Galentine’s craze spotlights an unmined market: Singles wanting fun February 19, 2025 Hospitality's embrace of Galentine's shows welcome goodwill towards financially punished singles, writes Susannah Streeter.
Labour’s jobs tax is proving the Laffer curve in real time February 19, 2025 Widespread falls in hiring and increases in redundancies are a textbook demonstration of how tax can destroy economic activity. Labour’s National Insurance rise is proving economic theory before our eyes, says Matthew Kilcoyne Sometimes the data tells a story so clear it hurts. The latest CIPD survey gives us exactly that – a textbook demonstration [...]
Growth is now near impossible. Here are 7 pleas for Reeves’ Spring Budget February 19, 2025 Growth is impossible if we continue on as we are but the Spring Budget is a chance for change, writes Steve Rigby.
Working from home is not to blame for ‘hollowing out’ London February 18, 2025 Sadiq Khan has expressed concern about the decline in office attendance and urged employers to attract workers back – but the finger of blame turns inexorably on himself, says Tom Jones Nick, 30 years old, shuffles out of his single bed with a weary sigh. The dull grey morning light of late winter barely pierces [...]
Google reviews have done more for public services than Whitehall February 18, 2025 Google Maps reviews have done more for public services than Whitehall, writes Michael Martins in today's Notebook.
Budget policies coming home to roost February 18, 2025 With each passing day, the government’s insistence that economic growth is its “number one priority” sounds more and more offensive. Just a few days ago, the Business Secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, said he believes that “good policy, good strategies, and good government working hand-in-hand with the private sector, can make a difference.” This may be true, [...]
Where AI in law is actually heading February 18, 2025 It's not quite lawyer robots, but AI is already profoundly reshaping the way the courtroom works. Paul Armstrong tells us how.
America first means Britain needs a customs union with Europe February 18, 2025 Whatever one thinks of Brexit, industrial goods were always the area where it made least sense for Britain to go it alone. And now that it’s clear Europe can no longer rely on America, deepening cooperation on defence production is a no-brainer, says Will Cooling It has only been four weeks since Donald Trump’s second [...]
What could a peace deal for Ukraine mean for Europe’s economy? February 17, 2025 Whatever settlement emerges from current negotiations around Ukraine will shape not just Europe’s security future, but it’s economy too, says Andrew Hammond Some three years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, action on the battlefield remains high pitched. Yet, the fundamental topic at the Munich Security Conference in recent days has been growing signals of a [...]
Auto-deleting emails forces us to ask, what is the FCA trying to hide? February 17, 2025 The FCA's plan to auto-delete emails is an exercise of managing reputation, not standards, writes Eliot Wilson.