Forget the UK, how has Europe dealt with pro-Palestine marches? November 10, 2023 This week a Yougov poll showed half of the UK thinks the pro-Palestine march planned for this Saturday 11 November ought to be banned. The Home Secretary has dubbed it a “hate march”. The ethics – and law – around banning marches is controversial. In the UK Sir Mark Rowley, head of the Metropolitan Police [...]
Too big to succeed: the corporate blob is killing businesses November 10, 2023 In a nutshell, a ‘corporate blob’ is a large unwieldy bureaucracy, typically with multiple layers of middle management.
Bird watching: What’s going on with X/Twitter’s Community Notes? November 9, 2023 It’s always embarrassing to be called out on a lie. That’s the cruel genius behind Twitter’s Community Notes feature, which brutally exposes mistruths with a cool, simple fact box. As Labour’s shadow foreign secretary David Lammy recently found out, the hard way. He tweeted “As I said on Radio 4 Today this morning, it is [...]
All institutions come with the baggage of history, but good can still be done November 9, 2023 There are no easy answers – and none that will satisfy everybody – to settling historic ‘bills’ for involvement in the slave trade. Under pressure for a number of years, Lloyds of London announced yesterday a £50m investment in diversity and inclusion initiatives that it hopes will open the door of the insurance market to [...]
Why won’t banking chief execs talk about artificial intelligence? November 9, 2023 Banks are slowly waking up to the potential of artificial intelligence, but the City CEOs are still reluctant to talk about it, writes Alexandra Mousavizadeh
Britain has brilliant start ups, but they rarely make it to the big leagues November 9, 2023 The UK has a thriving array of start ups, but they don’t have tools to turn that into scaled, successful businesses, writes John Asthana Gibson
Worst corporate jargon of the week: GFC November 8, 2023 Fresh-faced finance bros in the City have breathed new life into a term for 2008 financial crash.
Politicians are wading in abstract sentiments, it won’t win votes November 8, 2023 Rishi Sunak can be forgiven for not weighing down the King’s Speech. Political parties can't win unless they explain what they will do.
Bank of England has lost the delicate touch monetary policy needs November 8, 2023 After decades of cheap debt, the swing towards high interest rates was a wrecking ball for monetary policy, writes Charles White Thomson
Pedicab pandemonium? Unlicensed and unstoppable since 1869 November 7, 2023 “This is one of the biggest issues in Westminster,” Nickie Aiken MP told City A.M., earnestly, minutes after the King’s announcement today. It’s not surprising she was excited: the former leader of Westminster City Council has spent a full four years campaigning to remove a loophole on unlicensed pedicabs. Why is this issue so important, [...]