Square Mile and Me: AKQA founder Ajaz Ahmed on why he thinks London is the greatest city in the world November 23, 2023 Each week we ask a City figure to take a trip down memory lane. Today Ajaz Ahmed, founder and CEO of design agency AKQA, tells us how he came to love life in London.
Build, Baby, Build: We’ll never fix the housing crisis without private capital June 23, 2024 It is only by close collaboration between the public sector, private companies and institutional investors that we’ll be able to deliver housing of all tenures at scale, stabilising the market and ensuring more people are able to live better, says Rick de Blaby As someone who runs a business where a third of our workforce [...]
Ed Warner: Wimbledon expansion impasse needs fresh and imaginative thinking July 11, 2024 It’s not all strawberries, Pimm’s and lucrative Airbnb rentals for a fortnight every summer in the environs of The Championships at Wimbledon.
If offices still look like they’re out of an 80s sitcom, we will see more exits like HSBC June 29, 2023 The death of the office proclaimed post-pandemic is far from real; what's true is that London still lacks good quality office spaces. HSBC's change of location is proof of that, writes Gareth Lewis
Brexit adds £200 to Brits’ food bill, LSE study finds December 1, 2022 Brexit piled on an average of £210 extra to household food bills in two years, a fresh research paper has found. UK consumers paid a £5.8bn price tag in additional grocery costs, over the two years to the end of 2021, a study from the London School of Economics has found. As low-income households fork [...]
Starmer’s most exciting policy may not be the one that garners any votes April 17, 2024 While Labour's devolution plans alone won't pull in the votes, giving the public a bit more of a say over what happens in their neighbourhoods can only be a good thing, Jessica Frank-Keyes writes
‘Extreme caution’ urged over census data collected in pandemic despite ONS saying it has ‘full confidence’ in its figures June 28, 2022 Census figures collected during the national lockdown should be treated with “extreme caution” according to a council leader, after appearing to leave off three per cent of the capital’s population. It has been claimed that the Office for National Statistics’ latest data failed to include 300,000 Londoners compared to the previous projection, despite the organisation [...]
Heatwave: London fire chief calls for urgent barbecue ban as blazes rage in record heat July 19, 2022 An urgent and immediate ban on disposable barbecues has been called for by the London Fire Brigade as multiple blazes rage across the country. The emergency service said it had attended more than 1,000 grass and open land fires since the start of June, as the UK recorded its hottest ever temperature today. The Brigade’s [...]
Artificial intelligence could save London from losing our competitive edge to the US May 2, 2023 The future is AI and if London wants to be a global leader, we need to strike the right balance of innovation and regulation here in the City, writes Chris Hayward
London’s firms are still being held back by the EU – and ourselves November 30, 2023 The EU is seeking to meddle in the affairs of businesses - from dictating what charging point phones must have, to rushing to impose stifling regulations on AI.