Square Mile and me: Co-founder of Wildfarmed Edd Lees Each week we dig into the memory bank of the City’s great and good. Today, Edd Lees, takes us through his career which went from finance to farming What was your first job? Working on a stall in Leeds market. What was your first role in the city/business world? Junior in a derivatives trading firm immediately [...]
The best books of 2024: From Sally Rooney to Boris Johnson Live! Okay, that headline is ever-so-slightly misleading – while many of the entries on this list are indeed among the best books of 2024, others earn their place by virtue of being emblematic of their time (Boris Unleashed), zeitgeist-capturing (Bad Girls of Ancient Greece) or simply so utterly bonkers we felt they earned a spot (The [...]
Brick Lane Banksy destroyed by TfL due to risk of ‘anti-social activity’ Transport for London (TfL) has removed an artwork by Banksy from Brick Lane due to concerns over it encouraging "anti-social activity".
‘It’s about confronting death’: The people paying authors to write their life story December 9, 2024 How do you want to be remembered? It’s a question humans have asked since time began, but have you ever paused to think about it – I mean really think about it? Who do you want to be remembered as, which stories do you want your grandchildren to hear? When you’re dead and gone and [...]
Mystery as Banksy artwork on Brick Lane disappears overnight December 5, 2024 An artwork by Banksy on Brick Lane which first appeared in the summer has been removed overnight for reasons yet to be confirmed.
A Booth of One’s Own: My antidote to the open-plan office December 3, 2024 For a woman to write – or, more exactly, to write well – she must possess a room of her own. On this, Virginia Woolf was unequivocal. “Give her a room of her own and five hundred a year, let her speak her mind and leave out half that she now puts in, and she [...]
Square Mile and Me: Natasha Guerra on setting up Runway East November 28, 2024 Runway East CEO Natasha Guerra tells us about her career, her favourite cocktail spot, and why she'd like to see fewer blue shirts in the City.
UK workers are shunning the office Christmas party. But why? November 28, 2024 Fewer office workers are set to attend their company Christmas party this year, but why? Anna Moloney explains.
Explainer in brief: Why does Labour want to abolish local councils? November 25, 2024 Labour is reportedly set to unveil plans to abolish dozens of local councils and radically overhaul local government. But why?
Man fined over noisy cockerel. But what counts as a ‘nuisance pet’? November 21, 2024 A neighbourly dispute over a noisy cockerel has seen a man in Hampshire taken to court. But when does an annoying neighbour become a statutory nuisance?
