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The great student loans swindle

Vast quantities of student loans will never be repaid, representing a massive subsidy not just to students themselves but to universities. No other...

yesterday 10

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Paul Ormerod

Sadiq Khan has no answers on London’s ailing nightlife

LONDON, ENGLAND – MARCH 29: Cars travel along Shaftesbury Avenue past West End theatres at night on March 29, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by...

previous day 10

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Emma Best

The business case for the King

(Photo by Tim Rooke – WPA Pool/Getty Images) In a cost of living crisis, headlines suggesting that the King is set for a “£45m pay rise”...

previous day 30

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The City View

Square Mile and Me: Berry Bros CEO Emma Fox on retail, her career and wine

Each week we ask a City figure to take a trip down memory lane. Today, Berry Bros CEO Emma Fox, who is also executive director at The City Pub...

previous day 6

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Square Mile And Me

The Debate: Should B Corps cut ties with fossil fuel companies?

Four Havas agencies have lost their B Corp status following the holding group’s global Shell win last year. City A.M.’s weekly feature takes...

previous day 8

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The Debate

Life after prison: Battling homelessness and unemployment

“People do come out of prison, that’s the whole point. So what’s next?” Lucy Kenningham speaks to ex-offender Jason Barnfather Since October...

previous day 5

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Lucy Kenningham

Worst corporate jargon of the week: Disruptor

A wind-up spaghetti fork: a genuine piece of disruptive technology. Offender: Disruptor  Every one of us has been an email chain which is...

previous day 5

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Corporate Jargon

Explainer-in-brief: Caramacs are back! But why are so many chocolate bars going extinct?

“The calls for the return of Caramac were heard loud and clear,” Nestle brand manager Lisa Butterworth said with pride yesterday, as she announced...

wednesday 10

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Explainer

Benefit cap punishes children for their parents’ choices

(Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images) If labour are looking to make savings on the welfare bill, there are plenty of places other than the...

wednesday 4

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The City View

Build, Baby, Build: Heathrow needs a third runway

(Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) London’s lack of air capacity is an international embarrassment. A can-do Labour government should push...

wednesday 1

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James Price

Fiscal prudence? The iron chancellor doth protest too much

Rachel Reeves has styled herself as an “iron chancellor”, promising fiscal constraint and discipline Rachel Reeves’ decision to expand the...

wednesday 3

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Tim Focas

The Notebook: Falling fares spell trouble for airlines while Big Tech set for monster quarter

Where the City’s movers and shakers get a few things off their chest. Today, it’s Victoria Scholar, head of investment at Interactive Investor,...

wednesday 3

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Victoria Scholar

Build, Baby, Build: If you want growth, you need social housing

Key workers are being priced out of renting in London, placing huge human and economic costs on the capital. By recognising the value of social...

wednesday 3

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Build

Tedium alone won’t restore confidence in the economy

Rachel Reeves The theory of Ricardian Equivalence posits that financing public spending out of taxes or borrowing will have the same overall...

23.07.2024 5

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The City View

The Notebook: Too many people are leaving the UK workforce. Here’s how to help

Where the City’s movers and shakers have their say. Today, James Reed, CEO of Reed, takes the pen to talk about the UK workforce and how Labour...

23.07.2024 5

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James Reed

The Crowdstrike disaster was bound to happen. The cloud is a chokepoint in our interconnected world

We’ve come to rely on the cloud, but it’s a chokepoint in the global tech ecosystem Last week, Crowdstrike caused a global tech meltdown due to...

23.07.2024 2

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Opinion

Getting ‘everyone in the room’ won’t cut it, Labour must be ready to cause upset

Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner hosted the first roundtable of England’s metro mayors at Downing Street during their first week in governance....

23.07.2024 2

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James Nation

Explainer: Why has an iron curtain been erected in central Paris?

Security fencing is placed near the South Paris Arena on July 22, 2024 in Paris, France. Olympic security has barricaded central Paris off to all...

23.07.2024 2

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Lucy Kenningham

In defence of hereditary peers

Like the Bene Gesserit in the Dune franchise, hereditary peers measure their plans in centuries, leading to a class of legislators invested in...

23.07.2024 1

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Andrew Lomas

GB Energy is more rooted in ‘big state’ ideology than climate ambition

Labour had clearly signalled throughout the election campaign that climate action would be a priority Conservatives need to hold Labour...

23.07.2024 1

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Sam Hall

Renationalisation won’t get our railways back on track

Slow, crowded and expensive, there’s no doubt our railways need a major overhaul – but it’s far from clear that Great British Railways is the...

23.07.2024 10

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Emma Revell

Is America’s ‘woke backlash’ a warning?

“Hot damn, I love you guys,” said billionaire entrepreneur Musk on Thursday after shareholders approved his $56bn pay package. With Microsoft...

22.07.2024 2

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Eliot Wilson

Don’t let green dogma get in the way of climate science

(Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images) Activists including Greta Thunberg have shut down a key research project into geoengineering — a...

22.07.2024 5

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Bjorn Lomborg

How to be a Super Yimby – and help fix Britain’s housing crisis

Labour has announced exciting new plans for 1.5m desperately needed new homes, but some are determined to get in the way. Here’s City A.M.’s guide...

22.07.2024 3

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Anna Moloney

The Notebook: Nuclear power continues to divide, but we need to think about the future

Sizewell B nuclear power station (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) Where the City’s top thinkers get a few things off their chest. Today, Kokou...

22.07.2024 4

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Kokou Agbo Bloua

The Thames is a gateway to growth

From water bailiffs to maritime finance, the river connects London’s past to its future, says Michael Mainelli What have the Romans ever done for...

22.07.2024 1

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Michael Mainelli

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