Explainer-in-brief: What’s happening in the Meghan & Harry free zone January 9, 2023 If you started tuning out of the news in mid-December last year, you would have left as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Netflix series dominated the headlines, strikes caused chaos before Christmas and the NHS struggled under the weight of winter pressures. Turning on the radio this morning, little had changed, with the stateside Royal [...]
Explainer-in-brief: Twitter leak shows danger of phishing is round the corner January 9, 2023 Last year saw a rise in cyber security breaches and cyber crimes. Attempts at hacking, phishing and frauding targeted both companies and individuals. With reports emerging last week of more than 200m Twitter users’ email addresses stolen by hackers, the problem is not going away in 2023. Experts have defined the Twitter leak as one [...]
Sunak is right in taking on the unions, but anti-strike laws are no silver bullet January 9, 2023 Strike action doesn’t have to be very extensive to send British society into fits of frightening folk memories of the 1970s. People murmur knowingly about a winter of discontent coming back to haunt us from the past. Real connoisseurs will recall the Army being brought in, ageing Green Goddess fire engines wheeled out to cover [...]
To be an attractive location the City needs an innovative offer, starting from transport January 9, 2023 For many City workers, after a week of working from home due to rail strikes, today will be the first day back in the office. People across the Square Mile will hope that the new year brings a swift resolution to the railways’ industrial action. We all want to return and help the City unlock [...]
Sunak – or Starmer – need to focus on building to get the country back on its feet January 9, 2023 We are merely days into 2023 and attention is already turning to the next general election, which is likely to take place next year. Both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer set out their ambitions in their New Year speeches last week. As ever, the commentariat was divided on who delivered the most coherent and convincing [...]
Letters: Students and AI can collaborate January 9, 2023 [Re: Fears of cheating prompt Ofqual to ‘look into’ use of AI chatbot ChatGPT, January 3] It’s right that exams regulator Ofqual investigates how ChatGPT will impact the future of school exams and students’ writing, critical analysis and creative skills, if Artificial Intelligence proves it can do the same to a high level. The emergence [...]
The Notebook: Dogs in the office, Next’s triumph, and the Madoff documentary January 8, 2023 The Notebook is a new addition to City A.M.’s daily offering, giving the City of London’s movers and shakers the chance to let a few things off their chest. In this first edition – it’s our editor, Andy Silvester, penning his thoughts. ONE of the things that fascinated me as a child were ant farms [...]
Both Sunak and Starmer have finally vowed to put innovation at the heart of their strategies January 6, 2023 For the first time in the new year – but not for the first time in his premiership – Rishi Sunak delivered a speech against a challenging economic backdrop this week. Growth – and the best way to achieve it – continues to percolate in political and public discourse, with fears of a global recession, [...]
From Bristol to Blackpool, it’s time to create fertile ground for growth for our start-ups all over the country January 6, 2023 In the UK there has been a lot of talk about “levelling up” investment outside of London. For some time during the Johnson administration, it felt like no two days could go by without the words “levelling up” being foghorned from the spokespeople of various government ministries. Yet going into 2023, it’s still unclear exactly [...]
Brexit: The govt must please both the Europeans and the DUP to solve the stalemate in Northern Ireland January 6, 2023 There aren’t many causes for optimism in British politics right now. Yet one that seems to be getting people increasingly excited is the possibility that Britain and the EU are close to agreeing a deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol. British ministerial sources are reporting good progress is being made in the talks, and even [...]