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Britain's billionaire class has rarely been under as much scrutiny as it is in 2025. With the publication of the Sunday Times Rich List 2025, the United Kingdom'sWealthelite has once again been brought into sharp public focus, and the picture that emerges is more …

For investors approaching or already in retirement in May 2026, the cost of inaction has rarely been higher. Understanding the moving parts of the new system is no longer a niche concern for high earners with seven-figure pots. It now affects ordinary savers with …

For UK investors with exposure to maritime shares, logistics REITs, freight-sensitive retailers or industrial distributors, the question is no longer simply whether shipping will decarbonise. It is who pays for the transition, when, and on what terms. With the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) …

The poster child for this shift is not a tech start-up or a buzzy biotech. It is a 39-year-old defenceHolding Companycalled Cohort plc (LSE: CHRT), an AIM-listed group whose share price has more than doubled over the past two years and which now finds …

The International Monetary Fund has stepped up its warnings toEuropean Uniongovernments that the energySubsidyregimes erected after Russia's invasion of Ukraine have outlived their economic justification and are now corroding fiscal positions at the worst possible moment. In a series of Article IV statements and …

Intertek (LSE: ITRK), the FTSE 100 testing, inspection and certification (TIC) heavyweight, has long been one of the British market’s quiet compounders. It has rarely set pulses racing in the way of an AI darling or a fashionable miner, but its grip on quality …

This is the strange shape of a market squeezed between two simultaneous global forces: an Iran-Israel war driving a classic oil and safe-haven shock, and a "second China shock" — a tidal wave of Chinese over-capacity in EVs, batteries, solar panels, steel and shipbuilding …