Ned Boulting: Tour de France rivals are ordinary humans doing extraordinary things July 15, 2024 The present can look banal in comparison with the sepia-tinted past but that is not the case when it comes to Pogacar and Vingegaard.
Premiership rugby top four decided with season set for drab final round April 23, 2023 It is a shame that in a Premiership rugby season praised so highly for its competitiveness and unpredictability that no matter any result in the final round of fixtures, in a fortnight’s time, we already know the top four, who plays who and where they play. Saracens’ 45-21 demolition of London Irish ended the Brentford [...]
Is Trent Alexander-Arnold the missing piece in Gareth Southgate’s England jigsaw? June 20, 2023 Trent Alexander-Arnold has shown he can thrive in midfield for England like he has with Liverpool – and Gareth Southgate deserves praise for finding the right role for him. Valuable lessons are thin on the ground in Euro 2024 qualifying — especially when, as in England’s case over the past few days, your opponents are [...]
Andy Farrell should lead the British and Irish Lions on a tour which could humiliate Australia November 3, 2023 The World Cup is over and South Africa are champions, but given the schedule over the next four years I am already looking at the 2025 Lions tour to Australia. Australia are in freefall. It is a cesspit of uselessness at the moment where no one quite knows where to go and what to do. [...]
Brett Christophers: Be wary of outsourcing climate change response to ‘ruthlessly extractive’ asset managers June 18, 2023 Academic Brett Christophers has warned that governments’ attempts to outsource the response to climate change to asset managers, such as those at Blackstone and Brookfield, will have damaging consequences. Christophers, who recently published Our Lives in their Portfolios, told City A.M. that “the infrastructural response to climate change both in terms of mitigation and adaptation [...]
FTSE 100: Shares rise in London despite poor performance from supermarkets June 17, 2023 London’s top shares eked out another small gain, helping the FTSE end the week on 7,643 points. The gains were led by some of the UK’s biggest energy companies, which managed to outweigh some of the pressure put on supermarkets stocks, apart from Ocado which soared. By the end of the day, the FTSE 100 [...]
Atelier Wren on how to design an ‘it’ restaurant November 29, 2022 Saltie Girl in Mayfair is London’s newest “it” restaurant, already frequented by celebs from Salma Hayek to Robert Pattinson. We caught up with Jake Raslan and Lorenzo Buscaroli, the interior design duo behind Atelier Wren, the studio that brought the space to life. What was your vision for Saltie Girl? JAKE RASLAN: Saltie Girl is [...]
Moneysupermarket sales lifted as Brits go deal hunting to protect finances April 18, 2023 A boom in consumers shopping around for better savings accounts has boosted sales for comparison site Moneysupermarket. The platform profited from people hunting down better deals throughout last year and saw revenues across its money division, which compares current and savings accounts, credit cards, and loans, jump by 37 per cent. The company said this was [...]
Brewdog’s CEO James Watt hits back at ‘ridiculous levels of criticism’ following wages change January 15, 2024 The chief executive of Brewdog has hit back at the "ridiculous levels of criticism" his company received following the news that it would no longer be paying staff the ‘real’ living wage.
The end of Tennis’ Big Three (and Murray)? Nadal retirement would leave sport needing new stars urgently January 10, 2024 You have to cast your mind back to 2002 and Thomas Johansson, Albert Costa, Lleyton Hewitt and Pete Sampras for a year when none of the modern Big Three, or Andy Murray, won a Grand Slam. Because in each of the 21 years since at least one of Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer or [...]