Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt must help families with soaring childcare bills to strengthen UK economy, CBI urges March 1, 2023 Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt should help young families with the cost of childcare to tackle worker shortages that are holding back the UK economy, the country’s largest business lobby group has urged today. British households have been spiked by a 60 per cent cash terms rise in childcare bills over the last decade, far [...]
Former Premier League footballer jailed for seven years over £15m Ponzi scheme January 12, 2023 Former Premier League footballer Richard Rufus has been jailed for running a £15m foreign currency exchange Ponzi scheme. The London-born 48-year-old was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison at Southwark Crown Court today. Rufus, who played 99 times in the Premier League for Charlton Athletic, tricked friends and family into giving him [...]
Finalist November 9, 2022 Start-up of the Year supported by World Mobile Swash Swash is reinventing data ownership through new incentivisation streams and a collaborativedevelopment framework, governed by the ethos of Web 3. It enables individuals, developers, and businesses to cultivate new realities of data ownership and value creation. It is the largest data unionin the market with over [...]
Blues for an Alabama Sky review: A comic picture of The Great Depression, but not a cohesive one October 14, 2022 Who knew a play about The Great Depression could, and frankly, should, be this funny? We laugh or we cry, goes the old adage, and Pearl Cleage’s 1995 play is an uneven but often joyfully comic celebration of some of the vulnerable, brash and foolhardy characters who lived through it. We meet Angel who dreams [...]
Supported housing firm Independent Living to raise £150m in London IPO September 12, 2022 Real estate investment trust Independent Living is set to float on the London Stock Exchange, in a bid to raise £150m. The company, which seeks to address the shortage of high-quality supported housing, is currently undergoing an acquisitions spree to build up its initial portfolio of so-called “target assets”, the company announced today. Potential acquisition [...]
Why strategy making should not be a secret September 5, 2022 “You see, Charlie, not so very long ago there used to be thousands of people working in Mr Willy Wonka’s factory. Then one day, all of a sudden, Mr Wonka had to ask every single one of them to leave, to go home, never to come back.” “But why?” asked Charlie. “Because of spies. All the other [...]
Our tech industry is being undermined by a psyche allergic to global growth April 29, 2022 The tech sector in the UK is in high-growth mode. In 2021, there was a record-breaking $35.1bn investment into tech, almost 120 tech unicorns and nearly 40 tech IPOs. The record level of venture capital investment in the UK has increased the valuations of both public and private tech companies, putting Britain third in the [...]
Broadgate break: New 1.5 acre park opens in the heart of the City as workers flock back into the Square Mile January 22, 2022 The first City workers strolled through the Square Mile’s newest park this morning as the 1.5-acre Exchange Square, located at Broadgate, opened for the public after an extensive revamp. The park, part of a £1.5bn revamp of the square, quadruples the amount of green space at Broadgate and creates a new outdoor space for workers [...]
LSE defends itself against criticism over tech firm valuations January 13, 2022 The London Stock Exchange has defended itself after criticism that it was “toxic to tech companies” by an investor in Darktrace and Deliveroo. Neil Shah, the LSE’s tech sector specialist, told The Telegraph that there were “lots of good companies achieving robust valuations in London”. Many of the tech firms that have gone public in [...]
Cryptocurrency continues to knock on the door of fiat, but those in power still refuse to open it December 10, 2021 It’s been another week of red for Bitcoin and, well, pretty much all of the other cryptos, writes Jason Deane.