DEBATE: Will our growing enthusiasm for low-alcohol drinking change the very culture of the City? October 22, 2018 Will our growing enthusiasm for low-alcohol drinking change the very culture of the City? Christi Tronetti, marketing director at creative agency isobel, says YES. If New York is the city that never sleeps, London has always been the city that never stops drinking. When I first moved here from NYC, I thought I could drink – [...]
Employees’ money troubles cost their bosses over a billion each year October 22, 2018 Employees’ financial worries are costing their employers £1.6bn a year through lowered output and missed work days. British workers take four million days off a year because they are worried about their finances, a study from pension and investment company Aegon and the Centre for Economics and Business Research found. The research, which surveyed 2,000 [...]
Audit’s perfect storm: How bean counters found themselves at the centre of a public uproar October 21, 2018 On the the surface, there is little reason for audit to get the blood pumping. The reality, however, is quite different, and threatens to present the sector’s biggest players – sprawling multi-nationals used to finding that all news is good news when you count the beans – with the toughest challenge they have seen in [...]
Fahrenheit 11/9 film review: Michael Moore’s latest documentary is a brash left-wing polemic but its passionate punches still land October 19, 2018 The same debate has been swirling around Michael Moore’s documentaries for 30 years. From his first film Roger & Me, about General Motors’ abandonment of his hometown Flint, Moore’s formula has remained largely unchanged: brash left-wing polemic, spiced with stunts and gags. To his fans, he’s a gifted ironist with a cause. To his critics, [...]
Focus On Borough: Huge change is coming to the ancient part of central London. Is it time to buy? October 19, 2018 In many ways, Borough is typical of London. Some parts of it are eye-wateringly old, like foodie haven Borough Market, which celebrated its 1,000th birthday this year. Other parts are tediously touristy, like London Dungeons. Other parts are so recharged, they’re unrecognisable, like Hays Galleria or anything within 100m of The Shard. It’s a muddle, [...]
Trust in the City October 19, 2018 Global Ethics Day was on 17 October. Now in its fifth year, this regular calendar event was created by the Carnegie Council to mark its centenary in 2014. The broad theme this year was ‘ethics in action’, and we partnered with the Carnegie Council and CFA Institute to produce a series of films called Ethics [...]
Focus On Maida Vale: Communal gardens are key to understanding this area’s desirability October 19, 2018 Home to a delightful canalside community known as Little Venice, Maida Vale is right up there with Hampstead as one of the most exclusive and visually attractive places to live in west London. Houses on roads close to the canal go for between £20-25m, accounting for three of the top 100 most expensive property sales [...]
Solving workplace equality will need more than ethnicity pay reporting October 19, 2018 Theresa May’s call to make companies report their ethnicity pay gap comes from a good place. It harks back to her 2016 “burning injustices” speech, in which she pledged to tackle social inequality – and suggests that she meant it. It also comes after some success with gender pay gap reporting, which it clearly hopes [...]
“There are no longer pointless matches” – Gibraltar’s first competitive wins demonstrate the objective of Uefa’s Nations League October 18, 2018 Bored of the international break? Not drawn in by the Nations League? Counting down the hours until the Premier League resumes on Saturday? England’s exciting 3-2 win over Spain may have brought around some people, but there are plenty who view Uefa’s idea to brighten up international football as an unwanted distraction from more important [...]
Helping young cancer patients thrive, not just survive October 18, 2018 The UK’s leading cancer support charity for children, young people and their families, CLIC Sargent is launching an exciting new grant scheme in collaboration with Societe Generale. At CLIC Sargent we’re all about helping young people to thrive, not just survive when they receive a cancer diagnosis. When we partnered with Societe Generale earlier this [...]