If we want our economy to grow, our skyline must go up, up, up March 10, 2025 The City's skyline is always changing, but if we want our economy to grow bigger, it must go higher, writes Chris Hayward.
Excluding women in defence is costing business March 8, 2025 Western defence has made massive strides, but the sector has a massive gender problem - and it's costing business, writes Naomi Hulme.
The investment gap in healthcare is making women sick March 8, 2025 Underinvestment in women’s healthcare has real-world consequences that we can no longer ignore, writes Jessica Espinoza.
Can the ‘hotelification’ of the office beat working from home? March 8, 2025 London offices are offering monogrammed towels and rooftop gardens to tempt staff back into work, says Alex Morgan Some of the world’s largest companies are pulling the plug on hybrid working, but not without a hitch. In the US, Amazon’s return-to-office (RTO) mandate has been put on pause because of a shortage of desks in [...]
Free Thinking: Will Musk regret putting Trump’s politics before Tesla sales? March 7, 2025 This week on Free Thinking, Alys Denby is joined by writer and Morning Wire columnist Eliot Wilson to discuss whether Elon Musk is paying the price for mixing politics and business.
UK insolvency rules are trapping firms between Scylla and Charybdis March 7, 2025 Outdated insolvency rules such as TUPE are disincentivising rescues of UK companies in irony worthy of the Greeks, writes Stephen Phillips.
15 years on from The Big Short, securitisation is back March 7, 2025 The Big Short hit bookshelves 15 years ago, but the era of securitisation it depicts is far from over — in fact, it’s booming, says Tim Focas Fifteen years ago this month, Michael Lewis’s The Big Short hit bookshelves, exposing how Wall Street’s reckless financial engineering fuelled the 2008 financial crisis. It was a cautionary tale to [...]
This International Women’s Day, spare a thought for men March 7, 2025 International Women’s Day is a great opportunity to celebrate the success of elite women, but a proper discussion of gender inequality should also take account of where real disadvantage lies: with young men, says Alys Denby This Saturday is International Women’s Day and every comms professional in London has duly pitched these pages inspirational examples [...]
Week in Business: Who will Rachel Reeves blame for higher taxes in Spring Statement? March 6, 2025 Morning Wire Editor Christian May looks at the biggest business stories in his weekly video, today focusing on the UK economy and upcoming Spring Statement.
‘It’s not enough to do good work, you have to tell people’: Naomi Tarawali on making it in law March 6, 2025 Naomi Tarawali became a partner at global law firm Cleary Gottlieb aged just 33. She tells us how in this week's Square Mile and Me.