Election 2024: Keir Starmer makes first speech as PM outside Number 10: ‘Join my government of service’ July 5, 2024 Prime Minister Keir Starmer has urged Brits to join his government of “service”, as he arrived in Downing Street, following Labour’s landslide election victory. The Labour leader came from Buckingham Palace where King Charles asked him to form a government, after winning some 412 seats and securing a majority. Arriving in Downing Street with his [...]
Exclusive: London’s councils are half a billion in the red. Council Tax will go up – but will it be enough? December 9, 2023 London’s councils are trapped in a “perfect storm” after research found the boroughs are teetering on the financial brink facing a half a billion pound deficit.
Celebrity names behind star-studded crypto capital fund WWVentures October 2, 2022 WWVentures has closed a $15 million funding raise backed by some of the world's top gamers, athletes and content creators.
Clear targets are needed to make the Square Mile a more inclusive workplace November 8, 2021 If you take a walk through the Square Mile’s streets you will see people coming together from a range of backgrounds, and will hear a vast spectrum of accents and languages. This diversity and openness are major assets for the City. They help create a melting pot of different ideas, encouraging innovation and an entrepreneurial [...]
Election 2024: Thousands of homes ‘lost’ to Airbnb, Labour’s City candidate warns July 2, 2024 Properties that could be “thousands of homes are lost to Airbnbs” in London, Labour’s candidate for the Cities of London and Westminster has warned.
Exclusive: COP28 business chief: Era of ‘activist good, business bad’ is over December 8, 2023 COP28 is the first summit to have a formal business special representative - and we sit down with Badr Jafar to discuss where the private sector sits in the climate challenge
Global consumers hold back on lifestyle changes to shrink carbon output, says Ipsos April 22, 2022 Despite climate-anxiety on the rise, global consumers are holding back on making the lifestyle changes necessary to dial back their carbon emissions, according to a new study by one of the world’s largest market researchers. Around 45 per cent polled are mulling making the switch to a low-carbon heating system for their homes, Ipsos found. [...]
Standard Life boss on why 14m pension savers could be sleepwalking into disaster December 7, 2023 Charlie Conchie interviews the biggest movers and shakers in tech, fintech and financial services. This week he talks about the importance of pensions and language with Standard Life boss, Andy Curran. When Andy Curran moved from Glasgow to Reading in 1989 for his first job in the pensions industry, he came up against a cultural [...]
Burger King owner’s shares tumble on back of revenue update October 25, 2021 A lower than expected appetite for Burger King and Tim Hortons caused parent company Restaurant Brands International (RBI) to miss quarterly revenue estimates. While the company’s total sales jumped by 10.8 per cent the latest quarter after declining 5.4 per cent over the same period in 2020, the group continued to feel the impacts of [...]
The Notebook: Deutsche’s Numis deal, the price of commuting and London’s culinary advantage May 2, 2023 IF the City has a collective mood, it is safe to say it has not been an overly cheery one in recent times. At a recent private dinner of CEOs, to which I was kindly invited to join, the overarching theme was a nervousness that London is wobbling a little, at least when it comes [...]