The Leader podcast: London gripped by decade’s biggest strikes Plus, the devastating impact on Gen Covid’s education Evening Standard · Feb 1, 2023
Columbia University names Nemat 'Minouche' Shafik as first woman president NEW YORK — Columbia University has named Nemat “Minouche” Shafik its 20th president — and the first woman to run the school in its 268-year history, the university announced Wednesday. Tribune News Service · Jan 18, 2023
Journalists step in where platforms have no answers Google and Facebook are hoping to improve their news algorithms to provide a more balanced view. Media industry initiatives could have the solution they need. 360info · Jan 15, 2023
Architecture: Rowan Moore’s five best projects of 2022 Playful, elegant additions to universities and colleges were the class acts to follow, while the newly opened Elizabeth line exceeded all design expectations The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2022
Microsoft takes £1.5bn stake in historic London Stock Exchange and signs tech deal THE LONDON Stock Exchange Group made a major step towards the digital world today, signing a 10-year commercial deal with Microsoft which in turn takes a £1.5 billion stake in a business that goes back to 1801. Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2022
The remote work revolution has only arrived for the ‘metropolitan elite,’ major new study argues The remote work revolution is leaving behind the working class, and could make life much harder for non-remote workers, LSE researchers found. Fortune · Dec 6, 2022
Swati Dhingra of the Bank of England: ‘Are we going to end up deepening the recession?’ In her first interview since joining the monetary policy committee, Britain’s newest interest-rate setter warns inflation is not the biggest threat to the economy – because ‘the slowdown is here’ The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2022
Brexit added nearly £6bn to UK food bills in two years, research finds Cost of food imported from EU rose because of extra red tape, with poorest most affected The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2022
Finance employees see the future of work as hybrid, a study finds A study by Women in Banking and Finance and the London School of Economics focuses on finance professionals in the U.K. Fortune · Nov 29, 2022
China on march as Oxford marks 7th year running as top university The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 rate 1,799 institutions from 104 countries Evening Standard · Oct 12, 2022
Bank of England delays interest rate decision due to royal mourning, as businesses and unions pay respects – as it happened Interest rate decision delayed, and TUC Congress postponed, as businesses, unions and investors mourns death of Queen Elizabeth The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2022
Jude Howell obituary Other lives: Academic expert on labour relations in China and professor of development studies at the LSE The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2022
‘The kind of place planners have dreamed of’: the London Olympics site 10 years on Anish Kapoor’s big red tower remains a spectacular eyesore, but 10 years on from the 2012 Games, the old railway lands of Stratford are a largely thriving new urban district that few other host cities can rival The Guardian - UK · Jul 24, 2022
SoftBank ‘halts plans’ for Arm’s London listing amid political instability Loss of UK chip designer’s flotation would jeopardise capital’s attempt to prove it can compete against US The Guardian - UK · Jul 19, 2022
Evening Standard · Jul 8, 2022 West End Final: Tory leadership shortlist in 12 days, Shinzo Abe assassinated There is shocking news from Japan, where the former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been killed while campaigning. The likeable and energetic Abe was making a speech when he was attacked by a gunman. It is a terrible moment and has prompted tributes from the Prime Minister down. For those…
Evening Standard · Jun 23, 2022 Six years on, the greatest legacy of Brexit is the lies that will outlast Boris Johnson We do not talk about Brexit any more. So it is easy to forget about the origins of a damaging trend of lying and denial in politics. They in fact go further back than Johnson’s premiership, to a vote in 2016, and to the cynical falsehoods told by the Leave…
The Hindu · Jun 23, 2022 Law is an aspiration for change: Justice Chandrachud “Law is an aspiration for change and the answers one gets are based on how the discourse is framed,” said Justice D Y Chandrachud, who is slated to become the Chief Justice of India in November, during a lecture titled ‘India@75’ in London.
The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2022 Brexit is making cost of living crisis worse, new study claims EU withdrawal fuelling higher import costs and costing British workers nearly £500 a year, says Resolution Foundation
The Guardian - UK · May 12, 2022 Swati Dhingra to join Bank of England’s monetary policy committee LSE academic and prominent Brexit critic is first Asian woman to be appointed to role, replacing Michael Saunders
The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2022 Brexit has caused UK food prices to rise 6% as cost of living crisis deepens, study says Trade friction has ‘clear and robust’ impact on supermarket prices, say economists
The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2022 Brexit has devastated UK exports to smaller EU countries, study says LSE finds one-third decline in trading relationships under Boris Johnson’s deal – which has hit small firms hardest
Daily Mirror · Apr 26, 2022 Brexit 'major shock' hits UK as imports from EU fall 25% in first year of deal A major study, which claims to be the most comprehensive yet, found imports from the EU to UK fell by 25% relative to those from elsewhere. The impact was smaller on exports to Europe
Birmingham Post · Apr 1, 2022 Springing a career move - 35 appointments not to miss on the Humber Our latest careers update from the Humber region
Evening Standard · Mar 22, 2022 London Stock Exchange eyes private companies to drive growth An interview with Mike McCudden of CrowdX
The Guardian - UK · Mar 20, 2022 The Marshall Building, London review – brutalist brilliance The LSE’s new £145m project is a triumph of multipurpose design, be it for study, work, sport or music, and whose playful asymmetries only add character to its structural heft