SELL September 1, 2011 DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL LONDON ESTATE AGENT KAY & CO Q.I have had my property on the market for six months with two different agents. I have had over fifty viewings, but only two offers, and they were both at a discount of 30 per cent of the asking price. The second agent has been telling [...]
A great British bone-chiller September 1, 2011 Film KILL LIST Cert: 18 Rating: ***** WELL, here’s something unusual. A nerve-shredding British thriller that’s perfectly acted, brutally effective in its plotting and script and completely gripping. Director Ben Wheatley may have put it together with very little budget, but it has “instant classic” written all over it. Neil Maskell (Football Factory) plays Jay, [...]
FILM HIGHLIGHTS September 1, 2011 THE DEBT Helen Mirren and Tom Wilkinson star in this taut spy thriller about retired Mossad agents whose past – as played out by younger actors Jessica Chastain and Sam Worthington – comes back to haunt them. FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis step up to the A-List in a romantic comedy that [...]
theatre HIGHLIGHTS THIS AUTUMN eight of the best September 1, 2011 THE TEMPEST Theatre Royal, Haymarket Ralph Fiennes, soon to be starring in his own film version of Shakespeare’s play Coriolanus, takes on the iconic role of Prospero in this must-see production (see right). It’s the first major London staging of the Bard’s mysterious final play in years, and also happens to offer the prospect of [...]
London’s rent continues to edge upward August 31, 2011 STRONG demand and weak supply continues to hike up London rents, with many young people struggling to get a step onto the property ladder. “Rental growth in London and the south has outperformed the rest of the country, though all regions have seen a pickup in rents,” the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said [...]
British mortgage sales decline across the board August 31, 2011 MORTGAGE sales in the year to April sank to their lowest rate since the Financial Services Authority (FSA) began gathering the figures in 2005, it emerged yesterday. “Overall, mortgage sales declined by seven per cent from 2009-10 to 2010-11,” the FSA said. The decline was across the board, with sales of mortgages to first-time buyers, [...]
Stay in touch on the move August 31, 2011 HAVING a Bluetooth headset permanently stuck in your ear is pretty much at the epicentre of uncool. However, if you’re someone who travels a lot, at some point you have to accept that it’s a necessity. Plug-in headphones with a microphone attachment really don’t cut the mustard if you’ve important calls to make, while Bluetooth [...]
Gadgets, technology and luxury on the waves August 31, 2011 PUTTING THE SUPER IN SUPERYACHT Watch out Roman, there’s about to be a new superyacht in town – literally. The Big Fish, a remarkable boat that’s designed equally for adventure on the high seas as it is for sitting in the marinas of Monaco and Mustique, will be appearing on the Thames tomorrow, mooring at [...]
THE NEW SONY RANGE AT A GLANCE August 31, 2011 1. 6” EREADER WITH ENHANCED TOUCHSCREEN E-readers from Sony have always looked the part; the problem is nobody buys them. This version is the lightest reader in the world, again using E-ink paper. It will offer connectivity to public libraries in the US but the decider will be price. 2. SONY TABLET P MULTITOUCH FLIP-SCREEN [...]
Das Kapital: only this time, it’s erotic, says LSE fellow August 31, 2011 HONEY MONEY: THE POWER OF EROTIC CAPITAL BY CATHERINE HAKIM ALLEN LANE, £20 THE best way to create a stir is to publish a book that claims that sex sells, and should do so more. Better yet, embed the claim in an argument for women to think and do more – not less – about [...]