You don’t need more ‘me-time’, you need to do your job better May 16, 2017 Have you seen a memo that Steve Harvey, the star comedian and host of the eponymous US talk show, had sent to his studio staff? If you have not, you should. The memo, leaked to a blogger last week, outlines the rules of staff conduct on set. “Do not wait in any hallway to speak [...]
Organic, natural candles are the only way to go. Here are a few brands to get you started March 10, 2017 Flickering candlelight – there’s nothing like it to bring warmth, romance and life to a room. As we transition from cosy nights in to entertaining for spring outdoors, lighting candles lifts the spirits. They’re so hot right now, there’s even a new kind of consultant whose job it is to create signature scents for the [...]
Property of the Week: This former hosepipe factory in Peckham is made for people who love hidden bookcases February 8, 2017 The Hosepipe Factory, Peckham, £2.295m It’s surprisingly easy to walk past this enormous former hosepipe factory. I did, three times, to be exact, pacing between a timber merchants and a row of Victorian terraced houses. Eventually, I spot the estate agent from Urban Spaces and he ushers me past a slim electric gate, like he’s [...]
How London can turn the cyber-attack onslaught into an opportunity April 14, 2016 Whether it be the spectre of terror attack or catastrophic flood, reinsurance pools across the globe have historically been developed to handle the kind of risk judged too great for the insurance industry to bear alone. When the IRA bombed the Baltic Exchange in 1992, the scale of physical damage to buildings in the City [...]
Are we more or less happy after the Brexit vote? January 15, 2017 The unexpected and shock result of the vote to leave Europe is just one of the events that has in recent months illustrated an increasingly divided world. But, in this new territory of uncertain times, fake news, and where it sometime feels like up is down and black is white, just what effect is that having on [...]
Blame France’s incompetent and corrupt elite for the rise of Marine Le Pen February 13, 2017 “Apres moi, le deluge.” (After me comes the flood) – Louis XV Say what you will, Francois Fillon, the disgraced former frontrunner in the upcoming French presidential elections, is no Professor Moriarty. As the investigative journal Canard Enchaine reports, Fillon paid his wife Penelope over €800,000 for work as a political assistant it is unclear whether [...]
Direct Line Insurance Group share price rises as it reveals its estimated costs of the storms of up to £140m, while PwC predicts a mixed bag for premiums this year January 12, 2016 Direct Line Insurance Group today revealed that it estimated that this winter’s floods would cost it between £110m and £140m in claims across both its home and commercial divisions. The company stressed that these figures were estimates only and that an actual amount for insured losses could not be given with certainty for some while. After [...]
VIDEO: Burst water main leaves Muswell Hill Road under eight inches of water October 10, 2016 Cars and gardens in Muswell Hill were left under eight inches of water after a water main burst. A spokesman for the London Fire Brigade said fire fighters had been called just after 2.30pm, and that the flood had seeped into eight basement properties. "We're pumping water away using sandbags to prevent the water from going further [...]
T2 Trainspotting review: lashings of nostalgia carry this long-overdue sequel, with Ewan McGregor and Johnny Lee Miller at their magnetic best January 27, 2017 It’s 21 years since Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting became every teenage boy’s favourite movie. His meditation on wasted youth was bleak, but also tinged with an optimism that reflected the national mood. Sure, there was addiction and poverty and death and despair, but Blair was about to be elected and Britpop was playing on radios across [...]
Superwoman Horlick sees referendum fallout from lack of investment and seeks clarity on “Brexit means Brexit” October 3, 2016 CITY veteran Nicola Horlick, once dubbed superwoman for combining a stellar career in fund management with a large family, has warned that Brexit could have an impact on peer-to-peer lenders such as her venture Money&Co. “Inevitably, large businesses will delay investment into the UK. So this will have an impact on smaller businesses and if [...]