Jon Yeomans
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Jon Yeomans
@jonyeomans.bsky.social
Business Editor at The Sunday Times.
Jaguar Land Rover to restart engine production ‘within days’ - suppliers have been put on notice - NEW at @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Jaguar Land Rover to restart engine production ‘within days’
The carmaker, which was hit by a paralysing cyberattack, puts suppliers on notice for production at its Wolverhampton engine works to resume on October 6
www.thetimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Good news for the nation! M&S click & collect is back up and running www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
M&S restores click and collect after cyberattack disruption
The service is back online after a four-month absence. The hack in April is expected to have cost the retailer an estimated £300 million
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August 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Family firms fear an inheritance tax raid after changes in the budget - and guess what? They're cutting back investment and jobs as a result. Not very pro-growth. By me for @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
How inheritance tax changes are tightening the screw on family firms
Amid Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax grab next April, owners of small family businesses say investment will be jeopardised and thousands of jobs are at risk
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June 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
NEW I spoke to Ben McKenzie about his new doc Everyone Is Lying to Your For Money - taking on the crypto bros. Film debuts at SXSW London next week www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Why the OC star Ben McKenzie is leading a crusade against crypto
Ben McKenzie, the US actor behind a new documentary, Everyone is Lying to You For Money, explains why crypto trading is like an ‘unregulated, unlicensed casino’
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May 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Significant change in tone from audit regulator FRC - it will speed up investigations into accounting failures and offer leniency to firms that self-report. All part of the 'pro-growth agenda' no doubt. Story by Laith Al-Khalaf for The Sunday Times www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Accounting watchdog vows to speed up inquiries into audit failures
Richard Moriarty, boss of the Financial Reporting Council, says it needs to accelerate investigations and show lenience on more minor errors
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May 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
NEW US Steel workers are ready to embrace their Japanese saviour Nippon, writes Jim Armitage - who was in Pennsylvania this week www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Why US Steel workers are ready to embrace Japanese saviour Nippon
Unions may be deeply opposed to the deal but in Pennsylvanian towns ravaged by years of cheap imports, the mood is very different as Trump’s stance softens
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May 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
NEW Serious Fraud Office will change its guidance this week to encourage more firms to report wrongdoing... more deferred prosecutions on the way? SFO chief will warn firms against trying to "bury skeletons" www.thetimes.com/article/5b9d...
SFO to offer deals to firms that come clean on fraud
Businesses that self-report suspected financial crime will be invited to negotiate deferred prosecutions, the head of the Serious Fraud Office will announce
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April 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Yes, the UK's football regulator is happening, and yes, a lot of people are unhappy about it. @olivershah dons his football scarf to find out more www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Why the new football regulator could be a massive own goal
A new football regulator — with powers to monitor finances, vet prospective owners and impose financial penalties — could soon be a reality. And clubs hate it
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April 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
In 2020 the EU launched a €750 billion spending programme to recover from Covid. How much has actually been spent - and how? We took a closer look: www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Draghi’s billions: how the EU is spending its Covid recovery cash
Europe has until August 2026 to turn its biggest-ever recovery drive into results, or risk wasting billions
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April 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The brewing crisis in US real estate - as climate risk leads to a huge "repricing" of insurance, which homeowners can't afford. Danny Fortson speaks to one of the Big Short forecasters of doom... www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
US real estate’s next crisis is climate change, warns Big Short guru
Insurance costs could ‘be the first domino to fall’ amid the ravages of climate change in the southern states, leaving homeowners stranded and markets in chaos
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April 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
NEW by me for @thetimes.com and free to read: the boss of Ducati on superbikes, going electric, and what Trump tariffs mean for motorbikes www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Ducati boss: an electric super bike? It doesn’t quite work
Claudio Domenicali, boss of the Italian motorcycle brand Ducati, is stepping up its investment in British showrooms — but electric superbikes remain elusive
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March 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Whither Boots, after the $10bn sale of its parent? The City is eyeing up the chain www.thetimes.com/article/d718...
What the $10bn sale of Walgreens means for your Boots
Many in the City believe the deal could lay the groundwork for Boots to be relisted or sold from under its American parent. But fixing the chain could be a ‘grind’
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March 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The cost of British TV is soaring... and producers are thinking of radical ideas to plug the funding gap. www.thetimes.com/article/80b8...
‘British stories are dying out’: the cash crisis threatening TV
The rise of YouTube and global streamers such as Netflix means raising funding for shows that appeal mainly to UK audiences is increasingly difficult
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March 9, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Britain's trains are getting a Team GB-style makeover, sort of. Though there may not be enough money to repaint them... www.thetimes.com/article/2d31...
Great British Railways brand to appear on trains from May
The new logo featuring the Union Jack will be unveiled on the first trains to be fully nationalised under the Labour government
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March 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
One of the world's biggest music companies is NOT happy about the government's AI copyright proposals. www.thetimes.com/article/4452...
Sony slams ‘unworkable’ AI plans as music theft
The government is proposing to change UK laws to provide an exemption from copyright rules to allow AI developers to mine video, audio and text content
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March 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Come and work with me at The Sunday Times. We're now hiring a deputy business editor www.newscareers.co.uk/vacancies/37...
March 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
JOB UPDATE. Delighted to say I'm now Business Editor at the Sunday Times. All story ideas / tips / feedback welcome, by the usual channels. I may even post on Bluesky more often!
March 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Reposted by Jon Yeomans
Last week I sat down with the families of Bebe King,6, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, who lost their lives in the attack in Southport last year, to hear about their daughters, and why they were so loved.

This is their story -

www.thetimes.com/article/8f5e...
Southport families: We’re looking for light in the darkness
The parents of Bebe King and Elsie Dot Stancombe want the world to know what they were like — their joy, jokes and dreams — as they relive that awful July day
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February 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
NEW Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo on why 'Tariff Man' Donald Trump is serious about a trade war - and why he's targeting China. By me for @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/3533...
Trump tariffs: president will risk trade war, says Mike Pompeo
The man who was secretary of state and CIA chief in Trump’s last administration expects ‘Tariff Man’ to stick to his guns
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February 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Boeing's year to forget... and a way to pilot out of its malaise. By me for @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/53e0...
Boeing is too big to fail. Here’s how it can escape its tailspin
Like the astronauts on its Starliner capsule, Boeing is going nowhere unless new boss Kelly Ortberg can succeed with measures such as faster deliveries
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January 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
NEW Could Honda give a lift to the UK's struggling car industry? Its potential merger with Nissan could spell more work in Sunderland www.thetimes.com/article/084b...
Honda eyes return to UK with Nissan tie-up in Sunderland
The car makers are locked in talks over a potential merger and could share production space in factories
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December 21, 2024 at 8:33 PM
The truth about Guinness revealed. Britons really have gone mad for the black stuff www.thetimes.com/article/f567...
December 21, 2024 at 8:25 PM
I'm back on the business beat after 2 months editing world news, in which time we had the Israel-Lebanon war, Trump's re-election, the worst European floods in 50 years, a semi-coup in South Korea and the fall of Assad. I'm sure things will quieten down now...
December 17, 2024 at 2:16 PM