Life on the edge: A deep dive into the crazy world of Margate April 10, 2025 Five years ago, some dilapidated public urinals in a park in Margate were sold at auction by the council to a private bidder for £11,000. The shabby little structure is barely visible from the path, a graffitied block hidden behind shrubs with weeds winding through the roof and floor. The original glazed urinals are exposed [...]
Steve Rigby: ‘Business trust in the government is disappearing’ April 10, 2025 Rigby Group co-CEO Steve Rigby tells us about his career - and the current business landscape - in this week's Square Mile and Me.
Richard Farleigh: Why a wealth tax won’t work April 10, 2025 A wealth tax won't work, writes Richard Farleigh, a former dragon from Dragons' Den, author, investor and serial entrepreneur.
What does Raoul Moat play Manhunt say about men in 2025? April 9, 2025 Angry, isolated and dangerous men are very much in the cultural zeitgeist and, in Raoul Moat, visionary writer-director Robert Icke has chosen one of the angriest, most isolated and demonstrably dangerous men in recent memory as the subject of his new play. Manhunt – very loosely based on the 2016 true crime book You Could [...]
ITV’s deal with ‘Traitors’ producer sparks fears for local news April 9, 2025 ITV’s early stage discussions with Abu Dhabi-backed RedBird IMI to spin off its production arm into a seperate £3bn entity have sparked growing concern over the future of its commitment to local and regional news. As first reported by the Telegraph, the proposed tie up with All3Media, the company behind Traitors and Call the Midwife, [...]
Volleyball World: How CVC Capital Partners woke sport’s sleeping giant April 9, 2025 Volleyball World CEO Finn Taylor on how CVC Capital Partners has commercialised the sport, its successful D2C platform and ambitions to woo British fans. Private equity in sport can provoke suspicion that it will be funds rather than fans who benefit most from the transaction, yet in volleyball there can be little doubt that it [...]
Aston Martin Valhalla spec secrets: How to configure a hypercar April 9, 2025 Growing up in the 1980s, we had a choice of four television channels – or just three before Channel 4 first aired in 1982. If you didn’t like what was on, you had to read a book, kick a football around the garden or watch some paint dry. Today, there are hundreds of TV channels [...]
Musk’s personal appeal to Trump fails as tariff war spirals April 8, 2025 Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a key adviser to Donald Trump, made a direct appeal to the US president over the weekend, urging him to reconsider his administration’s aggressive tariff plans. Musk’s appeal, initially reported by the Washington Post, comes as Trump threatened to impose additional tariffs, including a 50 per cent tariff [...]
Arla Foods: Lurpak maker plans €19bn merger April 8, 2025 Arla Foods, the group behind brands such as Lurpak and Cravendale, has announced a merger which could create a €19bn giant. The Swedish-Danish diary co-operative, whose UK headquarters is in Leeds, has revealed plans to merge with Germany-headquartered DMK Group. If it goes ahead, the merger would bring together 12,000 farmers across Europe with the [...]
Why using ChatGPT images could cost you down the line April 8, 2025 ChatGPT's new image generator is no doubt tempting for forward-looking marketeers, but don't shrug off the legal risks, writes Paul Armstrong.