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Politicians don’t understand housing and asylum seekers will pay the price

The government wants to temporarily scrap HMO licensing for asylum seekers' accommodation. It risks creating a set of dangerous sub-standard homes...

yesterday 10

City A.M.

Elena Siniscalco

Confusion is the keyword for UK bonds as financial markets’ confidence fades

Financial markets have the jitters on UK bonds - and this is partially the fault of government debt, and partially the fault of the country's lack...

yesterday 10

City A.M.

Elena Siniscalco

The UK government needs equity stakes in AI firms to truly safeguard its citizens

To ensure AI is scrutinised, the UK government should accept some intervention is needed and take on equity stakes in artificial intelligence firms...

yesterday 7

City A.M.

Elena Siniscalco

The west forgot about Crimea. It cannot forget about the rest of Ukraine

It is perhaps easy to become fatigued by news of the war in Ukraine. It is now fifteen months since Vladimir Putin’s tanks rolled over the...

yesterday 5

City A.M.

Andy Silvester

Will nobody rid me of these troublesome ordering screens?

It used to be so simple. But now ordering lunch in the City has become an exercise in technological frustration and irrational anger. The post Will...

yesterday 10

City A.M.

Andy Silvester

Explainer: Why Erdoğan refuses to let Sweden join NATO

This is a big week in foreign policy. Rishi Sunak is preparing for his trip to Moldova tomorrow, to attend the European Political Community Summit,...

yesterday 3

City A.M.

Elena Siniscalco

Scrap the tourist tax hurting our hospitality businesses or lose out to Paris and Madrid

Tourism is incredibly important for London, but to keep London important for tourism, we have to make it more attractive for foreign visitors to...

previous day 10

City A.M.

Sascha Osullivan

There’s an app about to do to workplaces what social media did to British politics

If you haven’t heard of Fishbowl, chances are your colleagues are already using the app - a bizarre combination of LinkedIn and Reddit - to air...

previous day 1

City A.M.

Eliza Filby

Police Scotland wants to teach the Met a lesson in understanding its racist cops

The outgoing boss of the Police Scotland has labelled the force ‘institutionally racist’, but the Met police won’t admit the same failing,...

previous day 8

City A.M.

Sascha Osullivan

The “shy capitalists” want more of their own money, not toxic culture wars

Forget Mondeo Man or Basildon Barry, there’s a new electoral figure on the scene: the ‘shy capitalist’ millennial. That, at least, is the...

previous day 1

City A.M.

Andy Silvester

A tribute to Martin Amis: ‘He wanted time itself to flow backwards’

Last weekend Martin Amis died in Fort Worth, Florida at the age of 73 – the same age as his father Sir Kingsley Amis – of a disease I hadn’t...

28.05.2023 1

City A.M.

Christopher Jackson

If we want to cut immigration, we have to be honest about the trade-offs

From our universities, to our health service and the productivity of our economy, cutting immigration would change the structure of all of these...

26.05.2023 3

City A.M.

Sascha Osullivan

Extending ULEZ is making criminals out of the leftie middle-class

I’m as middle-class and suburban as it gets in London, but locals are planning a rebellion against ULEZ. The post Extending ULEZ is making...

26.05.2023 30

City A.M.

Sascha Osullivan

Our girls still aren’t confident to pursue careers as scientists and mathematicians

The older girls get in high school, the less likely they are to pursue maths and science subjects, writes Kara Lynch, a nuclear physicist at the...

26.05.2023 10

City A.M.

Kara Lynch

The only way to get staff back to the office? Tell them to turn up and do it yourself

Culture is not pilates at lunch or free fruit in the office; is the way bosses and employees come together, share ideas and create things. Sharing...

25.05.2023 2

City A.M.

Elena Siniscalco

Why are the Conservatives still so unimaginative on immigration figures?

The current immigration system has meant less foreign workers filling up low paid roles, and no special treatment for people from the EU. But it...

25.05.2023 20

City A.M.

Elena Siniscalco

Khan hasn’t used his powers to help the City, so he begs for more and blames SW1

Being the Mayor means taking responsibility and constantly making the case for London; that includes leading the way in supporting its vibrant...

25.05.2023 2

City A.M.

Elena Siniscalco

Explainer: An increasingly short temper for Just Stop Oil protesters 

The number of climate protests up and down the country, but especially in London, is undoubtedly increasing. Today, three Just Stop Oil activists...

25.05.2023 1

City A.M.

Elena Siniscalco

If no-one makes a positive case for immigration, don’t be surprised when its opponents triumph

Today will see the publication of immigration stats which, most likely, will show that the UK’s net migration level has hit a new record. Yes,...

25.05.2023 1

City A.M.

Andy Silvester

The Notebook: Talking down the City? Not a bit of it in this newspaper

One of the delights of this job is the ability to sit down with people from across the Square Mile and ask them very simple questions. One of the...

25.05.2023 1

City A.M.

Lucy Kenningham

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