The next government must rebuild the UK’s planning system May 14, 2024 You almost couldn’t make it up. Britain, faced with a generational housing crisis, building less than a year ago. Even better, the weather is at least partly to blame. Welcome to Blighty. We used to build things, you know. The main culprit is of course the planning system, which – from the moment a misty-eyed [...]
China’s crackdown will do untold damage – Glory to Hong Kong! May 9, 2024 The threads between the City of London and Hong Kong are long, occasionally ugly, mostly glorious and now increasingly stretched.
Now ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ anthem is banned in latest totalitarian crackdown May 8, 2024 The protest anthem Glory to Hong Kong has been banned in the territory, as an ongoing free speech crackdown continues
Tim Martin: “Spontaneous breakdancing” in Wetherspoon’s pubs as sales jump May 8, 2024 Coffee and real ale are powering growth at Wetherspoon's pubs, reckons boss Tim Martin
Train strikes only serve to hurt the hardest working Londoners May 8, 2024 Working from home has changed many things. For one, it’s turned train strikes from a nation-strangling act of economic terrorism into an entertaining monthly diversion for millions of office workers. As such, the unions have responded by upping the ante: more strikes, more often. The workers hurt by this, however, are the very working men [...]
Bank spying powers are Orwellian: the government must rethink May 2, 2024 New powers demanding banks constantly snoop on their customers are Orwellian. The government must reconsider, immediately.
Proposed snooping powers are an incursion into our most basic rights May 2, 2024 Slippery slopes are so named for a reason. One step might feel okay; a second, trouble-free. But suddenly momentum builds, and there’s no stopping you. The metaphor could not be more appropriate for the snooping powers that government is soon to take for itself – powers that represent a most aggressive incursion into basic privacy [...]
Jeremy Hunt goes to bat for City firms with FCA ‘name and shame’ criticism May 1, 2024 Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor, launched a rare broadside against the FCA over its name and shame plans
The Hipgnosis saga shines a spotlight on critical London failings April 30, 2024 Legendary music producer Jimmy Iovine sold his future royalties, including the production rights to the Eminem vehicle movie 8 Mile
Darktrace leaving London isn’t just ‘bad news’ for the LSE. It’s a crisis. April 26, 2024 Losing Darktrace to private equity must surely focus the minds of decision makers - this is a crisis
