Free Thinking: James Bloodworth explains the war on modern masculinity August 12, 2025 Author James Bloodworth joins City AM's opinion and features editor, Alys Denby, on this episode of Free Thinking to discuss the war on modern masculinity.
The 24-second news cycle has killed off silly season August 12, 2025 In a media landscape fuelled by outrage, the news cycle has no more room for fun or nuance, writes Adam Taylor
Here’s how Sadiq Khan could build 250,000 more homes August 12, 2025 Fewer than 1,000 homes were built in London in the second quarter of this year. This is a truly abysmal construction rate – and at a time when the capital’s need for new housing grows more and more acute. Whatever Sadiq Khan’s been doing the past nine years, it isn’t working. Time, therefore, to get [...]
The ‘university for all’ rhetoric is hurting students and the taxpayer August 12, 2025 Decades of “university for all” rhetoric is hurting students whose degrees no longer pay off, and taxpayers who are stumping up the cost.
Rushanara Ali just did what any rational landlord would August 12, 2025 As a government minister, Rushanara Ali was foolish, but as a landlord, completely rational. Her case exposes the flaws of rental reform.
Entrepreneurs no longer need a gap in the market, they just need cash August 12, 2025 Entrepreneurship through acquisition could revitalise the UK's business market, but budding entrepreneurs need cash to do it.
Small boats deal shows Labour’s technocrats have no clue what they’re doing August 11, 2025 Labour positioned itself as a party of technocrats, but the small boats deal shows they have no clue what they're doing, writes Eliot Wilson.
How much financial wrongdoing is acceptable in the UK’s pursuit of growth? August 11, 2025 The government must be prepared to answer just how much wrongdoing is it prepared to accept in the pursuit of growth, writes Lucy McNulty.
Overloaded tribunals can’t cope with employment law reforms August 8, 2025 Labour’s employment law reforms will pile more pressure on our already overwhelmed tribunals. There is a better solution, says Richard Atkinson The Employment Rights Bill, which is currently at the committee stage and has been the subject of much discussion, could deliver the most wide-ranging changes to employment law in generations. However, for the reforms [...]
‘My boss knew I’d leave Freshfields from my first week in’: Nnamdi Emelifeonwu on setting up legal tech firm Definely August 7, 2025 Freshfields lawyer Nnamdi Emelifeonwu left law to set up legal tech firm Definely. He takes us through his career in Square Mile and Me.