Taylor Swift is taking over the world. The American pop star is the highest paid woman in music. She has over 100 million followers on Instagram and is a meme many times over. Her poetry was recently published in Vogue. And this week she graces the cover of Time as part of the group of “Silence Breakers” that won the magazine’s Person of Year award for speaking out about sexual harassment and abuse.
New York has outranked Tokyo and London as the most expensive place in the world to travel for business.
A Spanish judge withdrew an arrest warrant today for the former leader of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, and four other ministers who relocated to Belgium after declaring independence from Spain and subsequently lost their jobs when Madrid took control of the restive region.
There’s no such thing as a free lunch and Theresa May is finding that out, right now, after one of her biggest mistakes as UK prime minister. Her deal with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in Northern Ireland has not only hampered one of the most important parts of the Brexit talks to date, but it is also a sign of things to come over the remaining 16 months Britain has until it leaves the European Union.
Poor children in England are already at a disadvantage economically and due to this, are less socially mobile. But while they have to battle for their place in higher education and their careers, they also face the depressing prospect that they’re likely to become overweight or obese.
Meghan Markle will need military training before she walks down the aisle with Prince Harry.
Another day, another Donald Trump tweet. Only this time, his latest speaks more to his unshakeable power than he probably intended.
The odds are already stacked against us.
Britain has just 16 months until it leaves the European Union and so far it has wasted most of its time on negotiating the amount it owes the bloc once it leaves—the divorce bill. According to a range of media outlets, from the Financial Times (paywall) to the BBC, the UK has agreed to pay up to €50 billion ($59 billion) and the government is set to confirm this next week.
Britain’s Brexit secretary David Davis has come under fire for heavily editing government analyses about how the UK leaving the European Union could impact 58 industries. The documents were meant to be delivered to parliament’s Brexit committee to help them prepare policies ahead of Britain leaving the bloc.
The Bank of England published a report (pdf) about its gender pay gap today, and while some of the central bank’s stats are pretty depressing, the overall takeaway is (relatively) positive.
Over 90 companies, including HP, Accenture, Cisco, and Dell, have signed up to a collective Tech Talent Charter, which aims to promote greater gender diversity in the UK’s tech workforce. The charter, which has also received funding from the British government, pledges to bring companies together to address the industry’s diversity problem—only 17% of tech and telecom workers in Britain are women.
HP, alongside around 90 other companies including Accenture, Cisco, and Dell, have banded together to try and help one another to gain greater gender diversity in the UK tech workforce.
Alex Pabon, one of four traders convicted of manipulating Libor in July 2016, just cleared a major hurdle in his path to acquittal.
The UK is leaving the European Union—likely in 2019—but before it does, it has to agree on what it will pay the bloc on its departure (alongside determining EU citizens’ rights and the status of the Northern Irish border). More commonly known as the “divorce bill,” only once the amount is agreed upon, can the UK start the rest of its negotiations on leaving the EU.
Alex Pabon was one of four traders convicted of manipulating Libor in July 2016, and served eight months prison in the UK. However, the former Barclays trader thinks he has a shot at acquittal, with pivotal appeal proceedings taking place in the next couple of weeks.
Russia and Asian countries dominate the latest ranking that shows the places in the world where people are expected to receive the biggest real-pay increases in 2018. (Real pay is the difference between the forecast nominal salary increase and inflation.)
One of the biggest issues for Brexit’s “leave” voters was a fear of immigration. Now the UK government is aiming to reduce EU migration into Britain—drastically.
The Bank of England recently hiked interest rates for the first time in 10 years, and chief financial officers at some of Europe’s largest companies expect more hikes to follow.
It’s happening again. With only 16 months until Britain leaves the European Union, a couple of prominent political voices are dangling false hope in front of Remainers and those who regret their Brexit vote: Article 50 can be reversed and therefore Brexit can be cancelled.
Britain is about to embark on a sixth round of Brexit talks with the European Union. The two sides have yet to agree on three key issues that allow negotiations to progress to the next stage—the divorce bill, the rights of EU citizens in the UK, and what to do about the Northern Ireland border.
Britain’s biggest companies have a gender problem. And according to the annual Hampton-Alexander Review of women leaders in the FTSE 350, the UK’s largest firms can’t seem to find more women to fill senior positions on boards and committees.
“Why is your hair like that?” asked a slightly drunk attendee at the World Economic Forum, in Davos this year. “Because I like it,” I said, reflexively touching my fire-engine red, waist-length mane.
Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, won a majority with the country’s Liberal Party two years ago after pledging to slash taxes for the middle class while raising taxes on the rich. In July, he followed up by championing the closure of tax avoidance loopholes.
