New York is to launch its own cycle hire scheme after taking advice from City Hall officials who helped bring 'Boris bikes' to the capital's streets
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It had not occurred to me to cancel a weekend in New York. Have you any idea how difficult it was to get tickets for Book of Mormon on Broadway?... more
Samantha Cameron hails Boris Johnson's ambitious New York-style volunteering programme, which he believes will mobilise about 10,000 Londoners
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There is no stopping Richard Alderman. While the world mocks the light settlement with BAE over bribery allegations, the Serious Fraud Office director is unabashed... more
THE New Economics Foundation report on how bankers destroy wealth (A Bit Rich: Calculating the real value to society of different professions) has received much press coverage... more
This week in New York, Michael Bloomberg won a third term as mayor. Here, the man who most Londoners would want to challenge Boris Johnson has put his foot in it... more
New York mayor is expected to be elected to his third term next month. His success lies in his refusal to conform to any political template — and his understanding that city life is dependent on the details... more
During his trip to the US this week, our grow-your-own Mayor lobbied his counterpart in New York on the value of growing food in the heart of the appropriately monikered Big Apple. ... more
It is every private-equity firm's nightmare. You buy a boring little company hoping to do the usual, squeeze it for cash and flip it a few years later. And then it turns on you. ... more
New York Fashion Week is here - and, as Lela Rose, the Texan designer, says as she threads her needle and fits her models, "the show must go on"... more
The UK is already in recession, with business confidence, profits and turnover at record lows and unemployment set to rise by up to 350,000 in the next year... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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