Around 300 million people share a devastating collection of conditions: ultra-rare disorders. Each individual condition affects less than 1/50,000, but in some cases are fatal. Until now, the state of scientific knowledge, regulation and economics made treating these conditions impossible – controlled trials with thousands of participants couldn’t work where, in some cases, only one […]
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Tether (the FinTech firm best known for issuing USDT, the world’s largest stablecoin by market capitalisation) has an appetite for gold that rivals Mansa Musa. According to investment bank Jefferies, Tether held approximately 116 tonnes of gold in its reserves by the end of Q3 2025 – its purchases in Q3 were equivalent to 2%
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Donald Trump is a man who likes lawsuits, large numbers and discrediting established institutions. It is perhaps unsurprising therefore that over the past week he announced his intention to sue the BBC for $1bn (later $5bn) over the BBC Panorama documentary edit. An overlooked point in the discourse so far has been Trump’s choice of
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In April 2025 M&S stopped taking online orders for 6 weeks. In late August Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR’s) production lines ground to a halt. Asahi’s production lines shut down in September and have yet to fully reopen. Each of these pauses were costly – M&S lost out on £300mn of business in the weeks spent
