London closes in on New York as top financial hub but risks remain March 20, 2025 London has edged closer to becoming the world’s top financial centre, fresh research shows, but concerns have been raised over the City’s future competitiveness. The 37th edition of Z/Yen Group’s Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI 37) showed London maintained its second-place ranking amongst the world’s top financial centres, whilst climbing 12 points from its last [...]
Eat, drink, sleep, repeat: The best restaurants in Florence March 20, 2025 Last week began with a wonderfully long lunch in Bluebird Chelsea with Mirabeau founder Stephen Cronk and his chief exec Richard Larkin. Everyone in the drinks business loves these guys, but I take credit for introducing the Batman and Robin of Provencal rose to each other back in 2017. In Bluebird, the restaurant atmosphere was [...]
VR headsets and sliders kick DVDs and turkey out of inflation basket March 18, 2025 VR headsets, yoga mats and sliders have been added to the inflation basket of goods as DVD rentals and minced turkey have been knocked off. The items included in the consumer price inflation (CPI) basket of goods and services, which is compiled by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), are designed to reflect Britons’ typical [...]
What Apple’s fight over encryption means for your data March 16, 2025 Your iPhone holds some of your most private information – messages, photos and personal data secured by encryption, that even Apple itself cannot access. But a legal battle between the tech giant and the UK government is now testing the limits of that security. The company has been locked in the legal and political showdown [...]
Whisk(e)y Business: The Irish Whiskey renaissance March 14, 2025 Whisky Business: City AM’s monthly look at the world of whisky. Today, Scotland is the world’s go-to destination for whisky, but back in the 19th century, Irish whisky (the ‘e’ in Irish whiskey wasn’t universal until the latter half of the 1990s), not Scotch, dominated the global market. By the late 1800s, Irish distillers had the [...]
Human rights groups challenge Apple’s privacy fight with the UK government March 14, 2025 Two UK human rights groups have challenged the government’s attempts to force tech titan Apple to weaken its security systems, saying the process lacks transparency. The UK government had attempted to force Apple to create a “back door” in its implemented security systems. Liberty and Privacy International have filed a legal complaint against the tech [...]
Lessons from the dot-com bubble, 25 years on March 13, 2025 While it’s tempting to compare the current excitement around AI to the dot-com bubble of 2000, it would be wrong to draw too many parallels, says Brad Holland As one market reporter quipped in Summer 2000: ‘pity the poor technology investor’. After the past fortnight’s trimming of US financial markets, some might think this observation has proven [...]
iPhone 16e review: A capable new handset from Apple March 11, 2025 iPhone 16e | £599 | ★★★★☆ When was the last time you really took advantage of all the bells and whistles on your phone? If you’re a budding amateur photographer or you’re somehow playing Monster Hunter Wilds on a 6.1 inch screen, the iPhone 16e, Apple’s new ‘affordable’ handset, probably won’t be for you. But [...]
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