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Take-up of social tariffs for connectivity remains low with the latest data suggesting that only around 220,000 households in the UK use such tariffs. Ofcom, the regulator, has called on operators to raise awareness of the tariffs as one way to increase take-up.

The European Competition Network (ECN) put out a joint statement on March 23 on the application of competition law during the Covid-19 crisis.

Historically, environmental policy has taken a backseat when the economy has required attention. The assumption is that productivity suffers at the hands of regulation, as resources are redirected from output to compliance.

June’s elections to the European Parliament may not capture global attention to the same degree as November’s vote for a new US president. But the elections, accompanied later in 2024 by the start of a five-year term for a new European Commission, remain consequential.

Since the UK legal system opened shop for collective actions in 2015, and following the Supreme Court’s judgment in Merricks v Mastercard on the certification threshold, applications for Collective Proceedings Orders before the Competition Appeal Tribunal have swelled from a trickle to a deluge.

Europe’s race to net zero is under serious threat—not because of a lack of ambition or renewable potential, but because the electricity grid isn’t ready. Frontier brought together energy leaders in Brussels last month to discuss a fundamental, if often overlooked, reality: without a step-change in grid investment, the whole system risks seizing up.

All those scooter drivers whizzing round towns in a variety of colourful jackets to bring food and shopping to your door strike many people as something new.

The UK government recently published its “Levelling up White Paper”[1] which defines 12 missions to guide the UK government.