Natasha Voase

Why an Indian Ocean island has become a battleground in French politics

3 March 2024 11:00 am

A tiny island in the Indian Ocean is the latest battleground in France’s immigration debate. High immigration into Mayotte, a…

Paris doesn’t want the 2024 Olympics

1 January 2024 5:00 pm

As hundreds of boats float elegantly down the Seine at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics this summer, one…

The decline and fall of banking’s barrow boys

28 December 2023 11:00 am

Before the ‘Big Bang’, which led to the deregulation of financial markets in London in the 1980s, the city was…

Where did all the boomer bankers go?

15 October 2023 5:00 pm

There aren’t many Alex types in banking anymore. The popular middle-aged cartoon banker, greyer and greyer since the 1980s, is…