FTSE 100 scores best year since 2009 and outperforms Wall Street Mining, defence, and finance shares led the charge with significant gains over 2025. Evening Standard · Dec 31, 2025
Gen Alpha won’t ever have to write an email when they join the workforce, new research reveals—they’ll be sending voice notes to their boss instead LSE researchers say Gen Alpha will talk, not type at work—they predict that voice notes will make keyboard practically obsolete by 2030. Fortune · Nov 7, 2025
Tinned tuna maker Princes floats at nearly £1.2bn in boost for London Business secretary calls IPO ‘huge vote of confidence’ but shares are launched at bottom end of target range The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2025
London stock market boost as beauty group lists and tinned fish brand confirms IPO plan Beauty Tech Group picks London for £300m offering while Princes Group, with £2.1bn turnover, also plans possible £1.5bn listing The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2025
Oxford, Cambridge No Longer Part of Top 3 Universities in the UK: Who Took Their Place? Oxford & Cambridge out of UK's top 3 for first time in Sunday Times Guide 2025—LSE leads, St Andrews & Durham rise International Business Times UK · Sep 23, 2025
Oxford and Cambridge pushed out of top three UK university rankings for first time It’s the first time neither have held a place in the top three in the 32 years the Times guide has been running The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2025
London School of Economics named UK's top university as Oxbridge pushed out of top three for first time London School of Economics held onto the top spot, and Durham was named university of the year 2026 Evening Standard · Sep 19, 2025
Starmer names former Bank deputy governor as his chief economic adviser Minouche Shafik quit Columbia University after controversy over anti-Israel protests on New York campus The Guardian - UK · Aug 29, 2025
AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2025
Boost for London Stock Exchange as £35bn mining company U-turns on move to US Glencore said earlier this year they were headed Stateside - but valuation concerns have prompted a rethink The Independent UK · Aug 6, 2025
Help wanted: Reeves seeks heavyweight economic advisers as budget looms Chancellor under pressure to recruit new experts as John Van Reenen and Anna Valero return to academia The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2025
If AstraZeneca goes to the US, it will be a major blow for London and Labour Move would deprive LSE of its biggest star and could topple a key pillar of the government’s industrial strategy The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2025
Rise in legal challenges over carbon credit schemes Scrutiny of how companies plan to meet climate commitments is growing, with many successful legal challenges The Guardian - UK · Jun 25, 2025
Drug maker Indivior to abandon London stock market for the US Indivior’s exit comes after the company moved its primary listing to the US’s Nasdaq index last year. Evening Standard · Jun 2, 2025
The Guardian - UK · Apr 29, 2025 Letter: Leonard Leigh obituary Jim Reynolds writes: I appreciated his gentle persuasion to join in class discussions
The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2025 Diana Ellis obituary Other lives: Barrister specialising in criminal and international law who in the 1960s was one of the ‘London Recruits’
The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2025 Leonard Leigh obituary Writer, barrister and member of the Criminal Cases Review Commission who investigated claims of miscarriages of justice
Evening Standard · Mar 9, 2025 Israeli ambassador attacks London School of Economics over Hamas ‘propaganda’ book launch Tzipi Hotovely claims students could be influenced by author’s whitewashing of Hamas’s October 7 attacks
The Independent UK · Mar 6, 2025 Discord and Klarna are suddenly set for stock market listings worth billions - these companies could be next The two companies are discussing going public in America - but several IPOs could take place in London this year too
Evening Standard · Feb 26, 2025 LSE: Top London uni criticised over book launch event describing Hamas as 'demonised' London School of Economics defends decision to hold book launch describing Hamas as ‘vilified’ and ‘demonised’ by the West
The Independent UK · Feb 19, 2025 London Stock Exchange could lose biggest company yet as £40bn mining giant considers US move Glencore could follow Ashtead and Flutter with a primary delisting from the UK markets
The Conversation · Feb 18, 2025 Shein could be a shot in the arm for the London Stock Exchange – but the fashion giant might not like the added scrutiny Fast fashion giant Shein’s mooted flotation on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) could be larger than any stock exchange listing seen in Europe in the last year. Coming at a time when the LSE is struggling to attract new listings, with some firms migrating to other exchanges, this could be…
The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2025 How Trump and the new right came to ‘own’ the future – while apparently exploiting the past The centre left’s failure has left a vacuum that’s been filled by those offering hope, rather than a technocratic status quo, says the LSE’s Jonathan White
The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2025 Henry Wynn obituary Other lives: Statistics professor whose research is used for the study of phenomena such as weather and climate change
The Guardian - UK · Jan 24, 2025 ‘I was a multimillionaire, I had a beautiful girlfriend, I was unhappy’: the ups and downs of a supertrader Gary Stevenson grew up poor, got rich in the City – then found himself wrestling with depression. Now he says he’s the only person on the left who really understands the British economy – and the people who wield the power