The Interview: A hacker vigilante who could break the Internet July 12, 2023 Elena Siniscalco interviews Chris Wysopal, a friendly neighbourhood hacker who also happened to crack into Microsoft back in the '90s
Tech titans? Musk and Zuckerberg’s feud is an ultra-public toddler tantrum July 12, 2023 From threats for a real life fight to launching rival to Twitter, the bizarre blood feud between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk shows how far our entrepreneurs have fallen, writes Josh Williams.
Even if the pandemic hadn’t happened, we would have all ended up working remotely July 12, 2023 Working from home is not just here to stay, but the actual quantity of work which can be done from home will rise. Employees highly value remote work these days, writes Paul Ormerod
Hunt is right to rest his hopes for growth on the City, but it will still need a helping hand July 12, 2023 Jeremy Hunt is banking on the City bailing out the UK economy - and it can if he gives it the reforms it needs, writes Michael Moore.
Explainer: Sunak fights with Labour to be Joe Biden’s favourite July 11, 2023 Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden had a jolly time together on Monday, meeting up in London to consolidate what the US president described as a “rock solid relationship”. So our prime minister might have felt a bit betrayed today when he discovered that Labour is also soothing our friends across the pond. Indeed Nick Thomas-Symonds, [...]
The FTSE 100 has done us all dirty… again July 11, 2023 The FTSE 100 has done us all dirty yet – again. Over and over it marches us up a hill only to send us back down again. Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney is often referred to as the “unreliable boyfriend” of monetary policy making for his comments signalling he and the MPC would [...]
A ‘be British’ mandate won’t make up for seasonal workers picking our fruit July 11, 2023 Bringing back "pick for Britain" won't solve the problems of seasonal workers who come to the UK and find a substandard job market ripe for exploitation, writes Elena Siniscalco
The combined power of AI and WhatsApp could wreak havoc for the next election July 11, 2023 The speed of AI generation of deepfakes, combined with WhatsApp’s power for dissemination, could set up for a new battleground at the next election, writes Giles Kenningham
Cynical investors trading off of the ESG wave have burst a sustainable finance bubble July 11, 2023 The government must prove it is serious about ESG and sustainable investing, so companies and investors know they are safe to follow through, writes James Alexander
Explainer: A ‘rock solid’ US-UK relationship July 10, 2023 Few things hold such enduring fascination in British politics as the so-called “special relationship” with the US. It was blamed for Iraq, held up as a bastion of what could be achieved post-Brexit, and then dragged through the doldrums during a distancing between Boris Johnson and Joe Biden. Today, Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak insisted [...]