For Generation Insecurity, the British dream has turned sour November 1, 2019 My 14 year old son is in a band. He loves playing to his classmates and studying GCSE music. Bizarrely (for me), he’s quite into Queen and eighties songs, which I joke with him was the same stuff I was listening to when I was his age. Intergenerational humour apart, it got me thinking about [...]
DEBATE: Does the spate of Conservative MP resignations suggest that the party’s ideology is narrowing? November 1, 2019 Does the spate of Conservative MP resignations suggest that the party’s ideology is narrowing? Ben Kelly, a commentator for Reaction, says YES. The Conservative party has been a formidable election-winning machine because of an ability to adapt to its circumstances. This strength comes from its diversity as an alliance of various political factions, united by [...]
The moral of the pay gap story is that the future looks bright for women in work November 1, 2019 The gender pay gap has widened, read the headlines and news tickers this week, after the Office of National Statistics (ONS) released its 2019 data on pay, including the average difference for men and women in work. As the pay gap debate has highlighted for years now, statistics can be used to tell almost any [...]
MPs demand banks do more to tackle economic crime November 1, 2019 MPs have said that regulators should consider slapping sanctions on financial firms which have not introduced certain anti-fraud measures by March next year. Banks have been told by the Treasury committee to do more to protect and reimburse consumers exposed to economic crime. Read more: Lloyds Banking Group profit slumps after £1.8bn PPI hit Watchdogs [...]
MPs slam tumble dryer company Whirlpool over attitude to safety November 1, 2019 MPs today slammed tumble dryer company Whirlpool for its attitude to safety and its use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). A report by the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee declared it “astonishing” that four years on from Whirlpool revealing defects in its tumble-dryers that as many as 800,000 defective machines could still be present [...]
Galliford Try joins the Winters of discontent October 31, 2019 Standard Chartered, Lloyds Banking Group, Aviva and BT Group: even the Investment Association (IA) must have been surprised by the rich seam of targets it uncovered when it launched a campaign to curb the lavish pension perks enjoyed by the chief executives of listed companies. A quarter of FTSE 100 bosses have seen their pension [...]
Ex-Wework CEO Adam Neumann accused of pregnancy discrimination October 31, 2019 Ousted Wework chief executive Adam Neumann has been accused of discrimination by his former chief of staff, who has said she was belittled at the company for getting pregnant and then ultimately fired when she raised concerns. Read more: Wework could be worth ‘zero,’ says Bill Ackman Medina Bardhi alleged in a filing to the [...]
Google, Apple and Facebook enabling illegal slave sales, investigation finds October 31, 2019 Tech giants Google, Apple and Facebook are enabling an illegal online slave market in which domestic workers are bought and sold through apps, a BBC News Arabic investigation has found. Google and Apple have approved and provided apps used for the sale of domestic workers on their app stores, while programme-makers found hundreds of domestic [...]
Chaos at People’s Vote as staff threatened with sack October 31, 2019 The People’s Vote campaign was plunged further into chaos yesterday as workers were threatened with the sack and staff in turn held a vote of no-confidence in the organisation’s chair. Read more: People’s Vote staff on strike after director ousted The second referendum campaign group has been in disarray in recent weeks due to bitter [...]
Fosun set to buy up Thomas Cook name October 31, 2019 Chinese investment conglomerate Fosun looks set to snap up the Thomas Cook brand along with the intellectual property assets of the failed travel company. Read more: Thomas Cook bosses point finger at government as MPs slam high pay Fosun is the frontrunner to purchase the Thomas Cook assets, having pulled ahead of rivals such as [...]