Exclusive: STV’s boss on the BBC and conquering the world as Scotland’s peaktime leader September 27, 2022 The British broadcasting sector is hit by one challenge after the next. Following the rapid rise of the likes of Netflix in recent years, the next hurdle presented itself when the pandemic struck two years ago. As a result, the advertising market is under huge pressure and many national and regional broadcasters are struggling to [...]
The Snail House: Richard Eyre makes debut aged 79 September 16, 2022 During the Covid pandemic, one of the positive effects of people being locked in their homes was the release of pent-up creativity. For most this began and ended with attempts to make sourdough bread, but others were considerably more productive. For instance Richard Eyre, the former director of the National Theatre, returned to writing, and [...]
Ollie Phillips: The Premiership is by far the best league in the world September 16, 2022 Last week’s Premiership action further convinced me that the English Premiership is the best league in the world. Other than Worcester Warriors’ loss at London Irish, where the troubled away side were understandably rusty, I really couldn’t have called which way the other matches would go. How Gloucester turned around a 21-point deficit was astonishing, [...]
Legal sector hits back at EU calls for regulation of third-party litigation funders September 14, 2022 Lawyers and litigation funders have hit back at EU plans to regulate the third-party litigation financing industry in claiming new rules could limit access to justice. The clashes come after the EU parliament on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favour of adopting a report by German MEP Axel Voss calling for new regulation of Europe’s [...]
Climate sceptic Bjorn Lomborg’s stark warning: ‘People will rebel against green policies’ September 14, 2022 Climate sceptic Bjorn Lomborg is President of the Copenhagen Consensus and Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Today he explains in City A.M. why green policies will simply not work. The disconnect between the global elite and the real world is growing by the day. Most people are worn down by the pandemic, food [...]
Google gears up for £20bn ‘ad tech’ claim that it pushes revenues away from newspapers September 13, 2022 Google is being sued for up to €25bn (£21.6bn) over claims it has deprived other sites from obtaining billions of pounds in advertising revenues. The class action complaints from both UK and the Netherlands argue that the Silicon Valley giant used its advertising tech to unfairly sideline publishers, like newspapers, magazine and blogs. The main [...]
Claimants pile into Dogecoin lawsuit against Elon Musk September 8, 2022 A $258bn lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of running a “crypto pyramid scheme” to bolster the price of Dogecoin has expanded to include seven new claimants and six defendants, including The Boring Company. The lawsuit, first filed in a New York federal court in June, accuses the world’s richest man of running a ponzi scheme by [...]
Keeping up with private equity: Kim Kardashian launches investment firm with former Carlyle exec September 7, 2022 Having dabbled in the world of crypto, Kim Kardashian is now turning her hand to private equity.
Ed Warner: Andrew Strauss, ECB and What It Takes To Win September 1, 2022 It doesn’t yet look like a camel, but Andrew Strauss’s committee to propel English cricket to the top of the world and keep it there has come up with a discussion document that doesn’t quite resemble a thoroughbred racehorse. Once it’s been through the wringer of consultation with the members of the 18 first class [...]
Truss refuses to reveal cost of living plans until she has the keys to No 10 August 30, 2022 Members of Liz Truss’s team have confirmed the Tory leadership frontrunner will not finalise her plans for crucial cost-of-living support before receiving the “full support and advice” only available to the government of the day. The public will likely be forced to wait to find out what help they will get with skyrocketing energy bills [...]