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Finance & technology
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?
Mounting geopolitical tensions underscore the need for public cloud diversification
US-based public cloud service providers – particularly the ‘big three’, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) – capture a substantial portion of the global cloud market; with some estimates reaching almost 85%.
NextGen Nordics 2025: Leveraging Data and AI on Europe's regulatory landscape
A busy morning and afternoon at NextGen Nordics were rounded off with a keynote presentation by Dr. Igor Mate, Director, Data Privacy and Digital Regulation at Permobil and Co-Chair, Connect Communities.
Fighting fire with fire: The imperative of AI-based fraud prevention
From deepfakes to artificial intelligence (AI)-powered biometric bypasses, the ways fraudsters are leveraging technology are evolving fast.
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
"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
To ESG or not to ESG? Britain’s ‘Big Four’ banks buck the trend of DEI retreat
A counterbalance to claims of trans-Atlantic ESG de-prioritisation, Finextra’s investigation into the UK’s top financial institutions prove that some industries are keeping ESG front of mind.
Letter to The Guardian editor
In response to 6th September article by Dan Sabbagh: West’s support for missile strikes on Russian forces is waning – Zelensky
Culture & current affairs
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