Just Eat splurges £5m on Snoop Dogg as Covid delivers results January 13, 2021 Orders to Just Eat grew by 58 per cent in Q4 2020, marking the third consecutive quarter of order growth acceleration. Delivery orders in the UK grew by a whopping 387% in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019, as the UK again entered a national lockdown and coronavirus restrictions [...]
Telegraph owner Sir David Barclay dies age 86 January 13, 2021 David Barclay, the billionaire co-owner of the Daily Telegraph, has died aged 86 after a short illness. Late last night the newspaper announced that Barclay, who took over the Telegraph with his brother Frederick in 2004, had died. The twin brothers built up a business empire encompassing hotel ownership, shipping, and retail. They moved into [...]
Republicans to break rank to vote for Trump’s impeachment January 13, 2021 A number of Republicans have said that they will break with their party and vote to impeach President Trump for his role in last week’s riots on the Capitol Hill. With eight days to go until the end of Trump’s term in office, lawmakers will today vote on a historic bid to throw the President [...]
Exclusive: UK eyes adding climate provisions in US trade talks to woo Joe Biden January 13, 2021 The UK will try to add new provisions on climate change and environmental standards in US trade negotiations in a bid to woo incoming President Joe Biden. Trade secretary Liz Truss wants to build on current negotiations with the Donald Trump administration and potentially add things like enhanced protections on air pollution and corporate transparency [...]
Exclusive: City of London boss says financial services overlooked in Brexit talks January 13, 2021 City of London Corporation boss Catherine McGuinness has hit out at Boris Johnson’s government for taking financial services for granted and overlooking the City of London during the last two years of Brexit talks. McGuinness, who is policy chair at the powerful local authority, told City A.M. today that she wanted to see “those important [...]
Government can give real steel to the green revolution January 13, 2021 Governments around the world are accelerating action against climate change. The election of Joe Biden has raised hopes that the US will take a leap forward and we are seeing more ambitious targets being set for decarbonisation in Europe, Japan and even China. In the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out a promising [...]
UK ‘to trial’ Covid-19 vaccine passports with new app January 13, 2021 The UK is said to be starting trials of a vaccine passport that could play a key role in efforts to inoculate the population against coronavirus. Thousands of Brits who have already received their Covid-19 jab will be offered a passport proving they have been vaccinated as part of a government-funded trial, the Telegraph reported. [...]
Blackrock still invests in $85bn worth of coal assets despite sustainability pledge January 13, 2021 It is almost a year since Blackrock’s chief executive warned about the climate crisis, but new research reveals that $85bn worth of its managed assets remain exposed to the coal sector. In his annual letter to CEOs last year, Larry Fink said climate change had become a “defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects… I believe [...]
Our tech advances are difficult for productivity stats to compute January 13, 2021 One of the most depressing aspects of the decade of the 2010s, well before Covid-19 struck, was the apparently very slow growth in productivity. This is not a mere ivory tower issue. It is only through increasing productivity that rises in living standards can be sustained. Productivity is the key measure of the efficiency of [...]
London’s fintech scene could be a winner from the Covid crisis January 13, 2021 We all know the Covid-19 pandemic has been, and for too many remains, a devastating time. It’s easy to be pessimistic, too, even as vaccine rollout speeds up. Life will not go back to ‘normal’ quickly – the events of the last ten months will have profound repercussions for health services, businesses, debt and fiscal [...]
