Martha Lane Fox

Gender diversity in UK tech industry ‘still terrible’, says Martha Lane Fox

Lastminute.com co-founder, now a peer, says little progress has been made in recent decades

Jasper Jolly

29, Nov, 2022 @6:01 AM

'Inhumane and flawed': global business leaders urge governments to end death penalty

Initial signatories of campaign include billionaires fashion mogul Francois-Henri Pinault and Arianna Huffington

Dominic Rushe in New York

18, Mar, 2021 @4:00 PM

Read my lips: how lockdown TV could boost children’s literacy

Campaigners call on broadcasters and streamers to switch on subtitles for kids’ programming

Vanessa Thorpe

12, Apr, 2020 @5:30 AM

Women worldwide must be heard and respected | Letters

Letters: Seventy-six women from the arts, business world, law and politics, including Emma Watson, Keira Knightley and Emma Thompson, call on governments to support and protect women fighting for their rights around the world

Letters

08, Mar, 2019 @6:59 AM

Alan Sugar and Martha Lane Fox among business figures to miss Trump dinner

Oxfordshire black-tie event for US president will feature the chief executives of FTSE 100 firms such as Rolls-Royce, Barclays and BP

Rob Davies

11, Jul, 2018 @2:59 PM

The Guardian view on data protection: privacy is not enough | Editorial

Editorial: Rights over our personal data are only a start. The imbalances of power online must be tackled in other ways too

Editorial

09, Nov, 2017 @7:25 PM

Thousands flock to Great Get Together events celebrating life of Jo Cox

Anniversary of Labour MP’s murder marked with street parties, picnics and gatherings in churches, mosques and synagogues

James Tapper

17, Jun, 2017 @11:11 PM

Technology is a marvel – now let’s make it moral | Martha Lane Fox

If Britain is bold after Brexit, we can lead the way in demanding more control over our digital destiny

Martha Lane Fox

10, Apr, 2017 @5:00 AM

‘All women are fly’ – goosebump moments for IWD 2016

Who runs the world? Martha Lane Fox, Jane Garvey and A.Dot (plus Destiny’s Child and and Salt ‘N’ Pepa, of course)

Hannah Verdier

10, Mar, 2016 @5:49 PM

‘I thought the tech world would be full of new voices and people. It hasn’t happened. The number of women in the sector is tiny. It’s such a waste’

The founder of Lastminute.com, Martha Lane Fox, last week told the annual Wired technology conference how an industry that promised so much hope had failed. Here is her call for Britain to set a global standard for equality in the sector

Martha Lane Fox

17, Oct, 2015 @11:04 PM

On my radar: Martha Lane Fox’s cultural highlights

Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho on Alice Oswald’s distillation of The Iliad, Rachel Cusk’s foray into Greek drama and jewellery that manages your social media

Kathryn Bromwich

19, Jul, 2015 @8:30 AM