The UK's leading progressive thinktank, IPPR, has responded to the announcement that Shell has made £7.7 billion ($9.65 billion) in profits in the last quarter (Jan-Mar). Shell have also announced a new round of share buybacks, transferring £3.18 billion ($4 billion) to shareholders, following on from £13.8 billion ($17.35 billion) of buybacks in 2022.
The UK's leading progressive thinktank, IPPR, has responded to the announcement that BP has made £4 billion ($5 billion) in profits in the last quarter (Jan-Mar). BP have also announced a new round of share buybacks, transferring £1.4 billion ($1.75 billion) to shareholders, following on from £8.2 billion ($10.3 billion) of buybacks in 2022.
Blog posted by: Chris Carter, Principal, orgshift solutions inc, 27 April 2023.
Three exciting telexistence technologies demonstrated at the BattleLab as a result of the Telexistence: Phase 2 competition
The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer (DMCC) Bill will put the CMA's Digital Markets Unit on a statutory footing while increasing consumer protections against subscription traps and fake reviews.
Earlier this year, Demos launched a new project on the UK's ‘New Age of Inheritance'. We've found that the real value of inheritances transferred annually in the UK has doubled roughly every 20 years since 1979 to over £100bn a year.
The UK Space Agency Space Surveillance and Tracking team is collaborating with the British Antarctic Survey on a study exploring the feasibility of building and operating a satellite tracking sensor in the British Antarctic Territory.
Katie Schmuecker, Principal Policy Advisor at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation responded to new figures from the Trussell Trust that show their food banks gave out almost 3 million food parcels in the last year
Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, commented on the Government's gambling white paper
The UK's poor record on health is taking a huge toll on people's personal finances and job prospects, a landmark report of the IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity exposes today.
As the Tech7 leaders gather in Tokyo this week for a meeting ahead of the G7 Digital Ministerial this weekend, a joint statement was released by the technology industry associations of the G7 countries and the EU
Guest blog by Zayed Al Jamil, James Wong at Clifford Chance #AIWeek2023
Julian Jessop, Economics Fellow at free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs Commented on yesterday's ONS public sector finances figures
The IEA's Director of Public Policy and Communications Matthew Lesh commented on the introduction of The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Bill
The Treasury's secretive approach to working with other departments hindered aspects of the government's Covid pandemic response for much of 2020.
A team at STFC with colleagues from the British Museum have led pioneering research into 2,500-year-old ancient Egyptian lizard mummies.
One year ago, we launched the MoJ's Digital Strategy. It was unusual in that it was a sum of a number (over 40) of existing strategies rather than a top down strategy based on a vision of a future. We ...
TeckUK are pleased to publish the results of our seventh annual GovTech SME Survey.
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We're pleased to announce the 17 council-led digital projects that will be awarded funding through Round 6 of the Local Digital Fund. The projects were carefully selected from 50 applications representing 118 councils between 13 October and 24 November 2022. ...
We look at gaps in school spending between nations in the UK.
The National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) and The University of Edinburgh have opened a software lab, dedicated to serving the complex needs of the centre.
The UK and US are working on technology that could be used to provide early warning protection for cities and major events.
Published today, techUK co-signed a global industry statement in support of the G7 governments' recent announcement on promoting the vision of Data Free Flow with Trust (DFFT), alongside other industry bodies
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology published its latest analysis to coincide with CyberUK.
