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For most of the past two decades, Tottenham Hotspur has been a fixture of the Premier League's upper half, a Champions League regular, and a financially solid English football club. In the 2025-26 season, however, the club's form has raised the possibility of the …

The architecture of theUK electricity market— in which the wholesale price is set by the marginal cost of the most expensive dispatched plant, typically gas-fired — has been the subject of sustained critique since the 2021-22 global gas-price spike. The perceived injustice of consumers …

TheUK farming sectorhas been navigating one of the most complex periods in its modern history. The post-Brexit transition from the EU Common Agricultural Policy to the UK's Environmental Land Management schemes has reshaped the subsidy framework. Input costs — for fertilisers, fuel, labour and …

At the heart of the currentUK electricity marketdebate lies a tension between two facts about generation economics. Renewable generation — principally offshore and onshore wind, and increasingly solar and storage — has a low marginal cost and near-zero fuel price exposure. Gas-fired generation has …

The UK's school absenteeism crisis is not new, but its scale and its persistence make it one of the most economically consequential unresolved issues in the country. The absence rate in English schools rose from 4.3% in 2018 to 7.2% in 2024, and persistent …

The decision by the Scottish National Party to make the cost of living the "defining issue" of its electoral pitch, and to propose caps on the prices of essentials such as bread and milk, has restored to the centre of UK political debate an …

In the conventional mental map of country risk, the United Kingdom has historically sat in a very specific place: developed, predictable, rules-based, institutionally deep, and reliably dull in the ways that matter for pricing risk. That positioning is not decorative. It has underpinned the …