More people should be The Apprentice February 6, 2011 WHEN the City opened its doors to the barrow boys of the East End – the wheeler dealer market traders who were first let loose on the London Stock Exchange in the 1980s – they were a roaring success. They had the drive, the hunger and the charisma to allow them to thrive in the [...]
FOCUS ON: WIMBLEDON, SW19 November 4, 2010 CHORUS Price: From £399,950 for a two-bed flat This brand new development from Durkan Homes has just been launched and includes one, two, and three-bedroom apartments as well as a penthouse. The modern apartments have bespoke, luxury fittings. It is located in the centre of Wimbledon and the penthouse has stunning views. Contact KFH on [...]
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD: LORD FORSYTH REACHES THE SUMMIT January 5, 2011 FOLLOWING The Capitalist’s update on Tuesday regarding the progress of the eminent Lord Forsyth, he wrote yesterday with a triumphant missive and picture: He has at last reached the top of Antarctica’s highest mountain and had just enough energy left to take a few snaps of himself brandishing an ice pick atop the summit. The [...]
FIT IN THE CITY November 1, 2010 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT DIET-to your-door. Even in the current economic climate, demand for diet meal delivery services is on the rise. We’re a time-poor, nutritionally-savvy city of workers who want to maintain our waistline – but not to the detriment of our health (and rightly so). So what’s the very best in meals-on-wheels the [...]
FIRST GIG IN 600 YEARS TO COME TO GUILDHALL December 14, 2010 GUILDHALL has seen its fair share of important cultural events over the years:?the trials of Lady Jane Grey, Thomas Cranmer and those involved in the gunpowder plot. But only now is this hallowed hall to host the first ever rock concert in its 600 year history, in the miserable month of February next year, when [...]
The world’s in peril…again November 17, 2010 ZERO HOUR BY ANDY MCNAB Bantam £18.99 More aggressively masculine thriller-writing is hard to come by – McNab’s Nick Stone is the toughest of the tough (of British men), and his partners in crime operate in a world of violent political espionage and the most blood-letting, explosive of special ops. With Zero Hour, the prolific [...]
Intelligent luxury under a hot blue sky January 16, 2011 ABU Dhabi sounds like a heady jumble of car, construction and human. In the daytime, the air is thick with noise as it is thick with the pervading haze of dust blown in from the sandlands to the south and thrown up by the never-ending construction. It softens the otherwise relentless sunshine, rendering everything (including [...]
There is no folly in eating here November 22, 2010 The Folly 41 Gracechurch Street, EC3V 0BT Tel: 0845 468 0102 FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE Cost per person without wine: £20 THE City, it appears, has been truly starved of a good, affordable restaurant/bar with funky design (yes, funky, rather than drab, formal, sticky or cafe-style). Because from the moment the Folly, the enormous, windowy multi-story [...]
Five ways to cut costs, whatever your business December 1, 2010 1. ASK “WHY?” If you think that something is wasteful, don’t accept that it is “just the way we do it here”. Bad habits can become engrained. In her book 100 Great Cost-Cutting Ideas, Anne Hawkins tells the story of a technology manufacturer which had been including needless technical information with all its products for [...]
Five ways to cut costs, whatever your business December 1, 2010 1. ASK “WHY?” If you think that something is wasteful, don’t accept that it is “just the way we do it here”. Bad habits can become engrained. In her book 100 Great Cost-Cutting Ideas, Anne Hawkins tells the story of a technology manufacturer which had been including needless technical information with all its products for [...]