By Ron Delnevo, ATMIA Executive Director Europe Earlier this year figures were published by the Payments Council purporting to show the demise of coins and notes and the rise of the ‘cashless society’. The figures concluded that 48 per cent of payments were made in cash, with the remaining 52...
By Steve Taggart A recent report released by Green Park has revealed that the number of FTSE 100 executive directors of ethnic minority has dropped from six to four in the past year. Researchers carrying out the study from Green Park have identified this extreme imbalance as a so-called ‘diversity...
By Ahmed Al-Ansari, property consultant at Morgan Pryce, London commercial property experts As rents have soared on the wings of rising demand and been boosted by the lack of supply, many businesses have, over the last few years, taken certain strategic decisions when it came to their headquarters. So what...
By Alex Kontos Alex argues that we need to think hard about the future of the internet “It’s not ok not to understand the internet anymore,” declared Martha Lane Fox in her Richard Dimbleby lecture in March. She is right. The internet is virtually omnipresent in our lives these days,...
By Steve Taggart Google has rebranded itself as Alphabet - a new holding company whose largest wholly owned subsidiary will be Google, and social media management platform Falcon Social have studied Twitter's reaction to the shock news. If that wasn't enough Larry Page and Sergey Brin Google's co-founders, handed control...
By Rob Foster @futuresinfinite Inequality: What can be done? by Anthony Atkinson, published by Harvard University Press Civic Capitalism by Colin Hay & Anthony Payne, published by Polity Press Issues of economic inequality continue to be at the forefront of much of the political discourse in the UK and beyond....
By Dr Robin George Andrews @SquigglyVolcano & Dr Alfredo Carpineti @DrCarpineti The opposition to genetically modified food is irrational, and when governments who should know better ban it without cause, scientists must speak up. Scotland’s rural secretary has just announced that the growing of genetically modified crops will be banned in the...
By Sharon Jones, Senior Tutor at Bolton Sixth Form College and Club Poet at Bacup Borough Fc. Sharon runs a Football Poetry Workshops in schools, libraries, community centres, and you can find me @BBFCClubPoet and www.barbfc.co.uk Arsenal The Professor Resplendent in FA Cup glory Yet Gunners salivate for the source Of Premier Silverware...
Sport News 24/7 The London Economic’s Noy Shani brings you a selection of the week’s oddest, most promising and uplifting sports stories from around the globe. @TLE_sport @NoyShani A new Brazilian Holiday Remember Brazil's highly embarrassing loss to Germany in the Semi Final of the World Cup just over a...