The CBI has historically been the voice of UK business. But a year ago, it was at the centre of a media storm and a crisis at the organisation quickly ensued. In this week’s Slow Newscast, Barney Macintyre investigated what really happened. Listen: lnk.to/CBI

Darktrace, the only cyber security company listed on the London Stock Exchange, has accepted a £4.2bn offer from a US private equity firm. Barney Macintyre looks at the exit of another tech darling, which signals a desperate moment for UK equity markets. torto.se/3Wp8FQg

Glasgow! Come and tell us what should be leading the news. We’ll also be joined by @kezdugdale.bsky.social, John Boothman and Andrew Tickell (PeatWorrier) who will tell us what they think matters ahead of the election.

Big news - Rolex has moved its corporate headquarters to Lewisham. Or Companies House didn't stop an obvious fraud. Which could it be?

Today is the Feast of St Barnabas, the encourager.

"Housing has had very little attention so far." Former Scottish Labour leader @kezdugdale.bsky.social joined us in Glasgow for the latest News Meeting Live. As 10,000 Scottish children are living in temporary accommodation, she asked: why aren't more politicians talking about housing?

Globally, $87bn of taxpayers’ money has been awarded to fossil fuel and mining companies suing vulnerable nations via an arbitration system partly funded by the World Bank ICSID. This is not how the energy transition was supposed to work. Read Tortoise tortoisemedia.com/2024/06/19/how…

Fantastic analysis of the impact of austerity on local councils by reporter Conor O'Brien, with Bex Sander crunching the numbers for Tortoise Part of a wider series in which we run the rule over the 14 years of Tory government tortoisemedia.com/2024/06/26/14-…

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So lucky to be joined by camilla cavendish and Ben Bradshaw to make sense of today's election (on two hours' sleep...) What are the biggest, and most pressing, issues facing the new government - and are they up to it? 📻 Tortoise podfollow.com/1656374281/epi…

Harper Collins Children has announced another new David Walliams book. This time, a murder mystery. Last year for Tortoise I reported on his reputation as a kid's author, his long list of controversies, and the 'headaches' he's caused for his publisher. My email's in my bio.

Great scoop by Climate Home News The UAE's $30bn COP28 fund for clean energy gave $300m to BlackRock which invested in a US gas pipeline. This is a wake-up call to the world that these funds are often little more than PR stunts to greenwash COP hosts. climatechangenews.com/2024/07/24/uae…

NostalgIA – the unauthorised, AI-generated collab between Bad Bunny, Daddy Yankee, and Justin Bieber – raises urgent questions about the future of music and intellectual property. Kateryna Pavlyuk speaks to the song's creator in the latest episode of the Sensemaker (mixed by 🙋)

💼 This week's Boardroom Sensemaker... Disgruntled baristas are just one item on a long list of troubles facing Starbucks. Former CEO Howard Schultz’s deep entanglement with the company risks creating a corporate governance mess, writes Barney Macintyre. torto.se/46v23mw

📹 We're looking for a junior video editor to join the team at Tortoise to help produce compelling and engaging content for all our social media platforms. Full job description and details on how to apply: tortoisemedia.com/job/junior-vid…

Chuffed that someone like Mishal Husain enjoyed the podcast I worked on with Barney Macintyre back in June. Last year the CBI was in crisis and at the centre of a media storm, but what really happened behind closed doors? Listen to Panic in the Boardroom: lnk.to/CBI

Most of us have been very quiet about the future of Tortoise over the past few months – largely, it should be said, out of respect for the Observer journalists with whom we are eager to meet and work. But the Byline Times piece is egregious, and everything Ceri says here is 💯

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 The Observer observer.co.uk/news/business/…

The deep problems at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are well summarised by Simon Briscoe and Barney Macintyre. Enjoyed talking to them as the failure is a classic example of over-reach. CamEcon Romesh Vaitilingam Stephen Millard observer.co.uk/news/business/…

🚨Call for business pitches 🚨 I’ll be covering for our business news editor Barney Macintyre next week The Observer. If you’ve got timely stories, scoops and/ or thoughtful analysis, please send them my way: [firstname].[lastname] @ observer.co.uk (Tech tips also welcome)