Week in Business: Businesses flee high-tax Britain September 11, 2025 On the same day that Reeves said "there's no growth without investment", a pharma giant pulled its £1bn London investment plans.
Mandelson scandal is sickening, but it’s the economy that’s fatal for Starmer September 11, 2025 Despicable Peter Mandelson is deeply damaging for Keir Starmer, but it’s the economy that will collapse his government, says Alys Denby Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘birthday book’ is a sickening document. It doesn’t just contain damning messages from Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, but a cartoon depicting the financier grooming children to give him lewd massages, images [...]
Reeves, beware the bond vigilantes: the dark knights of the City September 11, 2025 As UK 30-year gilt yields surge to record levels, Tim Focus warns Chancellor Reeves of the threat of bond vigilantes.
BGC boss Sean Windeatt: We’ve created something positive from the memory of 9/11 September 11, 2025 BGC boss Sean Windeatt was in the firm's London office when 9/11 unfolded, killing 658 of the firm's employees in New York.
This is what quoted companies need to grow September 11, 2025 Despite Tube strikes, the QCA Annual Dinner celebrates UK small and midcap success while urging the government to scrap stamp duty, rethink ISAs, and boost liquidity to strengthen public markets and drive economic growth, says James Ashton It will take more than an irritating Tube strike to stop hundreds of business leaders, their advisers, investors, [...]
Candyfloss and pink teddy bears: How Canada became a playground September 11, 2025 As fairground bar Fairgame lands in Canada, Anna Moloney looks at the divisive rise of forced fun at work.
What happened to Sadiq Khan’s promise to end Tube strikes? September 11, 2025 Sadiq Khan promised there would be no Tube strikes under his mayoralty. So where is he now, asks James Ford.
What makes a great entrepreneur? September 11, 2025 You can tell a real entrepreneur as soon as you meet one. They share certain traits and characteristics. They have this can-do aura about them, real energy and magnetism, says Joanna Jensen I’m often asked whether it’s possible to know that you are an entrepreneur. The short answer is, no. You can have the best [...]
Enough slogans, Labour must walk the walk on growth September 11, 2025 The government’s promises of economic growth will fail unless it moves beyond slogans and reshuffles to implement substantive structural reforms in tax, planning and infrastructure to provide the certainty and stability needed to attract business investment, says John Caudwell Our Prime Minister tells us, once again, that his government is focused on growth. The reshuffle [...]
Labour should be honest about the tax rises to come September 11, 2025 Trying to raise tens of billions of pounds in revenue without touching the three taxes that account for the lion’s share of the total tax haul is like trying to build a bookcase without any nails, screws or glue. You could try it, but you’ll soon regret the attempt. As things stand, Rachel Reeves is [...]