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Welcome back to City AM ‘s FTSE 100 live blog. The UK’s blue-chip index made strong gains on Monday morning, jumping more than 0.9 per cent soon after the market open. This follows Tuesday’s strong showing, when the…
If down south then I suspect the answer is much more likely to be no. This is a huge problem. Rugby league has one of the most watchable products in British sport. It is fast, physical, easy to understand and packed with…
"These are elites who are trying to demonstrate that they are being progressive." The target of his scorn was one that has obsessed him for years: the movement to pay reparations for the slave trade, and specifically the…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN-convened body of the world's leading climate scientists, is meeting this week in Addis Ababa to discuss its seventh assessment report, a comprehensive survey of all…
Labour sources concede that Burnham’s tendency to “shoot from the hip” is becoming a problem. Consider his comments on Heathrow expansion , when he said the third runway “is a matter for London” before suggesting he…
Last week, Pablo Hernández de Cos, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, warned that government bond liquidity can dry up suddenly, shrinking fiscal space “well before any limit implied by long-run…
It came as Andy Burnham held talks in Berlin with Friedrich Merz on greater European unity. Today our new PM will tell MPs it will be a “dereliction of duty” to turn down closer ties to the European Union if they can be…
The current term still has almost three years left, Labour has a large majority in Parliament, and, as Theresa May most famously demonstrated in 2017, election campaigns can have unpredictable and unwelcome outcomes.…
Yes, emails and Slack messages are efficient (less so video calls when you’re accidentally on mute) – but actually being around in person to make connections is how the world of business works. In September, I found…
It is now among the world’s most valuable AI businesses, which is a remarkable rise that shows just how quickly speech synthesis has moved from technological curiosity to something approaching the mainstream. But while…