Restaurant review of Jason Atherton’s Sosharu and Soho’s Oliver Maki, London’s newest Japanese upstarts April 5, 2016 Oliver Maki 33 Dean St, W1D 4PWS | Tel: 020 7734 0408 Food ★★★☆☆ Value ★★★☆☆ Atmostphere ★★☆☆☆ Cost for two with beer and cocktails: £170 There’s no easy way to make a million in the restaurant business. It’s a Sisyphean struggle, an endless, mostly thankless, battle against astonishing odds. Every year is the year it could all come [...]
EU referendum: Here’s the “positive case” for staying in the EU, according to David Cameron May 27, 2016 When David Cameron set the date for the EU referendum back in February, he told the world you’d never catch him talking down Britain. A few months, some close opinion polls and a two slightly dodgy dossiers of Treasury analysis later, and that “positive case” for staying in the EU seems a distant memory. “Project Fear” [...]
Industry veteran John Spiers of EQ Investors talks Brexit, robo-advice and the future of investment March 31, 2016 For industry veteran John Spiers, successful investment is like cooking a gourmet dinner. “Even if you take the effort and go down to Borough Market and buy some really good ingredients, unless you select them in the context of the other ones, you could end up with a very unpleasant meal.” And this, he says, [...]
Galley on Upper Street in Islington is nice: but we should aim higher February 23, 2016 We can afford to be discerning about things, us Londoners, what with all the lovely London stuff we have, Londoning the place up. “Isn’t everything here great compared to the things in places that aren’t London?” we say to each other, smiling and knowing it to be true. Take restaurants: we have heaps of them, [...]
Why America must now save tragic Europe from itself April 4, 2016 Thessaloniki – I sit, as I write this, perched atop my glorious hotel, in this lovely, vibrant northern Greek city, staring lovingly into the wine-dark sea that is Homer’s Aegean. At the height of the euro crisis last year, things became so bad that café life – the glory of modern Greece – ground to a [...]
Prepare to salivate: John Lewis predicts the 10 things we’re going to go nuts for in autumn/winter 2016 April 22, 2016 Yes, the summer has only just arrived (or has it? Is this really it?) but retailers are already one step ahead of us, forecasting what we'll be buying this autumn/winter. Well it is only 246 days until Christmas. So while you might be daydreaming about which holiday clothes you're going to splurge on, the buyers [...]
Why does Stephen Hawking hate the future? January 31, 2016 When it comes to modern day scientists none have managed to punch through into the collective psyche of our society more than Stephen Hawking. From his incredible ambition to explain the theory of everything through to his brilliant performances (in all senses of the word) on comedy and primetime TV shows, he has become the [...]
These are the four things which have the ECB’s top economist worried April 4, 2016 Eyebrows may well have been raised at the European Central Bank (ECB) this morning after its chief economist said the organisation was in danger of losing credibility. Peter Praet, who also sits on the ECB’s six-strong executive board with the Bank’s president, Mario Draghi, said that low inflation was bringing into question the ECB’s remit [...]
From Mario Draghi on markets to Yanis Varoufakis on creditors: This is 2015 in quotes December 14, 2015 It’s been an action packed year – for better or worse. We’ve had a General Election, watched Greece come close to exiting the Eurozone, witnessed a Chinese economic slowdown and near financial crash- and the year isn’t even over. Here's what the world's good and great had to say while 2015 was happening… Sean Rad [...]
Falanx Group’s John Blamire talks listing a shell company, intelligent fridges and going from army officer to entrepeneur February 15, 2016 I think I’d just been given one too many orders,” laughs John Blamire, founder of Falanx Group. The entrepreneur spent the first chunk of his career as an officer in the British Army, serving in Northern Ireland, Iraq and the Falklands. In 2001, he was responsible for creating a strategic-level intelligence unit in a high-risk [...]