Blood, guts and dead foxes abound in bio-disaster horror Human Animals May 26, 2016 Who doesn’t love foxes? Those pointy orange chaperones of the night. Those bushy tailed wardens of the bins. Not quite a dog, but not quite a cat either, so-called scientists have yet to explain away their alluring vulpine mysteries. In dystopian horror Human Animals, the foxes (along with the pigeons and the mice and every [...]
George Osborne should turn attention from cutting corporation tax to helping smaller businesses July 6, 2016 The Chancellor’s biggest ever policy U-turn appears to have snuck under the radar amid the political resignations, betrayals and leadership bids currently dominating the headlines. On Sunday, Mr Osborne announced that he plans to cut corporation tax to less than 15 per cent in an effort to attract companies deterred from doing business in a [...]
Stocks and sterling show signs of life in mini-recovery after market rout June 15, 2016 Markets jumped in the first minutes of trading this morning and the pound rose against the dollar, clawing back some of yesterday's losses. The FTSE 100 climbed 0.8 per cent at the open, but was still below 6,000 points at 5,972 following yesterday's rout. Standard Chartered, Anglo American, Antofagasta, Glencore, Burberry and Tesco were the [...]
At the close: FTSE 100 back on the up as markets and sterling recover some lost ground June 15, 2016 The FTSE 100 ended a four-day losing streak and sterling recovered some of its lost ground in a reassuring day for the markets. After yesterday's routing which wiped £30bn from the UK's leading companies, the blue chip index ended up 0.7 per cent at 5,966.80. That wasn't enough, however, to offset even half of yesterday's dramatic losses, [...]
Ex-Spurs and West Ham forward Jermain Defoe backed for spot in England’s Euro 2016 squad May 9, 2016 Former Tottenham and West Ham marksman Jermain Defoe can fill the void left by Arsenal forward Danny Welbeck should his Euro 2016 aspirations be shattered by a knee injury, according to Sunderland boss Sam Allardyce. Defoe, 33, has netted 15 of Sunderland’s 43 Premier League goals this term, including Saturday’s winner over Chelsea which, coupled [...]
It’s official: Cat videos are good for your health June 18, 2015 Most of us are guilty of whiling away the odd five minutes with, for instance, a video of a cat contemptuously batting a candle off a table. But a new study suggests those minutes aren't wasted – because watching cat videos is actually good for you. According to Jessica Gall Myrick, a researcher at Indiana University [...]
Who’s in and who’s out of Jeremy Corbyn’s frontbench team? June 27, 2016 The Labour Party has been plunged into turmoil following the EU referendum result, with mass resignations, a leader who insists he is going nowhere and the prospect of bitter leadership battles in both the Labour and Conservative parties this summer. With the string of frontbench resignations stacking up and Jeremy Corbyn himself scrambling to announce replacements, for [...]
Brexit is a chance to be even bolder on corporation tax cuts and infrastructure to unleash Britain’s competitive dynamo July 6, 2016 US foreign policy was said to have undergone a pivot towards Asia and a reset towards Russia during the first Obama administration. Those two words, pivot and reset, could now be applied to UK economic policy in the wake of Brexit. The pivot is a new potential focus on reducing the tax burden to boost [...]
WhatsApp’s new desktop app is about to ruin workplace productivity May 11, 2016 As if an Internet full of listicles, cat videos, Twitter storms (and perhaps the odd bit of news) weren't enough of a distraction while you're trying to get some work done, there's a new diversion from the daily grind coming to your desktop. Messaging app WhatsApp is escaping the confines of your smartphone and has now arrived on Windows PCs and Apple Macs [...]
EU referendum: Both campaigns have let women down June 23, 2016 In between trying to understand why your child is growing up so fast and working long hours at the office, most working mothers might forget that they are women with their own needs too, because the last thing you tend to think about is yourself. But every now and then, you have a once-in-a-lifetime event like Brexit [...]