England’s narrow defeat by New Zealand shows Eddie Jones’s side have turned around poor year November 11, 2018 England may have lost Saturday’s match against New Zealand, but the fact the majority of the 82,149 people left Twickenham disappointed shows just how much Eddie Jones has turned things around. Ahead of the autumn internationals the prevailing mood was more pessimistic than optimistic. England had endured a difficult 2018, failing in the Six Nations [...]
Lloyd’s of London chief operating officer to leave as exec churn continues November 21, 2018 The chief operating officer of insurance market Lloyd’s of London has resigned, continuing the stream of exits from its top team. Lloyd’s said today that operations chief and executive committee member Shirine Khoury-Haq had resigned, with plans to leave the insurance market in the first half of 2019. Khoury-Haq, who had been with Lloyd’s for [...]
Wales 21-13 England: Eddie Jones’s side need to learn how reverse momentum after first Six Nations defeat February 24, 2019 England’s wins over Ireland and France had been defined by well-executed game-plans, taken from the training pitch and implemented effectively under the pressure the Six Nations provides. In Dublin the tactic to send high, hanging kicks down the flanks to test Robbie Henshaw, playing out of position at full-back, was performed to perfection. At Twickenham, [...]
Four common mistakes that can ruin your chances in a job interview March 19, 2019 By Dr Janina Steinmetz, Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Cass Business School If you make it to the job interview stage of an application process, the prospect of a new job is very much in sight. Make a good impression and you are likely to get the opportunity you want. But imagine you get to [...]
Ad giant bids farewell to Dame Cilla Snowball November 6, 2018 Advertising supremo and major City figure Dame Cilla Snowball revealed today that she is stepping down from her role as group chairman and chief executive of Abbott Mead Vickers (AMV) BBDO. The boss of the UK’s largest advertising agency is bringing an end to a 26-year stint at AMV, with plans to pursue a portfolio-based [...]
Welcome aboard the Amore Mio, a 7,620 horsepower luxury sports yacht with more toys than Hamleys June 10, 2019 Luxury journalism: It won’t make me a billionaire, but I do get to act like one on occasion. The 45-metre Amore Mio is one of the largest and most powerful ‘sports’ yachts in the world, and it isn’t available for charter. Instead, its owner – who shall remain nameless but, predictably, he’s Russian and in [...]
No matter how we measure inflation, politics will forever trump economics January 23, 2019 THE ECONOMIC Affairs Committee of the House of Lords has got its bovver boots on. Last week, the government was given a sound kicking. The issue was the seemingly esoteric one of how to measure inflation. Inflation tells us how much the prices of goods and services are going up. The question is: what do [...]
Montenegro v England: Harry Kane has gone from spearhead to link man in exciting new attack March 24, 2019 At the heart of England’s blossoming as an attacking force, which found its thrilling expression in Friday’s 5-0 win over the Czech Republic, lies a curious anomaly. Not since Wayne Rooney announced himself on the world stage at Euro 2004 has there been such excitement about the potency of forward talent in the national team [...]
Welcome to Marwen review: A visual triumph but a soggy, mawkish film December 20, 2018 Welcome to Marwen takes some of the most impressive character animation since Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa and welds it to a film so saggy and lacking in introspection that even those glorious visuals soon lose their lustre. It tells the true story – insert your own inverted commas – of Mark Hogancamp, a reclusive artist suffering [...]
Female founders don’t need to be ‘bolshie’ to match the boys February 26, 2019 Earlier this month, chief secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss wrote in City A.M. concerning the lack of funding for all-female startups. As she pointed out, 90 per cent of venture capital funding goes to firms with all-male teams, compared to just one per cent for all-female teams. In her article, Truss proposed a number [...]