Focus On Chalk Farm: property prices, best streets and house price growth February 16, 2018 Clustered in among some of London’s most popular neighbourhoods, Chalk Farm is a sort of dividing line between the tourists and the nightlife of Camden, and the exclusive neighbourhoods of Primrose Hill and Belsize Park. As such, it’s moments away from both – with 24 hour transport links now the Northern line has joined the [...]
Learning Technologies shares are flying as it becomes the only Aim-listed company to grab Goldman Sachs as a corporate broker February 16, 2018 The weight of investment banking giant Goldman Sachs is a force to be reckoned with, and Learning Technologies Group has found itself on the right side of that power today. The e-learning business, which is listed on London’s junior market Aim, saw its share price rise as much as 6.7 per cent in morning trading [...]
Debate: Should the Bank of England scrap its two per cent inflation target? February 16, 2018 Should the Bank of England scrap its two per cent inflation target? Yes – Matt Kilcoyne is head of communications at the Adam Smith Institute. Inflation is an imperfect target to deliver stability of money supply, as it is affected by both demand factors (which the Bank controls) and supply factors (which the Bank can’t [...]
Invest in rail and road links before we jump the EU ship February 16, 2018 Britain is an island nation, and for centuries it has looked to the sea for prosperity and partnership. Today, the maritime sector contributes £40bn to the UK’s GDP and supports one million jobs. Some 95 per cent of all our imports and exports, totalling £500bn, move by sea. Read more: London’s still attracting more foreign [...]
Bitcoin price is holding on to gains, hovering around $10,000 February 16, 2018 Bitcoin was holding on to gains this morning, hovering around $9,800 a day after it reached $10,000 for the first time following a spectacular crash in which it lost 70 per cent of value in a matter of weeks. The cryptocurrency rose to $10,000 yesterday, for the first time since the end of January, having [...]
What Brexit? London’s still attracting more foreign tech talent than other European cities February 16, 2018 London remains the most attractive location in Europe for tech talent seeking to move for work, new figures reveal. The capital attracted more foreign workers than other tech hubs across the continent, including Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam last year, according to data from London & Partners and LinkedIn. Read more: Maybe it’s time we ditched [...]
UK house prices: Research has just quashed the myth that millennials don’t want to own homes February 16, 2018 The myth fewer millennials own homes than previous generations because they prefer a nomadic lifestyle has been quashed by new research, which has suggested young people on middle incomes are less than half as likely to own their own home than previous generations at the same age. The figures, by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, [...]
Ollie Phillips: England need to find their attacking bite or risk missing out on a third successive Six Nations crown February 16, 2018 Particularly in tight games, such as Saturday’s 12-6 victory over Wales at Twickenham, England are lacking some real attacking finesse currently and without Owen Farrell they would be lost. Farrell was unbelievable against the Welsh and more or less every decision he made was the correct one. He and former skipper Chris Robshaw, whose work-rate [...]
MPs’ recess shows how little dialogue goes on normally – and we’re all the poorer for it February 16, 2018 Parliament was on one of its many breaks this week, although some news still emerged from a sleepy Westminster. Boris Johnson popped up to provide some light relief and a smidgen of Brexit policy hints, while Jeremy Corbyn was the subject of two high profile stories – an expose of his historical Soviet connections and [...]
IoD: Business leaders push for hybrid Brexit model to include a customs union February 16, 2018 Business leaders believe they have a compromise proposal for post-Brexit trade that would reduce barriers while allowing the UK to pursue free trade deals. The plan – a partial customs union covering industrial goods and processed agricultural products – has been put together by the Institute of Directors, who argue it would help maintain the [...]