By: Christian May

Editor-in-Chief Christian May is the Editor-in-Chief of City AM. He served in the role from 2015 to 2020 and returned in 2024. He writes the daily Editor's Letter for print and online and releases The Week in Business roundup video each Thursday. He is particularly interested in the health of London's capital markets, economic policy, politics, regulation and business activity in the City of London. He regularly appears in the broadcast media and presents a daily Business News slot on LBC at 0730, Monday to Friday. Find Christian on X and LinkedIn.

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Tube strikes would be outrageous – where is the Mayor?

September 3, 2025

Bob Crow, the late leader of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, once said “It’s an old media myth that the RMT union resorts to industrial action lightly.” These days, we’d call such a claim “trolling.” Indeed, as the historian Dr Jim Moher points out, Crow “cherished” a signed shirt from Millwall player Dennis Wise [...]
Keir Starmer has humiliated Rachel Reeves

September 2, 2025

What is the Chancellor if not the Prime Minister’s economic adviser? We now know that she no longer performs that function, after the PM’s brutal move to bring economic policy into his office, rather than her’s. After little more than a full year in office, Keir Starmer’s government appears to be circling the drain. Support [...]
Watch: Are we on the brink of a financial crisis?

August 28, 2025

This might be the calm before the storm; the final stretch of a summer holiday that we might look back on as heady days before things turned very nasty indeed. Yesterday I interviewed the Prime Minister, the Chancellor and the Business Secretary – all lined up in the City AM studio. The video will be [...]
Week in Business: Will Reeves Launch a Massive Tax Raid on Property and Pensions?

August 21, 2025

Christian May interrupts your holiday with grim news on another punishing round of tax hikes coming in the Autumn.
Oxford Street’s new phone theft warnings are utterly depressing

August 7, 2025

When demand emerges, the market will provide a solution and the internet is now awash with anti phone theft devices. Basic wrist straps are available on Amazon for a couple of quid, with more robust ‘retractable phone security tethers’ on offer for around £30. You can even get a body-worn strap system that looks like [...]
We are governed by people who don’t know what they’re doing

August 6, 2025

Almost 100,000 jobs in the hospitality sector have disappeared since the government unveiled its hike to employers’ National Insurance Contributions, and lowered the threshold at which it is paid. Employers have also had to contend with a rise in the minimum wage amid a storm of other headwinds including inflation, energy costs and generally weak [...]
Brits are gloomy – and not just about the weather

August 5, 2025

Writers often agonise over how a column performs. I can see how many people read the online version of the Editor’s Letter and while our analytics don’t yet tell me what people make of my opinions they often spark a lively debate on LinkedIn. That can be satisfying, but that’s a self-selecting crowd of people [...]
Week in Business: Is it time to leave the country?

July 31, 2025

Facing low growth and high taxes, more and more of my friends are having the same conversation, for the same reasons.
Banks back in crosshairs as Labour eyes tax hikes

July 31, 2025

George Osborne’s likely payday from the sale of Robey Warshaw to US giant Evercore won’t be the first time he’s extracted money from the banking sector. In his inaugural 2010 Budget he announced a UK bank levy of 0.05 per cent on certain bank liabilities. Conceived in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the [...]
Cut tax for under 35s or watch them leave the country

July 30, 2025

The most pressing choice I faced over the past week was whether to swim in the pool or the sea. We lounged our way from lazy lunch to long dinner, occasionally mustering the energy to stroll to the boulangerie. As I put the key in the front door of our south London home last night [...]

Healey condemns Reeves: ‘Our adversaries do not follow timetables set by the Treasury’

Brits urged to back UK pubs during World Cup amid booking surge

Old Pulteney releases 50-year-old whisky for 200th anniversary

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