City of London Articles

The abolition, in a fit of pique, of the Greater London Council by Margaret Thatcher robbed London of a much-needed level of strategic government for nearly 20 years. So, when Labour brought in the London mayoralty in 2000, it rectified the result of a huge error of...

With the coalition facing growing criticism for its failure to get to grips with city crime, Labour’s policy review on tackling serious fraud and white collar crime, announced last week, makes welcome reading. In the past few years the United Kingdom has unfortunately...

This government never tires of saying that it was formed in a moment of economic crisis. Yet three-quarters of positive growth had then been secured. Now we teeter on the brink of an unprecedented triple-dip recession. The government decided, two years into their...

EU commissioner Viviane Reding has made waves in the news this week, proposing a 40 per cent quota of women on boards for listed companies. Whilst the directive contains enough holes that it won’t have a huge impact in the UK, it has meant another week of business...