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China’s crackdown will do untold damage – Glory to Hong Kong!

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...

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Train strikes only serve to hurt the hardest working Londoners

Working from home has changed many things. For one, it’s turned train strikes from a nation-strangling act of economic terrorism into an...

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Proposed snooping powers are an incursion into our most basic rights

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...

02.05.2024 10

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The Hipgnosis saga shines a spotlight on critical London failings

Amongst the stash of pop culture offerings in Hipgnosis’ rights catalogue are those of the legendary music producer Jimmy Iovine. Amongst the...

30.04.2024 20

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Time to celebrate one of London’s overlooked success stories

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...

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London was voted best place to work – but play matters too 

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...

25.04.2024 10

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Our helpful advice to the Bank’s ratesetters: please, stop with the speeches

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. ...

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Whoever wins the election, the London Mayor needs real power

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...

23.04.2024 8

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Brutalist gatekeepers should remember people need homes too

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....

18.04.2024 8

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We need a government to match the private sector’s energy and radicalism

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...

16.04.2024 10

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Government must listen to UK’s fintech stars and scrap the share tax

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,...

15.04.2024 10

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Proxy advisors take note: If you want the best, you have to pay up

Proxy advisors play a valid, and important, role. But their words shouldn’t be treated as gospel, tablets of stone passed down from the...

10.04.2024 10

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The £950bn pension plan: Why the ‘triple lock’ is entirely unsustainable

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...

09.04.2024 20

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Ignoring market expectations on rate cuts would be Bailey’s final straw

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...

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London’s thriving financial districts are a testament to reinvention

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...

04.04.2024 7

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In a grown-up country, the need for a ‘Bakerloop’ would be rightly ridiculed

“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,”...

03.04.2024 10

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E.coli, sewage and leaks: Water firms must get their sh*t together

LONDON, ENGLAND – MARCH 26: Coxswain Jasper Parish of Cambridge University Men’s Boat Club is thrown into the Thames by teammates after Cambridge...

28.03.2024 20

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The advantaged BBC is squeezing local news out of the media landscape

‘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...

27.03.2024 10

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China’s cyber-attacks are democratic threat and business opportunity

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,...

26.03.2024 10

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The Monetary Policy Committee can fight rate setting unease with greater coherence

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...

21.03.2024 10

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At the heart of the listing drought is a cultural lack of risk appetite

Another day, another complaint? It can feel that way when you regularly study the utterings of London-listed bosses. Yesterday, though, came a less...

19.03.2024 8

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The best way to bring house prices down is to get building

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,...

18.03.2024 10

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This incompetent handling of a media storm is a bad look for the Tories

Distracted as they are from governing, the Conservatives have got themselves into yet another unholy mess over their now “controversial” donor...

14.03.2024 6

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A trade deal with Texas: The UK can learn from the Lone Star State

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...

13.03.2024 20

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It’s now up to the City and the regulator to keep a close eye on crypto mania

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...

12.03.2024 10

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It will be headline-grabbing, but will it make a difference?

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...

08.03.2024 10

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The Budget shows signs that the election won’t be complete procession

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...

07.03.2024 10

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When it comes to the debate around tax, language really does matter

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...

28.02.2024 10

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No time to lose: The City must be the force behind reinvigorating ailing markets

Another day, another complaint from a listed firm that things have not entirely gone to plan. Yesterday it was the Aquis-listed Quantum Exponential...

27.02.2024 3

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No more excuses: We need transport projects connecting South London

Soft clay. That’s always been the excuse for the London Underground’s shameless disregard for the badlands south of the Thames. The slightly...

21.02.2024 7

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