The Notebook: Andy Silvester on how AI could save your August out-of-office, a dream headline and why GCSEs need a rethink August 24, 2023 Embrace the long break, even if it’s made my job harder August has never felt so – for want of a much better word – Augusty. It’s mighty quiet out there, and that isn’t just because of the City’s long-discussed issues attracting floats and the slowdown in M&A. Indeed, more and more of my contact [...]
Square Mile and Me: Jim Wood-Smith on all-day breakfasts, birthday redundancies and why the City needs to watch Monty Python August 17, 2023 Every week we ask the financial services industry’s great and good to delve into memory lane. This week, it’s Hawksmoor Investment Management’s Market Commentator and Head of Climate Transition Jim Wood-Smith who gives us an insight into a City left behind in more ways than one… What was your first job? I never did the [...]
Analysis: Why record wage growth will give the Bank of England kittens – and see them raise rates again August 15, 2023 Wage growth outstripping inflation should be good news, but Bank of England wonks will fear a wage price spiral is in play
Chapel Down: Meet the man bringing a bit of Bazball to English bubbles August 3, 2023 Chapel Down is England's sparkling wine ambassador to the world. We speak to the man at the helm of the growing Kent winemaker.
Contrary to group think, businesses have a right to choose clients July 31, 2023 As Shakespeare would have surely written were he alive today, what a tangled web we weave, when we first practice to debank a former UKIP leader. The fallout from Nigel Farage’s highly publicised spat with Coutts and, in turn, Natwest, will continue for some time yet, but the details of the saga are less interesting [...]
City A.M. muscles up for new chapter with THG deal July 26, 2023 City A.M. is set for a new chapter, under new ownership, after London-listed THG agreed to purchase the 18-year-old business newspaper today.
Alison Rose resigns as Natwest chief over Farage leak after midnight board drama July 26, 2023 Dame Alison Rose, the Natwest chief executive at the centre of a leaking scandal, resigned overnight after an extraordinary late-night board meeting – just hours after the bank’s Chairman issued a statement offering her their full confidence. Rose outed herself as the source of a BBC story into the finances of Nigel Farage, who had [...]
Rose has made a stupid error, but Natwest’s decision is fine for now July 26, 2023 Polticians getting grouchy about anonymous leaks – you couldn’t make it up. What Alison Rose has confessed to doing, in the white heat of a media storm, was unwise. Her job at the top of an FCA-regulated entity requires her to be alive to risk, integrity and professionalism, and on that note she has failed. [...]
A housebuilding revolution has many advantages – growth being one July 25, 2023 Go to tech conferences, and much of the buzz revolves around ‘Web 3.0,’ a catch-all term for the future of the internet that even when pushed most of its proponents struggle to define. Perhaps, then, we should be grateful that government continues to tootle along with plain-old 2.0. It’s two years or so since Rishi [...]
Starmer’s ULEZ meddling shows Labour still has a lot to learn July 24, 2023 Only the Labour Party could turn a night in which they overturned a 20,000 majority Tory seat in Yorkshire into an almighty row over a tax on fewer than 10 per cent of outer London’s cars. The Conservatives’ narrow victory in Uxbridge, which had at least something (but by no means all) to do with [...]