If someone had told me after Rory McIlroy’s last major victory that he wouldn’t win another one for 10 years I’d have laughed – and put my house on the …
May 2024
Inactivity, productivity and jobs: London’s economic disparities revealed in five graphs
London is the powerhouse of the UK economy, responsible for a quarter of the country’s total output and generating around 40 per cent of Treasury tax receipts. Within the capital, …
Cannes-do attitude: All the deals from the most famous film festival
Cannes is often crudely pigeonholed as a sunny place for shady people. But in my experience attending the film festival over the last two decades, it is the epitome of …
Court delays return as emergency measures are deployed to stem prison overcrowding
The legal sector was thrown into a state of chaos and confusion this morning after the government deployed emergency measures to delay court cases in response to prison and police …
Universal record label settles UK dispute with King Crimson over Kanye West ‘Power’ sample
The Universal Music Group (UMG) has settled a UK lawsuit with a representative for English rock band King Crimson over royalties for Kanye West’s ‘Power’ song. UMG was hit with …
Tui: Record revenue boosts travel giant before it takes flight from London
Tui has reported record revenue in its half-year results amid booming demand for travel and not long before it takes flight from London markets for Germany. The travel giant netted …
London-listed Georgian banks’ shares tank after country approves divisive ‘foreign agent’ law
Both Georgia-focused banks listed in London saw their share prices crater on Wednesday after the country’s parliament approved a divisive new “foreign agent” law, derailing what had been a strong …
Investing in the UK is back… to being the third least preferred option
The UK has slowly climbed up the allocation of Bank of America’s monthly global fund manager survey, now sitting as the third least preferred sector to invest in across the …
How London won round Raspberry Pi
When Raspberry Pi chief Eben Upton boarded a plane to the US late last year, he was 70/30 set on floating his feted computer maker in New York. Upton had …
Why ‘ABC’ should stand for ‘Always buy Chardonnay’
The tide is thankfully turning for the most versatile but maligned grape, Chardonnay. Anyone involved in wine cannot help but wince when someone says they are “ABC” (“Anything But Chardonnay”) …