Swingers goes stateside: Crazy golf club to open venues in New York and Washington March 10, 2021 Crazy golf club Swingers has today announced that it will launch in the US later this year, with two new venues in Washington D.C. and New York. The long-awaited stateside expansion comes on the back of a £20m funding raise backed by private equity group Cain International. Swingers said that its new venue in Washington [...]
Private equity gets creative as it sits on record dry powder pile December 2, 2020 Private equity firms are having to get creative and look to new asset classes as they sit on record levels of dry powder. In the face of unprecedented market volatility GPs initially turned their attention to portfolio companies in the outbreak of the pandemic. But now fund managers are sitting on approximately $1.7 trillion of [...]
Sir Michael Caine shares Pele memories from working together on 1980s film set January 4, 2023 Pele, perhaps the world’s greatest footballer, but actor? The legendary Brazilian footballer died last week aged 82 after a battle with cancer, and will be remembered for scoring a Guinness World Record breaking amount of goals throughout his career. But he also appeared in seven films. In 1981 he starred opposite Sir Michael Caine in [...]
Johnson did not organise lockdown-busting party, says Number 10 April 18, 2022 Number 10 has been forced to deny that Boris Johnson organised a leaving party for a senior aide at the height of a Covid lockdown in 2020. The Sunday Times revealed that Johnson was pictured pouring drinks for people, and himself, during a November 2020 leaving event for then director of communications Lee Cain. There [...]
Letters: Work you won’t want to leave August 1, 2022 [Re: The great resignation is ripe for a backlash with a flood of boomerang employees, July 29] Mark McCain wrote that people who left their jobs during the pandemic might wind up coming back and employers should accept them with open arms. I agree it is a good thing for workplaces to bring back staff [...]
Us versus them will do nobody any good on the High Street January 14, 2021 While a new year symbolises a fresh start for many, you could be forgiven for thinking you had been planted in the film Groundhog Day but instead the calendar was stuck in 2020. Perhaps nowhere is this more the case than in the retail and hospitality industry, with Lord Sugar’s legal challenge to the planned [...]
UK Foreign Office to pay £423,000 to settle whistleblower’s employment claim July 4, 2022 The UK government has agreed to pay £423,000 to settle an employment lawsuit brought forward by one of its former prosecutors, over claims she was pushed out of her job at the Foreign Office, after she sought to blow the whistle on corruption involving suspected Kosovo criminals and officials from the EU. International prosecutor Mariah [...]
Going Nuclear: France to name new EDF boss within days September 6, 2022 France will select the new boss of state-controlled power giant EDF in the next few days, revealed the country's Finance Minister.
Hospitality redundancies: How many restaurant and pub jobs have been lost during the pandemic? February 27, 2021 How many restaurant and pub jobs have been lost during the pandemic?
Dominic Cummings claims Boris Johnson offered him peerage August 5, 2021 Dominic Cummings has claimed that Boris Johnson offered him a seat in the House of Lords as he was leaving Downing Street last year. Cummings said the Prime Minister “almost immediately started laughing” after he made the offer and that the Prime Minister “realised that that was not exactly the sort of thing that would [...]