How to get your Gen Z staff to actually like you December 2, 2025 Struggling to manage Gen Z staff? EDHEC business school's Geneviève Houriet Segard digs into what young professionals expect from a good boss.
On this day: Enron files for bankruptcy December 2, 2025 On This Day in 2001, Enron, once considered America’s most innovative company collapsed, writes Eliot Wilson It’s hard to remember an economic boom now, but the last decade of the 20th century was exactly that for the United States. Annual growth was 3.5 per cent, the jobless total fell until there was nigh on full [...]
The biggest risk to this government is no longer economic turbulence, but itself December 2, 2025 A Budget meant to project discipline has instead exposed confusion, mistrust and political instability around the Chancellor, eroding confidence in both markets and her own party, says Helen Thomas It is never a good omen when the Chancellor becomes the story rather than the Budget they’ve delivered. What began as a carefully choreographed fiscal event, [...]
UMA Launches from Europe to Shape the Global Future of Physical AI December 1, 2025 UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant), a new robotics intelligence company founded by former leaders from Tesla, Google DeepMind, Nvidia and Hugging Face, launches today with a clear goal: to bring advanced AI into the physical world and build humanoid robots ready for real work, in real environments, at scale. UMA’s founders were instrumental in shaping the [...]
Reeves isn’t ‘underestimated’, she’s doing a bad job and should resign December 1, 2025 Rachel Reeves has no mandate for taking money from taxpayers to hand to benefits claimants and her self-pitying defences are an insult to the people who are paying for her weakness, writes Alys Denby Rachel Reeves’ position has been untenable from the start. Her promises, during the election, that she would “end austerity” (increase public [...]
Jimmy Choo on his London life, from Mayfair club nights to the best Malaysian food December 1, 2025 This interview with Jimmy Choo is published in City AM The Magazine, Winter edition, distributed at major Tube stations and available to pick up from The Royal Exchange Photos by Gretel Ensignia Jimmy Choo: Last night was a good party… Med Pang: Yeah, we went clubbing! Did we leave Park Chinois about two in the [...]
World Darts Championship extends title sponsor deal with Paddy Power December 1, 2025 Paddy Power’s title sponsorship of the World Darts Championship will near a decade after the bookie extended its deal with the showpiece event by another five years. The Flutter-owned firm took over from Cazoo in December 2023 and will be the title sponsor until at least 2031 after penning a half-decade extension with the Professional [...]
Masters of Wine Curate Their Ultimate Wish List for Institute of Masters of Wine Benefit Auction December 1, 2025 The Institute of Masters of Wine and Sotheby’s will offer bidders insider access to ultra-rare wines and money-can’t-buy experiences chosen by the world’s leading wine experts.
Heat Zones: What the UK can learn from Europe December 1, 2025 One secret of our cities is that they generate heat almost everywhere you look. From the local data centre powering your Wi-Fi to the fridges in your local supermarket, usable heat is all around us – yet too often this heat is wasted. In London alone, there is enough heat wasted every year to meet [...]
Blockbuster FTSE merger abandoned after shareholder fury December 1, 2025 A plan to merge two FTSE-listed funds to form the UK’s largest infrastructure investment firm has been abandoned after shareholders expressed frustration with the terms of the deal. HICL Infrastructure said it will no longer be proceeding with its planned merger with The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) after its board “determined that it cannot progress [...]