Drawing crypto comparisons from a 60s French film and inspiration from Brentford January 21, 2022 Monty is watching everyone stare at their shrinking crypto portfolios and scrambling to buy land now that inflation is back.
Sadiq Khan warns of low turnout in Thursday’s London mayor election May 3, 2021 Sadiq Khan has today raised concerns about low turnout at Thursday’s London mayor election, with the incumbent warning supporters against complacency. Internal polling from Khan’s team shows a 9 per cent drop in the amount of Londoners that are certain to vote in the poll, which was delayed by a year by the Covid crisis. [...]
Premier League takes slow road to first NFT deal March 1, 2022 Driven by the extraordinary early success of the NBA’s Top Shot digital collectibles, NFTs were the talk of the sports industry when the Premier League dipped its toe into the market last year. It launched a tender process, inviting bidders to submit proposals for a range of officially licensed Premier League NFTs, which was due [...]
Rockets and Blue Lights at National Theatre review September 3, 2021 First performed in March 2020 at the Royal Exchange in Manchester, Rockets and Blue Lights ran for just three weeks before the pandemic yanked down the curtain. Now this strange, urgent, flawed, exasperating and occasionally brilliant play finally opens in London on the National Theatre’s Dorfman stage. Winsome Pinnock’s play focuses on the legacy of [...]
KPMG UK nominates audit head Jon Holt for chief executive role March 31, 2021 The board of KPMG UK has nominated Jon Holt for the role of chief executive, following the resignation of Bill Michael last month. Holt is currently KPMG UK’s head of audit, where he oversees 7,000 people, and chair of the firm’s executive committee for audit. Prior to that, he was KPMG UK’s head of financial [...]
Keep it in the family: 11 siblings behind two boozy powerhouses July 13, 2021 Brewing and distilling have for centuries been family pursuits, but the McAvoy family have taken that idea to almost absurdist lengths. Launched in 2017, the Sis4ers Distillery is run by sisters, Kerry Collins, Hayley Robinson, Kate Haslam and Lucy McAvoy, themselves the siblings of the brothers behind the Seven Bro7hers Brewing Co, based on the [...]
Kalifa Review: UK Fintech competition must play out on the global stage, not the national February 26, 2021 It’s a well-known fact that the UK is a global leader in Fintech, and that London sits at its helm. In 2020 alone, UK Fintech attracted $4.6 billion of venture capital investment, and some 44 per cent of Europe’s Fintech companies valued at over $1 billion (tech unicorns), hail from the UK. What is less [...]
Football training can be safer with VR technology October 15, 2021 A whipped cross and a powerful header towards goal are staples of football and the essence of set-piece tactics used by every football team. But building Cristiano Ronaldo-like leg power to spring higher than your opponent and honing the skill to guide the ball into the net requires endless training drills. The other, more serious [...]
WhatsApp down globally, 40m Brits and hundreds of millions impacted around the world October 25, 2022 Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp went down for over an hour this morning in dozens of countries around the world, including the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Kenya, India, France and most of the United States and Canada. City A.M. can confirm that the outage was for both personal chats as well as group chats and hundreds [...]
Manchester United 0-2 Manchester City: Pep Guardiola’s side show they can win ugly as they clear significant hurdle in Premier League title race April 24, 2019 Manchester City have won the battle. Now, with the derby behind them, they have given themselves the best chance of winning the war. On a night when they reached 157 goals for the season and passed their own record, from the 2013-14 title-winning campaign, for goals in an English season, City showed they don’t just [...]