AirAsia plans boost to Airbus plane deal July 6, 2011 AIRASIA is understood to be close to buying an extra 100 A320neo jets from Airbus, in a deal that would make the budget airline one of the world’s largest carriers. Last month the Malaysian airline’s owner, Tony Fernandes, stormed into the Paris Air show ordering a record-breaking 200 revamped A320 planes for £10.5bn – the [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK | FILM, MUSIC, GAMES June 2, 2011 FILM LAST NIGHT Dull tale of minor middle class marital strife with Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington. SCREWED Noel Clarke is the protagonist in this tough but seen-it-all-before Brit prison flick. MAMMUTH A tremendous performance from Gerard Depardieu in this original French comedy. DVD JUST GO WITH IT Just avoid this hideous rom com with [...]
Working abroad has huge career benefits August 3, 2011 PEOPLE often describe international travel as “eye opening,” but rarely do they say it is good for your career. But research published in the Harvard Business Review shows that people who have international experience or identify with more than one nationality are better problem solvers and display more creativity. Better still, it seems that they [...]
Working abroad has huge career benefits August 3, 2011 PEOPLE often describe international travel as “eye opening,” but rarely do they say it is good for your career. But research published in the Harvard Business Review shows that people who have international experience or identify with more than one nationality are better problem solvers and display more creativity. Better still, it seems that they [...]
OUT THIS WEEKEND June 30, 2011 FILM AS IF I AM NOT THERE Gritty, gripping drama set during the Bosnian War. A SEPARATION A beautifully made, small-scale Iranian drama of life and love. DELHI BELLY A Bollywood gross-out comedy, about three flatmates getting into scrapes in Delhi. DVD SEASON OF THE WITCH Nicolas Cage is a medieval knight – yeah, right [...]
Apple reaches top of the world – but will it stay there? August 22, 2011 @steve_dinneen LAST week Apple achieved what even a year ago seemed all-but impossible – it became the biggest company in the world. In shuffling, albeit briefly, past oil giant Exxon Mobil, it joined an ultra-exclusive club of just 10 companies to have held the top spot in the history of the S&P 500. And unlike [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEKEND June 23, 2011 FILM COUNTDOWN TO ZERO Disturbing documentary about the nuclear weapons industry. Be afraid. CUTTER’S WAY Re-release for the lauded Seventies thriller, starring a dashing young Jeff Bridges. INCENDIES A gruelling drama set in Canada and the Middle East by Quebecois director Dominic Villeneuve. DVD BON IVER Eponymous sophomore album from soulful, talented singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. [...]
Jeep’s… back July 5, 2011 Us Brits should be forgiven for thinking Land Rover invented the luxury 4×4 with the Range Rover brand. In fact it was Jeep with its Wagoneer that created the segment, and by the mid 1990s, its successor, the Jeep Grand Cherokee, was just about everywhere in the US and ubiquitous in London too. Then sales [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING July 3, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES JLR IN 50 PER CENT BOOST TO SPENDING Jaguar Land Rover is to boost its spending on products by 50 per cent from about £1bn to £1.5bn as the UK’s largest premium carmaker prepares to launch the most important vehicle since Tata Motors bought the group from Ford Motor three years ago. CHI-X [...]
Take a property trip back in time and live in 1950s glamour July 28, 2011 EXCITEMENT about The Hour, hailed as the British Mad Men, has been building for months. With the first episodes of the series about BBC executives in 1956, having been aired, Londoners now have their very own answer to the Madison Avenue of Don Draper and co. But unlike the skyscrapers of mid-town Manhattan or the [...]