Metro Bank swings to first annual profit since 2018 while slashing 1,000 jobs March 13, 2024 Metro Bank has swung to its first annual profit since 2018 after the branch-focused lender was rescued from potential collapse by a major refinancing package and embarked on a restructuring set to involve 1,000 job cuts.
Visit arty Amsterdam, beyond the sex shows and cannabis cafes March 12, 2024 If the thought of stag parties, cannabis cafes, and seedy sex shows leaves you cold, that is no reason to write off Amsterdam. In recent years, the Netherland’s largest city has been working hard to get rid of its tacky reputation and reinvent itself as a more sophisticated tourist destination, with a strong contemporary art [...]
If you think crime is bad in London, visit a deprived small town March 12, 2024 While focus is rightly on Sadiq Khan’s appalling crime record in the capital, what is too often missed is why the public feel unsafe outside Britain’s big cities, says Adam Hawksbee The police station in Eston, a small town near Middlesbrough, is closed to the public. But there are still a few posters on the [...]
‘The budget doesn’t f*cking matter’: Gary Stevenson on why Hunt’s fiscal plans are ‘deckchairs on the Titanic’ March 11, 2024 Gary Stevenson, former Citi trader, quit the City a decade ago to campaign against inequality. Charlie Conchie, sits down with him to ask why.
Ready to go to battle at Cheltenham March 10, 2024 THERE is an unread copy of the Racing Post sitting on Ben Keith’s solid oak desk. We are in Marylebone in his beautiful London flat just days before the biggest horse racing festival of the year gets under way in the Cotswolds. As the owner of Star Sports, he will stand tall on his company’s [...]
Ministers demand extra defence spending in the face of rising global threats March 9, 2024 Rishi Sunak is under pressure to boost defencing spending after two serving ministers publicly called for a “much greater pace” of investment. The call from Foreign Office minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan and security minister Tom Tugendhat came after the Budget was criticised for failing to boost defence spending. The two senior Tories said the UK needs [...]
Improv theatre is sweeping London – but is it actually any good? March 8, 2024 In improv a form of comedy unlike any other, truly collaborative, ephemeral, non-repeatable, is born and dies on the day you attend.
Jeremy Hunt admits National Insurance won’t be scrapped ‘any time soon’ March 7, 2024 Jeremy Hunt has admitted scrapping National Insurance (NI) - as he hinted at in Wednesday’s Budget - won’t happen “any time soon”.
‘Men stop behaving like children when women are around’ – 16 women in hospitality on International Women’s Day March 7, 2024 This IWD we decided to hand over our pages to some of the amazing women who are blazing a trail in the world of food, drink and hospitality
Marks and Spencer confirms first female boss Katie Bickerstaffe is to step down March 7, 2024 The first female boss of Marks and Spencer is to step down. Katie Bickerstaffe joined the high street darling just over two years ago, and has helped lead a massive turn around of the business.