Sniffer dogs root out drug use at Tory donor JCB’s UK factory: report December 20, 2023 Manufacturing giant JCB is investigating a string of drug use incidence among its workers based at its Staffordshire headquarters.
Screenshot: How Amazon set up shop on cloud nine February 5, 2021 This week **Media Moment of the Week: Parish the thought **How Amazon set up shop on cloud nine **Will BT look to the stars? Media Moment of the Week: Parish the thought Anyone who thinks local politics is boring has clearly never attended a meeting of the Handforth Parish Council Planning and Environment Committee. Or [...]
Man arrested after trying to rush the Queen’s coffin in Westminster Hall September 17, 2022 A man has been arrested after he tried to rush the Queen’s coffin in Westminster Hall. As thousands of people continue to queue up to see the late monarch lying in state, one so-called ‘well-wisher’ decided to run at the coffin when he got near to it. The assailant was immediately jumped on by nearby [...]
Britain’s most-Googled Christmas film has been revealed December 25, 2022 You know the joke about Mariah Carey being defrosted every Christmas, right? If not, in a nutshell, the search traffic for Mariah Carey and her Christmas song All I Want For Christmas Is You starts increasing every year around November when Christmas obsessives get excited. Social media users start screenshotting the increased search traffic around [...]
Screenshot: Is this the end for impartial TV news? November 13, 2020 A weekly column from City A.M. bringing you all the biggest stories and trends in technology, media and telecoms This week **Media Moment of the Week: How not the book the Four Seasons **Is this the end for impartial TV news? **UK protectionism: A tech takeover balancing act Media Moment of the Week This one’s [...]
Trump’s social media app incoming as users start testing ‘Truth Social’ February 17, 2022 Former President Donald Trump’s new social media app is incoming as 500 beta testers begin testing an early version of “Truth Social”. Two sources told Reuters that they were invited to test the app this week, with chief exec Devin Nunes claiming that it will launch by the end of March. Truth Social allows users [...]
Horner accuser rejects lucrative offers to reveal all on Red Bull complaint March 26, 2024 The suspended Red Bull employee at the centre of allegations relating to Formula 1 boss Christian Horner has rejected lucrative offers to sell her story, City A.M. understands. She was suspended by the team just days after Horner saw claims of inappropriate behaviour dismissed by what Red Bull called a “fair, rigorous and impartial” process. [...]
What Elon Musk did next: Tech entrepreneur promises 2023 won’t be ‘boring’ January 2, 2023 Elon Musk tweeted that 2023 would not be boring. He followed this up by hinting at a release of the “Fauci Files” later this week. Musk has been critical of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who stepped down as the White House chief medical advisor at the end of 2022. In December, he had made a tweet [...]
UK’s top civil servant said Boris Johnson ‘cannot lead’, COVID inquiry WhatsApps reveal October 30, 2023 Cabinet secretary Simon Case messaged former chief of staff Dominic Cummings while the coronavirus pandemic ripped through Britain, saying the then-Prime Minister’s behaviour left him “at the end of my tether”, the UK COVID-19 Inquiry has heard.
Screenshot: Will Tim Davie win the generation game? October 30, 2020 A weekly column from City A.M. bringing you all the biggest stories and trends in technology, media and telecoms This week: ** Media Moment of the Week: A sorry soy saga ** Tim Davie and the BBC’s tug of war ** The tech titans’ tumultuous year Media Moment of the Week This week it’s another [...]