Third mobile company demands answers over Dishfire
As another telecoms company asks whether the data mining programme Dishfire has been harvesting information from its customers, questions over the role of British agents begin to mount.
Siobhan Kennedy , Washington Correspondent
Siobhan Kennedy is the Washington Correspondent for Channel 4 News, based in DC.
Siobhan joined Channel 4 News in 2008 where, as Business Editor, she covered the financial crisis, austerity and its impact on the British economy and more recently, Brexit.
Before that, as a reporter for The Times, she worked as Politics and Business Correspondent and prior to that was a correspondent for Reuters in London and New York, where she covered the tech boom and bust and 9/11. She returns to the US just in time for the 2020 election campaign.
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Whistleblower: how RBS ‘deliberately destroyed’ firms
Exclusive: a whistleblower from RBS’s shadowy GRG unit claims that staff destroyed businesses “that didn’t need destroying” in an attempt to help save the bank during the credit crisis.
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Bad advice in a bad situation: the young mum evicted despite paying her rent
25-year-old Gemma Jupe has two children, one just weeks old. But she’s being evicted despite paying her rent on time because she’s on housing benefit.
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Rates increase to be capped, but is it too little too late?
George Osborne is poised to offer a cap on the increase in business rates. But after months and months of stagnation, is it really going to be enough?
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Ed Balls – the proud Co-operator
It’s taken three days of torrid headlines, but today Labour has finally come out fighting about its association with the crystal Methodist and former Co-op banker Paul Flowers.
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Treasury Co-op probe as Flowers arrested over drugs
An investigation into the scandal at Co-operative Bank will delve into the appointment of Paul Flowers as chairman, and look at the role of the government and regulators.
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Co-op chief quits over Flowers allegations
Another day, another executive bites the dust at the Co-operative – this time the group’s chairman Len Wardle has stood down with immediate effect.
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Co-op’s ‘wasted’ former chairman: how did Paul Flowers get the job?
That a Reverend – Paul Flowers – was caught on camera buying crack cocaine and crystal meth is bad enough. That he’s the former chairman of the Co-operative bank couldn’t be any worse.
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Care staff given contracts, but not paid for travel
Zero-hours contracts for home care staff can damage services to elderly people. The company Allied Healthcare has offered to put its 15,000 employees on contracts. But staff won’t be paid for travel.
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Twitter – the morning after the IPO
I was living in New York and working as a technology reporter for Reuters as one by one, the then internet giants of the day – Netscape, Commerce One, Ariba – all made their debuts on the Nasdaq.
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Co-op investment will bring joy or dread
The idea that money men are taking control of the Co-op may be the worst outcome precisely because all the money men care about ultimately is money.
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RBS: the good, the bad and the ugly
The taxpayer was hit with yet more bad news today, and the prospect of us ever exiting the RBS bank and getting our money back looks as far away as ever.
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We can get rid of toxic assets, says RBS boss
RBS CEO Ross McEwan tells Siobhan Kennedy his bank has shown over the last five years an “absolute ability” to shed its toxic loans and sell them to other people. “That’s a skill we have,” he says.
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Newspapers shun government’s royal charter on press regulation
The gulf between the newspaper industry and the politicians’ plans for regulating them is yawning wider than ever.
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British taxpayer is massively exposed by EDF/China nuclear deal
It’s hard to escape the fact today that economically, the government appears to be taking a huge gamble with the taxpayer’s purse by signing this deal with China and EDF.
