Borthwick must look overseas for next crop of England rugby players December 25, 2023 If you stood on an English beach in the south east and looked over the Channel, towards France, you may be able to see the faint outline of Jack Willis or Henry Arundell charging around a sports stadium. Because a huge number of England’s top rugby talent have migrated overseas and into the Top14, beyond [...]
Women’s golf, prize money and the fight for equal pay: Is the sport heading in the right direction? March 16, 2023 As women’s world No1, Lydia Ko is accustomed to breaking new ground and last month was no exception. At Royal Greens Golf and Country Club in King Abdullah Economic City, the New Zealander became the first Aramco Saudi Ladies International champion to receive equal prize money to the winner of the equivalent men’s tournament, Abraham [...]
Who were the biggest winners and losers in 2023 in the automotive world December 24, 2023 It has been a year of change for the global automotive industry. City A.M. judges the biggest winners and losers.
Amount of time it takes to hire workers drops to seven year low of just over a month May 23, 2023 The amount of time it is taking businesses to hire staff has slimmed to its lowest level in seven years in a sign friction in the jobs market is beginning to unwind, new research out today shows. Employers left roles advertised on job boards on average for 37 days over the last year, down from [...]
Interactive Investor founder Sherry Coutu on her next big challenge – and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro August 17, 2023 As a decade-spanning serial entrepreneur, it seems only too on the nose that Sherry Coutu likes to spend her spare time climbing mountains. When we speak, the founder of the retail investment stalwart Interactive Investor has just returned from a jaunt up Rinjani volcano in Indonesia for the third time. She’s gearing up to take [...]
Interactive Investor founder Sherry Coutu: entrepreneurship, climbing mountains and why Sunak’s maths plans don’t quite add up August 17, 2023 Interactive Investor founder Sherry Coutu on education, climbing mountains and entrepreneurship
Campaigner Alan Bates proposes private prosecutions over Post Office IT scandal April 13, 2024 Former subpostmaster and campaigner Alan Bates has said he will pursue private prosecutions against those responsible for the Horizon IT scandal if the inquiry does not pass a file to prosecuting authorities. The inquiry resumed this week with Mr Bates giving evidence and on Friday he told the Times he would be willing to crowdfund [...]
Unpaid overtime forcing public sector workers to quit February 25, 2023 Public sector workers are becoming “burnt out” and quitting their jobs after putting in millions of hours of unpaid overtime last year, according to a report. The TUC urged everyone to work their proper hours as part of its annual campaign against excessive unpaid overtime. The union organisation estimated that employers claimed £26bn of free [...]
426,000 first-time buyers could vanish from property ladder by 2027 September 28, 2023 As many as 426,000 fewer first-time buyers in England could get on the property ladder between this year and 2027 compared with the long-term average, a building society predicts. Leeds Building Society, in partnership with specialist advisers WPI Strategy, analysed first-time buyer affordability between 1982 and 2022, and how the challenges of buying a first [...]
Five questions with Sanghamitra Chakravarty, founder of InvictIQ April 5, 2024 Sanghamitra Chakravarty, the founder of health tech platform InvictIQ tells us what she's learned on her entrepreneurial journey so far.