TOP LAWYERS CALL FOR QUOTAS TO BOOST WOMEN IN THE BOARDROOM March 13, 2011 SOME of the UK’s most high-powered female lawyers convened at the Southbank Centre on Saturday afternoon to debate the “chronic inequality” at City law firms. The panel, chaired by Denise Jagger from legal practice Eversheds, which organised the event, contained some of the most high-powered women in the industry (pictured right), including Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, deputy [...]
TOP LAWYERS CALL FOR QUOTAS TO BOOST WOMEN IN THE BOARDROOM March 13, 2011 SOME of the UK’s most high-powered female lawyers convened at the Southbank Centre on Saturday afternoon to debate the “chronic inequality” at City law firms. The panel, chaired by Denise Jagger from legal practice Eversheds, which organised the event, contained some of the most high-powered women in the industry (pictured right), including Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, deputy [...]
CONVERSATIONS IN DARK CORNERS FOR CITY’S BRIGHTEST TALENTS March 27, 2011 THE guest list included some of the most talented young people in banking and finance – but they were still incapable of finding the party without first getting lost in the neighbouring Barbican housing complex. However, once safely inside the Square Mile World Spreads 30 Under 30 Awards at the elusive Museum of London, small-talk [...]
OUT OF OFFICE January 26, 2011 VALENTINE’S BURLESQUE AT PROUD Proud Cabaret, known for its evenings of seductive glamour, is pulling out the stops for Valentine’s Day. Expect a star line up of performers, with the BBC’s “Queen of Swing” Kai Hoffman as compere and hot young dancers in situ to bewitch with their own 1930s take on the genre. A [...]
FORCES, FOOD AND FINANCE February 10, 2011 YESTERDAY at the Square Mile Salute fundraising banquet, Boris Johnson said: “There are three things I want to share my appreciation for tonight, one – my appreciation for the armed forces, two – for Britain’s financial services and three – food.” The audience of the City’s finest chuckled while a fleet of waiters sailed round [...]
Double the wow with a Costa Rica and Nicaragua duo September 11, 2011 SEPARATED only by a narrow land border and united by a single language, the two Central American countries of Costa Rica and Nicaragua couldn’t be more different. On one side Costa Rica, with its well-developed, well-trodden tourist trail, offers unrivalled wildlife-watching opportunities and some of the most luxurious hotels in the region. On the other, [...]
Use mobile tech to make the most of la vie amoureuse February 9, 2011 NICK BOOTH TECH TALK ANYONE whose romantic agenda is set by the retail industry deserves all the disappointment that should be coming to them. On the other hand, anyone half-clever will realise they can use their smart phones to organise their love lives efficiently. There are scores of romantic mobile match makers: Gaydar, Flirtomatic, Crush [...]
FACEBOOK: A LITTLE TOO SOCIAL NETWORK? January 23, 2011 YOU might think former Facebook president Sean Parker, who described Justin Timberlake’s portrayal of him in the movie The Social Network as “a complete fiction,” may have reason to be slightly annoyed. Trousersnake plays Parker as a Machiavellian, cocaine snorting wise guy who impresses a young Mark Zuckerberg by dating a Victoria’s Secret model. So [...]
IT’S A NEW CHANNEL, BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT February 17, 2011 WITH viewers of Virgin Media unable to watch Sky’s new flagship channel Sky Atlantic because of a failure of the two groups to agree on price, chief executive Neil Berkett and his team were keen to downplay its attractions yesterday. Berkett described the channel as “completely unproven” while a colleague somewhat contemptuously chipped in to [...]
Even an alien apocalypses can be dull March 10, 2011 Film BATTLE: LOS ANGELES Cert: 12a Only in Steven Spielberg’s head do aliens ever come in peace. So here they are invading once again, superior to us in numbers, technology, firepower and tentacles. Just like Independence Day, War of the Worlds, District 9, last year’s terribly bad Skyline, last year’s terribly good Monsters and any [...]