Meet the fund manager: Backing innovation in the age of AI April 8, 2024 In this new weekly series, investment reporter Elliot Gulliver-Needham sits down with a fund manager for a Q&A. This week, we’re hearing from James Dowey, fund manager at Liontrust Global Technology Fund.
Starling Bank poaches Big Six energy boss ahead of planned London listing March 12, 2024 Digital challenger Starling Bank has appointed OVO boss Raman Bhatia as its permanent chief executive, taking over from interim CEO John Mountain.
Google hires three top female execs to roles backing UK firms with AI tech growth November 28, 2023 Google has appointed three female senior new executives to drive forward the tech giant’s support for UK businesses. The search engine behemoth said the appointees will report straight to Debbie Weinstein, the vice president and managing director for Google UK & Ireland, and will help focus on the use of AI technology in growing British [...]
How I went from working at Nando’s to owning my own coffee business March 12, 2024 Wycliffe Sande spent seven years working a full-time job at Nando’s before (finally) turning his coffee roasting side hustle into a business. Now, the 40-year-old founder of Blue Turaco – a coffee brand with beans sourced directly from his home farmland in Uganda – smiles as he tells me the long days and sleepless nights [...]
The Square Mile and Me: Asif Aziz on turning London’s neglected spaces into eclectic landmarks October 5, 2023 Entrepreneur Asif Aziz – CEO of Criterion Capital and the operator of the London Trocadero and a host of London landmarks – has made the capital his playground What was your first job?When I was still in school, I was intrigued by the London property market. My first ‘real’ job was at Morgan Grenfell Laurie [...]
Scrapping non-dom status will make some of London a ghost town March 5, 2024 If we start taxing non-UK income and assets, we may as well pack non-doms bags for them. There is a better way, says Steve Rigby Are the leaks suggesting Jeremy Hunt is ready to scrap tax rules for non-doms to be taken seriously? Or was this one of the now-traditional pre-Budget exercises in kite-flying to [...]
Animal at Park Theatre review: A smart take on disability, dating and online culture April 25, 2023 Animal opens with the lead character, David, attempting to utilise a masturbation pump. A cerebral palsy sufferer, inserting his penis into the device’s nozzle is just one of the many things he is unable to do. Explaining why he needs to return it to the online sex shop is another. What follows is an examination [...]
From Alison Rose to water exec bonuses, massive payouts are killing productivity November 15, 2023 Execs bonuses have gone from 30 times employee pay, to 300 times employee pay in 50 years.
Evil Dead Rise review: A bloody brilliant reboot April 21, 2023 More than any other genre, horror creators tend to return to the blood-filled trough, picking at the carcasses of movies past and re-hashing them for new audiences. It’s the reason we’ve seen 13 Halloweens, 12 Friday the 13ths and nine A Nightmare On Elm Streets – but as each of these franchises proves, striking a [...]
David Oyelowo in Coriolanus review: Too much muscle, too much music September 26, 2024 Muscles do not a character make, though many men forget this. Sadly David Oyelowo's Coriolanus at the National Theatre is one of them