Four-day week at Atom Bank leads to 500 per cent surge in job applicants who want 34 hours a week with no pay cut January 10, 2022 Atom Bank’s four-day working week has led to a 500 per cent surge in job applications and boosted staff morale, its boss has said, stressing he is “utterly committed” to the new set up. The UK’s first app-based bank saw the jump in people applying for job vacancies in one week, shortly after it announced [...]
‘Mish-conduct’: Johnson hammers Starmer over previous paid legal work November 17, 2021 Boris Johnson has tried to put Sir Keir Starmer front and centre of Westminster’s sleaze scandal as he called the Labour leader out for previous legal work he has done while sitting in parliament. Johnson repeatedly hectored Starmer in Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) today over £25,000 of legal work he did at the end of [...]
Who is Sue Gray and when will her report hit Westminster? January 27, 2022 Westminster continues to be gripped by the coming publication of the Sue Gray report, with speculation that it may now not arrive until next week. Boris Johnson’s political career could be riding on the results of the report, with even some of his allies on the Tory backbenches ready to turn against him if the [...]
Carillion saga continues: Watchdog probes Whitehall salvage attempts on unfinished hospitals October 6, 2019 Britain’s public spending watchdog is to launch in investigation into Whitehall’s attempts to rescue two major hospital projects which ground to a halt when Carillion went bust last year. The unfinished Midland Metropolitan and the Royal Liverpool University hospitals were left hanging by a thread when the outsourcer collapsed in January 2018, eventually lumping taxpayers [...]
Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid quit cabinet as PM on the brink July 5, 2022 Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid have both sensationally resigned from cabinet, leaving Boris Johnson’s government on the brink of collapsing. The two resignations may spell the end of Johnson’s premiership as more ministers are now likely to resign in anger with Johnson’s handling of the Chris Pincher sexual misconduct scandal. Johnson’s chief of staff Steve [...]
Burned Out? Here Are Great Companies To Move To May 17, 2022 Burnout is nothing new – many of us have experienced it at work at some stage, and it is so real that the World Health Organisation has classified it as an “occupational phenomenon” in its International Classification of Diseases. A term that is a bit newer, but probably still pretty familiar, is the concept of [...]
Neil Woodford’s ‘sorry saga’ finally ends as flagship fund set to be wound up October 15, 2019 Neil Woodford is to be fired from his flagship fund, which will shortly be wound up, the administrator charged with overseeing its frozen assets has announced. Corporate director Link Fund Solutions has written to investors to say it will return their cash as soon as possible from Woodford Investment Management. Read more: Watchdog calls for [...]
Ministers near deal to oust China’s CGN from £20bn nuclear plant by selling stake September 29, 2021 Ministers are closing in on a deal that could oust China’s CGN from a new £20bn nuclear power station on the UK’s east cost, by selling its minority stake to institutional investors or floating it on the stock market. Under the proposed plans, China’s state-owned CGN would be removed from the project after relieving its [...]
Anton Ferdinand: England should be barred from hosting 2030 World Cup July 13, 2021 England’s Euro 2020 final against Italy on Sunday evening was marred by scores of ticketless fans trying to break into Wembley, while Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka were subjected to racist abuse on social media. Following the debacle, Anton Ferdinand said this evening he believes England should be barred from hosting another major [...]
Best of this week in our opinion pages: from community-based solutions for fighting terrorism to the Bank of England’s dilemmas February 12, 2022 As talks of a definitive lifting of Covid-19 restrictions intensify, workers are coming back to their offices in flocks, bringing liveliness back into the Square Mile. Richard Kauntze wrote about an often overlooked aspect of the City’s inner workings: the unofficial economy of gossip. The City has long thrived on whispered tittle-tattle, which plays a [...]