European World Cup 2026 squads skew hard toward early-year birthdays. Q1-born players outnumber Q4-born players by 54%. The relative age effect, quantified.
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•Premier League revenue: £6.8bn
•Championship revenue: £942m (a 2% decline year-on-year)
•European football market: grew 6% to €40.2bn (£34.4bn) in 2024-25
🚨 The Times Business Pages: The UK has lost £74 billion in goods exports since Brexit.
Key sectors like cars, pharmaceuticals and advanced manufacturing have been hit hardest.
Exporters say the new trade barriers have made things significantly harder.
British food exports are down 22% (£4 billion)
Food is one of Brexit’s biggest losers: more red tape, lost EU markets, and cheaper imports undercutting our farmers.
Ten years on, the data continues to show a clear net loss, not the global trading powerhouse we were promised.
Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946.
For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids.
An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better.
This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.
This is a critical factor to consider. Great piece by @jburnmurdoch@ft
What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?
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