Opinion
Last orders for British hospitality: Are Reeves and Starmer trying to kill the UK restaurant sector?
Britain's restaurants are closing at record rates. Richard Alvin asks whether Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer's tax raid is intentionally suffocating UK hospitality.
May Day belongs to founders, sole traders and family firms too, says Richard Alvin. A defence of entrepreneurship as labour, ...
Britain launches companies brilliantly. It just can’t keep them. Richard Alvin on why the next British unicorn will probably IPO in New York, and what to do before it does.
Richard Alvin returns to the rural economy, and to the village pub at the heart of it. A defence of the countryside’s last ...
Six months in, says Richard Alvin, the Workers’ Rights Bill is doing the opposite of what it set out to do — quietly freezing ...
Meta lifts its 2026 AI capex forecast to as much as $145bn, sending shares 7% lower in after-hours trading despite a strong ...
Sir Stephen Fry is suing CogX Festival Ltd and Blonstein Events for £100,000 after a six-foot fall at the O2. What the case ...
Rolls-Royce reaffirms its £4bn profit guidance for 2026 as engine flying hours run 15% above pre-pandemic levels, shrugging ...
Premier Inn owner Whitbread is scrapping its branded restaurants and recycling £1.5bn of hotel freeholds, putting 3,800 jobs ...
Donald Trump has scrapped all US tariffs on whisky imports following King Charles's state visit, ending a 10% levy that cost ...
The 2026 revaluation has clobbered hospitality and independents while warehouses skate. Richard Alvin makes the case for ...
Singapore billionaire Christina Ong's Como Group has taken a controlling stake in Heston Blumenthal's loss-making Fat Duck ...
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