Barney Macintyre
Climate Reporter at Tortoise
Business/climate reporter @tortoise. Writing the Boardroom Sensemaker. Email me: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
observer.co.uk | Barney Macintyre
In a new twist to the ongoing court case, Sheikh Mansour has been linked to the collapsed company NMC Health On Wednesday, in a quiet corner of the Rolls Building judicial courts, the former chairman of EY UK and Ireland was spotted huddled with colleagues, taking a break from the trial next door. So what? Hywel Ball stood down last month and has no personal role in the case concerned, but he’s watching carefully.
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3 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Barney Macintyre
Karoli Hindriks has gone from teenage inventor to a global role helping businesses take on overseas employees Karoli Hindriks has always been a fan of the fluorescent. In 1999, aged 16, she started a student company that sold reflectors for pedestrians – fashionable accessories by day and lifesavers by night. Soon after, she took the advice of her father and created a patent, securing her the title of Estonia’s youngest-ever inventor.
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3 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Barney Macintyre
The Danish company pulling the plug on its giant windfarm project off the East Yorkshire coast sparks fears of a funeral wake for North Sea energy The choppy waters of the North Sea were never for the faint of heart. Last week came with warnings that taming its riches comes at a cost. First, Ørsted, the Danish energy company, has “discontinued” a large offshore wind project off the coast of East Yorkshire, citing “adverse macroeconomic developments”.
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | Barney Macintyre
Neom has ordered a review of the scope and priority of projects after an emergency board meeting last week, putting in doubt hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to companies advising Saudi Arabia on its $500bn project to build a city of the future. Staff have yet to be paid their bonuses for 2024, despite receiving them in early March the previous year, according to two people working on the project who spoke to The Observer.
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1 month ago |
tortoisemedia.com | Barney Macintyre
The IMF has jettisoned its predictions for the world economy in the wake of Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, forecasting lower global growth than it did in January. The US and UK both had upward revisions in inflation and downgrades in growth for this year, of 0.9 and 0.5 percentage points respectively. Spain was an outlier among advanced economies, with growth revised upwards to 2.5 per cent for 2025.
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NEOM, the $500bn megacity being built in Saudi Arabia, has yet to pay bonuses to staff this year, fuelling concerns MBS’s scheme faces a cash crunch and is going to be redrawn. Is this the end of the big boondoggle in the desert? Me for @ObserverUK https://t.co/aXEuMeisoC
RT @katie__riley: Most of us have been very quiet about the future of Tortoise over the past few months – largely, it should be said, out o…
RT @RebeccaHBM: Chuffed that someone like Mishal Husain enjoyed the podcast I worked on with @barneymac back in June. Last year the CBI wa…