I’m 50 – but I feel young dining at Simpson’s in the Strand Life&Style Happy birthday to our top columnist – 50 years young and still eating out every night, especially at Simpson’s in Strand where he feels half his age As I turned 50 this weekend, with a solid celebration at Quaglino’s, a friendly journalist advised me that when it comes to writing, less is more. Or in [...]
2026 International Casino Awards: UK, Ireland & Rest of World Winners Revealed Business Wire Casinos.com has revealed the winners of the second annual International Casino Awards, in conjunction with International Casinos Day®. Voted entirely by players, the 2026 awards cover more than 100 categories across the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the rest of the world. Now in its second year, the awards range from the deeply serious, the Best [...]
Patrick Cox: Tax the rich, bring back the guillotine! Opinion Iconic 90s shoe designer Patrick Cox, and soon-to-be Cordwainer, takes us on a trip down memory lane in this week's Square Mile and Me.
I had 261,305 unread emails: What I learned from my Inbox Zero experiment April 21, 2026 After hitting over a quarter of a million unopened emails, Anna Moloney decided it was time to act. But can Inbox Zero actually bring peace?
The Capitalist: Ian Mckellen goes off-script at Olivier Awards April 16, 2026 Dispatch from the Olivier Awards, Jeremy King and AI sermons; catch up on the latest gossip in this week's The Capitalist.
& Sons review: Bill Nighy is immense in family drama with a twist October 16, 2025 In 2022’s Living, Bill Nighy played a dapper old gent grappling with his mortality amid the realisation life has largely passed him by. In many ways, Argentinian director Pablo Trapero’s English language debut & Sons is the equal and opposite of that film, following a broken, decrepit husk of a man who has long-since achieved [...]
Here’s what the NFL can teach football about global expansion October 16, 2025 It had taken me 18 years and 40 missed opportunities in London before I got round to seeing my first NFL game in the flesh on Sunday: an attritional contest edged by the Denver Broncos at a packed Tottenham Hotspur Stadium that looked for all intents and purposes as though it had been flown from [...]
Obituary: Ian Barbour, Capital Access Group COO and City gent October 14, 2025 Ian Barbour, who died unexpectedly last week at the age of 60, was a rare example of a true old-school City gent.
Don’t panic: What’s behind markets’ Iran-Israel indifference? June 23, 2025 Commentators have warned that an escalation in the Iran-Israel conflict could set off a chain of events that leads to the outbreak of World War 3. But markets have reacted as if the exchange of air attacks have barely happened at all. Ali Lyon digs into a puzzling few days of equities and oil trading. [...]
Genting in the red after closing Britain’s oldest casino May 14, 2025 The UK arm of Genting fell into the red in the year after closing Britain’s oldest casino, it has been revealed. The Birmingham-headquartered division made a pre-tax loss of £6.2m for 2024, having previously posted a profit of £8m in 2023. New accounts filed with Companies House also show its revenue rose over the same [...]