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The Boldspace Outlook: Financial Services Journalism
What does the future of journalism look like as a result of AI? In focusing on change, do we risk overlooking principles that underpin the ways that journalists and communications professionals work together?
The AI bubble: Is Nvidia artificially engineering chip demand?
Nvidia, among others, has been accused of working to artificially engineer demand, by investing in firms like Mistral, Figure AI, and xAI – which, in turn, redeploy some of the venture capital to buy Nvidia’s chips.
Crypto’s embrace of extremism risks derailing legitimate economic progress
A global pattern is emerging: extreme right-wing organisations and state actors are using cryptocurrencies to make clandestine donations to likeminded political movements.
The British boss-tech rise
Is boss-tech merely a means to modernise the age-old clock-punch process, or does it herald something more draconian for the already-dampened UK labour market?
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
CIoJ says AI 'kitemark' would support readers' confidence
I am proud to have worked alongside the Chartered Institute of Journalists' council to formulate an industry announcement pushing for the use of a ‘kitemark’ to signify when AI has been used by journalists.
60 years after Churchill: Emma Soames reflects on a journalistic legacy
On 14th October, Sir Winston Churchill's granddaughter, esteemed editor and author, Emma Soames, gave a keynote speech at the Chartered Institute of Journalists’ 2025 AGM, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the great statesman’s passing.
"Mapping the world is always a compromise": My letter to The Guardian
The article doesn’t acknowledge that the surface of a sphere cannot be represented on a plane without distortion. This was proved mathematically by Carl Friedrich Gauss in the early 1800s...
This is what healthy public debate and press freedom look like - log it
Whatever you make of the Home Secretary's proscription of Palestine Action, here is an example of how significant political disagreement - at the national level - can be hashed out
Culture & current affairs
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