‘Hideous, extreme greed’: Why disasters keep happening at Boeing March 28, 2024 Its share price is down, regulators are investigating, airlines are unhappy and its CEO is stepping down. Can Boeing survive the crisis?
Nandy: Attacks on MPs are an attack on democracy October 17, 2021 The shadow foreign secretary has said she does not feel safe doing her job in the wake of the murder of Conservative MP David Amess. Labour’s Lisa Nandy, a close friend of Jo Cox, who was also killed in 2016, said the police’s response to fears over MPs’ safety has been patchy and that she [...]
Ed Warner: Kicked off, tipped off, switched off September 8, 2022 One of the joys of writing Sport inc. is the flow of suggestions from readers of subjects to cover. In the past week alone: the highly leveraged balance sheets of Premiership rugby clubs ahead of the new season, the continuing scandal of the lack of financial support for Britain’s international basketball teams, the prohibitive cost [...]
Khan tours America: Donald Trump’s presidency led to much more racist abuse for me, says Mayor of London May 11, 2022 As Sadiq Khan’s visit to the US matures, the Mayor of London has said Donald Trump’s period as US president led to a significant rise in racial abuse directed at him. Khan, speaking at Stanford University near San Francisco on his US trade mission, said temporary and permanent banning of Mr Trump from Twitter led [...]
Qatar World Cup: BrewDog slammed for ‘disingenuous’ gesture giving profits to charity November 7, 2022 BrewDog has been slammed for launching a “disingenuous” ‘anti-sponsorship’ campaign for the Qatar World Cup, donating profits to charities but continuing to show the tournament. The brand said it would show the World Cup at its outlets but “all the profits from our Lost Lager sold during the tournament going to fight human rights abuse.” [...]
Wings over the world as Blackbird flies high with unique technology May 9, 2022 It might be said that it was only a matter of time before London-based Blackbird plc won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise. Afterall it is a company that the world seems increasingly to need and as a consequence is growing rapidly, especially overseas, particularly in America. In the last year Blackbird has won a raft [...]
The negroni isn’t ‘woke’ – it’s a part of British tradition that we must save August 3, 2023 We have been drinking cocktails for a long time. The first recorded use of the word which didn’t refer to a horse’s tail is in 1798 and was mocking the drinking habits of the prime minister, William Pitt the Younger. (Premiers don’t hit the bottle heavily these days: Thatcher liked to unwind with glasses of [...]
A £300m planning application 249 times the length of War and Peace? Meet the man delivering the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing February 13, 2024 City AM sits down with the man delivering the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing, a project whose planning bid is the UK's longest ever.
Klarna says BNPL can offer ‘better value’ for essentials amidst cost of living crunch August 23, 2022 Klarna has doubled down on the use of buy-now pay-later for essentials like groceries after debt charities and the regulator warned over the promotion of the products amidst a cost of living crunch this year.
The virtual metaverse requires very real-world regulation November 10, 2021 Regulators tend only to emerge in the spotlight of public scrutiny when something goes wrong. FCA bosses have spent the last couple of years being wheeled in front of Select Committees to explain the colossal cock-ups that led to the London Capital & Finance minibond scandal – including its former boss Andrew Bailey, who despite [...]