Analysis: Is Michael Gove going to war with landlords? March 28, 2023 Michael Gove has accused “unscrupulous” landlords of using no-fault evictions to jack up rents.
Mouldy, unsafe homes are a product of the breakdown in trust of landlords March 28, 2023 Michael Gove launched a campaign to make it easier for social tenants to complain to the housing ombudsman. But without further funding, the ombudsman risks being overwhelmed, writes Elena Siniscalco
Why the Bank of England and Fed could welcome Credit Suisse and Silicon Valley Bank failures March 28, 2023 There’s been reams and reams of wild predictions about whether we’re slipping into another financial crisis, triggered by the collapse of US tech lender Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Credit Suisse’s arranged marriage with its crosstown rival UBS. Blackrock chief Larry Fink even warned in his annual letter to shareholders we’re slipping into a slow [...]
The fall of Credit Suisse may look like 2008, but the tech identifying risk is years ahead March 28, 2023 After the fall of Credit Suisse and collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, investors across the world are worried about their exposure to risky assets, but the tech available to identify it has drastically changed since 2008
North and South agree: we have to build HS2 from Euston to Manchester March 28, 2023 Delaying HS2 or shortening its railway from Euston will only cost even more money and create another generation of growth stuck behind a red signal, writes John Dickie and Henri Murison, chief executives of BusinessLDN and the Northern Powerhouse Partnership
Cracking down on law and order to win the next election March 27, 2023 Trust on crime preventions is the Conservatives’ to lose.
So you want to be a tech superpower? Put your money where your mouth is March 27, 2023 Last week, the Government published a roadmap for reaching tech superpower status by 2030. At the heart of this strategy must be addressing the funding gap which is impeding innovative businesses from scaling up and growing. Tech is an area where the UK already has so many competitive strengths not just in London but across [...]
In Broken Britain, we can hardly afford to be smug about a riot-plagued Paris March 27, 2023 People in France are taking to the streets, while in the UK we just complain about train strikes. But although we behave differently as societies, we are in a similar position to France, writes Eliot Wilson
We’re living with the impact of a decade of a Goldilocks approach to interest rates March 27, 2023 We are in an hangover era of monetary policy, recovering from a period when bad news was considered good news by investors. We must work to change that outlook, writes Charles White-Thomson
Explainer: The cost of transport in London is higher than any other major city March 24, 2023 If you live in London, you will have noticed public transport costs have gone up. And by quite a big chunk – from the 5th of March TfL fares went up by an average of 5.9 per cent. This makes the UK the country with the most expensive public transport in the world, according to [...]