Letters: Wake up and smell the fraud October 28, 2022 Protecting the public from the meteoric rise of fraud needs to be an absolute priority for the new government.
Blindness in Ghana October 27, 2022 | City Talk Ghana, like many nations, has a clear divide between those who are wealthy and those who live in poverty. Many Ghanaians live in conditions where they do not have access to healthcare or the resources to assist them out of the cycle of poverty. The lack of accessibility to healthcare can often push those suffering [...]
Explainer-in-brief: Ben Wallace and his hardline for defence spending October 27, 2022 Ben Wallace is one of the few faces in Rishi Sunak’s cabinet who hasn’t been doing a kind of hokey-poke between his department and the back benches. The Defence Secretary has significant political pull as a result of his handling of the war in Ukraine and has consistently tried to stay above the internal turmoil [...]
Open arms? Sunak’s cabinet is a white flag as he fights for the party’s survival October 27, 2022 Sunak has promised all wings of the party that they can pursue their favourite plans as long as they also agree to a painful bout of fiscal tightening.
We must not put a salami slicer to our public services in a bid to balance the books October 27, 2022 Our country is deeply in debt, with a deficit that is viewed by the markets as on an unsustainable path. The mini-budget and the subsequent reaction from the markets have undoubtedly made the situation significantly more challenging. The new prime minister must now seize the opportunity to restore fiscal credibility. Both unfunded tax cuts and [...]
As Gove returns to the toxic housing seesaw, inflation will become his worst enemy October 27, 2022 After Monday’s reshuffle, and the new prime minister’s promise to fix the mistakes of his predecessor, can we expect some much needed stability in politics? Perhaps that’s wishful thinking, given the psychodrama that has rocked the Conservative party for the past year. But for those who are looking for some measure of consistency, there might [...]
Letters: Avoiding the walk of shame October 27, 2022 [Re: FCA poised to clampdown on greenwashing with ‘ESG’ curbs, yesterday] The FCA has spoken. UK firms must walk the walk, and not just talk the talk on ESG. Firms now require a variety of different data points, multiple ESG data sources for those data points where available, and their own analytical capability to digest [...]
Explainer-in-brief: Tinder throws itself at university students October 26, 2022 Young professionals who have recently joined the job market often complain that it was easier to meet a partner at university. Parties, student societies, and even the library have been places where to find love for many. According to Tinder’s research, 53 per cent of UK graduates met their current or previous partner while they [...]
Representation in politics and media creates opportunities for a generation October 26, 2022 A few weeks ago, many of us were woken up by a curious occurrence: the presenters of BBC Radio 4 Today discussing their fellow presenter – Amol Rajan’s – challenge to the BBC Director General on accent bias among BBC News presenters. Whilst the conversation was all quite meta – with a small “m”- it [...]
Businesses’ ask for the next budget? Make a decision and stick with it, for all our sakes October 26, 2022 Taxes will have to go up and spending down – to the tune of some £40bn on top of what has already been announced by the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt.