FTSE reshuffle: Who’s in and who’s out of the blue-chip index – Morrisons, Sports Direct, Aberdeen Asset Management, Paddy Power Betfair, Informa, Mediclinic International March 2, 2016 Supermarket Morrison's has stormed back into the FTSE 100, having only been given the boot in the index's last quarterly review. News of a tie up with Amazon gave the big four grocer the boost it needed, sending its share price to 205.4p, up around 10 per cent on the week. Morrison's will be joined in the blue-chip [...]
Outgoing London mayor Boris Johnson understood what makes London great May 6, 2016 Whoever emerges as London’s next mayor will be filling some enormous shoes. Boris Johnson’s legacy can’t really be quantified in the way you’d weigh ordinary politicians’ achievements. Yes, he can point to Crossrail and huge transport investment, hundreds of thousands of new jobs, a wildly successful Olympics, falling crime, lower mayoral council tax, and big [...]
Range Rover Evoque car review: Are you convinced by the daring of this big topless release from Land Rover? June 20, 2016 The Range Rover Evoque has been around since 2011 and is in danger of becoming last year’s must-have. With an ever-increasing number of upmarket SUVs on the market (including competition from within JLR – Jaguar has recently launched the larger F-Pace SUV), how could Land Rover make a statement by offering something a bit… daring? [...]
Now arriving in Downing Street: Who has Theresa May appointed to her first cabinet? July 14, 2016 New Prime Minister Theresa May has continued to build her first government, with a raft of key appointments. With Boris Johnson, David Davis and Liam Fox among the key arrivals yesterday, and a brutal purge kicking off this morning, who has May appointed across her cabinet today? Greg Clark takes on the new BEIS, swapping [...]
The Tesla Model 3 has finally been unveiled: Here’s what Elon Musk has told us so far April 1, 2016 After the kind of hype (not to mention queues outside stores) only Apple tends to create, it's finally here: in the wee hours of this morning, Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's "car of the people" – the Model 3. Musk said the car is the "next logical step" of Tesla's "secret master plan" to make the [...]
Fashion met tech in two stunning Met Gala dresses, but where’s the rest? May 3, 2016 Marchesa and IBM made a dress that changes colour according to twitter sentiment while Zac Posen created a glow in the dark gown that wowed crowds. At the Met Gala Ball, fashion was meant to meet technology, but there was little more than celebrity names showing off in silver rather than a real demonstration of the [...]
Audi S5 Quattro review: Efforts to improve on this masterpiece deserve our respect but not our necessarily our love July 4, 2016 How do you improve upon a masterpiece? Would Van Gogh’s sunflowers look better if they were brightened up in Photoshop? Perhaps Exile on Main Street needs some AutoTune tweakery to smooth out Mick Jagger’s trademark drawl? Such was the task facing Audi in replacing the A5, the car that designer Walter de Silva called his [...]
Google’s Android Pay is coming to the UK, letting you pay with mobile on the Tube and across the high street, including Pret, Starbucks, Waitrose and more March 23, 2016 Users of Android will soon be able to use their smartphone to pay for items and even travel to work, as Google prepares to launch Android Pay in the UK following hot on the heels of Apple Pay. Google said it will roll out "in the coming months" with the backing of Britain's biggest banks, but did not [...]
Shoezone warns on profit after shoppers give retailer the boot April 21, 2015 SHARES in Shoe Zone plunged yesterday after the discount shoe retailer issued a profit warning less than a year after its market debut, blaming last Autumn’s warm weather for weak first half sales. The family-run chain, which floated on Aim last year, said it sold more shoes than it did in the first half of [...]
Richard Branson has just launched a £1m competition with Virgin Media Business to find Britain’s best startups March 22, 2016 Straighten those ties, polish those shoes and sharpen those power point skills. Richard Branson has just launched a competition to find Britain's best businesses, and there's £1m worth of prizes up for grabs. VOOM 2016 is the UK's most high-value pitching competition. Run by Virgin Media Business, the initiative allows British entrepreneurs to sell their ideas [...]