Sustainable food ventures, and the introduction of small-scale rooftop farms, could hold the key to urban food sustainability globally. Where there’s a rooftop there could reside...
Amendments to the banking reform bill will introduce higher standards of conduct for bankers and additional measures to protect customers from banks’ failures. Under draft legislation,...
Investors are “failing to see the connection” between their personal ethics and their investments, according to a new poll by Ecclesiastical Investment Management ahead of National...
Banks and investment funds are becoming involved in crowdfunding as the sector grows in scale and popularity. Should we welcome the recognition and money this brings?...
UK regulators are not backing down against bad behaviour in the financial sector, according to research carried out by audit firm EY. The study looked at...
It’s October, so we’re now into the fourth and final quarter of the year. That also means there are just less than three months until Christmas....
Anti-fracking protestors have begun to shut down their camp outside an exploratory drilling site near the West Sussex village of Balcombe. After two months of protests,...
Some of the UK’s biggest banks have come under fire for funding the Indonesian coal boom, which campaigners say is damaging the environment and threatening the...
Reading the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) feels rather as Bill Murray’s character Phil Connors must have felt in the 1993...
Building societies and other customer-owned lenders and deposit takers, known as mutuals, are continuing to play an active role in a mortgage market that is showing...
We shape our buildings, and afterwards, our buildings shape us. Sir Winston Churchill
George Osborne has been criticised after delivering a speech light with positive messages for the green economy at the Conservative party conference. Speaking in Manchester, the...
With George Osborne, what he doesn’t say is often more interesting than what he does. It’s been clear for some time that the chancellor of the...
OH GOD, NO. I’m working in a hotel lounge today and there is a TV the size of a wall on which George Osborne’s pudgy face...
A private equity consortium, backed by the Church of England, has bought upto half of the former Williams & Glyn’s branches from the Royal Bank of...