Westminster insider or local champion? Choosing who gets on the ballot paper is harder than you’d think, says John Oxley There’s a little over 24 hours left until the first …
June 2024
Salt tears won’t wash: why those viral charity campaigns aren’t all they seem
From Carly Burd’s salted allotment to Captain Tom, social media charity campaigns are ripe for exploitation. The regulator needs to wade in and people need to wise up about who …
The Tiktok election: Can memes really move the polls?
Labour and the Conservatives have been throwing their best memes at each other, but will Tiktok actually sway the election? Anna Moloney investigates In Cleavage, the new ‘bonkbuster’ novel from …
Worst (political) jargon of the week: Cut through
At City A.M., we’ve long been fighting the evil misuse of language. But to mark election season, we’ve decided to venture out of the comfort of corporatopia and into the …
Mark Kleinman: Next government faces unholy trinity
Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and is the man that gets the City talking in his weekly City A.M. column. This week he tackles the next government’s Thames …
Robinhood UK chief: Our Gamestop customers have ‘matured’
Every week, Charlie Conchie sits down with the biggest name in tech, fintech and financial services. This week, it’s Robinhood’s UK president, Jordan Sinclair. Jordan Sinclair is a man with …
Square Mile and Me – The Bank of London CEO Anthony Watson: It’s still revolutionary to be visibly gay in banking
Each week we ask a City figure to take a trip down memory lane. Today, Anthony Watson CBE, CEO of The Bank of London and LGBT rights activist, tells us …
R&D investment must be key priority for next government, audit body urges
The next government should boost research and development (R&D) investment and help smaller firms access finance as part of a broader strategy to spur economic growth, a leading business group …
FTSE 100 today: UK stocks set to open higher as rate cut odds strengthen; ECB in focus
Moving markets today: Asian markets rally with Wall Street surge, oil prices soar; Nvidia surpasses Apple with $3 trillion value; ECB policy decision in spotlight The US stock market saw …
Remembering D-Day is an exercise in not forgetting Ukraine
It has become something of a cottage industry in academia, and polite society, to denigrate the achievements of the past. And national myth-making deserves scrutiny, for it forces us to …