Leona Maguire ticking off milestones on her way to top of women’s golf July 13, 2023 Leona Maguire on her charge up the rankings, Women’s Open hopes and playing this week’s Aramco Team Series – London. Leona Maguire has made a career out of firsts. As a 17-year-old, she became the first home winner of the Irish Girls Open Strokeplay Championships and since then has become the first Irishwoman to win [...]
The Boris by-election: Is Uxbridge about to turn red, or will the ULEZ expansion keep it blue? July 13, 2023 Tucked just inside the M25, the west London town of Uxbridge was, until last month, the parliamentary home of a former prime minister. Boris Johnson held Uxbridge and South Ruislip for the past eight years before dramatically quitting the Commons. Formed in 2010 by blending the former seats of Uxbridge and Ruislip-Northwood, the constituency has [...]
Women’s Ashes alive as England beat Australia in first ODI July 12, 2023 Captain Heather Knight hit an unbeaten 75 as England chased down a record total to beat Australia in the first series ODI to keep the Women’s Ashes alive. England and Australia are level on six points each in the points-based Ashes with four points remaining. The hosts still need three of the four remaining points [...]
Gabriella Cowley: Choosing golf over football and cricket, and Aramco Team Series London July 12, 2023 In another life, Gabriella Cowley might be playing in the Women’s Ashes or heading to the Women’s World Cup with the Lionesses instead of teeing it up at the Aramco Team Series – London this week. Cowley was a sporting child prodigy who excelled at football and cricket before being introduced to golf by her [...]
Five Rightmove ads that show how screwed the London rental market is July 12, 2023 London’s rental market is hellish, with landlords selling up to avoid hefty mortgage payments and its supply pool dwindling daily, renters in the capital have their work cut out for them trying to find a place to call home. City A.M. has trawled the pages of Rightmove to showcase some of the ‘premium’ pads on [...]
Interview: Businesses need to get their ‘pound of flesh’ from home workers, says Addison Lee chief July 12, 2023 “We are a real barometer for the London economy,” Liam Griffin, the boss of Addison Lee, says as we chat in the firms’ Paddington offices. The private hire taxi firm has been a stalwart of London for nearly 45 years now, ferrying customers through the boom of the early 2000s, the financial crash of 2008 [...]
Tech titans? Musk and Zuckerberg’s feud is an ultra-public toddler tantrum July 12, 2023 From threats for a real life fight to launching rival to Twitter, the bizarre blood feud between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk shows how far our entrepreneurs have fallen, writes Josh Williams.
Even if the pandemic hadn’t happened, we would have all ended up working remotely July 12, 2023 Working from home is not just here to stay, but the actual quantity of work which can be done from home will rise. Employees highly value remote work these days, writes Paul Ormerod
Heathrow: UK-US flights power summer travel surge – but it’s STILL 200,000 behind pre-pandemic levels July 11, 2023 Heathrow Airport reported seven million passengers passed through the hub last month thanks to UK-US flights, a massive uptick on last year but still 200,000 behind pre-pandemic levels. The figure, which comes as airports and airlines are in full swing with summer travel, still falls short of the equivalent month pre-pandemic – but marks a [...]
A ‘be British’ mandate won’t make up for seasonal workers picking our fruit July 11, 2023 Bringing back "pick for Britain" won't solve the problems of seasonal workers who come to the UK and find a substandard job market ripe for exploitation, writes Elena Siniscalco