The next mayor must make London the best place in the world to do business March 27, 2024 The mayoral election is in just over a month, whoever wins must get London firing on all cylinders by working with business
The Notebook: London’s electric drive is charging full speed ahead – but there are obstacles March 27, 2024 Mike Randall, CEO of Simply Asset Finance, takes the pen to talk electric cars, lessons from football - and some rare praise for Avanti.
The advantaged BBC is squeezing local news out of the media landscape March 27, 2024 ‘Today, I want to talk about us.’ Never has the start to a speech revealed as much as Tim Davie’s yesterday, as the director general of the BBC laid out a plan for the future of Auntie. And, unknowingly perhaps, the future of commercial media. Take a step back. As a newspaper which believes in [...]
The worrying rise of the Starbucks drive-thru March 26, 2024 Car-based consumers are hollowing out our high streets and straining our social fabric, says Adam Hawksbee Starbucks opened the UK’s first drive-thru coffee shop in Cardiff in 2008. Today, there are over 800 in towns and cities across the country – almost one in ten premises operated by a major coffee chain. Even the upmarket [...]
The Notebook: City trend to cut compliance workers will come back to bite March 26, 2024 Lucy McNulty, editor of Following the Rules, takes the Notebook pen to talk compliance job cuts, social media and the stubborn glass ceiling.
Port Talbot is what happens when governments let industries fail March 26, 2024 The closure of the iconic blast furnaces proves we need an industrial strategy fit for the modern age, says Virginia Sentance For generations, two blast furnaces shaped Port Talbot’s skyline. This year they are shutting down, threatening 2000 jobs, not to be replaced with an alternative until 2027. Despite talks with the Government, trade unions, [...]
Letter to the editor: Apprentices, you’re hired! March 26, 2024 Removing the five per cent co-investment payments for SMEs that hire apprentices under the age of 22 is a step in the right direction.
Why Labour won’t compensate the Waspi women March 26, 2024 With fiscal discipline the order of the day, the Party is unlikely to repeat it’s commitment to handing £billions to pensioners, says Morgan Jones In November 2019, with the general election campaign already well underway, Labour announced that, if elected, it would pay compensation to Waspi women, at a cost estimated to be as much [...]
China’s cyber-attacks are democratic threat and business opportunity March 26, 2024 How you doing, my old China? That was certainly the tone of the UK’s attitude towards Sino-British relations when the current foreign secretary, David Cameron, was Prime Minister. He even took a confused-looking Xi Jinping for a pint in the Cotswolds. As yesterday’s parliamentary announcements made clear, things have changed. China’s cyber attack on the [...]
The Notebook: How bank spying powers are being snuck into government bills March 25, 2024 Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, takes the pen to talk about how new spying powers are being snuck into government bills.