The IMF’s Brexit failures were the final straw: It’s time to scrap these inept pundits September 6, 2016 Sports fans will all be familiar with the commentator who almost always gets things wrong. “Arsenal are very much on top here” he – it is invariably a “he” – will pronounce, or “Root is looking very settled”, only for the opposition to score a goal immediately and for the Yorkshireman to be clean bowled. [...]
Yerma at the Young Vic review: Billie Piper shows her acting chops but the production lacks poetry August 8, 2016 Inspired by Federico García Lorca’s play of the same name, the Young Vic’s new production of Yerma (Barren) is well acted and inventively staged, but undermined by a misguided impulse to modernise. The original was set in rural Spain, following a young woman penned in by society and her beliefs, whose increasingly desperate desire for [...]
Race review: A moving and uplifting biopic that sadly fails to fully address America’s own historic hurdles June 2, 2016 Dir. Stephen Hopkins | ★★★☆☆ It’s disappointing but not surprising, given Hollywood's unfortunate record with diversity, that it's taken 80 years for the fascinating story of Jesse Owens to get a biopic. After all, it's only a couple of years since both Martin Luther King (Selma) and Jackie Robinson (42) were given the big screen treatment. [...]
Ferrari California T Handling Speciale review with price and specs: a £150,000 delight, but better suited to the Tuscan Hills than the Tooting school run May 23, 2016 Everyone should have a ‘bucket list’ – a checklist of things to do before kicking the bucket. Yours might include a meal in a Michelin-starred restaurant, a bungee jump or running a marathon dressed as a rhino. Mine was driving a Ferrari. Now, I should explain that, in eight years as a journalist, I’ve been [...]
Who will win the Grand National? Racing betting: Mouse Morris’s Dromnea and Gordon Elliott’s Killer Crow fancied in the Topham April 7, 2016 Day two of the Grand National meeting sees the professional jockeys have their first taste of the Grand National fences in the Topham (Friday 4.05pm). In the last 10 years, Nicky Henderson and Peter Bowen have both won this race four times. If that pattern is to continue, there is only one option for punters: Cocktails [...]
City Moves for 30 March 2016 | Who’s switching jobs March 30, 2016 RateSetter Marketplace lender RateSetter has made two senior appointments in credit and risk. Jim Gunner has joined the board as a non-executive director and chair of the risk committee. Nigel Wilkinson has joined as head of commercial credit. Both executives are ex-HSBC. Jim has spent his career in banking, most of it specialising in risk [...]
Dints International’s Geoffrey de Mowbray talks crows, mines and why business is always the right tool for development March 29, 2016 School and me were never the best match. The problem was that I enjoyed breaking rules far more than I liked adhering to them,” says Geoffrey de Mowbray, founder of African mining supply chain provider Dints International, before adding, “I suppose my entrepreneurial nature shone through a bit even then”. By “a bit”, he means that, [...]
Mauricio Pochettino: Second half spirit means Tottenham should remain positive despite West Ham defeat March 2, 2016 Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino encouraged his side to remain positive ahead of Sunday’s crunch North London derby, after a 1-0 loss at West Ham denied them the chance to go top of the Premier League. A first half Michail Antonio header was enough to seal victory for the Hammers and prevent Spurs from leapfrogging Leicester [...]
The Co-operative commits £75m to slashing prices in supermarket battle March 2, 2016 The Co-operative Group is ploughing a further £75m into cutting prices of every day products in its latest bid to get ahead in the supermarket price war. The mutual, which has over 2,800 food stores across the UK, said it will slash the cost of over 200 of its own-brand British sourced meat and poultry products, with [...]
Stonewall top 100 employers: Lloyds Banking Group named most LGBT-friendly place to work in the City as MI5 tops list January 19, 2016 Lloyds Banking Group has been named the best LGBT-friendly place to work in the City, and second in the UK behind spy agency MI5. The bank's director of operations, Karin Cook, has been named Stonewall's champion of the year, leading Lloyds' efforts on diversity and inclusion. JP Morgan, Bank of America Merill Lynch and Macquarie entered [...]