You’re fired: Why the Apprentice is bad for business October 16, 2019 If you have been meaning to catch up on the latest instalment of the BBC’s long-running reality series The Apprentice, allow me to save you the time. Last week saw one set of brash egomaniacs with largely questionable entrepreneurial instincts facing off against another, with both teams struggling to demonstrate even the most basic set [...]
Focus On Victoria: A £4bn investment has completely changed the area from dowdy offices to shiny penthouses and hip restaurants March 5, 2018 If the Queen’s getting a £369m refurbishment of Buckingham Palace, it seems only fair that the neighbourhood surrounding it should get a polish, too. £4bn should just about cover it, and that’s how much has been invested in the area by developer Land Securities over the last five years. Around £700m of that has gone [...]
Storm Doris: A man has been injured in an incident at Victoria station February 23, 2017 A man has been hospitalised after receiving a head injury when he was hit by falling debris caused by high winds at Victoria station. The London Ambulance Service was called at 2.59pm to reports of an incident on Victoria Street, and sent an ambulance crew, a single responder in a car, an incident response officer and [...]
Focus On Victoria: A £4bn investment in housing, retail and infrastructure is making it a destination in its own right February 10, 2017 If the Queen’s getting a £369m refurbishment of Buckingham Palace, it seems only fair that the neighbourhood surrounding it should get a polish, too. £4bn should just about cover it, and that’s how much has been invested in the area by developer Land Securities over the last five years. Around £700bn of that has gone [...]
Testing Tesla: The EV company is as famous for the behaviour of its boss as it is for its silent motors; but what are they like to drive? July 5, 2018 If the scent of lavender and the feel of Lycra on clammy flesh are your kind of thing, you won’t find anywhere better than cycling mecca La Coquillade. Set in the hills of the Petit Luberon, a rosé-growing idyll between Avignon and Aix-en-Provence, this hotel has been created by a Tour de France team owner [...]
Tesla Model S 100D review: Only famous for its unpredictable boss or genuinely good to drive? July 2, 2018 If the scent of lavender and the feel of Lycra on clammy flesh are your kind of thing, you won’t find anywhere better than cycling mecca La Coquillade. Set in the hills of the Petit Luberon, a rosé-growing idyll between Avignon and Aix-en-Provence, this hotel has been created by a Tour de France team owner [...]
Odds on Donald Trump winning US presidential election slashed November 1, 2016 Donald Trump’s odds of winning the US presidential election have been slashed amid an FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. Trump’s odds with Betway are now 2/1 – his shortest for a month – behind Clinton on 4/11. Read more: John Kasich has voted for John McCain rather than Donald Trump Alan Alger of Betway [...]
Wimbledon 2015: Where are the best places in London to watch Andy Murray on a big screen? From Canary Wharf’s Canada Square Park to One New Change in St Paul’s June 30, 2015 With the mercury expected to hit 30 degrees centigrade today, Wimbledon is likely to be the hottest on record. But why wait for hours in the queue, just so you're forced to swelter among the crowds on Murray Mount – or, worse, in the shadeless environs of Centre Court – when you can relax on [...]
Focus On Shepherd’s Bush: Westfield expansion and old BBC Television Centre homes put W12 in limelight May 12, 2016 For years now, the east has been the land of regeneration. The long lead up to the Olympic Games in Stratford and the success of the City fringes have seen most of property agents’ “up-and-coming” rhetoric focused in that direction and one could be mistaken for thinking there was simply nowhere else for traditionally prosperous west [...]
Obama’s TPP free trade deal triumph could prove all too fleeting October 11, 2015 Well, he did it. Barack Obama’s presidency is ending with a bang and not a whimper. The just concluded Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal between 12 countries ringing the Pacific Ocean amounts to the most significant free trade accord in memory. First, there is the economic heft of the signatories to consider: they account for [...]