With a prime minister under extreme fire and unable to command a majority in the Commons on matters of personal authority, is politics too self-absorbed to fix a problem as broken as the system for special educational needs provision? Plans to reform the 12-year-old approach to SEND are expected to be announced within weeks –
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If you’ve ever spent your morning commute daydreaming about starting afresh with your career, this feature is for you. Each Monday, we speak to someone from a different profession to discover what it’s really like. This week, we chat to Madison Godfrey, an automotive technician at the Steer Group. Apprentices, which is where I began
Social media is on trial in Los Angeles. What happens next could change the way they operate. Inside LA’s superior court, a landmark trial is getting under way. Social media companies are being accused of being addictive by design, a bit like tobacco and cigarettes were in the 1980s. They’ll face around 22 “bellwether” lawsuits,
KKR, the American investment giant, has become the latest global corporation to sever ties with Global Counsel, the lobbying firm set up by Lord Mandelson, the disgraced former politician. Sky News has learnt that KKR has decided to cease working with Global Counsel in the wake of fresh revelations about the close ties between Lord
The chief executive and publisher of the Washington Post has stepped down, just days after a third of the paper’s staff were made redundant. In an email sent to staff, Will Lewis said that “during my tenure, difficult decisions have been taken in order to ensure the sustainable future of The Post” – seemingly referencing
NatWest Group is closing in on a £2.5bn takeover of Evelyn Partners, the wealth management group, in what would be its biggest corporate takeover since its taxpayer bailout in 2008. Sky News has learnt that NatWest, which returned to full private ownership last year, is this weekend in advanced talks to acquire Evelyn from its
Anthropic, one of the biggest and most influential tech companies in the world, is launching a new model: Claude Opus 4.6. Until now, this would mostly be big news for techies, where Anthropic is admired as the maker of Claude Code, the code-writing AI tool which many engineers say is taking over their work entirely.
Morrisons, the UK’s fifth-largest supermarket chain, is exploring a £1bn property deal amid its battle to recapture the ground it has lost to rivals including Sainsbury’s and Aldi. Sky News has learnt that Morrisons, which is based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, has engaged the real estate advisory firm CBRE to evaluate options for raising finance
Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, is not given to emotional outbursts or shooting from the hip. Being measured in your public comments is part of the job description for running a central bank, and Mr Bailey has stuck to it since succeeding Mark Carney in 2020. (To understand the constraints of the
To Be Published in Paris The newest book from the man Britain’s Channel4 TV calls the Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Freud of the 21st century is about to be published, not in the USA where Bloom lives, but in France. An Interview With (The) Lucifer (Principle) will be published in Paris early in 2026 by Jardin de
More families are setting up trusts to avoid paying inheritance tax, figures from HMRC suggest. Around 121,000 trusts were registered in the 2024-25 tax year, up from 115,000 the year before, taking the total to at least 835,000, the data analysed by Utmost Wealth Solutions shows. Read all the latest Money tips and news here
A wealth platform which targets professionals whose finances are becoming increasingly complex is raising nearly £8m from a syndicate of investors. Sky News understands that Sidekick, which was founded in 2022, will announce on Friday that it has secured the backing in a Series A round led by Eos Ventures and the Development Bank of
The London-listed company which wants to extract one of the world’s largest tungsten deposits from a site in Devon is in talks with investors to raise tens of millions of pounds from a share sale. Sky News has learnt that Tungsten West is close to finalising the terms of an equity-raise aimed at providing additional
The UK’s information watchdog will investigate reports that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has been used to generate sexual imagery of children. Grok was developed by Musk’s xAI in 2023, designed to be a “truth-seeking” assistant with a witty, rebellious personality. Integrated into X, formerly Twitter, it uses real-time data from the platform to generate
The bosses of English football’s new watchdog will next week pitch up to a summit of the game’s most powerful clubs as they await the outcome of the probe into alleged financial improprieties at Manchester City. Sky News has learnt that David Kogan and Richard Monks, respectively the chair and chief executive of the Independent
SpaceX has announced it has acquired artificial intelligence start-up xAI in a deal that that brings together two companies owned by Elon Musk. In a statement, Mr Musk said the deal would create “the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost