Rob Brown

Aspartame, ace K and sucralose have helped cut 30,000 tonnes of sugar from soft drinks. But as health concern…

Off Grid Electric, a start-up launched by Oxford Saïd MBAs Erica Mackey and Xavier Helgesen, is powering a br…

Size zeros might still rule the catwalks but a new ideal is emerging in gyms and on social media: tanned skin…

Rob Brown reports on how Landsec is pioneering more efficient construction methods at 105 Sumner Street...

Whether you're looking to fall in love with exercise for the first time or put the spark back in your schedul…

The dairy industry has a problem: the 270 million dairy cows on earth burp too much. About 6% of methane emis…

As smokers switch to vaping big tobacco is scrabbling to invest while Trump moves to ban certain devices...

In April 2019, I became one of only a handful of type one diabetics runners to have completed the Marathon de…

Question: what’s worth £99.2bn a year according to one trusted source, £117.8bn according to another and £147…

Exercise can be daunting for people living with either type of diabetes. The risk of hypos, raised blood gluc…

Gin has contributed more to the boom in spirits than any other drink, according to Kantar. Of the sector’s £1…

Strange but true: pond slime could hold the key to feeding the planet. That’s according to the growing numb…

Avery Bang, CEO of Bridges to Prosperity and Oxford MBA graduate, is shaping the world through physical conne…

It's enough to make the Sex and the City gang choke on their Cosmopolitans. For cocktails are no longer the p…

Debenhams, Asda, Thomas Cook, HMV and B&Q have severed or suspended their ties with one of the UK's biggest "…

I spent eight years crunching sales figures to reveal changes in the way Britain eats, drinks and shops. In 2…

A while back I was accused of ripping off the NHS for sending insulin I'd been advised to stop taking to a st…

What skills will the leaders of tomorrow need to thrive? McKinsey Senior Partner Dominic Barton shares his vi…

Call me disabled because I have type one diabetes and you'll get a response that’s frostier than a polar bear…

The soft drinks sector is facing unprecedented challenges: as the sugar levy bites, sales of classic fizzy po…

Forget IQ. In this age of AI, leaders need to tap their LQ ('love quotient') to stand out from the bots, says…

Without insulin, you die. Yet it's estimated that half of the world's type one diabetics live without adequat…

Last week, I shipped a two-month supply of insulin from the UK to the US to a stranger I’d met online. We’d b…

Cash is king no more. In 2006, 62% of payments made in the UK were with cash. A decade later, that figure had…