Gen Z is buying flip phones on purpose. Before you laugh, notice who is selling you the alternative — and what it costs. Lifestyle Somewhere in Britain this morning, a twenty-year-old flipped a phone shut to end a call, and felt a small, precise satisfaction that no touchscreen has ever once delivered. She did it […]
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Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and BlackRock have launched a rival stablecoin. The circle fell 17 per cent in a day. The fight is over something called the float. July 2026 · Money & Payments A consortium of more than 140 companies — Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, Coinbase, BlackRock, BNY, Standard Chartered, Google and IBM among
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The worst month on record for Bitcoin ETFs, a stalled bill, and an industry that has quietly stopped talking about price. July 2026 · Markets & Policy Bitcoin is trading around $62,000 this week. Last October, it touched $126,000. Anyone who bought at the top — and a great many people did, because that is
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Most “how to save money” lists read like they were written by someone who’s never run out of money before the end of the month. Skip the coffee. Sell the car. Photosynthesise. You deserve better than that — so I’ve stripped it down to the ten changes that genuinely shift the needle. The ones you’ll
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I’ll be honest with you. For years, I ate lunch standing at my desk — laptop open, fork in one hand, crumbs in the keyboard — and I told myself that was ambition. It wasn’t. It was me letting my inbox decide what my time was worth. And the answer it kept giving me was:
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Here’s something I’ve learned from twenty years of watching markets: they can handle bad news. They can even handle a disaster. What they cannot handle is silence. Certainly, they can price. Even in a crisis, they can price. What they can’t bear is a man walking into the most-watched room in global finance and politely
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Here’s a truth the rest of the world is only now catching up to: when a nation with real wealth decides it wants a seat at the future table, it doesn’t queue politely for one. It builds the table, hosts the dinner, and quietly picks the guest list. That’s what I watched unfold in the
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In June, ten thousand people travelled to a conference hall in the Czech capital to celebrate a single, stubborn refusal — the refusal to be distracted. There are more than twenty thousand cryptocurrencies in the world today. BTC Prague, Europe’s largest Bitcoin gathering, declines to discuss 19,999 of them. Bitcoin only. No altcoins, no shiny
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When companies that spend every ordinary day trying to steal each other’s customers suddenly stand shoulder to shoulder on the same stage, I stop what I’m doing and pay attention. That’s a signal I never ignore. On 30 June 2026, while everyone else was staring at falling crypto prices, more than 140 of the biggest
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Crypto lost roughly $890 billion in the first half of 2026 — but the money didn’t vanish. It walked next door to AI. Can I be straight with you for a second? When that headline landed — crypto down $890 billion in six months — I knew exactly how it would make you feel. It’s
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