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Apocaloptimism: How the White House should navigate AI safety
As the most powerful mover in AI on the planet, the US has a responsibility to ensure the technology’s trajectory is both productive and safe.
Quantum computing will redefine geopolitical advantage
In less than a fortnight Sibos 2026 kicks off in Miami, Florida. High on the agenda is how artificial intelligence (AI) will reshape financial services when combined with quantum computing.
The Premier League’s silly season has hit the AI sector
On 5th August 2026, Google’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory, DeepMind, announced a seismic shake-up in its team, with chief executive — and Nobel prize winner — Demis Hassabis stepping back to a role as chair. So vaunted is Hassabis by his contemporaries that the announcement took a 5% bite from the multinational holding company of Google, Alphabet’s share price.
Uganda's off the FATF’s greylist. What now?
Uganda’s removal from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s greylist is a case study in the importance of national anti-money laundering (AML) frameworks, and of the economic exile that ensues if they’re faulty.
Sustainability
Sustainable securities: The promise and the pitfalls
In recent years the shores of sustainable finance have been battered by the choppy waters of geopolitics. Despite a surge in growth, public interest, and market momentum between 2020 and 2022 (a result of progressive policy, disclosure frameworks, and an explosion in environmental, social and governance [ESG] investment products) sustainable finance feels as though it is slowing. From 2022 onwards the energy crisis drove international investment in fossil fuels, and ESG retre
Busting sustainable finance myths: Why Tariq Fancy is only half right on ESG, part 2
Blackrock’s former sustainable investing chief, Tariq Fancy, has made nine key claims against the environmental, social and governance (ESG)
Women’s Equality Day: Working toward gender parity in financial services
It is Women’s Equality Day – and over two years since the publication of the UK government’s last mandatory gender pay gap report, due to co
The fight for afforestation: Fixing finance from the ground up
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest just hit its highest level in over 15 years, despite Brazil – along with 100 other world leaders – pr
Finalist in the Chartered Institute of Journalists' Young Journalist of the Year Awards, 2025
I have been shortlisted in the Young Journalist of the Year 2025 awards
2024 wrapped: The best music of the year
This year has been an inspiring year for music. Here are the songs, albums, and EPs, that had the greatest impact in 2024.
Liam Payne’s legacy: Ban under-18s boybands
In the wake of ex-One Direction member, Liam Payne’s tragic death on 16 October 2024, calls are mounting for better safeguards for artists.
Revisiting Mind Games: A commemoration of Lennon’s 84th Birthday
The 9th October would have marked John Lennon’s 84th birthday. It has been commemorated by the release of a series of Mind Games re-mixes.
Music
In an ever-evolving world of technology, media has reasserted its commitment to accuracy
Against a backdrop of artificial intelligence (AI) proliferation; the creator-fication of news; ad-based streaming; personalised, digital-first ecosystems; and the decline in traditional news viewership, our industry has displayed a remarkable capacity to coalesce around shared, foundational values – in a manner we have not seen for some time.
SLAPP reform deterred by legal sector lobbying
In the Chartered Institute of Journalists' (CIOJ) 2025 Spring Issue of The Journal, I reported on a meeting held in late 2024 by the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition, in Westminster.
Journalism needs an industry-wide response to AI
Journalism evidently needs its own standardised, industry-wide response to the risk of AI-induced plagiarism and misinformation.
Let this be the last BBC charter renewal
On 10th March 2026, the public consultation on the BBC’s charter renewal closes.
The charter, due to expire in December 2027 – with Labour still in office – will be shaped by the responses. Amidst waning public support for the BBC, this is a consequential moment for all those who care about our national broadcaster’s future.
Culture & current affairs
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