Hong Kong working on ‘fake news’ laws to curb ‘misinformation’, Carrie Lam says May 4, 2021 Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam has confirmed today that her government is working on “fake news” legislation, to curb “misinformation, hatred and lies” in the city, as concerns grow over media freedoms. Since Beijing imposed the controversial national security law in 2002, Hong Kong has taken an authoritarian turn, which has forced new bouts of [...]
Joachim Klement, CFA: Three Geo-Economics trends to watch May 4, 2021 | City Talk “Today’s investors need to understand geopolitical trends as a main driving force of markets.” Joachim Klement, CFA Joachim Klement, CFA, has emerged over the last decade as one of the more insightful and compelling voices in finance. Well-reasoned, rigorous, humorous, and occasionally iconoclastic, his perspective, featured either on the Enterprising Investor Blog or on his [...]
Former MP Luciana Berger joins Cazoo’s ESG board May 4, 2021 Online used-car retailer Cazoo has appointed former MP Luciana Berger to its board, once its $7bn merger with AJAX has been completed. Joining as a non-executive director, Berger’s political career last saw her as the Liberal Democrat shadow spokesperson for health, social care and wellbeing in 2019. Currently managing director of advocacy and public affairs [...]
Mayor of London election: Where do the major candidates stand on housing? May 4, 2021 With the 6 May mayor of London election now just weeks away, City A.M. is producing a four-piece series on where the four leading candidates stand on different issues. Today, we look at the housing policies of the candidates from Labour, the Conservatives, the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats. Sadiq Khan The most high [...]
Sadiq Khan pledges to explore 2036 London Olympics bid if re-elected May 3, 2021 Sadiq Khan has pledged to launch an “exploratory committee” to look at a potential 2036 or 2040 London Olympics bid if re-elected as London mayor on Thursday. Khan said this evening that if London was chosen to hold either of the games that he would want them to be “the most sustainable Olympic and Paralympic Games [...]
Iran accused of attempting to disrupt Scottish Parliament election May 3, 2021 Iran has been accused of pushing disinformation online in an attempt to interfere in the Scottish Parliament election. A report by the right-leaning foreign affairs think-tank the Henry Jackson Society found that “Iran’s activities in cyber space are designed to attack the constitutional integrity of the United Kingdom”. “There appear to be elements within Iran [...]
Sadiq Khan warns of low turnout in Thursday’s London mayor election May 3, 2021 Sadiq Khan has today raised concerns about low turnout at Thursday’s London mayor election, with the incumbent warning supporters against complacency. Internal polling from Khan’s team shows a 9 per cent drop in the amount of Londoners that are certain to vote in the poll, which was delayed by a year by the Covid crisis. [...]
Shaun Bailey hits out at City of London’s ‘polite drug users’ May 3, 2021 Tory mayor of London candidate Shaun Bailey has hit out at the culture of “polite drug use” in the City, saying that white collar workers need to be a part of the solution to tackling cocaine-fuelled drug violence. Bailey told City A.M. in a wide-ranging interview, to be released later today, that “casual drug use [...]
UK to send 1,000 more ventilators to Indian hospitals to fight Covid surge May 2, 2021 The UK government will send 1,000 ventilators to India to help the country fight its current Covid-19 surge, which has seen case numbers reach more than 400,000 a day. England chief medical officer Chris Whitty and chief scientific advisor Sir Patrick Vallance have also given “help and advice” in recent days to their Indian counterparts, [...]
Labour begins to close gap on the Tories as key elections draw near May 2, 2021 Labour has slashed the Conservatives’ lead in several new polls today, with a slew of key elections just days away. Labour’s clawback of the Tory lead comes after Boris Johnson has been hit by a week of cronyism and sleaze allegations. A Focaldata/The Times poll has the Tories on 40 per cent to Labour on [...]