Cruise control: The world’s best river cruises for wine lovers February 15, 2022 Sailing along the mighty rivers of Europe can be a delight for the palate as well as the eye. A new generation of river cruises will allow discerning passengers to taste their way through the land of the noble grape: fine Austrian Sekt; chilled tawny Port; and Riesling from Franconia in the northwest of Bavaria. [...]
Strange dreams: Lessons from the life of Paul Simon August 29, 2024 An essay on what I have absorbed over a lifetime listening to Paul Simon What do you need to make a musical career? I’d say it comes down to one thing: a talent for immediacy. If you don’t have it, the chances are you’ll lose out to someone who does. I remember when I first [...]
Fortnum & Mason hires former John Lewis and Matches Fashion exec as new CEO November 3, 2020 Fortnum & Mason has appointed a former John Lewis and Matches Fashion executive as its new boss. Tom Athron will join the Piccadilly department store on 1 December, to replace current chief executive Ewan Venters who will step down in January 2021. Athron was most recently the chief operating officer of luxury fashion website Matches [...]
Global vaccine programmes: How do they compare? October 25, 2021 While the UK was one of the first nations to begin the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines, it has fallen behind in the race for full inoculation. So, how do global vaccination programmes compare? Portugal Leading the world’s vaccination success is Portugal, with 82.82 per cent of its population having received both doses as of [...]
Investor says NFTs are being ‘suffocated in the Ethereum bubble’ November 19, 2021 Alex Mitrovich is both an investor and an entrepreneur, but the latter definitely comes first, as Jillian Godsil discovers.
Beijing has done irreparable damage to Hong Kong after freezing top media mogul’s assets May 19, 2021 On Friday, the owner of Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy newspaper had his assets, amounting to HKD$500 million, frozen. Mr Lai was already facing trumped up charges under the National Security Law, but this step is the biggest blow to date for press freedoms and puts the long-run viability of his newspaper, Apple Daily, into question. [...]
Wall Street flat but FTSE ticks up as investors await inflation data June 7, 2021 Wall Street’s main indexes were muted this afternoon as investors stayed on the fence ahead of key inflation data this week, while tech stocks shrugged off a G7 agreement on a new global corporate tax minimum. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 dipped 0.46 and 0.26 per cent respectively by early evening trading. [...]
Chernobyl effect drives British TV exports to record high November 26, 2020 The value of UK TV exports hit a record high last year as blockbuster dramas such as Chernobyl sparked a boom in international demand. Hit TV shows generated £1.48bn in the year to March, a six per cent increase year on year, according to figures from industry body Pact. Scripted drama was the key driver [...]
John McAfee found dead in his Spanish prison cell June 23, 2021 Computing legend John McAfee has been found dead in his prison cell – just weeks after his devoted wife said her husband faced dying behind bars.
West Ham United and the London Stadium have been good for each other – legacy chiefs should do a new deal to give the club more control September 2, 2021 This isn’t the article I expected to write; I went back to the London Stadium to bury it not to praise it. Instead, I came away with a deeper understanding of just what a valuable asset West Ham United Football Club has become. Nine years on from London 2012 and four from the World Athletics [...]