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North Korea: The cybercrime state
It is estimated that one third to a half of North Korea’s budget comes from cyberfraud and extortion. Most of these crimes are aimed at the financial services industry, including banks, crypto exchanges, and payments providers.
What is the SaaS-pocalypse?
The SaaS-pocalypse is driven by concerns that agentic AI will bypass software products – sounding the death knell for tech providers unable to adapt.
Why did Elon Musk merge SpaceX and xAI?
On 2 February 2026, SpaceX acquired xAI. The former, Elon Musk’s leading aerospace manufacturing venture, and the latter, his company behind the divisive AI chatbot Grok, make good bedfellows. Not only does this consolidation of the Muskverse create the world's most valuable private company ($1.25 trillion), it will support new opportunities for integrating AI capabilities with space hardware.
What is economic abuse?
According to a new report by the charity Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA), one in six UK women have been affected by economic abuse in the last 12 months. Encompassing the restriction, sabotage, or exploitation of victims’ economic resources, this kind of abuse is most often directed at women by their partners.
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
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.
Media industry leaders convene to discuss the safe and transparent use of AI
On 3 March 2026 leaders of the UK media industry came together for a roundtable to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) can be wielded safely and transparently by journalists.
The roundtable, convened by the Chartered Institute of Journalists (CIoJs), took place this week and explored the CIoJ’s proposal of a Kitemark, which would be given to indicate for audiences if and how a piece of journalism had used AI.
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.
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