City of London

City Boy Made Famous By £200k Bar Bill 'Arrested'

The Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 04.04.2012 | UK

A city boy made famous after spending £203,948 on the bar at a Birmingham night club has reportedly been arrested for "unauthorised" trading. Alex...

Cable: Banks Have 'Imperilled' UK's Recovery

PA | Posted 07.05.2012 | UK Politics

Business Secretary Vince Cable tonight launched a new onslaught on the banks, accusing them of "imperilling" Britain's economic recovery. Cable use...

Barclays Boss Tipped To Earn £4m Bonus This Week

PA | Posted 04.05.2012 | UK

Barclays will reignite anger over bankers' bonuses this week when it reveals a total pay-out of up to £4 million for its boss Bob Diamond. Its chi...

#SpringIsComing: The Evictions of Occupy London Show the Authorities are Scared

Adam Jung | Posted 30.04.2012 | UK Politics
Adam Jung

The City of London police have carried out illegal evictions before in a futile attempt to stem the Occupy movement, but the sinister pre-dawn demolition of the school building shows the government getting more desperate to end the extra-parliamentary movements against forced austerity.

Let's Challenge Some of the Lazy Media Myths Propogated by Coverage of the Occupy Movement

Sean Faye | Posted 29.04.2012 | UK
Sean Faye

The most benign of the viewers' emails and texts being read out on Sky News and the BBC during and in the immediate aftermath of the occupation were expressing variations on a belief that the eviction was the appropriate course of action because the protest proved itself inefficacious.

HSBC - Massive Profits And Big Bonuses Coming Tomorrow

PA | Posted 27.04.2012 | UK

Profits of more than £14 billion and a pay package worth up to £12.5 million for its chief executive are set to be revealed by HSBC tomorrow. Cit...

Liddington Explains Why Cameron Vetoed The EU Treaty (sort of)

The Huffington Post UK | Asa Bennett | Posted 24.02.2012 | UK Politics

Europe Minister David Lidington has revealed the “unprecedented [and] severe reservations” held by the UK during last year’s talks to solve the ...

Nicolas Sarkozy Proposes Financial Transaction Tax

Posted 30.01.2012 | UK

French president Nicolas Sarkozy has raised the stakes in Europe-wide discussions over a "Robin Hood" tax on financial transactions ahead of a meeting...

Stephen Hester To Waive RBS Bonus Payment

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 30.03.2012 | UK

Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Stephen Hester is to waive his 2011 bonus, the bank said on Sunday night. In doing so, Hester will not take...

Labour To Force Commons Vote On RBS Bonus

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.03.2012 | UK Politics

Labour will force a Commons vote calling for Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Stephen Hester to be stripped of his bonus, a party source said to...

Paying Hester's Bonus IS 'Protecting Taxpayer', Says Treasury

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.03.2012 | UK

The Government was "protecting the taxpayer" by allowing the Royal Bank of Scotland bonus for chief executive Stephen Hester to go ahead, the Chief Se...

Pressure Mounts On Sir Stephen Hester To Waive Bonus

PA/The Huffington Post | Posted 29.01.2012 | UK

The chief executive of the taxpayer-funded Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is facing mounting pressure to follow the bank's chairman and waive his bonus ...

Occupy London Take Over Former Bank

PA/The Huffington Post | Posted 27.01.2012 | UK

The Occupy London protesters have taken over a former bank in the City of London, a spokeswoman for the group said on Friday. The branch of the Ira...

Someone Else Who Shouldn't Get A Bonus? Cameron Urged To Intervene

PA/The Huffington Post | Posted 22.03.2012 | UK Politics

Labour leader Ed Miliband has called on David Cameron to block any million pound-plus bonus payout to the chief executive of the predominantly state-o...

Where Have They Occupied Now?

Posted 22.03.2012 | UK

The Occupy London activist group has claimed to have taken over another site in the city's financial centre, but the building's owner has warned it is...

Cameron Outlines His 'Moral Capitalism' Vision. Sound Familiar?

PA/The Huffington Post | Posted 19.01.2012 | UK Politics

David Cameron set out his vision for "moral capitalism" in a major speech on the economy on Thursday. He suggested transparency to help stem the wo...

The Rights and Wrongs of Booing KPMG

David Ritter | Posted 17.03.2012 | UK
David Ritter

If Twitter is to be believed (yes I know, I know) then there was a bit of a kerfuffle at the Fabians New Year Conference on the weekend when - it is claimed - accountancy giant KPMG was spontaneously booed by the crowd.

There's Nothing Odd About Me, Insists Miliband

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 15.03.2012 | UK Politics

Labour leader Ed Miliband has defended Labour's pledges on public spending, after a week when the party has tried to reposition its economic policy. ...

Cameron Hints At Curbs For Fat Cat Executives

PA | Posted 08.03.2012 | UK Politics

David Cameron backed powers for shareholders to veto executive pay packages as political pressure to curb vast salaries and bonuses gathered pace. ...

Occupy Court Battle Begins As City Aims To Evict Protesters From St. Paul's

PA | Posted 17.02.2012 | UK

A legal bid to remove the anti-capitalist protesters camped outside St Paul's Cathedral is beginning at the High Court. The contested possession pr...

Europe: Adding a Democratic Crisis to an Economic One?

Ruth Fox | Posted 13.02.2012 | UK Politics
Ruth Fox

Britain may have wielded its first ever veto in defence of the financial institutions in the City of London last week but an even bigger national, indeed universal interest, was also at stake: the very concept of parliamentary democracy itself.

Cameron Veto Has Harmed City's Interests, Business Chiefs Say

Huffington Post UK | Posted 12.12.2011 | UK

British business leaders have reacted angrily to David Cameron's decision to use his veto against an EU treaty. Although the prime minister said he...

The Eurozone Crisis - Still No Strategy and Still No Real Fix

Jim Cowan | Posted 10.02.2012 | UK Politics
Jim Cowan

Last week, following Jacques Delors' criticism of the flawed process behind the creation of the Euro, I looked at how solving the Eurozone Crisis was being handicapped by an absence of sound leadership and good strategy. The article (The Eurozone Crisis - The Management of the Continuation of Mediocrity by the Unaware) closed with the following paragraph:

David Cameron Barked Up the Wrong Euro Tree

Adnan Al-Daini | Posted 10.02.2012 | UK Politics
Adnan Al-Daini

Could one do the right thing for the wrong reasons? Yes. Does it matter that it is for the wrong reasons? It does, if it shows a mindset from which ...

Kamikaze Cameron?

Margaret Daly | Posted 10.02.2012 | UK Politics
Margaret Daly

This is not the end. Cameron's misguided decision must be reversed.