Enjoy a taste of Argentina at Garufa’s sister restaurant November 5, 2012 RESTAURANT GARUFIN 8b Lamb’s Conduit Passage, WC1R 4RG Tel: 020 7430 9073 FOOD *** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE **** Cost for two people with wine £60 I’ve always been convinced that I’d fit in pretty comfortably in Argentina. After all, it is known for its meat, beef especially, and as a self-confessed steak junkie, the idea [...]
High childcare costs needn’t give you a case of baby blues November 25, 2012 RISING childcare costs are deterring British mothers from returning to work. According to a 2011 Eurostat survey, 48.8 per cent of women with three or more children are in employment in the UK, compared with 71.3 per cent in the Netherlands and 68.2 in Finland. But family formation patterns have changed over the past few [...]
Prime London property prices still soaring up September 24, 2012 PRIME London property registered another quarter of booming growth in the three months to September, estate agent data revealed yesterday. Prime property prices grew 0.5 per cent between the second and third quarters, capping off growth totalling five per cent over the year, the research from Savills showed. Contrasting with the picture in much of [...]
Why capital controls are an economic and political disgrace March 26, 2013 THERE is something truly terrifying about capital controls, the harsh restrictions that may soon be imposed on Cypriots. The freedom to take your money out of a country, and into another, at will and with no taxes, is an essential bulwark of a free society. It is also a central tool in a world of [...]
Piccadilly Circus Circus takes the big top to the West End September 2, 2012 CENTRAL London played host to a pop-up Big Top yesterday, as for one day only the Piccadilly Circus Circus rolled into town. Baffled shoppers were treated to hula-hoopers, acrobats and jugglers all afternoon, culminating in an aerial performance across Piccadilly at sunset. The transformation from tourist trap to surrealist carnival was part of the London [...]
London Report: FTSE pares back losses after ECB weighs rate cut November 20, 2013 THE UK’s FTSE 100 was dragged down yesterday by heavyweight stocks such as Vodafone trading ex-dividend, but briefly pared its losses after a report that the European Central Bank was considering negative deposit rates. Bloomberg reported that the ECB was considering a cut in its deposit rate to minus 0.1 per cent from the current [...]
Dazzling Shard has inadvertent effect of blinding train drivers September 19, 2012 THE SHARD may be one of the capital’s top landmarks but the decision to erect a 1,016ft tall wall of glass in central London has its downsides. In certain weather conditions the building acts as a giant mirror for the sun and The Capitalist has learned that as a result some train drivers approaching London Bridge [...]
Derwent London boosted by buoyant West End demand August 22, 2012 DERWENT London yesterday reported better-than-expected half year results, buoyed by strong demand from tech and media firms queuing to take up space in the West End. The developer, which owns swathes of property across Victoria, Fitzrovia and Shoreditch, said it achieved a 4.1 per cent rise in net asset value to 1,770p per share in [...]
Bluewater set to get bigger August 6, 2012 THE BLUEWATER shopping centre in Kent is in line for an expansion, after Lend Lease said yesterday it has begun a consultation on the move, which the firm claims would create up to 1,500 new jobs. The Australian property firm hopes to extend the 1.6m square foot mall by around a fifth. The application for [...]
Letters to the Editor February 18, 2013 The capital's roads [Re: Congestion charge after ten years: it’s time to be bolder, yesterday] Baroness Valentine is right that the congestion charge scheme could be bigger, bolder and more sophisticated. But this is unlikely to be acceptable to motorists, or to deliver sustainable improvements to the quality of roads in London, given our existing [...]