Britain can’t behave like Brussels and expect to trade like Wall Street November 11, 2025 The UK’s post-Brexit reform to anonymise short-selling disclosures is a positive step, but it will only succeed if it is accompanied by a fundamental shift from blunt regulation to market-led innovation in data analytics and technology-driven transparency, says Tim Focas Britain’s post-Brexit financial debate often concludes with a tired binary view that deregulation equals danger, [...]
Can Linkedin survive AI? November 11, 2025 AI and the modern economy are already challenging how we perceive the labour market. Can Linkedin survive it, asks Paul Armstrong.
BBC has no right to taxpayer money if it cannot prove impartiality November 11, 2025 Unless the BBC can prove, definitely, that it is unbiased, it has no right to taxpayer money, writes Oliver Dean.
I’m 31 and pay thousands into my pension: taxing my contributions could be the last straw November 11, 2025 The Chancellor’s threat of a a two per cent national insurance tax on salary sacrifice contributions above £2,000 is deeply unfair, says Martin Kimber People tend to look at me like I’ve just admitted to collecting antique Victorian dolls when I tell them I sacrifice 15 per cent of my salary into a pension. However, [...]
Two thirds of Brits want tax-raising Reeves to resign November 11, 2025 The latest City AM/Freshwater Strategy poll will make difficult for the Chancellor, says Matthew Lesh Last week, Chancellor Rachel Reeves played with fire. In what was officially titled a “scene setter” speech ahead of the Budget, she tried to soften the ground for tax rises. After committing to not come back for more after last [...]
Musk’s $trillion pay package is impossible to justify November 11, 2025 The Notebook, where the City’s movers and shakers have their say. Today it’s investment analyst Susannah Streeter with the pen Radio phone-ins, social media feeds and TV news programmes have all been taken over by talk of Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar deal. I was woken super early by one producer and the phone barely stopped ringing, [...]
Teaching kids about money will offer the ultimate return on investment November 11, 2025 Even a small reduction in financial illiteracy, could boost a nation’s household income by billions each year, says Marianna Hunt Go into a primary school today and ask how many of them trust major financial institutions like banks and you’ll generally find that less than half do so. Sometimes it’s as low as one-third of [...]
The City’s first Lady Mayor is a symbol of progress November 10, 2025 The historic appointment of Dame Susan Langley as the City of London’s first “Lady Mayor” is a powerful symbol of progress, but women still face deep, persistent systemic barriers to equality in business, says Natasha Frangos On Saturday, Dame Susan Langley made history not as the first woman to lead the City of London but [...]
The World Bank should focus on poverty, not climate change November 10, 2025 Research repeatedly shows that pound for pound, core development investments — like improving maternal health, advancing e-learning, or enhancing agricultural yields — deliver much greater and faster benefits than climate spending, writes Bjorn Lomborg With Cop30 underway in Brazil, the United States has told the World Bank to stop obsessing about climate and get back to [...]
Prince Harry’s love letter to Britishness is thin gruel November 10, 2025 Prince Harry has never posed as a deep thinker, but his paean to “banter” written from his mansion in Montecito is beyond a joke, says Eliot Wilson If immigration is one of the most contentious subjects in contemporary British politics, then British identity is in turn one of its knottiest elements. What does it mean [...]