London doesn’t need more social housing, it needs more housing full stop Opinion Andy Burnham’s plan for a huge social housebuilding programme will be expensive and won’t solve the root cause of the housing crisis: we just haven’t built enough houses, says Emma Revell Andy Burnham isn’t letting a little thing like constitutional reality get in the way of starting his premiership with some big announcements. The de [...]
Parliament must ‘challenge’ Labour’s handling of China spy case Politics Parliament has to “challenge the government’s handling” of the collapsed case against two men accused of spying for China, a senior Tory has told City AM. Speaking to City AM, David Davis MP, stated the issue must go to Parliament, “given that the government has quite explicitly put commercial interest ahead of the security and integrity [...]
Treasury accused of blocking China audit after espionage trial fiasco Politics The Treasury lobbied Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, to block reports on the threat posed by Beijing in the midst of the probe against the two men accused of spying for China. According to The Telegraph, in June, Powell decided the UK government would not publish details about espionage from the Foreign Office’s [...]
China spying case collapse leads to ‘interference’ accusations October 6, 2025 Senior officials have pointed fingers at the Labour government over the decision by the Crown Prosecution Service to drop the espionage case against two men accused of spying for China. Senior UK government figures told the Financial Times that the government fatally undermined the Chinese spying case in order to protect the UK’s commercial and [...]
Knives are out in Whitehall after Chinese espionage case collapsed September 17, 2025 Whitehall is seething with anger following the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) decision to drop its espionage case against two men accused of spying for China. Christopher Cash (30), a former parliamentary researcher and director of the China Research Group, and Christopher Berry (33), a former English teacher in China, were charged last year with providing [...]
Fraud prevention firm SEON raises $80m amid growing compliance demands September 16, 2025 SEON, an AI-driven fraud prevention and compliance platform, has closed an $80m (£58.7m) Series C funding round led by Sixth Street Growth, bringing total investment to $187m. The company, based in Budapest and Austin, analyses tens of millions of customer interactions daily for clients including Revolut, Plaid, Spotify, Afterpay, and Entain. Its platform, delivered via [...]
CPS charges former Entain execs over alleged bribery August 28, 2025 The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has charged 11 individuals, including five former Entain executives, with several offences, including bribery and conspiracy to defraud, in connection with its investigation into the company’s former Turkish business. Commenting in a press statement, CPS’s chief crown prosecutor, Hannah von Dadelsze, confirmed that it was authorised to prosecute 11 individuals [...]
Scammer City boss on the hook for £64m after fraud scheme June 21, 2025 A City boss compared to the The Wolf Of Wall Street has been ordered to pay back £64m over his role in a multi-million pound Ponzi-style investment scam, prosecutors said. Anthony Constantinou remains on the run after he fled the UK during his fraud trial at London’s Southwark Crown Court in June 2023. Hundreds of [...]
Conservative MP charged with two sexual assaults at London Club May 13, 2025 Conservative MP Patrick Spencer has been charged with two counts of sexual assault alleged to have taken place at The Graucho Club in central London. The charges relate to two alleged incidents involving two different women at the Soho members’ club, both in August 2023, according to a statement from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). [...]
Crown Prosecution Service shelled out nearly £7.6m on phones and laptops for staff May 2, 2025 The Crown Prosecution Service has forked out nearly £7m on laptops and over £600,000 on mobile phones for staff, as experts warn of an increased risk of data breaches