Opinion-in-brief: Woke-chain is the new orange for Lib Dem voters September 27, 2021 It’s perhaps no surprise that young, left leaning voters are driving crypto uptake in the UK. A series of car crash general elections have primed the political left for the market’s merciless swings of fortune. A survey by Savanta has confirmed the rainbow alliance as the natural political home of crypto holders: 29 per cent [...]
Keir Starmer’s 14,000 word memo sums up the Labour party’s existential challenge September 27, 2021 We are in the throes of the Labour Party annual conference in Brighton, the opposition’s seaside shindig where members mix with party grandees, policy is debated and the would-be government parades its show ponies for the media and the electorate. It provides an opportune platform for individual shadow ministers to catch the attention of the [...]
Sunak must nurture British business with fair taxes and smart reforms September 27, 2021 London’s famous vibrancy has returned. City streets once again teem with activity, pent up for so long but now unleashed. Yet it would be a mistake to assume the journey ahead is an easy one. London – like the rest of the UK – stands at a crossroads. And the path we choose will decide [...]
Our regulatory cheat sheet needs a post-Covid rewrite September 27, 2021 The success of a financial centre depends largely on the rules it is governed by and the quality of its rulemakers. The UK’s regulatory regime is widely regarded as one of the best in the world due to its transparency, openness and – crucially – ability to evolve. Exiting the European Union and the pandemic [...]
Inside the raging war between abortion rights and Down’s syndrome discrimination September 24, 2021 Heidi Crowter and Maire-Lea Wilson walk out from the Royal Courts of Justice, defeated but with their heads held high. After months of campaigning, September has brought a closed on the second act of their battle to reshape abortion law. The two women are part of a network that champions the rights of people with [...]
The long shadow of Merkel: Germany has a future of delay and gridlock September 24, 2021 The German public have a deep-seated, if misplaced, love for Angela Merkel. It centers around the notion that mutti (or “mommy”, as the Germans somewhat creepily call her) managed, through the skillful use of tactics, to keep many of the perils of her age away from placid Germany. Merkellism’s reliance on managing crises rather than [...]
Virtues of City life hide high-functioning eating disorders in our boardrooms September 24, 2021 Imagine being sat in a conference room with 100 people, picture their faces, their jobs, the conversations that you might have had with some of them, the ones that maybe you had your eye on to network with. Statistically out of that one hundred people in that room, sixteen people will at some point have [...]
Priti Patel’s encryption war is a master key for surveillance September 24, 2021 Priti Patel has put encryption in her sights. The Home Secretary has backed a campaign to prevent Facebook rolling out end-to-end encryption across its many platforms, accusing secure messaging sites of harbouring pedofiles. Patel wants a back door to privacy. This month, the Home Office launched a new fund to combat child sexual abuse material [...]
Editorial: How can Labour cut through against the tax and spend Tories? September 23, 2021 BARACK Obama’s two books, Dreams from my Father and The Audacity of Hope, are amongst the high-water mark of recent political writing. With his usual fluency, they crafted a back-story onto his political vision, and introduced a junior Senator from Illinois to the world. They were translated into at least 30 languages, and bestsellers everywhere [...]
Opinion-in-brief: Tik Tokking time bomb of misinformation September 23, 2021 Facebook has been under fire for a number of dramatic failings. But as lawmakers were focused on Zuckerberg’s empire, another social media time-bomb has been quietly ticking away in the background away from scrutiny: TikTok. Kids as young as nine were fed Covid-19 and vaccine misinformation within 35 minutes of signing up to TikTok, despite [...]