RistoArnaudov The U.K. economy expanded 0.6% in Q1 2026, matching expectations and marking its strongest quarterly growth since Q1 2025. This follows an upwardly revised 0.2% increase in the previous quarter. Annually, the economy expanded by 1.1% in Q1 2026, exceeding the 0.8% forecast. Services output, the main driver of growth, rose 0.8%, supported by a 2.0% increase in wholesale and retail tra...
RistoArnaudov The U.K. economy expanded 0.6% in Q1 2026, matching expectations and marking its strongest quarterly growth since Q1 2025. This follows an upwardly revised 0.2% increase in the previous quarter. Annually, the economy expanded by 1.1% in Q1 2026, exceeding the 0.8% forecast. Services output, the main driver of growth, rose 0.8%, supported by a 2.0% increase in wholesale and retail trade, including a 3.1% rise in wholesale trade and a 1.6% gain in retail trade. Production output edged up 0.2%, helped by a 0.8% increase in manufacturing and a 0.6% rise in electricity and gas supply, despite declines in mining and water supply sectors. Construction activity grew 0.4%, as a 3.4% surge in repair and maintenance offset a 1.9% decline in new work, while higher investment, household consumption, and government spending also supported growth. More on UK EUR/USD, GBP/USD And Dollar Index Overview - The U.S. Dollar Rallies Back After CPI, Is The Correction Over? GBP/USD Potential Bullish Reversal Above 20-Day Moving Average GBP/USD Potential Trade Setups: Two Opportunities On The Bullish Retest And Breakout Play European equities gain on corporate earnings ahead of key U.S. data UK bond market faces off with another prime minister and blinks (for now)
Largely shunned in France, the work of these consultants is now being recognised at Cannes. Film-maker Anubha Momin describes how they make for more confident movies – and directors The light is wrong for what we’re trying to do. Outside, it’s early afternoon at the Port de l’Arsenal in Paris, bright and unmistakably day. Inside the houseboat that acts as the main set for my film Amarres (Moorings...
Largely shunned in France, the work of these consultants is now being recognised at Cannes. Film-maker Anubha Momin describes how they make for more confident movies – and directors The light is wrong for what we’re trying to do. Outside, it’s early afternoon at the Port de l’Arsenal in Paris, bright and unmistakably day. Inside the houseboat that acts as the main set for my film Amarres (Moorings), the team has installed track lights and covered a ceiling porthole with black fabric, turning the bedroom into something closer to night. Red velvet walls, and a platform bed tucked into the curve of the bow; it’s meant to feel intimate, private. But of course, it isn’t. We have just come back from lunch. My actors are half-undressed on the bed, waiting. The set is closed, with only six crew members in the narrow hallway leading to the bedroom: camera, sound, myself, the first assistant director, and Nathalie Allison, our intimacy coordinator. We’re behind, and I have less than an hour to direct three sex scenes back to back. What I’m about to ask for has to look real, spontaneous, desirable – the kind of intimacy French cinema has long prided itself on capturing without instruction. Continue reading...
The UK has been suffering since going it alone, but Starmer’s noncommittal approach has made things worse. No wonder voters are angry Ten years on from the referendum, Brexit still shapes British politics. It has smashed the two-party duopoly and continues to divide the country. Keir Starmer’s struggle to remain prime minister after last week’s drubbing for Labour in elections in England, Scotland...
The UK has been suffering since going it alone, but Starmer’s noncommittal approach has made things worse. No wonder voters are angry Ten years on from the referendum, Brexit still shapes British politics. It has smashed the two-party duopoly and continues to divide the country. Keir Starmer’s struggle to remain prime minister after last week’s drubbing for Labour in elections in England, Scotland and Wales is proof of that. Voters took politicians at their word after the decision was made to leave the EU. The reason “Take back control” worked as a slogan was that it chimed with the public mood in large parts of Britain. Continue reading...
If resolution is passed governments will have legal responsibility to cut greenhouse gas emissions The UN’s willingness to tackle the climate crisis in a fair and legal way will be tested next week during a critical vote of the UN general assembly in New York. Every member state is being asked to back a series of landmark findings on climate justice from the international court of justice (ICJ) as...
If resolution is passed governments will have legal responsibility to cut greenhouse gas emissions The UN’s willingness to tackle the climate crisis in a fair and legal way will be tested next week during a critical vote of the UN general assembly in New York. Every member state is being asked to back a series of landmark findings on climate justice from the international court of justice (ICJ) as part of a new political resolution. If passed, it will mean governments recognise they have a legal responsibility to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, including tackling fossil fuels. Continue reading...
Roman Mars’s pod 99% Invisible is a worldwide hit. Now he has teamed up with the BBC for new series A History of the United States in 100 Objects, an insight into the secret significance of everyday stuff In 2010, the audio producer Roman Mars launched 99% Invisible, a podcast about the hidden designs and inventions most of us overlook. At the time, he didn’t have high hopes for it. Not only was t...
Roman Mars’s pod 99% Invisible is a worldwide hit. Now he has teamed up with the BBC for new series A History of the United States in 100 Objects, an insight into the secret significance of everyday stuff In 2010, the audio producer Roman Mars launched 99% Invisible, a podcast about the hidden designs and inventions most of us overlook. At the time, he didn’t have high hopes for it. Not only was the subject matter wilfully niche – early topics included building acoustics and the ergonomics of the toothbrush – but the episodes were just four minutes long. Still, listener numbers quickly grew and the episodes got longer. Sixteen years on, 99% Invisible is now a podcasting institution that has amassed more than 660 episodes, investigating everything from political logos to the colour of margarine. “It’s taking something that seems really boring and going, ‘No, no, no, this is interesting,’ and really convincing you of that,” Mars says. Mars, 51, is talking over video call from a small, foam-panelled studio at his home in Berkeley, northern California, where he records the show. His voice – warm, mellifluous, gently quizzical – is synonymous with a particular American podcasting style that is erudite yet informal. There’s a reason why Mars habitually talks close to the microphone rather than declaiming from a distance. The effect is to make listeners feel as if he’s broadcasting from the inside of their heads. Continue reading...
Mark is frustrated that Lucinda’s open-door policy allows mosquitoes into their flat. You decide who needs to get a handle on this issue • Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a juror Closing them doesn’t take a huge amount of work; it takes seconds and stops heat and insects getting in Keeping them open feels more relaxed and homey – plus, it’s better for the cat Continue reading....
Mark is frustrated that Lucinda’s open-door policy allows mosquitoes into their flat. You decide who needs to get a handle on this issue • Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a juror Closing them doesn’t take a huge amount of work; it takes seconds and stops heat and insects getting in Keeping them open feels more relaxed and homey – plus, it’s better for the cat Continue reading...
In generating a constant stream of outrage, debate and engagement, much-reviled tech has become its own spectacle “Just keep delaying,” Darren England tells the referee, Chris Kavanagh, at West Ham on Sunday afternoon. The title is on the line, possibly relegation too, and as replay after replay queues up on the tape machine, who could blame a humble video assistant for wanting to savour the momen...
In generating a constant stream of outrage, debate and engagement, much-reviled tech has become its own spectacle “Just keep delaying,” Darren England tells the referee, Chris Kavanagh, at West Ham on Sunday afternoon. The title is on the line, possibly relegation too, and as replay after replay queues up on the tape machine, who could blame a humble video assistant for wanting to savour the moment? To survey it from all the relevant angles, consider all contingencies. To feel the sensation of all that awesome power at his fingertips. They’re calling it the most important VAR review in Premier League history. Stuart Attwell, you’ll never sing that. Continue reading...
The light-heavyweight is a substitute teacher by day but on Saturday delivered a blistering lesson to Cuba’s David Morrell Last Saturday night in Manchester, Zak Chelli, a 28-year-old supply teacher from Fulham, produced one of the sporting upsets of the year when he knocked out Cuba’s esteemed David Morrell in a stoppage as shocking as it was compelling. Chelli had been offered the fight two week...
The light-heavyweight is a substitute teacher by day but on Saturday delivered a blistering lesson to Cuba’s David Morrell Last Saturday night in Manchester, Zak Chelli, a 28-year-old supply teacher from Fulham, produced one of the sporting upsets of the year when he knocked out Cuba’s esteemed David Morrell in a stoppage as shocking as it was compelling. Chelli had been offered the fight two weeks earlier and despite the limited preparation he proved himself a formidable late replacement. Morrell was ahead on the scorecards, but he was hurt badly in the ninth round. In the 10th and last, Mr Chelli – as he is known to his pupils – delivered a blistering lesson before Morrell was rescued by the referee. Continue reading...
This Netflix drama about a maverick cop crime-busting high-stakes heists might seem cliched at first – but it gets better and better by the minute. Hi Herc! Detective Isaiah Stiles (Matthew Law) is extremely committed to his job, but it brings him no satisfaction. The long hours he dedicates to crime-busting with the LAPD have alienated his teenage son and infuriated his wife, Candace (Gabrielle D...
This Netflix drama about a maverick cop crime-busting high-stakes heists might seem cliched at first – but it gets better and better by the minute. Hi Herc! Detective Isaiah Stiles (Matthew Law) is extremely committed to his job, but it brings him no satisfaction. The long hours he dedicates to crime-busting with the LAPD have alienated his teenage son and infuriated his wife, Candace (Gabrielle Dennis), to the point where Isaiah is sleeping in the summer house. He is permanently vexed. But he isn’t meant to be happy: he’s a maverick cop. The maverick-copness of its lead character is the first of many crime-show cliches shamelessly replicated by Nemesis, the first Netflix show from writer Courtney A Kemp, creator of the gangster drama Power and its various spin-offs. Isaiah carries the trauma of an old case where a junior colleague was killed in pursuit of a gang of elite thieves: now, whenever a robbery goes down in Los Angeles – and a big one has just happened, with bags of cash brazenly swiped from a posh party’s high-stakes poker game – Isaiah suspects that his white whale, the man who pulled the trigger years ago, is behind it. To the consternation of colleagues, he has a whiteboard in his office covered in photographs and sticky notes. Continue reading...
PDF Solutions ( PDFS ) said on Thursday it priced an underwritten public offering of 4,568,308 shares of common stock at $44.00 per share, with shares sold by both the company and selling shareholder Advantest Corporation . The size of the offering was increased from the previously announced 3,806,924 shares. The gross proceeds will be approximately $55.5M, the company said. The company's shares (...
PDF Solutions ( PDFS ) said on Thursday it priced an underwritten public offering of 4,568,308 shares of common stock at $44.00 per share, with shares sold by both the company and selling shareholder Advantest Corporation . The size of the offering was increased from the previously announced 3,806,924 shares. The gross proceeds will be approximately $55.5M, the company said. The company's shares ( PDFS ) fell ~10% in extended trading. More on PDF Solutions PDF Solutions, Inc. (PDFS) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript PDF Solutions: What The Outlook Says And Does Not Say PDF Solutions launches 3.8M share public offering PDF Solutions reconfirms 20% revenue growth target as it plans 6 eProbe shipments in 2026 Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on PDF Solutions