The City quietly gave up competing for regional bank headquarters and started winning something else instead A Decade On, The City Is Still Here, Just Different By Chelsea Bloom. Nearly ten years after the Brexit referendum, Bloomberg’s own retrospective analysis concludes what most people working […]
Two Thirds Of Financial Services Jobs Now Sit Outside London, And That Is Genuinely Good News For The Capital
London’s economic gravity increasingly pulls jobs into the rest of the country, not just into itself London’s Success Is Increasingly Measured Somewhere Else Entirely By Chelsea Bloom. A statistic worth sitting with properly: two thirds of financial services jobs at London-headquartered firms now sit outside […]
Construction Output Is Up, But London’s Housing Numbers Still Do Not Add Up Properly
A 1.6 percent national rise masks a capital still building nowhere near what it actually needs A Modest National Rise, A Persistent Local Shortfall By Chelsea Bloom. National construction output rose by 1.6 percent in the three months to May, a genuinely welcome if modest […]
AI Adoption Could Genuinely Transform London’s Service Economy, If The Skills Gap Gets Closed First
Every growth forecast for the capital now has an AI caveat attached, and the caveat is doing a lot of work The Upside Is Real. So Is The Fine Print. By Chelsea Bloom. Every recent forecast I have read on London’s economic growth trajectory now […]
London IPOs Nearly Trebled Last Year, So Why Does The City Still Sound Nervous
Proceeds are up, confidence is up, and yet everyone I speak to keeps hedging their optimism Good Numbers, Cautious Voices By Chelsea Bloom. Total proceeds from London IPOs nearly trebled in 2025 compared to the year before, and a run of larger transactions toward the […]
The 20 Best Satirical News Sites In The World, Ranked By People Who Read A P&L Statement For Fun
A global satire league table, evaluated with the same rigour usually reserved for a quarterly board pack Running a media business teaches you to spot value where the spreadsheet says there shouldn’t be any, which is roughly the same skill required to appreciate a satirical […]