Now Zac Goldsmith’s campaign claims it’s as quick to commute to Venice than it is to reach Bromley on the train May 3, 2016 It may be the final few days of London's mayoral election, but things are continuing to heat up – after Zac Goldsmith's campaign made some pretty strong claims about the capital's commute times. The Conservative candidate's campaign has crunched the number and discovered it takes as long for some of the capital's commuters to reach [...]
Credit Suisse just waved away the shareholder spring – but investors are still angry April 29, 2016 It was the best of times, it was the wurst of times at Credit Suisse's annual general meeting (AGM), as shareholders waved through controversial pay deals for its top team despite protests – and comfort ate frankfurters. At a meeting at which security was called as an angry shareholder disrupted proceedings, votes on directors' and executives' pay [...]
Nigel Farage: The Remain campaign is trying to scare you April 29, 2016 Nigel Farage has warned that the Remain campaign is increasingly using scare tactics to persuade voters to stay in the EU – as he suggested food and cars will be cheaper in the case of Brexit In a wide-ranging speech, Farage accused the Remain campaign of a "remorseless torrent of propaganda scaring us", adding that "all sorts of [...]
BT has hiked prices for thousands of TV, phone and broadband customers April 29, 2016 If you're a BT customer, get ready to sweat a bit as you open that bill. The company has hiked prices for thousands of customers – while promising its users that service is about to improve. The telecoms giant said line rental and the cost of its BT Sport package will both rise by £1, while the [...]
Want to work in the tech sector? These are the UK’s highest-paying tech firms April 29, 2016 Thinking of going into finance? The tech sector just might pay better, if new research is anything to go by. It turns out that not only do tech giants such as Apple, Amazon and Google offer great benefits – free lunches, flexible holiday allowances, egg freezing – but the salaries they pay rival anything a bank can throw [...]
The number of rental homes in the UK has nosedived – and the situation will only get worse April 28, 2016 An unintended consequence of the chancellor's stamp duty hike or just more nerves about Brexit? Either way, a report by one of the UK's largest landlords' associations has warned the number of rental properties in the UK is dangerously now. The report, by the Association of Residential Letting Agents (Arla), found the supply of rental [...]
Housebuilding in London has plummeted in the run-up to the mayoral election: Here’s which boroughs are approving the fewest new homes April 28, 2016 It seems the capital's local authorities have got a case of the heebie-jeebies in the run-up to the mayoral election – after a new report showed approvals for new homes have plummeted. The report, by estate agent Stirling Ackroyd, found London boroughs gave the thumbs-up to a mere 4,320 homes in the first quarter of the [...]
The OECD’s warning over Brexit is totally twisting the figures April 27, 2016 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has just given us its considered opinion on the likely costs of Brexit. And as the more canny Scots like to insist about the English, we should perhaps send them home to think again. For what its done in presenting their numbers is one of those near unpardonable statistical sins. [...]
Two gifs from this architecture exhibition show how the City’s skyline will be transformed by skyscrapers in 2030 April 27, 2016 An exhibition taking place next month reveals just how much the City's skyline is set to change over the next few years. The Evolving London Skyline exhibition, which runs at New London Architecture (NLA) in May, shows how the Square Mile will look in 2030 if all the skyscrapers currently given planning permission are built. The images, [...]
These are the UK’s most-hated banks April 27, 2016 Banker-bashing may have become something of a national sport in recent years – but what about bank-bashing? A new survey has revealed UK banking customers' most-hated lenders. The so-called Big Four make up the top of the list, with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) scoring just 49.3 on a reputation scale of 0-100, while Lloyds follows, [...]
