Green Party leadership: Who are the runners and riders to replace Natalie Bennett May 16, 2016 Green Party leader Natalie Bennett has announced she will stand down from the helm of the party in August after four years leading the party, paving the way for younger blood. Bennett won't be standing for re-election when her second two-year term comes to an end this summer, though she does intend to stay "fully engaged". Given [...]
The City needs to talk about mental health to combat this silent plague May 16, 2016 Today marks the start of World Mental Health Awareness Week, during which the spotlight will be turned on an important issue that for too long has been relegated to the shadows. Across the world, hundreds of millions of people are affected by mental health conditions. Here in the UK, for example, one in four people [...]
London airport expansion: Business groups rally on government again after Heathrow accepts conditions for expansion May 11, 2016 Business groups have jumped on pledges by Heathrow Airport to reduce night flights, as well as curtail noise and pollution, to urge the government to make a decision on aviation expansion after months of dithering. Heathrow Airport today promised to make the concessions if it is allowed to build a new, third runway, ahead of [...]
This is Me: How Barclays is breaking mental health stigma – and the rest of the City can too May 11, 2016 Since 2013, Barclays has been working to raise awareness of mental health in the workplace through our campaign “This is Me”. As part of our ambition to be the most accessible and inclusive bank, it is important to Barclays that colleagues can be themselves at work. Addressing the cultural silence around mental health was fundamental [...]
Mythic London Stone is going on show at Museum of London as current home on Cannon Street is demolished May 10, 2016 You've probably walked past it a thousand times without a passing glance, but an unassuming piece of limestone with a mythical back-story is to go on show at the Museum of London this week. Cannon Street's London Stone (not The London Stone) is the surviving portion of a much larger piece, and is thought to [...]
Sadiq Khan: I will unite London and be the most pro-business mayor yet May 5, 2016 Millions of Londoners will have the opportunity today to vote for a new mayor. And when it comes to business and the financial sector, this election matters. London is an established global leader in business services and international finance. We are also a growing force in newer industries such as tech, low carbon and life [...]
Lord Sugar reckons he would make a better London mayor than Zac Goldsmith and Sadiq Khan May 3, 2016 In a race for City Hall with banking heirs, polish aristocrats and exiled Kashmiri emperors, who else could bring even more grandeur to the London mayoral election than Lord Alan Sugar? Not surprisingly the businessman, a Labour peer until he left the party after the general election last year, reckons none of the candidates are up to scratch [...]
Brexit myths debunked: The Leave campaign shouldn’t fear arguing that leaving the EU would be good for the economy April 26, 2016 Conventional commentariat wisdom has it that the EU referendum pits those concerned about economics versus those concerned about immigration. But a quick perusal of the leading intellectual voices supporting Leave shows this is nonsense. Many have long thought the UK outside the EU would not only be more free and democratic, but more prosperous too. That’s [...]
EU referendum: Cabinet ministers and top Conservatives clash over immigration and security April 25, 2016 Cabinet ministers today knocked heads over key issues of immigration and security ahead of the EU referendum in June. Home secretary Theresa May said that the UK needs to "stand tall and lead in Europe" rather than leaving the EU, the home secretary has said. In her first speech ahead of the referendum in June, May said that [...]
London mayoral election 2016: Labour grandee Lord Peter Mandelson urges business not to allow Zac Goldsmith to use City Hall to push the UK out of the EU April 25, 2016 The City and London’s wider business community has been urged by a Labour grandee not to allow Tory mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith to “use City Hall as a vanguard for the Brexit campaign”. In his first intervention in the mayoral election, Lord Peter Mandelson exclusively told City A.M. that he wants to call on the business [...]