Opinion: Things are looking up for London renters as price increases slow November 1, 2019 London’s property prices have long been regarded as endemically high, preventing many first-time buyers from purchasing their first home and boosting demand for privately rented properties. The result has been the emergence of Generation Rent: the demographic prepared to live like students in shared accommodation so that they can afford to be close to all [...]
City Moves for 1 November – Who’s switching jobs at Cripps Pemberton Greenish, Winckworth Sherwood and Mayer Brown? November 1, 2019 Today’s City Moves includes Cripps Pemberton Greenish, Winckworth Sherwood and Mayer Brown Crsipps Pemberton Greenish Leading law firm Cripps Pemberton Greenish has announced the appointment of Melanie Stancliffe as partner at its London office. Melanie, who is ranked as an expert in legal directories Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, joined the team on 30 [...]
Startup entrepreneurs are seeking more advice than ever before November 1, 2019 As a nation, we’re not great at admitting when we need help. We like to soldier on with a stiff upper lip, while often heading for a fall. It was therefore interesting that in a recent poll among our Enterprise Nation adviser community, we found that more than half of them say that small business [...]
Enfranchise the teenager? Votes at 16 is not as mad as you think November 1, 2019 “Votes at 16!” opposition MPs demanded in the debate on whether Britain should have an election. They were denied the chance to vote on this by the deputy speaker, so 16–17 year olds will not be voting on 12 December – a relief, given the gargantuan hurdle of registering 1.4m new voters. But the question [...]
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 [...]