Is it time to admit Brussels just isn’t that into us anymore? June 18, 2024 For any Brit, a trip to Brussels should be a straightforward affair: two hours on the Eurostar, and off the train into a city that is perhaps unfairly maligned. Surprisingly cultural, a unique blend of architecture, and – yes – beer, frites, and the European institutions. It is to there that Rachel Reeves, the presumptive [...]
Yes in my backyard! It’s time to get London building June 17, 2024 In JG Ballard’s High-Rise, life in a pseudo-luxury tower block disintegrates into atavistic violence with residents of different floors battling for territory and against the rigid class divisions the building itself imposes on them. London hasn’t quite reached this stage, but like all dystopias the novel magnifies a basic truth – that the urban environment [...]
Can St Jude (Bellingham) save this lost cause? Tories hope for Euro 2024 success June 13, 2024 Evidence is mixed on whether a decent football tournament can shape an election, but Tory MPs are hoping for a Euro 2024 miracle anyway
Labour worked hard to woo business, but now comes the real test June 13, 2024 The Tory party manifesto, undeliverable and shaky though it was on the numbers, did have something going for it. The gradual abolition of national insurance to be replaced with a single income tax; more housebuilding; cutting the time it takes to get spades in the ground on major infrastructure projects. If you take it at [...]
Tory manifesto? More drive to survive than revved up ambition June 12, 2024 Those strategists who cooked up the idea of launching the Conservative manifesto at a Formula One venue no doubt had visions of Rishi Sunak putting some forward momentum in his campaign. Unfortunately for him, the whole event begged one question: has the Prime Minister got the drive to survive? The manifesto itself is a hodge [...]
The threat of a listing exodus must spur on bolder risk-taking June 11, 2024 Just as the arrival of Shein onto London’s equity markets, and the Raspberry Pi float, are more indicative of individual company circumstances than a wider trend, so too would be Ashtead’s departure from London – if they choose to move ahead with it. This is a company after all which, though listed in the capital, [...]
Macron snaps: French set for snap election after Le Pen’s Euro gains June 10, 2024 Emmanuel Macron has opted for a snap parliamentary election - though he will himself remain in power in France
London’s fox ambulance does exactly what it says. We meet the team. June 9, 2024 Trevor Williams once shared a stage with some of the biggest bands ever to pick up a guitar – now he rescues urban foxes with The Fox Project
London Stock Exchange boss wants market screen in Paternoster Square to create ‘razzamatazz’ – but it’s complicated June 6, 2024 The boss of the London Stock Exchange said a screen will help create buzz around the market.
FTSE 100 reshuffle: Ocado and St James’s Place out, and one surprising new entrant June 6, 2024 The FTSE 100 index has lost some well-known names but gained one unexpected addition.
