Ruth Sunderland

Job anxiety is hanging heavy in the sultry summer air. The desperation of being unable to find work is no longer confined to characters such as Yosser Hughes, the Liverpudlian tarmac-layer in TV drama Boys From The Blackstuff.

For middle-class women of a certain age, redundancy, divorce and illness are the triplet of financial torpedos that can blow up a previously comfortable existence.

A few weeks ago, I created an AI assistant to run my diary, hoping it would help manage my packed schedule and the daily blizzard of financial news.

A few weeks ago, I created an AI assistant to run my diary, hoping it would help manage my packed schedule and the daily blizzard of financial news.

Since 2024, The Mail on Sunday and the Royal Osteoporosis Society have campaigned for full access across the UK to these bone-thinning clinics to help prevent life-changing fractures.

The Government has been criticised for failing to roll out osteoporosis screening clinics in England – after it was revealed that NHS Wales has done so with 'relatively little investment'.

The more boards are in a defensive posture box-ticking, the less they are thinking about innovation and growth, says Financial Reporting Council CEO Richard Moriarty.

Annual reports have become far too big, says the boss of the audit watchdog Richard Moriarty.

So-called 'embodied AI' has a physical form such as a robot, a drone, or a driverless car, as opposed to a purely digital existence.

Chinese humanoid AI robots are on the march. A year ago, they were highly sophisticated novelty acts, performing acrobatics on social media platform TikTok and doing synchronised kung-fu on TV.