Apple’s late leader Steve Jobs was known for having unusual habits — soaking his feet in the toilet during times of stress, for instance. His successor Tim Cook is more conventional, as bosses go. But ...

In a nutshell, the government argued that an individual can be deprived of all their money and other assets indefinitely because there is some faint hope they might, fingers crossed, have some ...

It is a few decades since Nancy Schlossberg identified six routes “retirees”(that’s people not greyhounds) take out of work: Continuers; Adventurers; Easy Gliders; Involved Spectators; Searchers and ...

Innovations are hard to imagine before the fact. Go back 15 years, and some of the Lionesses had day jobs, only playing football at the weekend. Now it’s taken for granted that they are paid to play ...

We rely totally on adequate “rote memorisation” — that is, repetitive accurate retrieval. Equating that with “regurgitation” — a term usually indicative of vomiting undesired food or drink intake — is ...

Ha-Joon Chang (“How economics became the Aeroflot of ideas”, Opinion, July 24) makes many excellent points. Despite the fact that my own ideological stance is quite different to his — I am a classical ...

Elon Musk continued to bankroll Republican candidates after his public fallout with US President Donald Trump, donating millions of dollars to campaign groups gearing up for next year’s midterm ...

Apple’s sales in China have also suffered from competition from local handset makers such as Huawei and Xiaomi. However, ...

Some of the US’s biggest trading partners are racing to strike last-ditch trade deals with Donald Trump, with less than 24 ...

Heathrow airport has unveiled plans for a £49bn expansion that includes building a third runway and rerouting Britain’s busiest motorway, telling ministers they needed to “clear the way for take-off”.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves frequently cites the more upbeat findings of a business barometer published by Lloyds Bank, which last month showed business confidence at its highest since 2015.

Also in today’s newsletter, Nvidia’s alleged ‘serious security issues’ and more US companies shrug off tariffs with strong earnings ...