• Newslinks for Tuesday 8th November 2011

    Updated: 2011-11-08 08:26:52

  • London City workers criticize pay gaps, declining ethics – St Paul’s poll

    Updated: 2011-11-07 17:03:04
    Most London City workers believe there is too great a gap between rich and poor in Britain and that traders, company bosses and stockbrokers are paid too much, a survey by a think-tank linked to St Paul's cathedral said on Monday.

  • Newslinks for Monday 7th November 2011

    Updated: 2011-11-07 08:37:00

  • Former top London banker sees moral disaster in market economy

    Updated: 2011-11-06 21:21:24
    A former top London banker, weighing into a protest movement in Britain against abuses and excesses of modern capitalism, said on Sunday the market economy had lost "its moral foundations with disastrous consequences."

  • Newslinks for Sunday 6th November 2011

    Updated: 2011-11-06 09:01:30

  • PM not my boss: Scots Tory leader

    Updated: 2011-11-05 13:47:49
    The new Tory leader in Scotland has distanced herself from London control by insisting David Cameron is not the party boss north of the border.

  • Newslinks for Saturday 5th November 2011

    Updated: 2011-11-05 09:00:10

  • Raising breast cancer awareness

    Updated: 2011-11-04 21:52:53
    We can never tell when our lives may be touched by cancer.

  • Tuition fees and bullying on youth agenda

    Updated: 2011-11-04 10:41:18
    The UK youth parliament will meet in Westminster today to debate topics chosen by their peers.

  • Ireland to shut Vatican embassy in financial crisis cost overhaul

    Updated: 2011-11-03 21:17:39
    Ireland will close its embassy to the Vatican, one of the Catholic country's oldest missions, as part of a cost-cutting programme prompted by the country's EU-IMF bailout.

  • Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral in London resigns over Occupy protest

    Updated: 2011-10-31 21:21:42
    A second senior British cleric resigned on Monday over accusations that Church of England authorities were dithering in their handling of an anti-capitalism protest camp outside St Paul's Cathedral in central London.

  • United speculation grows as Solskjaer secures first Molde title

    Updated: 2011-10-31 14:11:12
    No sooner had Molde stumbled across the finish line to win their first Norwegian league title in their hundred-year history than the speculation had started. Would Molde coach and former Manchester United striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer be the man to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at the English champions when the 69-year-old finally decides to retire?

  • London Anglican cleric quits over “occupy” protest at St Paul’s cathedral

    Updated: 2011-10-28 01:37:05
    The Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral in London has resigned after a row among church and local authorities over whether to try to evict a 200-tent protest camp occupying the square outside.

  • FH Podcast: Journalists & Digital #4 – Ian Wishart of the European Voice

    Updated: 2011-10-27 17:34:31
    Continuing our occasional series on how Brussels journalists use social media, today we feature an interview with Ian Wishart of the European Voice. Ian talks about how – as a new arrival in Brussels – Twitter helped him navigate the Brussels maze. He also muses on the potential for better Twitter performances from the Brussels…

  • Breaking news from UK PM – Commission supports completing internal market

    Updated: 2011-10-25 09:29:08
    I have to admit to being a little bit of a pro-European (no? never! you say), so it is with some fidgeting discomfort that I read overnight the happenings in my native land on the EU. Our London office have done a quick round up of the rebellion on their blog (sounds like something Darth…

  • A Stunner in London

    Updated: 2011-10-25 01:08:44
    In the previous post, Simon Benson of Fleishman Hillard London speculates on whether David Cameron will be able to keep the rebellion in the Conservative Party to less than 60 members.  In his latest dispatch, he reports thatther were more thank 80 anti-Europe defections. Britain’s position in Europe is once again a burning political issue…

  • Rebellion in the UK

    Updated: 2011-10-24 19:41:07
    There is great drama in the British Parliament today.  A rebel group of Conservatives has proposed a vote that would encourage the UK to withdraw from the EU.  Sounds familiar, a British version of the Tea Party in the U.S. (a kind of oxymoron). See the lively account below from my colleague in London (be…

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