PAUL RENNEY, a lawyer at Keystone Law, almost collected the Bafta for The King’s Speech – except the film’s producers were faster out of their seats than he was.
Renney, as the hit’s legal adviser, was a stand-in at the event for...
The Capitalist
Tuesday 7th February 2012, 2:08am
MOST SPORTSMEN keep their trophies in cabinets or on the mantelpiece. Golfer Darren Clarke uses his Open Championship silverware to pour wine.
“When I was serving the wine at Christmas from The Claret Jug; I thought ‘this is the life’,”...
Tuesday 7th February 2012, 2:08am
Laureus World Sportsman of the Year
Novak Djokovic (right)
Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year
Vivian Cheruiyot
Laureus World
Team of the Year
FC Barcelona
Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year...
Monday 6th February 2012, 4:28am
AS USEFUL as a bank holiday might have been today for those of you valiantly battling to make it to work through the snow, we’re all going to have to wait another few months before the Queen’s official Diamond Jubilee festivities afford the City...
Monday 6th February 2012, 4:26am
A GROUP of six Credit Suisse bankers took themselves to Gaucho for an early lunch last Thursday – and left more than £2,000 poorer after a rather unusual last-minute addition to their bill. After a traditional steak dinner mixing and matching...
Friday 3rd February 2012, 1:58am
LUCAS VAN Praag was well-known for firing cerebral, elegantly worded scorn on anyone who crossed paths with Goldman Sachs. So the PR man’s exit from the bank, as confirmed yesterday, was similarly well-phrased.
“C’est la vie,” emailed...
Thursday 2nd February 2012, 1:26am
EVER WONDERED how former BP and Lehman Brothers spinner Andrew Gowers ended up as a strategic consultant to the Association for Financial Markets in Europe?
The appointment of the one-time FT editor last November was a “seamless transition...
Wednesday 1st February 2012, 1:00am
MITCHELLS & BUTLERS offered him a “senior role” following his resignation as chief executive of hotel group Malmaison last September.
But Robert Cook turned down the chance to help chairman Bob Ivell steer the FTSE 250 pub group into...
Tuesday 31st January 2012, 1:10am
BE PREPARED – such an important quality. Especially when you are planning a large-scale sporting event that will bring widespread chaos – sorry, a million extra economy-boosting visitors – to the capital.
But panic not, because the...
Monday 30th January 2012, 3:30am
IGNORANCE is bliss.
Just ask the children at PwC’s performance of Aladdin, who “didn’t have a clue” that the pantomime dames parading in front of them included four of the Big Four firm’s most senior auditors: Richard Oldfield, Richard...
Editor's Letter
Allister Heath
UK can’t count on others messing up
THERE are two ways a country can do well. The first is to introduce domestic policies that boost work,...
