We bemoan our unproductive workforce but are ignoring initiatives to help it November 13, 2023 How much is health worth? To us as individuals, it’s priceless. But health also has a huge, often unconsidered, impact on the economy.
Floating cities or climate visas: Is this the choice for environmental migrants? November 11, 2023 The climate crisis could force over 1bn people from their homes by 2050. Some 150m p ople are currently living on land that will be below the high-tide line by 2050. T
How Dr. Martens and Birkenstock explain London’s stock exchange quandary November 10, 2023 Dr Martens and Birkenstock aren't that different. Global brands. Design icons. $1bn-plus revenues. But the one listed on the London Stock Exchange is having a much tougher time.
Forget the UK, how has Europe dealt with pro-Palestine marches? November 10, 2023 This week a Yougov poll showed half of the UK thinks the pro-Palestine march planned for this Saturday 11 November ought to be banned. The Home Secretary has dubbed it a “hate march”. The ethics – and law – around banning marches is controversial. In the UK Sir Mark Rowley, head of the Metropolitan Police [...]
Too big to succeed: the corporate blob is killing businesses November 10, 2023 In a nutshell, a ‘corporate blob’ is a large unwieldy bureaucracy, typically with multiple layers of middle management.
Bird watching: What’s going on with X/Twitter’s Community Notes? November 9, 2023 It’s always embarrassing to be called out on a lie. That’s the cruel genius behind Twitter’s Community Notes feature, which brutally exposes mistruths with a cool, simple fact box. As Labour’s shadow foreign secretary David Lammy recently found out, the hard way. He tweeted “As I said on Radio 4 Today this morning, it is [...]
All institutions come with the baggage of history, but good can still be done November 9, 2023 There are no easy answers – and none that will satisfy everybody – to settling historic ‘bills’ for involvement in the slave trade. Under pressure for a number of years, Lloyds of London announced yesterday a £50m investment in diversity and inclusion initiatives that it hopes will open the door of the insurance market to [...]
Why won’t banking chief execs talk about artificial intelligence? November 9, 2023 Banks are slowly waking up to the potential of artificial intelligence, but the City CEOs are still reluctant to talk about it, writes Alexandra Mousavizadeh
Britain has brilliant start ups, but they rarely make it to the big leagues November 9, 2023 The UK has a thriving array of start ups, but they don’t have tools to turn that into scaled, successful businesses, writes John Asthana Gibson
Worst corporate jargon of the week: GFC November 8, 2023 Fresh-faced finance bros in the City have breathed new life into a term for 2008 financial crash.