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July 2024

  • Neil Sebba CEO of Tossed, photographed at one of his fast food outlets on Victoria Street in Central London.

    Observer business profile
    ‘Who buys a retail brand during Covid?’ The man who revived salad chain Tossed

    The healthy eating chain almost collapsed during lockdown, but now has visions of putting down roots beyond its core London market
  • RMS Titanic being fitted out at Harland and Wolf Shipyard, Belfast.

    Struggles at Belfast’s Titanic shipyard reflect UK’s faded naval power

    Attempts by Harland & Wolff to restore the city’s industrial prowess could be dashed as the new government beds in, but the famous firm is already in choppy waters elsewhere
    • William Keegan's in my view
      Keir Starmer ruled out rejoining the EU. Now he must think again

      William Keegan
    • Observer business agenda
      Thames, Tata, Shein – it won’t be business as usual for Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds

    • Observer business profile
      ‘I totally understand why people are sceptical’: the co-founder of collapsed energy giant Bulb on his new venture

June 2024

  • Babies in a hospital nursery. In 2022 the fertility rate across England and Wales fell to 1.49 children per woman.

    The baby bust: how Britain’s falling birthrate is creating alarm in the economy

  • Heather Stewart

    If workers’ rights are a bit French, as the Tories suggest, then vive la révolution

    Heather Stewart
  • A young woman in a Surfers Against Sewage wetsuit paddling a surfboard while wearing a gas mask

    Observer business agenda
    Will rising debt cause Thames Water to sink under a Labour government?

  • Shani Gonzales in a dsenim jacket smiles for a portrait sitting on a sofa

    Observer business profile
    ‘Songwriters deserve a bigger piece of the pie’: the music publishing boss on the threat of AI

  • ‘It was a nightmare. It still is’: the cost of doing business, eight years after Brexit

  • William Keegan's in my view
    This timid ‘Ming vase’ strategy won’t turn Labour into a dynasty

    William Keegan
  • Observer business agenda
    In the race for new energy strategies, why does home insulation always lag behind?

  • Observer business profile
    ‘Encryption is deeply threatening to power’: Meredith Whittaker of messaging app Signal

  • Boom in cataract surgery in England as private clinics eye huge profits

  • Observer business agenda
    Struggle to damp down inflation leaves Tories’ election hopes high and dry

  • Caution, not grand plans, is needed if Labour is to build wealth in Britain

    Phillip Inman
  • Observer business profile
    ‘It should be a right to fix your phone’: the boss of booming secondhand tech firm Back Market

  • Centre forward: Sunderland sets sights on a revival by bringing homes and jobs to its inner city

  • William Keegan's in my view
    Labour might be a racing certainty, but it faces some big hurdles in government

    William Keegan
  • Observer business agenda
    Tesla leads charge to defend Elon Musk’s $56bn pay package

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