Put on your Guy Fawkes mask and fire up Incognito Mode, because it’s time to talk about whistleblowing. After nearly seven years of essentially squatting in London’s Ecuadorian embassy, Julian Assange has been arrested and […]
Invasion of the Data Snatchers
Data privacy: a concern so ubiquitous that it’s begun to feel like a load of white noise. Hardly a day seems to go by without a Cambridge Analytica; some impenetrable scandal where people we’ve never […]
Panic on the Streets of London: Britain’s High Street Crisis
The ‘death of the high street’ is a phrase that has dominated the public consciousness of late. News pundits, politicians, and steadfast taxpayer Mike Ashley have all expressed alarm at the grim future facing Britain’s […]
We Want You! Graduate Recruitment at the Night of Exchange
Last semester, I was given the opportunity to represent the Gryphon Business Section at the LUBS Night of Exchange, and speak with graduate recruiters from a slew of big-name companies. Whatever your degree, the prospect […]
Social Enterprise: Putting the ‘Good’ in ‘Good Business’
It’s easy to be cynical about business. When a consumer giant like Amazon can court enormous tax breaks whilst openly abusing its employees, ‘corporation’ begins to sound like a four-letter word. Thankfully, there are literally […]
The Nobel Prize in Economics and Why You Should Care
If you’ve had little prior exposure to economics, then the word might conjure up images of fusty, grey professors, wearing tweed and agonising over pie charts whilst using words like ‘hypothecation’. And that’s all (mostly) […]
Universal Credit more like Universal Car Crash…
You may recall that in 2013, the coalition government launched a controversial new welfare policy: Universal Credit. It was designed to ‘simplify’ the current benefits system, which over 80% of the public at the time […]