Already failing Dry January? Don’t worry – why alcohol free isn’t actually the answer January 6, 2023 Helen ditched booze on the 1st of January, the same as she has done for the past six years with the aim of doing Dry January, but she has always found herself drinking again before the month ends. On average she drinks one glass of wine every other day and describes herself as a “happy” [...]
Instead of talking our economy down, we should commend its resilience over the past year March 3, 2023 If the UK economy managed to avoid two successive quarters of GDP decline last year, it will fight as hard this year. It will also win more easily, writes Savvas Savouri
The Notebook: The Orwellian use of facial recognition June 10, 2024 Where the City’s movers and shakers have their say. Today, Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, takes the pen to talk about the increasing use of CCTV surveillance, wasteful policing in Croydon and a weirdly wonderful production of Cabaret Dystopian nightmares in Orwell’s 1984 now look eerily prophetic This weekend marked 75 years since [...]
Election 2024: What are Tories, Labour and Lib Dems pledging on sport? July 3, 2024 With the General Election just a matter of days away, we assess the approach that the major parties have taken when it comes to sport in their respective manifestos and what the potential consequences may be for the future of sport. Football Governance Bill The Football Governance Bill was one of the major legislative casualties [...]
A brave new world of Brits on Wegovy won’t fix our problem with junk food December 14, 2023 Weight loss drugs promise to cure Brits of obesity, revive the NHS and save the UK billions, but could it be too good to be true, asks Lucy Kenningham
Is Keir Starmer ready to be unpopular? June 25, 2024 Both Starmer and Sunak are pretending that only the other side’s plans will costs us more – neither is being honest about the true scale of the challenges Britain is facing, says Emma Revell One of the most frustrating things about elections, if you’re a political campaigner, is that politicians keep talking about what they [...]
Complete decentralization enables blockchains to offer real-world utility February 8, 2023 When you are assessing a crypto project, what do you look for? Despite the current trend being all about the price of the coin on an exchange, the main assessment could be based on the answer to “what does the project actually enable”? One of the most popular answers is “DeFi offerings”, and unfortunately that [...]
Coffee Wars: Inside the race to become London’s number one chain June 1, 2024 Coffee has played a vital role in reviving Brits for centuries. Despite feeling like a relatively new phenomenon, the first record of a coffee house in England dates back to 1652 and was said to be opened by a Turkish Man named Jacob in Oxfordshire.
Prince Harry: Daily Mirror publisher to pay ‘substantial’ costs in settlement of phone hacking lawsuit February 9, 2024 Prince Harry has settled the remaining claims in his phone hacking lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mirror, two months after the paper was found to have hacked his phone. Back in December, a High Court judge ruled that there was “extensive” phone hacking by Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) from 2006 to 2011, “even [...]
BuzzFeed News’ top editors step down following major job cut plans March 22, 2022 BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Mark Schoofs, as well as two other top editors, have stepped down this afternoon following internal announcements that job cuts were coming across the board.