Lucy Watson and Clive Watson discuss Tell Your Friends, London’s upcoming vegan foodie hotspot March 19, 2018 Growing up as the daughter of a man who has launched and sold several successful pub chains, Lucy Watson never thought she would launch her own hospitality business. “I always thought of it as quite a manly industry,” she says. Apart from sometimes working as a waitress in his pubs, her aspirations were fixed elsewhere. [...]
The City is coming together to end stigma around mental health in the workplace March 19, 2018 If you asked a City employer what their most valuable assets were, you’d hope most of them would answer “our people”. But how can you look after assets as complicated as people? At any one time, one sixth of the working-age population of Great Britain experience symptoms associated with mental ill health, and with the [...]
Brexit: UK should cuts taxes to remain competitive says accountancy firm March 19, 2018 Accountancy group UHY Hacker Young has called for the UK to slash its tax rates to boost competitiveness post-Brexit. Research by the accountancy group suggested that the UK’s tax burden is 76 per cent higher than that of the major emerging economies. The UK has a tax burden of 38 per cent of GDP, compared [...]
Why the younger generation can’t afford to buy their own homes in London March 16, 2018 In my 35 years as a property lawyer, I have seen a sea-change in the balance between ownership and renting. When I first cut my legal teeth, the Rent Act 1977 provided security for tenants and controlled rents below true market rate. As a result, there was little incentive for a prospective landlord to add [...]
Snow in London: Met Office issues amber warning for snow and ice in London this weekend saying travel disruption is likely March 16, 2018 The Met Office has upped its warnings for snow and ice in the capital this weekend, with other parts of England and Scotland braced to expect snow from today. It has told Londoners to gear up for travel disruption too, with delays and cancellations to rail and air travel deemed likely. The Met Office has [...]
Editor’s Notes: Jeremy Corbyn’s Russia position is the latest in a shameful line-up, the IoD strides on and City AM bucks the industry trend March 16, 2018 Jeremy Corbyn’s refusal to recognise the hand of the Russian state in the Salisbury attack puts him at odds with the British government and its intelligence services, Nato, the United Nations Security Council, France, America, Germany and a host of other allies. It also serves as a reminder that if the British label you an [...]
The Tories are losing London – the fightback needs to start now March 16, 2018 What a difference a year makes. In March 2017, the headlines were stacked with news of Jeremy Corbyn’s unpopularity, especially in London, where he faced approval ratings of minus 44. Even London Labour supporters weren’t convinced about their Islington leader, and he had negative ratings from every demographic. Read more: The bloody difficult woman is [...]
The Skripal case has woken up the bloody difficult woman in Theresa May – and it might just save her leadership March 15, 2018 As a Prime Minister, Theresa May has many weak points. Her inability to keep a lid on tensions within the Conservative party is well documented, for example, while her robotic manner means she has failed to shed her “Maybot” image, earned during last year’s disastrous general election campaign. As a home secretary, she was far [...]
DEBATE: As the future of cashless payment looms closer, is it time to scrap 1p and 2p coins? March 15, 2018 As the future of cashless payment looms closer, is it time to scrap 1p and 2p coins? Abhijit Deb, head of banking & financial services (UK and Ireland) at Cognizant, says YES. There is no doubt that we have seen huge swathes of the British public already gravitate towards cashless payments. Every day we see [...]
London property professionals report salaries growing to highest level since financial crash March 12, 2018 The pay packets of London’s property professionals have hit their highest level since the financial crash. The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and Macdonald & Company found that base salaries were up 13 per cent to an average of £68,918. Pay of this level has not been seen by the annual survey since the [...]