Netflix snaps up Warner Bros in blockbuster £54bn deal December 5, 2025 Netflix has clinched a blockbuster deal to take over Warner Bros in a major shake-up of the film and streaming industry. In an announcement on Friday, it was formally announced that Netflix would take over the major streaming and film company Warner Bros in an agreement worth $72bn (£54bn). Should the deal pass regulatory checks, [...]
Da Terra’s Rafael Cagali is breaking down borders December 5, 2025 This piece is published in City AM The Magazine, Winter edition, distributed at major Tube stations and available to pick up from The Royal Exchange Brazil, Bethnal Green, Brighton: Rafael Cagali is cooking from his roots, writes Carys Sharkey What little I know about Brazilian food stems from two places. Hungover lunches in Southwark at small cafes [...]
Britain is the worst place in Europe to get rich December 5, 2025 Success has become a liability in Britain, and uncertainty the defining feature of our economic landscape – it is little wonder that our most dynamic founders, investors and wealth creators are looking for a change of scenery, says Stephen Kenny In the Autumn Budget, the Chancellor said twice that she had made the tax system [...]
Mark Kleinman: Out of the frying pan and into the furnace for UK steel December 4, 2025 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column Out of the frying pan and into the furnace for UK steel Death knells and the British steel industry have made uncomfortably common bedfellows in recent years. All three of the country’s biggest steelworks – including [...]
HSBC taps KPMG veteran Brendan Nelson to chair banking giant December 3, 2025 Europe’s biggest lender, HSBC, has named a new chair following its tumultuous recruitment programme after the departure of Sir Mark Tucker. HSBC tapped KPMG veteran Brendan Nelson, who has also served on the boards of BP and Royal Bank of Scotland, as its new chair. Nelson joined the banking giant’s board in 2023 and has served [...]
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Trial by jury is too important to be left to David Lammy December 2, 2025 David Lammy is seeking to solve a shortage of resources in the justice system by fundamentally rewriting the legal and constitutional framework of England and Wales. That’s deeply wrong, argues Eliot Wilson The headline in The Times last week was extraordinary: “Jury trials to be scrapped except for alleged rapists and killers”. A memorandum from [...]
Tulip Siddiq rejects ‘kangaroo court’ conviction December 1, 2025 Former City minister Tulip Siddiq has complained of living in a “Kafkaesque nightmare” after she was handed a two-year jail sentence in a Bangladeshi trial she branded a “kangaroo court”. In a ruling on Monday, a judge in Bangladesh found the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate guilty of abusing the “special influence” she had [...]
Buyer of WH Smith in late stage talks to snap up leading footwear chain November 30, 2025 The investment firm which bought WH Smith is in advanced talks to takeover a privately owned footwear retailer as it looks to snaps up more UK high street staples. Modella Capital is in late stage talks to buy Wynsors World of Shoes, which trades from approximately 50 standalone shops across the the north of the [...]
Kemi Badenoch: Rachel Reeves “should resign” November 30, 2025 Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has called for Rachel Reeves to resign, claiming the Chancellor snuck in tax rises to her Autumn Budget “to pay for welfare”. In an interview with BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, Badenoch said: “The Chancellor called an emergency press conference telling everyone about how terrible the state of the finances were and now [...]