Tech Weekly: Matt Hancock on crypto ambitions and lockdown decisions May 6, 2022 This week City A.M. reporters Lily Russell-Jones and Charlie Conchie sit down with Conservative MP and former Health Secretary Matt Hancock. They chat about his outspoken views on crypto, regulation, and the need for accessibiity when it comes to crypto investing; go through his post-Cabinet ambitions; and unpick his decision-making at the height of the [...]
What’s Your ‘Worth It’ Equation When It Comes To Work? May 6, 2022 Depending on how super-organised we are (or how much we really, really love Excel), we’ve all got a list somewhere, either in our heads or in an aforementioned spreadsheet, of the things we want and need when it comes to work. Those can be a competitive salary, flexible working hours that can be a mix [...]
Business of Space: The things you can do with a commercial hand May 6, 2022 City A.M.’s Millie Turner offers up a roundup of the most important news across the space industry, every Friday. This week: SpaceX deepens commercial ties with NASA Artemis: NASA latest stage in returning to the moon Space regulations race to catch up with technology SpaceX and satellite spin-off Starlink SpaceX brought four astronauts back down to Earth last night, as [...]
‘The lazy g**s make me sick’: Lord Sugar berates PwC summer working hours as a ‘bloody joke’ May 6, 2022 Lord Alan Sugar has branded PwC’s summer working hours scheme a “bloody joke”, after the Big Four firm said it would give workers Friday afternoons off. The business leader took to Twitter in a tirade against the decision saying the “lazy gits make me sick.” “Call me old fashioned but all this work from home [...]
Connecting communities and keeping the customer satisfied May 6, 2022 When it comes to keeping the customer satisfied, Retail FSL has got it down to a tee. Afterall in part it owes its very existence to customer encouragement. The company’s founder Andrew Martin left the demanding world of corporate life where he’d had senior roles, including leading G4S operations in UK and Ireland, for a [...]
Sergio Perez interview: Miami GP, ambitions for the future and investing May 6, 2022 This weekend’s Miami Grand Prix will be the first of the season to be held in the Western Hemisphere and Red Bull’s Mexican maestro Sergio Perez cannot wait to be nearer to his homeland. “I think it is great being able to be closer to home,” Perez told City A.M. “I‘m really happy to be [...]
Boris Johnson never left election mode to make sense of his patchwork of policies May 6, 2022 Boris Johnson was made for elections, he was built to shake hands and make people laugh - the guy you’d like to go for a beer with, is the oft-cited description of the Prime Minister. But since taking up office in 2019 with a storming majority, Johnson has stayed firmly in election-mode and never actually started governing.
UK’s first queer museum founder: ‘It’s not just another bar, you know?’ May 5, 2022 Queer Britain, the UK’s first ever queer museum opens its doors today, taking over the grand old industrial building in King’s Cross’s Granary Square that was once home to the House of Illustration. The intimate space is the first iteration of Queer Britain, with director and co-founder Joseph Galliano hoping to gain funding for a [...]
Channel 4 finally fights back against Dorries’ privatisation push May 5, 2022 Channel 4 revealed the true extent of the government’s privatisation detour this morning, outlining how last week's white paper undermined its own 'levelling up' objectives and questioned the very core of the broadcaster's purpose.
Campaign groups call for ‘golden visa’ transparency as data reveals potential abuse of scheme May 4, 2022 Campaign groups have ramped up calls for greater transparency into the use of the UK’s now shuttered ‘golden visa’ scheme after fresh data revealed that almost 50 were offered to foreign nationals under 21.