Moody’s unable to tolerate BT’s weaker operating trading figures January 26, 2017 A leading ratings agency has cut the outlook of telecoms giant BT after revealing its patience had run out. On the eve of BT revealing its third quarter trading figures, Moody's changed the group's outlook from stable to negative. The news comes as another blow to the FTSE 100 firm after it revealed on Tuesday a £530m accounting [...]
The full transcript of Donald Trump’s inaugural address speech January 20, 2017 Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Here's what he said. "Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you. "We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country [...]
Trump the brash succeeds Obama the failure, but the inauguration itself is a thing of beauty January 20, 2017 Don't drag your feet on the way out, Mr President. Even in these uncertain times, the fear of what comes next can’t sugar-coat the agony of what came before. No doubt we’ve all been charmed by President Obama these past few months. Our awareness of who is to follow, combined with the more easy-going nature of [...]
This is not a drill: Private equity giant in £1bn power tool company takeover January 13, 2017 Private equity giant KKR is drilling further into Japan with a deal to buy a power tool company. KKR’s HK Holdings has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Hitachi Koki, valuing the company at $1.3bn (£1.1bn). Some 40.25 per cent of the company is being bought from Hitachi and 10.9 per cent from Hitachi [...]
The Kite Runner at Wyndham’s Theatre is competent and compelling but never really takes off January 12, 2017 If you weren’t content with only a book and a film, now The Kite Runner has been turned into a West End play. Fresh from a tour of the UK, this remarkably stripped back production could have done with a little beefing up now it’s found a stable home for a few months. The vast, [...]
Make 2017 a year of celebration – not the suffocation of London’s Night Time Economy January 5, 2017 We live in interesting times. This term, actually a Chinese curse, reflects all the hope, possibility and opportunity of a period – as well as the worst that we can imagine from it. What has been “interesting” recently is the overwhelming cultural and political view that the British public is a nasty species that requires [...]
Time to kill over the holidays? Here are the best games of 2016 December 21, 2016 Superhot A first-person shooter in which time only moves when you move, Superhot strips down gunfights to the fundamentals. Each level is a short Jon Woo-style action film vignette – a bar brawl, a heist – in which you plan your moves precisely, dodging gunfire and grabbing weapons in mid-air as they fly from the [...]
Horse racing betting tips: Valseur Lido ready to drive away from his rivals in Lexus December 21, 2016 There is some top class jumping action on the other side of the Irish Sea with the four-day Leopardstown Christmas Festival. The highlight is always Wednesday’s Lexus Chase (3.00pm) where Gigginstown House Stud will be trying to win the Grade One for the third straight year. I think they can do it, as I was [...]
Cross party MPs want to amend key bill and have tax clampdown extended to overseas territories December 20, 2016 A cross-party group of MPs will today up the ante on the UK's overseas territories, hoping to force them to adopt the same transparency laws as the rest of Britain. 80 MPs from across seven parties will support adjustments to the Criminal Finances Bill stipulating the UK's overseas territories, such as the British Virgin Islands and Cayman [...]
Yahoo would be liable to pay a $198m fine were GDPR already enforced December 19, 2016 At the dawn of the internet, Google and Yahoo were in stiff competition for search dominance. Many think the former’s success was due in part to its name becoming a ubiquitous verb for searching online. But decades on, semantic development has finally caught up with Yahoo. Its name is now synonymous with bad data practice. [...]