Cressida Dick and the Metropolitan Police lost the communications war after Sarah Everard disappearance March 15, 2021 The disappearance and alleged murder of Sarah Everard touched already frayed nerves. Many have spoken or written of their powerful feeling of “It could have been me”, because Ms Everard was doing what thousands of women do all the time, walking back to her house through streets she knew with, presumably, every expectation of reaching [...]
A London High Line: A New York-style makeover could help the capital thrive post-Covid March 14, 2021 The familiarity of empty streets as a result of lockdown has drawn attention to the reality that after more than a year of living with COVID, London urgently needs to be revitalised. So the news that Camden and King’s Cross is to receive a New York City-style makeover – with a section of disused railway [...]
We should be teaching financial literacy through fiction March 13, 2021 Imagine, sometime in the not-so-distant future, your mum is thinking of going off-grid to escape the government’s new retirement age of 85. She’s 65 and was looking forward to stopping now. But she can’t. The new retirement age is compulsory because finances don’t allow anything else. You realise you will eventually be in the same [...]
A week which started with International Women’s day was one of the worst for women March 13, 2021 Friday afternoon, usually a moment of jubilant celebration. The working week is nearly over, soon the celebratory glass of wine will be poured, and the animated discussion about which takeaway order will start. Then the TV will be on and the living room will be filled with laughter, courtesy of, in my case, The Last [...]
Upskilling isn’t just about digital: it’s about data March 13, 2021 One aspect of Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget that received little attention was his plan to launch a new management programme to upskill the 30,000 plus UK based small and medium-sized enterprises over the next three years. This Budget came only a week after the Institute of Directors and Chartered Management Institute called on the Government [...]
The Entrepreneur’s overlooked cousin: companies must foster ‘Intrapreneurs’ for post-Covid creativity March 12, 2021 Entrepreneurs are the supposed heroes of our era. They are simultaneously titans of industry, Renaissance artists, and Hollywood Stars, building products, empires, and literal rocket ships that will be spoken about for decades to come. In the modern economy, those who create something out of nothing command ultimate respect. But the entrepreneur has a less [...]
Parallel markets: The City must push back against Europe’s protectionist financial walls March 12, 2021 Governments, however enlightened and visionary, can so often make two fundamental errors of judgement about global financial service markets: they grossly underestimate their multi trillion dollar power and manoeuvrability. They forget their close attention to competition, cost and risk, and the pursuit of liquidity. In continuing to raise protectionist walls around its internal financial markets, the [...]
We need a new law to root out corporate supply chain abuses — wherever they take place March 12, 2021 The now all too familiar, shocking allegations of forced labour at Boohoo factories in Leicester are once again grabbing headlines. Last week Boohoo was hit with a double whammy as US lawmakers are mulling a potential import ban against the company, and UK MPs are asking for a long-term bonus scheme to be linked to supply chain [...]
Screenshot: Does the UK media have a racism problem? March 12, 2021 This week: **Media Moment of the Week: GMB gets a new frontman **Does the UK media have a racism problem? **Deliveroo’s IPO giveaway; BT gets in a bind Media Moment of the Week: GMB gets a new frontman What a week it’s been for ITV. In the space of 24 hours it racked up bumper [...]
Could the humble perpetual bond help dig Britain out of its debt crisis and level up? March 12, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated the worst crisis we have faced as a nation since the Second World War, decimating the global economy and plunging us into a deep recession. Such desperate times call for radical, revolutionary solutions to help us bounce back from economic turmoil. Many would be surprised to discover a simple instrument, [...]