close the doors on the Mayfair club it opened in 2019. “Sadly, [...]

Why DeepSeek’s breakthrough could blow up an AI market bubble

January 28, 2025

DeepSeek’s new AI model made history on Monday by triggering US markets and wiping billions off leading tech stocks. Yet, its breakthrough may have a positive impact on the AI landscape. The Chinese startup’s new chat-bot, a rival to ChatGPT’s OpenAI, gained traction due to its ability to deliver high performance, at a far lower [...]