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6 days ago | 
bmmagazine.co.uk | Paul Jones
More than £18 million has been raised for grassroots sport across the UK since 2018, thanks to a trailblazing partnership between Crowdfunder and Sport England — a milestone celebrated last week at a special event in the House of Commons. The event brought together MPs, funding partners, sports bodies, and community leaders, who gathered to reflect on the success of the matched crowdfunding model and to discuss how it can become a cornerstone of future sports funding in Britain.
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1 week ago | 
bmmagazine.co.uk | Paul Jones
Tesla has encountered legal headwinds in its push to trademark the terms “Robotaxi” and “Cybercab”, dealing a blow to the company’s highly anticipated autonomous ride-hailing plans ahead of a planned June 2025 launch. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) this week issued a “nonfinal office action” denying Tesla’s attempt to trademark “Robotaxi” for its electric vehicles, stating the term is “merely descriptive” and too generic to qualify for exclusive use.
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1 week ago | 
bmmagazine.co.uk | Paul Jones
President Donald Trump is expected to announce a long-anticipated trade deal with the United Kingdom on Thursday, marking a potential breakthrough in transatlantic relations amid rising global trade tensions triggered by his sweeping tariff regime. The president teased the announcement in a post on Truth Social, promising a “MAJOR TRADE DEAL” at a press conference scheduled for 10 a.m. in the Oval Office.
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1 week ago | 
bmmagazine.co.uk | Paul Jones
Warren Buffett, one of the most iconic figures in global finance, has announced plans to step down as chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway by the end of the year, marking the end of an era for the $1.1 trillion conglomerate he has led for over five decades.
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1 week ago | 
bmmagazine.co.uk | Paul Jones
A growing number of wealthy Americans, scientists, and students are eyeing the UK as political instability under President Trump’s second term pushes them to look for safer ground — reversing a decades-long brain and wealth drain to the US.
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1 week ago | 
bmmagazine.co.uk | Paul Jones
LVMH is cutting 10% of the workforce at its wine and spirits division, Moët Hennessy, as the group contends with slowing luxury demand, rising costs, and mounting global trade tensions. The job cuts, expected to affect around 1,200 staff, will reduce Moët Hennessy’s headcount to pre-pandemic levels, the Financial Times reported.
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2 weeks ago | 
bmmagazine.co.uk | Paul Jones
Nigel Farage has provoked a storm of criticism from charities, campaigners, and political opponents after claiming that family doctors are “massively overdiagnosing” children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Speaking in Dover ahead of next week’s local elections, the Reform UK leader said that soaring numbers of SEND diagnoses were creating a “class of victims” and suggested that many assessments, particularly those conducted over Zoom, were flawed.
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2 weeks ago | 
bmmagazine.co.uk | Paul Jones
Aston Martin Lagonda has scaled back its exports to the United States as it assesses the potential impact of President Trump’s shifting tariff policies on demand for its luxury vehicles. The British carmaker, known for its Vantage, Vanquish, DB12 and DBX models, said it was “carefully monitoring the evolving US tariff situation” and was currently limiting exports while relying on stock held by US dealers.
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2 weeks ago | 
bmmagazine.co.uk | Paul Jones
Better Society Capital (BSC), the UK’s leading social impact investor, has reached a major milestone, passing £1 billion in investments aimed at tackling the country’s most pressing social challenges. Originally launched in 2011 as Big Society Capital, the fund was established with £400 million from dormant bank accounts and £200 million from four of Britain’s biggest high street banks.
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3 weeks ago | 
bmmagazine.co.uk | Paul Jones
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has launched a scathing attack on the International Monetary Fund (IMF), accusing the institution of turning a blind eye to China’s export-led economic dominance and neglecting its core responsibilities in favour of climate and social policy work. In a high-profile speech at the Institute of International Finance in Washington, Bessent criticised the IMF’s latest External Sector Report, which claimed that global imbalances were easing.
