Letters: Time to regulate cryptocurrencies November 24, 2022 [Re: Bitcoin tumbles below £13,500 as FTX turmoil continues, Nov 21] The collapse and ensuing investigation of FTX has cast a spotlight on the cryptocurrency ecosystem, sparking a wider public discourse on whether decentralised finance has a future role to play. While not downplaying the impact this collapse will continue to have on the crypto [...]
Explainer-in-brief: Tampax joins the losers of social media PR November 23, 2022 Tampax is facing a boycott after a Twitter post that was branded as blatant misogyny and accused of sexualising periods. The company is not the first one that has tried to be funny or to leverage social media and completely failed. American fashion brand Kenneth Cole attributed the “uproar in #Cairo” during the Egypt revolution [...]
Profit and success are not dirty words for the Labour party – and neither is Brexit November 23, 2022 Making Labour a pro-business party was a matter of conviction to me. You can’t be the party of working people without being the party of jobs. And you can’t be the party of jobs without being the party of business. Profit, success, enterprise – those aren’t dirty words in the Labour Party. They’re what drives [...]
It doesn’t matter if Sunak has a private GP, it matters if he knows most people don’t November 23, 2022 Our leaders should be able to understand and fight for seminal issues even if they have not had first hand experience of what happens when the system fails.
Housing Associations have no accountability and a 2-year-old has paid the price November 23, 2022 The tragic death of Awaab Ishak, the two-year-old killed by exposure to mould, has been described in detail over the last week. We’ve heard of all the complaints made against Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH), the housing association which owned and managed the flat. And yet, the organisation appears to be full of self-congratulation. It boasts [...]
Black Friday is a white knight November 23, 2022 Last week’s ONS statistics may have “rebounded slightly”but the outlook is still disappointing.
Explainer-in-brief: A Swiss deal, full of holes of our own making November 22, 2022 Even the mention of a Swiss-style relationship with the EU threw Brexiteers into pitbull mode with Nigel Farage apparently willing to come back and “crush” the Tories. The government has already come out to deny the claims, with Rishi Sunak guaranteeing any trade agreement with the union won’t rely “on alignment with EU rules”. A [...]
Musk’s Twitter takeover and the FTX collapse should end the founder cult November 22, 2022 Few would disagree that entrepreneurs and the companies they create are an essential part of any successful economy. Nevertheless, today’s excessive levels of founder adulation – call it the cult of the founder – are proving damaging in ways that are plain to see, from Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and the spectacular collapse of [...]
Our productivity problem won’t solve itself by magic, Britain needs some real ambition November 22, 2022 It’s high time businesses stop expecting output to grow of its own accord. Neither their companies nor the country can afford to wait.
Sport has significant soft power and we shouldn’t have caved in over armbands November 22, 2022 On the eve of the England Men’s World Cup matches, long-suffering fans of the Three Lions are focused on selection dilemmas, pre-tournament drinking scandals or tactical machinations. At this edition of the biggest platform in sport, the focus is on a debate about how England should take a moral stance against homophobia and human rights [...]