Peacock powers to 100m record on golden GB day September 6, 2012 GREAT Britain’s Jonnie Peacock last night broke the Paralympic Games 100m record to beat South Africa’s Oscar Pistorius to the T44 gold. The 19-year-old produced a sensationally powerful start before significantly extending his lead in the race’s final 30m to secure a new record of 10.90 seconds and add greater misery to the South African [...]
Steady hands will be navigating Barclays through murky waters August 30, 2012 THE appointment of Antony Jenkins as the new boss of Barclays is a clear indication that the Barclays of the future will be very different from that of the past. He may be an insider – a Barclays man – but Jenkins is a retail banker, having made his name at Barclaycard and in branch [...]
How UK business can match Team GB’s performance August 19, 2012 A WEEK since the Olympics closed, some commentators are already talking post-Games blues. But this is our honeymoon period, our chance to capitalise on a successful fortnight of the UK at its best. We’ve witnessed an amazing journey. An east London wasteland has been transformed – 1.5m cubic metres of contaminated soil was painstakingly cleaned, [...]
Racing is as intense as ever with Team GB in the crowd August 14, 2012 WITH the array of dinner parties, live music and pop-up bars on display at Cowes week, it would be easy to forget that there is actually some sailing to be done. Around 1,000 boats and 8,500 competitors are in action over the week, watched by Team GB sailors fresh from winning medals at London 2012. [...]
Is Sir Roger Carr right that government must design an industrial strategy for UK growth? August 14, 2012 YES Ian Mulheirn Sir Roger Carr is right to highlight the symbiotic relationship between government and the market economy. But developing an industrial policy to boost the UK’s competitive edge is difficult. What seems like the wave of the future can quickly become a damp squib. We also need to be clear on the ground [...]
Cowes can fill Olympics void August 12, 2012 2012 has delivered a fantastic ‘Best of British’ atmosphere over the last few months. The Queen’s Jubilee and the London Olympic Games have started the patriotic waves, and they are set to continue at Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week, and this time the waves are being created in The Solent. Cowes Week is as much [...]
Cowes Week the ideal cure for Olympics cold turkey August 8, 2012 THOSE already breaking out in cold sweats at the thought of the Olympics drawing to a close: fear not, there is a place where elite sport and Britishness will flourish side-by-side beyond the weekend. Cowes Week, the world’s most famous annual regatta, takes to the water on Saturday and promises to do more than just [...]
Standard Chartered is the victim of US warfare against British banking August 7, 2012 STANDARD Chartered, one of the few British banks hitherto left untainted by allegations of misconduct, saw its share price nosedive yesterday, after accusations by a New York regulator that it had violated sanctions against Iran. I’m now left more convinced than ever that US politicians and regulators have a hidden objective in exposing the wrong-doings [...]
Our gold medals herald a golden age for UK sport August 6, 2012 WITH London 2012 in full swing, British sport is entering a golden age. Hosting an Olympic Games offers huge possibilities – increasing the profile of athletics in this country and building a gateway for all the aspiring young athletes coming through the system. Many young people watching these extraordinary athletes will be thinking “next time [...]
We no longer have the vision to celebrate artists’ Olympic achievements August 2, 2012 ONE hundred years ago, the first Olympic medals were awarded for cultural achievement. In the summer of 1912 in Stockholm, exponents of architecture, literature, music, painting and sculpture were celebrated alongside the runners and the jumpers. The tradition continued for decades, with a final hurrah at the London Games of 1948, when the medallists’ work [...]