From star-gazing to navel-gazing: How astrology captured Gen Z March 25, 2024 Gen Z has become starry-eyed, but their fixation with astrology isn't as woo woo as you might think, writes Anna Moloney.
The road to Downing Street runs through Canada March 25, 2024 Both parties are wooing the City – and Rachel Reeves’ Mais Lecture was no exception – because it is business that is best placed to help deliver economic growth, says Chris Hayward Last week shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, laid out a blueprint for the future of Britain’s economy in her Mais Lecture. This provided a [...]
How to fire up the economy? Stop messing with peashooters and bring out the big guns March 24, 2024 Boosting the economy is the only way to sustainably raise living standards for all, so let's stop messing around with small-fry policies, writes Matthew Fell.
How to invest intelligently in the age of AI March 23, 2024 AI investment could reach $200bn globally by 2025, but how do you sort the unicorns from the donkeys? Rosanne Kincaid-Smith explains AI is dominating the rhetoric of investors, business executives, and the media – everyone wants to use, invest in, or acquire this technology. AI startups attracted one out of every three dollars invested in the US [...]
Neurodiversity isn’t an obstacle in business, it’s an intrinsic driver of success March 23, 2024 Awareness around neurodiversity is improving, but the narrative of it as an obstacle to rather than driver of success needs to change.
Waspi women deserve compensation, but could there be a sting in the tail? March 22, 2024 Waspi women have a legitimate grievance over waiting longer than they expected for their pensions, but any reimbursement scheme must take into account that working people are struggling too, says Eliot Wilson From 2004 to 2009, the Department for Work and Pensions was guilty of maladministration, it breached the Civil Service Code and it failed [...]
The bond markets liked the Budget – and that’s a worry March 22, 2024 Hunt’s Budget and Reeves’ Mais lecture showed they are vying to be Captain Sensible, but if we want to break the doom loop of low growth, high taxes and big spending, we should expect some friction with the forces that benefit from the status quo, says Charles White-Thomson What concerns me most about the recent [...]
The Monetary Policy Committee can fight rate setting unease with greater coherence March 21, 2024 Andrew Bailey did not have a lot of luck when he came to the table as the new Governor of the Bank of England, stepping into the job about the same time as a flu-like virus from a Chinese city nobody had heard of arrived at Heathrow. He has since played a bad hand badly, [...]
Dogs will break your heart and leave you bankrupt, but they’re worth every penny March 21, 2024 Vets are being accused of ripping off pet owners, but you can’t put a price on the love of a dog, says Andy Blackmore Vets have come under fire recently with accusations of price gouging. Having received over 56,000 complaints, the Competition and Markets Authority is now launching a formal investigation into the veterinary industry, [...]
Worst corporate jargon of the week: Deliverable March 21, 2024 Ding dong, corporate jargon calling! And it's here for its deliverables. Anti-claptrap soldiers, it's time to rise against these moronables.