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Starmer plays a risky game on welfare reform

Rightly or wrongly, Labour decided that the first signal they should send as a new government was that they wouldn’t duck tough economic decisions....

yesterday 7

City A.M.

Christian May

London needs the Conservatives to restore its tech crown

The Conservatives left London with more tech unicorns than France and Germany combined. Now Labour is quickly unravelling our legacy, writes shadow...

yesterday 8

City A.M.

Alan Mak

Topping up pensions with property wealth is becoming the norm

(Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) Using property to fund retirement is going to become the norm, but there’s stigma attached to it,...

yesterday 9

City A.M.

James Daley

Happy Cost of Rent Day Londoners – for the rest of the year your money is yours

(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) With the average London tenant needing to work 146 days a year just to pay off their rent, today marks a...

yesterday 6

City A.M.

Sebastian Charleton

On this day: May 26 1896 — the first Dow Jones Industrial Average is published

Charles Dow was a financial journalist with a rare gift. A high school dropout from rural Connecticut, he was able to explain the arcana of...

monday 8

City A.M.

Markets

Was Rayner’s leaked memo an early play for party leader?

(Photo by Eddie Keogh/Getty Images) Rayner’s ‘leaked’ memo was a reminder that she is cut from different stuff than our iron Chancellor, but...

monday 1

City A.M.

Markets

Labour’s immigration rules will make it harder for tech to recruit

(Photo by Ian Vogler – WPA Pool/Getty Images) To maintain the excellence of London’s tech sector, it must remain open to the world’s best and...

monday 8

City A.M.

Markets

How EV charging points could be used to help the high street

EVs could help revive our high streets – if we put charging points where people actually go, writes Robin Heap London’s high streets are getting...

25.05.2025 2

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Robin Heap

I’m on a mission to bring Californian tech culture to the UK

(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) When Sean Kohli left the UK for Silicon Valley, he found himself joining a hacker house, launching an AI...

24.05.2025 3

City A.M.

Sean Kohli

200 years on, it’s time to bring will writing into the 21st century

(Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Almost 200 years on from the last proper review of will writing in the UK, it’s high time for some sweeping...

24.05.2025 2

City A.M.

Sam Grice

How to fix the housing crisis? We’ve told the government again and again and again

(Photo by Chris Radburn – Pool/Getty Images) I’m a London estate agency chairman – and I’m tired of talking about the same housing problems every...

24.05.2025 2

City A.M.

Simon Gerrard

Forget the EU, UK businesses want to trade with China

From UK businesses shifting trade to China, the message is clear: growth matters more than geopolitics. The sooner the government realises that the...

24.05.2025 3

City A.M.

Jane Galvin

Labour’s tax policies are hitting the companies they need to build homes

(Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) Construction plant-hire companies are fundamental to delivering the government’s pledge to build 1.5m...

24.05.2025 1

City A.M.

Steven Mulholland

Why your next car will be grey and your next thought will be too

The decline of colour in consumer products mirrors a troubling trend in AI, where bias and homogenisation threaten intellectual diversity, societal...

23.05.2025 1

City A.M.

Lewis Z Liu

How London Bridge is fighting back against the ‘grotification’ of London

Family Dayz Festival, Potters Fields Park, Team London Bridge With public finances increasingly unsafe, the private sector has a vital role to...

23.05.2025 1

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Rob Anderson

‘Socialist’ Sweden has no problem with its billionaires

(Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images) Sweden has a higher proportion of billionaires than the US, but far from causing anti-capitalist...

23.05.2025 6

City A.M.

Rainer Zitelmann

BCG London boss: ‘I still believe diverse teams deliver the best outcomes’

Jessica Frame, managing partner at BCG London Each week, we dig into the memory bank of the City’s great and good. Today, Jessica Frame, managing...

23.05.2025 10

City A.M.

Anna Moloney

The Capitalist: Chelsea Flower Show shuns celeb, a female billionaire boom and Reform vs Reform

The King was not the shunned celeb in question at the Chelsea Flower Show (Photo by Toby Melville – WPA Pool/Getty Images) Celeb downgrades at the...

23.05.2025 1

City A.M.

The Capitalist

Censorship is the virus, free speech is the vaccine

Tesla profits crash as Musk fallout hits brand and bottom line Free speech, grounded in the principle of dispersed knowledge and “epistemic...

23.05.2025 3

City A.M.

Paul Marshall

Paris vs London: which city comes out on top?

Our front page story yesterday on Paris surging ahead of London in the rankings of tech sector hotspots got people talking, reigniting an ancient...

23.05.2025 1

City A.M.

Christian May

Week in Business: Will Starmer sack Rachel Reeves?

Play Video Cracks are appearing in the government’s economic policy – some made by ministers, others by external pressure – the question is, can...

23.05.2025 2

City A.M.

Video

How the UK took on Hollywood (and why Trump wants it back)

The majority of the Barbie movie was filmed at Warner Bros Studios in Hertfordshire With expanding film studios and enviable creative talent, the...

23.05.2025 1

City A.M.

Charles Heales