Some home-office tips based on what works for me — So, in the UK we’re back into Lockdown 2.0 and realistically for office workers we don’t expect to be back in the office until well into next year. Even once we are in many cases it will never be five days a week again. …

Watch the videos from the Mansion House on 24 May 2023 — All the videos from this important day at the Mansion House. Host Michael Liebreich welcomes the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Alderman Nicholas Lyons Opening remarks: The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of the City of London Alderman Nicholas Lyons Keynote speech: Address of Minister Sameh Shoukry, Minister of Foreign Affairs and COP27 President, delivered by His Excellency The Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt

The recent event and report from these two livery companies could give us a blueprint for cross-industry sustainability action — Insurance sits at the nexus of so much else. Almost every commercial enterprise use insurance in many forms and most efforts to be bold or innovative are only possible because the leaders and innovators share the risk with their insurance partners. As such the question of how industries transition to…

Start deciding now whether degrowth is anti-capitalist or a critical approach to saving our standard of living — Let me predict that “degrowth” will be one of the growing buzzwords of the next 24 months. While I can’t imagine it will become mainstream in terms of an accepted way forward it will force some important discussions. “Degrowth” is not even recognised yet by the spell-checker but I’m certain…

Family home from 1847 to 1999 — With the news that Macknade Manor is for sale in only the second time in over 200 years it felt worth a recap of some of the history of the property. Macknade Manor is a Georgian Manor House on the outskirts of Faversham, Kent. Over the last 260 years it…

Another wonderful tradition in the City of London — Thursday 30th March saw the annual Lord Mayor’s Big Curry Lunch take place in aim of milatary charities. While it is not a formal livery event and is open to anyone who buys a ticket it is highly supported by the livery companies. …

An annual celebration of the fellowship of all… —

A critical element of the City of London democracy Common Councillors in the City are elected every four years. The Wardmote is the meeting whereby the councillors update on the year past, or in election years make their case for (re)election. …

One simple change that can make you so much more efficient Excellent insight shared by Sahil Bloom on LinkedIn. Microsoft’s Human Factors Lab studied 14 participants across two days of video meetings. Day 1: 4 back-to-back 30-min meetings. Day 2: 4 30-min meetings with 10-min breaks in between. Participants wore…