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Weekend Box: Metro Challenged, Nobel Prizes & more
In this week’s Box: A week of bloodshed as Hamas launches an invasion of Israel, the Nobel Prizes are announced, is Metro Bank back from the brink of disaster? & more
Labour Party Conference: All that glitters is gold?
Lucy Thompson was on the ground in Liverpool this week for the hotly-anticipated Labour Party Conference. Here’s what she made of it:
Weekend Box: Tracks Pulled From Under HS2, Speaker McCarthy Silenced & more
In this week’s Box: PM Rishi Sunak announces a scaling back of the HS2 project, the ‘Crypto King’ goes on trial, Speaker McCarthy is ousted & more
Tories in Manchester – united?
Audley’s Rolf Merchant picks out five themes that emerged from Conservative Party Conference 2023.
Sunak’s strategy may struggle to survive contact with reality
At the Conservative Party Conference this week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak presented himself as the change candidate. Audley’s Chris Wilkins argues that this strategy is more rhetoric than reality.
Weekend Box: Slovak Comeback, Media Nasties & more
In this week’s Box: Former Slovakian PM is neck and neck with progressives, Scotland gives drug rooms a Glas-go, the writers’ strike is over & more
Weekend Box: UNGA Pressure, Coup’s Next? & more
In this week’s Box: reflections on the UN General Assembly, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Burberry’s Guerrilla marketing & more
Weekend Box: Cleverly in Israel, Google on trial & more
In this week’s Box: the Foreign Secretary’s visit to Israel, Google goes to trial, botanical beats & more.
Weekend Box: China’s Economy Out of Service, Africa Coups & more
In this week’s Box: A look at what - or who - is behind coups in Africa, trouble in the world’s second-biggest economy, a punctuation revelation & more
Forget AI, the Emoji Language Revolution is Coming
With emoji ruled legally binding, a linguistic revolution is on the horizon. Audley Managing Partner Imogen Beecroft asks: are we ready to embrace it?
Why Do We Work?
What does ‘work’ mean to you? Does it give you meaning, or is it a ‘necessary evil best avoided’? Audley Senior Advisor Annie Coleman investigates how individual and organisations create meaningful work.
Putin’s Breaking Point
Are the cracks in Vladimir Putin’s autocracy signs that Russia is about to break? Audley Senior Advisor and former British Army Officer Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton looks to Russian history for answers.
Weekend Box: By-Bye For Now, Putin Hits a BRIC(S) Wall & more
In this week’s Box: Tories say bye-bye to two seats in by-elections, Commonwealth Games cost the Earth, Kent is wild for rewilding & more
Weekend Box: A Knife Through Rutte, Diplomatic Frustrations & more
In this week’s Box: Dutch PM calls time on his government, Strava strikes again, Vegas has a ball with the MSG Sphere & more
Happy Hunting? Reviewing the Chancellor’s Mansion House speech
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has set out his vision for taming inflation and rescuing Britain’s economy. Audley’s Rolf Merchant analyses the policies and more in yesterday’s Mansion House speech.
Weekend Box: It’s Sall Over, Risqué Business & more
In this week’s Box: Senegalese President Macky Sall listens to the voice of the people, we ask what the options are for Thames Water, billboards in London raise eyebrows & more
When it comes to tech, Britain should take a leaf out of Macron’s book
In a new piece for CapX, Audley's Rolf Merchant asks what Britain can learn from the French president when it comes to supporting our own tech sector.
Weekend Box: Russia’s Last Man Squatting, A Perfect Eleven & more
In this week’s Box: Russia fights for land for a new embassy in Australia, a damning report on the state of England Cricket, Which? has surprising news about the value of package holidays & more
Weekend Box: Titan Tragedy, New Face of the NPG & more
In this week’s Box: The story behind the OceanGate tragedy, Number 10 overhauls its AI advisers, the new face of the National Portrait Gallery & more
5 things we learnt from Audley’s roundtable with Darren Jones MP on the future of UK tech policy
What do we need from tech public policy over the next ten years to help the sector become a global leader? Here are Audley’s 5 key takeaways from our roundtable with Darren Jones MP.