How to make the most of weekends August 18, 2014 Highly successful people seek inspiration, think long term and don’t waste the last 15 hours. It's tempting to imagine that successful businesspeople see the weekend as an extension of the working week – a time for catching up on emails, reading market reports and troubleshooting process documents. Not so, according to time management expert [...]
Greencore splashes out on new factory to fuel growth in the US May 20, 2014 GREENCORE, the food group that supplies retailers with everything from sandwiches to Yorkshire puddings, announced plans to step up its expansion in the US as it reported an eight per cent rise in half-year revenues yesterday. The London-listed group, whose biggest clients in the US include Starbucks and 7-Eleven, said it will spend £20m on [...]
Suarez victim of English and Italian plot, say Uruguay June 25, 2014 URUGUAYAN football chiefs claim that Luis Suarez did not bite Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini and that allegations against the Liverpool striker are the result of an English, Italian and Brazilian conspiracy. World governing body Fifa was last night considering whether to ban Suarez for the rest of the World Cup and possibly beyond after Chiellini accused [...]
Iraq’s new PM: Who is Haider al-Abadi and why will he be better than Maliki? August 15, 2014 Yesterday Nouri al-Maliki stepped down as Prime Minister of Iraq, following mounting pressure from the West and East alike. A divisive figure with a pro-Shiite attitude, he has been blamed for the deep schism that has formed between the Shia-led government and the country's Sunni minority, which accuses him of alienating them and not [...]
World Cup hero Wilkinson invited to join England’s coaching team May 19, 2014 RETIRING World Cup winner Jonny Wilkinson would be welcomed into the England set-up with open arms, says national coach Stuart Lancaster. Wilkinson, 34, announced yesterday he would hang up his boots at the end of the season, with the chance to lift the Heineken Cup and Top 14 trophies with Toulon possible in the next [...]
This Father’s Day our cocktail columnist says go for gin June 10, 2014 This sunday is Father’s Day. Therefore, as if by edict from some central authority, people up and down the land will mindlessly buy their dad a bottle of whiskey. I like whiskey more than the next person, but in a minor gesture of defiance against “the man”, I suggest this Father’s Day you should go [...]
Google exec’s home targeted April 7, 2014 GOOGLE Ventures partner Kevin Rose has come under fire from protesters for stoking a “tech start up bubble” that is driving up the cost of living in San Fransisco. Protestors had delivered a flyer to the serial entrepreneur’s door and circulated it to neighbours describing him as a “parasite”. Rose responded on Twitter: “I did [...]
France and Germany set for stalemate at the Maracana July 3, 2014 BEN CLEMINSON PREVIEWS TODAY’S WORLD CUP QUARTER-FINALS AND BILL ESDAILE WITH SATURDAY’S BEST RACING BETS WE’VE enjoyed a veritable feast of football excitement this summer, and many are predicting that Brazil 2014’s goal tally, currently standing at 154, will break France 1998’s record of 171. But with eight games to come, I’m not quite so [...]
Obama’s got it right: Why it’s in the West’s interest to help the Kurds out August 11, 2014 “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” For the second time in this doleful summer, the Islamic State (IS) has astounded the world. Following its stunning success in June – snatching and then consolidating territorial gains in eastern Syria and western Iraq into a terrorist state the [...]
Why Goldman Sachs thinks England is heading out at the group stages – and why we should be celebrating May 28, 2014 Don’t bin your England shirt and tear off your white and red wig in disgust when we crash out of the World Cup this summer – our inevitable footballing failure is a bullish sign for the economy. Possibly. Goldman Sachs has predicted today that England will exit the tournament at the group stage, following [...]