China threat policy questioned amid urgent MI5 warnings November 24, 2025 Despite MI5 sounding its most urgent alarm over Chinese intelligence activity in Westminster yet, the UK government has refused to label China a national security threat. According to new MI5 analysis circulated to MPs last week, Chinese state-linked operatives are running “relentless” influence and information-gathering operations across Whitehall, using LinkedIn to target parliamentary researchers, advisers, and [...]
Tottenham sign hair transplant partner Elithair to tackle lack of cover up top November 21, 2025 Tottenham Hotspur fans who have torn their hair out watching the club have been offered a solution after Spurs partnered with hair transplant clinic Elithair. Elithair has taken the hitherto unheralded title of Official Hair Treatment Partner, joining a roster of Tottenham sponsors that includes insurance giant AIA, kit maker Nike, crypto exchange Kraken and [...]
UK startup growth clashes with Labour’s immigration reforms November 20, 2025 More than half of Britain’s fastest-growing startups are founded by immigrants, as global talent continues to power the UK’s entrepreneurial engine even as ministers tighten migration rules. New analysis from the Entrepreneurs Network shows that 54 per cent of the UK’s top 100 fastest-growing companies have at least one foreign-born founder, a sharp rise from [...]
Finimize Partners With 21shares to Engage Crypto Investors at Modern Investor Summit 2025 November 19, 2025 Financial information platform Finimize today announced a strategic partnership with 21shares, the world’s largest cryptocurrency ETP issuer, as the leader sponsor of the Modern Investor Summit 2025 in London. The partnership will deliver educational content and thought leadership to Finimize’s community of over 1.1 million retail investors worldwide through multiple channels from the flagship Modern [...]
Lord Turner’s crypto scepticism is painfully out of touch November 15, 2025 In an interview with City AM, Lord Adair Turner compared buying crypto to buying tulips in 1635. Bepi Pezzulli writes a rebuttal.
How money laundering took over our high streets November 13, 2025 American candy stores and vape shops are the new face of financial crime, hiding in plain sight, says Marit Rodevand Walk down almost any British high street today and you’ll see them: neon-lit candy stores selling purportedly “American” sweets, vape shops and barbers with a faded poster of Cristiano Ronaldo taped to the window. Superficially, these [...]
Exclusive: Middlesex to play just two T20 Blast games at Lord’s in 2026 November 12, 2025 Middlesex will play just two Twenty20 Blast matches at Lord’s next year in a further indication of their declining foothold at the Home of Cricket. The 13-time county champions have been tenants at Lord’s since 1864 and have a 12-month rental agreement with the Marylebone Cricket Club that is renewed on an annual basis, but [...]
Nigel Farage: Reform’s Britain will lead the digital money revolution November 12, 2025 Stablecoins are the future but Labour and the Bank of England is strangling it in it’s cradle, says Nigel Farage Crypto is no longer a fringe experiment. It is reshaping payments, finance and global commerce. At the heart of this revolution are stablecoins, digital tokens pegged one-to-one to real-world currencies like the pound or the [...]
Bank of England relaxes stablecoin stance in ‘watershed’ rules change November 10, 2025 The Bank of England has relaxed its stance on stablecoin in a new consultation paper aimed at helping Britain grab a slice of the £200bn market. The central Bank has previously faced calls to “publicly walk back” on its position on digital assets over fears the UK was missing out on the market. But in [...]
FTSE 100 Live: Diageo taps new top chief; private equity swoop November 10, 2025 Good morning from the City AM liveblog team, It’s a new week in the City and markets will be hoping for a recovery rally after tech jitters sent stocks deeper into the red on Friday. There’s a mixed bag of factors weighing on global indexes, namely the ongoing government shutdown in the US and the [...]