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Domestic policies are choking UK businesses

Businesses know all too well that unrelenting feeling. A decade of constant cost pressures from domestic policy decisions has been hugely damaging. It’s a cost stack that is choking business growth. Before a pound of…

London’s Square Mile needs its own major sports venue to keep up with rivals

Picture the scene: it’s just hit 5:30pm on a sunny Thursday evening in the office. You and your colleagues look around for something to do. What are the options? For hacks at City AM the options are: the Oyster Shed, the…

How to make the most of your tax-free allowances in the 2026/27 tax year

For instance, you can put £20,000 into tax-sheltered ISAs each tax year, and you won’t have to pay tax on any interest or investment returns earned on it. Each allowance has its own rules, and they can be difficult to…

Josh Kerr took the mile record. But how much further can we go?

True, the cricketers lost the series 2-1 to New Zealand, but the football team did after all make the semi-final of the World Cup , which cements us as one the world’s top sides. It is in athletics where our boys and…

The UK’s cost stack is choking business growth

Much of the UK has faced a summer of sweltering temperatures as the country has bounced from one unrelenting heatwave to another. Businesses know all too well that unrelenting feeling. A decade of constant cost pressures…

Todd Boehly and Mark Walter to sell stakes in Chelsea?

The move could value the club at £5.5bn just years after a Boehly-fronted consortium purchased the club for £4.25bn – including promised funds for stadium developments – from the sanctioned Roman Abramovich . And it…

Film commission backs Amazon MGM expansion of Berkshire studios

The previous owner of the studios got planning permission to expand them in 2022 and Amazon MGM bought the site in 2024. The British Film Commission (BFC) said it "recognises that the studio benefits from Amazon MGM's…

Ministers drop plan to relax affordable housing rules after negative response

The government said on Monday it would not go ahead with proposals to end affordable housing quotas for private builders on sites containing between 10 and 49 houses after a consultation triggered an overwhelmingly…

Virgin Trains a step closer to running services to Europe in blow to Eurostar

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said it had given approval for Richard Branson's company to run as many as 20 daily return services using the High Speed 1 line that runs between London St Pancras and the Channel…

We take a food and drink Odyssey through the Square Mile

Vote for your favourites on our website here . As The Odyssey continues to smash records – it’s now Christopher Nolan’s highest ever grossing film – I thought I would take an odyssey of my own through the Square Mile and…