Cricket needs more like Flintoff so smaller nations must get financial support August 29, 2024 Andrew Flintoff’s Field of Dreams On Tour, the decline of Test cricket and whether a mooted hardship fund distributed by the ICC might just keep the red-ball game alive. You know when a broadcaster thinks it has a hit on its hands because it releases a series one episode at a time rather than in [...]
Starmer can’t keep blaming everything on the Tories August 29, 2024 Starmer will soon find out that he can’t keep piously contrasting himself with the previous government while snatching benefits from pensioners, promoting party donors and paying off his pals in the trade unions, says William Atkinson The most important number for Keir Starmer’s government isn’t 411 seats he won, the £22bn black hole that Rachel [...]
Octopus quietly pumps £25m into ‘mispriced’ AIM market August 29, 2024 Octopus Group has quietly pumped £25m of its own cash into London’s beleaguered AIM market in a bid to take advantage of “mispriced” smaller companies, it has been revealed.
Mark Kleinman: Cineworld revamp is a horror show for landlords August 29, 2024 This week Mark Kleinman tackles Cineworld's closures, Rolls-Royce's chief executive and plans to rename Twickenham.
City law firms urged to take trainees as US arm set to close London office August 29, 2024 The City of London Law Society issued a letter to its senior partners, asking for help finding roles for trainee lawyers of a US firm that is closing its City office.
Square Mile and Me: James Uffindell on building Bright Network August 29, 2024 Each week we ask a City figure to take a trip down memory lane. Today, James Uffindell, CEO of Bright Network, takes us through his career.
The Capitalist: City boys fight for £1k Oasis tickets as corporate demand explodes August 29, 2024 Oasis tickets look set to be the hottest corporate perk next year, with firms already splashing out for packages, The Capitalist has learned.
Etoro chief: UK should do more if it wants us to float in London August 29, 2024 Etoro is weighing up whether to list in London or New York, but is hoping the UK government will do more to empower capital markets.
Average Northerner to be £210,000 less wealthy as Labour urged to reform taxes amid fears of autumn raid grow August 29, 2024 New analysis from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) showed that the UK's tax regime is "driving regional inequalities" by taxing wealth and income at different levels.
Millennials will be hit hardest by tax rises August 29, 2024 The generation that’s about to reach the most rewarding of years of their careers face spending their entire working lives earning less and paying more for worse public services, says John Oxley Few will have been cheered by Sir Keir Starmer’s speech this week. While Harold Macmillan might have told voters that they’d never had [...]