Football Betting Tips: Reds can keep pressure on City with entertaining final day win May 9, 2019 WHAT a remarkable few days it’s been. We witnessed one of the great European comebacks at Anfield on Tuesday, where despite the absences of Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino, Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool climbed a seemingly impossible mountain to overturn a three-goal deficit and knock Barcelona out of the Champions League. If that wasn’t enough, Tottenham [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Presidential can trump his rivals in the Victoria Cup May 9, 2019 ON A very busy afternoon of racing, Ascot hosts a decent card where the highlight is the Tote Victoria Cup (4.00pm). This is the first of a number of big seven furlong handicaps at the Berkshire course during the Flat season and last year’s winner Ripp Orf is back to defend his crown. David Elsworth’s [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Back Francais to throw his Cap in the Derby ring May 9, 2019 PREPARING a horse for Epsom is difficult to say the least. The tight left-turning and undulating track is unique, and many horses, no matter how good, simply do not act on it. Tomorrow’s Racebets Lingfield Derby Trial (2.30pm) gives trainers a chance to overcome part of that fear by testing their Classic hopes over something [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Cleonte can strike again for Balding in the Chester Cup May 9, 2019 LOOKING at the previous winners of this afternoon’s SportPesa Chester Cup (3.35pm) and there is one surprising omission from the list of successful trainers. Mark Johnston, who last season became the most successful trainer in British racing history when he saddled his 4194th career victory, does not appear on the roll of honour. Yet, that [...]
To secure our future, make climate change risk reporting mandatory May 9, 2019 Twenty years ago, during a seminar for my management degree at the LSE, I raised my hand to ask a question about corporate social responsibility, and my classmates looked at me with puzzled expressions, as if I was rather off-topic. Gone was the 1960s radicalism of the institution, and instead chasing the highest-paying banking internship [...]
When women ruled the coding world: Female programmers have been written out of history – it’s time to turn back the clock May 9, 2019 Coding was once a field dominated by women. From the 1940s to the 1960s, about 90 per cent of computer programmers and systems analysts in the US were female. Hardware was largely run by men, but software was treated as clerical work and offered to women who were good at maths and logical thinking. In [...]
We must not attempt to bring the failed Iran Deal back to life May 9, 2019 The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), signed in a fanfare of publicity in 2015 between Iran and six countries, was hailed at the time as the way to curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In exchange for suspending its nuclear programme, Iran would secure massive sanctions relief. The world would be free from the menace of [...]
Debenhams versus Mike Ashley: Something has gone horribly wrong May 9, 2019 Magpies are among the world’s cleverest animals. Prone to cunning theft from other nests, they enjoy a surprising degree of protection. Foiled Debenhams suitor Mike Ashley won’t miss the irony that while his Newcastle United Football Club is nicknamed after these swooping robbers, a marauding band of debtholders have led a planned effort to steal [...]
DEBATE: With Uber drivers striking over pay and conditions, is the gig economy bad news for workers? May 9, 2019 With Uber drivers striking over pay and conditions, is the gig economy bad news for workers? Dalia Gebrial, researcher on the gig economy and workers’ rights at the London School of Economics, says YES. The gig economy is currently rigged against workers. Platforms like Uber hide behind their status as tech firms, rather than employers, to [...]
Time for South Africa to heed Mandela’s call and embrace the free market May 9, 2019 When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, the then President of South Africa, F. W. De Klerk, estimated that at least half of the upper echelons of the African National Congress party were either Communist or Soviet-bloc trained. Consequently, when Apartheid was ended, economic expectations for the country were poor. Just as the [...]