Getting safe access sorted is one of those things that can make or break a construction job. Pick the wrong scaffolding provider and you’re looking at delays, safety risks, or equipment that doesn’t quite fit what you need. Pick the right one and your project runs smoother, your crew works safer, and you’re not chasing hire companies halfway through the job. The UK has plenty of scaffold hire options, but they don’t all work the...
Robert Kravitz does not speak about lending in theories. He speaks in outcomes. After decades of structuring, funding, restructuring, and closing deals with his own capital, his authority comes from repetition, discipline, and survival across market cycles. Kravitz is the President and Managing Partner of NFRC Companies. He operates as a direct lender, capital stack manager, and deal strategist across commercial real estate, residential bridge lending, and business finance. His role is not advisory in...
Venezuela opposition leader María Corina Machado argued that a successful democratic transition for her country would rapidly transform the nation’s economy and reverse years of instability, reshaping the region’s political landscape. Machado told the New York Post in an interview that such an outcome would define Trump’s foreign policy legacy, comparing it to the fall of the Berlin Wall. ‘The legacy to the world is going to be huge,’ she explained. ‘You’re going to have...
More and more brutal evidence of the Iranian regime’s crackdown on its own people is circulating online, as the true number of those killed in Iran’s protests remains hotly contested amid internet blackouts and state intimidation. Estimates range from the thousands confirmed dead to the tens of thousands feared killed, according to activists, media reports and medical data. Fatemeh Jamalpour, an Iranian journalist who has covered every major protest movement over the past two decades,...
The Pentagon’s newly released National Defense Strategy warns that future wars may no longer be fought solely overseas, arguing the U.S. military must be prepared to conduct combat operations directly from the American homeland as adversaries gain the ability to strike the United States itself. The strategy, released Friday evening, elevates homeland defense above all other missions, calling for expanded missile defense, counter-drone systems, cyber capabilities and long-range strike forces capable of launching decisive operations...
Gianluca Cerri MD is an emergency medicine physician whose career has been shaped by high-pressure decision making, operational discipline, and long-term thinking. Born in Milan, Italy, he built his medical training in the United States, where he developed a reputation for calm leadership in complex clinical environments. He completed medical school at Louisiana State University from 1993 to 1997, followed by internal medicine residency from 1997 to 2000. In 2000, he served as Chief Resident...
BGF has reported a strong year of investment and exit activity in 2025, underpinned by landmark portfolio realisations, robust trading performance and continued backing for founders across the UK and Ireland. The growth capital investor returned more than £600 million during the year, delivering a money multiple of over 2x, and paid a £75 million dividend to shareholders. The performance was driven by a series of high-profile exits, led by the sale of OrganOx, which...
A battleground district House Republican is wading into the redistricting war that has seized the U.S. with his own new proposal to crack down on ‘partisan gamesmanship.’ Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., has introduced a bill called the Fair Apportionment and Independent Redistricting for Maps that Avoid Partisanship (FAIR MAP) Act, which would impose new guardrails on the process of changing congressional districts across all 50 states. The bill would bar states from drawing districts for...
A cohort of Senate Republicans plans to launch a targeted task force aimed at tackling fraudsters in the wake of the Minnesota fraud scandal. Republican members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee announced that they would form a task force dedicated to rooting out fraudsters abusing federal funding. The seven-member panel will be led by HELP Committee Chair Bill Cassidy, R-La., who has cranked up efforts in recent weeks to crack...
Speaking to global leaders in Davos, Switzerland, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a blunt warning to Europe about its self-defense. ‘Europe needs to know how to defend itself,’ he said, arguing that the continent still isn’t ready to stand on its own without U.S. backing. Zelensky’s remarks reflected a growing anxiety across Europe — that decades of reliance on American protection left the continent ill-prepared for a more dangerous era. While European countries have...
