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What China has done to Hong Kong is a tragedy The threads between the City of London and Hong Kong are long, occasionally ugly, mostly glorious and...
Working from home has changed many things. For one, it’s turned train strikes from a nation-strangling act of economic terrorism into an...
Slippery slopes are so named for a reason. One step might feel okay; a second, trouble-free. But suddenly momentum builds, and there’s no stopping...
Amongst the stash of pop culture offerings in Hipgnosis’ rights catalogue are those of the legendary music producer Jimmy Iovine. Amongst the...
The slow and steady de-equitisation of London’s equity market has dominated the headlines in the UK’s financial pages this year, obscuring what...
This time next week, London will be voting for its Mayor. It has not been a vintage campaign but perhaps the negativity apparent across the political...
At the Bank of England, it is now de rigeur for the nine members of the monetary policy committee to contradict each other on the speech circuit. ...
Sadiq Khan and Susan Hall, have largely run campaigns centred around not being the other one. In the annals of political history, so often the...
Another building project, another planning delay. It is as predictable as rain on a bank holiday. And it does the same thing to the mood of investors....
One thing the government was not light on yesterday at the Innovate Finance Global Summit was advice. Everyone has it. That’s a good thing. Panel...
Oaknorth co-founder and chief executive Rishi Khosla was among chiefs to back the call to ditch stamp duty by the Unicorn Council for Fintech,...
Proxy advisors play a valid, and important, role. But their words shouldn’t be treated as gospel, tablets of stone passed down from the...
The current pension age is 66 but if you were born after 5 April 1960 it’s 67. This is set to rise to 68, but a decision on the exact timetable has...
It may, perhaps, seem odd that the Bank of England’s decision on interest rates should be effectively made by the market. But that is the case over...
Canary Wharf has become a mixed-use development and will receive a £400m injection as it pivots post-pandemic Necessity is the mother of invention...
“I am pleased that a plan to demolish a family home on Riddlesdown Road, Purley and replace it with a large block of flats has been refused,”...
LONDON, ENGLAND – MARCH 26: Coxswain Jasper Parish of Cambridge University Men’s Boat Club is thrown into the Thames by teammates after Cambridge...
‘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...
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,...
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...
Another day, another complaint? It can feel that way when you regularly study the utterings of London-listed bosses. Yesterday, though, came a less...
Crash? What crash? A much-feared slowdown in house prices – due to hit last year – appears to have been more of a speed bump than a full snarl-up,...
Distracted as they are from governing, the Conservatives have got themselves into yet another unholy mess over their now “controversial” donor...
There are three ways to look at the trade “co-operation” agreement which will be signed today between the UK and the great state of Texas. The...
Much like watching somebody stand too close to the edge of a rooftop can bring on the heebie-jeebies, the City’s institutions giving a guarded...
Well into an election year, with the Conservatives polling at record lows, Tory MPs will be hoping Hunt is able to deliver some policies that will win...
Well, it wasn’t overly dramatic, but it wasn’t bad either. Reading between the lines in yesterday’s Budget however does give some cause for...
higher interest rates bite. Language matters. So the framing of our debate ahead of the budget – in which every tax cut is described as costing a...
Another day, another complaint from a listed firm that things have not entirely gone to plan. Yesterday it was the Aquis-listed Quantum Exponential...
Soft clay. That’s always been the excuse for the London Underground’s shameless disregard for the badlands south of the Thames. The slightly...