Could The Billingsgate Roman Bathhouse win a Toast award? June 26, 2026 We’re celebrating all the places that make the Square Mile great with our Toast the City Awards. This week we sent David Harry – AKA The London Spy – to report on the amazing Billingsgate Roman Bathhouse lurking beneath an office block Underneath 101 Lower Thames Street, a nondescript 1960s office block, hides one of [...]
Lessons in comms from my children’s primary school June 26, 2026 As the London heatwave sends primary schools into meltdown, comms expert Adam Smith reflects on what we can learn.
World Cup proves film and music walked in the US so that sports can run June 26, 2026 With the US experiencing football fever Alistair Watkins argues that we have seen this before, with sport following in the footsteps of film and music When people think about European culture making its mark in the United States, they tend to think of music, film and television. From The Beatles to Harry Potter and One [...]
Heatwave drives shoppers off high streets in blow to retailers June 26, 2026 Record June temperatures have driven British shoppers off of the high streets in a blow to already struggling retailers. The heatwave pushed retail footfall across the UK as much as 10 per cent lower this week, according to data collected by Sensormatic for City AM. In London, where temperatures reached 36C, high streets took an [...]
Londoners should back Andy Burnham’s property tax reforms – not fear them June 26, 2026 Replacing Stamp Duty and council tax with a proportional property tax will make London’s housing market work better, says Andrew Dixon If a “London tax grab” were on the cards, Londoners would rightly be wary. They already face high rents, high mortgages and some of the largest tax bills in the country. Yet Fairer Share’s Proportional [...]
Pride musical at the National Theatre review: I’ve never seen so many people in tears June 26, 2026 Pride musical at the National Theatre review: ★★★★ Could there be a story more ready-made for a musical than the tale of the unlikely partnership between the gays and the Welsh miners? Based on the true, incredible account of the miner strikes of 1984 and 1985, and following the brilliant 2014 film of the same [...]
How onerous UK tax system can sting players at Wimbledon June 26, 2026 With the Wimbledon Championships set to begin on Monday, Pete Fairchild takes us through the (very) complex tax issues players face. At Wimbledon, while spectators sip on Pimm’s and eat strawberries, the world’s top tennis players are earning income on British soil. For stars such as Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, competing in London means [...]
Are office workers lonelier than they were during Covid WFH? June 26, 2026 A third of Brits feel lonelier at work than they did during the pandemic, with almost a fifth regularly going a full day without speaking to anyone. And while businesses around the UK push to get employees back into the office, more than half of workers admit to messaging colleagues on platforms like Slack and [...]
Volex takes ‘conservative’ approach to data centre growth forecast amid AI capex splurge June 26, 2026 The boss of Volex has said the firm has taken a “conservative” approach to the growth of its data centre arm after a surge in capex spend among the AI hyperscalers sent its revenue soaring. The Hampshire based connectivity products business, which supplies key components used in data centres, posted a 14.4 per cent rise [...]
KBRA Assigns Preliminary Ratings for Golub Capital Partners Euro CLO 89(M) DAC June 26, 2026 KBRA UK (KBRA) assigns preliminary ratings to five classes of notes issued by Golub Capital Partners Euro CLO 89(M) DAC, a cash flow collateralised loan obligation (CLO) backed primarily by a diversified portfolio of middle market corporate loans. Golub Capital Partners Euro CLO 89(M) DAC is managed by GC Investment Management LLC (“GCIM” or the“collateral [...]