BANKERS STAY QUIET ON UNITED BOND DEAL January 11, 2010 CITY bankers are not usually backwards in coming forwards when it comes to getting publicity for their transactions, so why the reticence yesterday when it came to taking the credit for Manchester United’s £500m bond issue. United’s initial press release was as brief as could possibly be, with no mention even of the banks involved [...]
BANK BOSS HOLDS OWN IN STUDENT SCUFFLE May 16, 2010 THERE’S certainly one thing you can say with confidence about JP Morgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon: he ain’t afraid of taking the bull between the horns. Dimon yesterday braved the anger of the masses as he strode onto the campus of Syracuse University in New York, despite a planned protest against his invitation to [...]
Get your hands dirty in Sardinia November 15, 2009 THESE days, you can hardly turn on a television without seeing somebody rummaging around in hedgerows, or cooking a meal with something they have just picked or plucked from a tree. Foraging is in. The idea of wandering around the British countryside in November looking for my dinner doesn’t exactly appeal – but doing so [...]
The pasta is brilliant, but eating at Jamie’s can be a stressful experience August 3, 2009 Jamie’s ItalianUnit 17, 2 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, E14 5RBTel: 020 3002 5252 Cost per person without wine: £25 THIS is the second of Jamie Oliver’s chain of wallet-friendly eateries to open in London – one opened in Kingston in late 2008, following the first in Oxford – and he couldn’t have chosen a better [...]
SPORT | IN BRIEF January 28, 2010 Dredge and Wilson lead in Qatar GOLF: England’s Oliver Wilson and Bradley Dredge, of Wales, fired opening rounds of 67 to take a share of the lead at the Qatar Open. Both defied windy conditions to post five-under-par rounds, Dredge joining Wilson at the top of the leaderboard after a run of four birdies in the [...]
Southwest is best for the ultimate seaside bolthole June 18, 2009 EARLIER this week, a beach in Cornwall came up for sale. On 13 July, the 76 acres of Gwithian beach will be sold by property consultant Colliers CRE in its Portman Square auction house, with the price expected to be in the region of £50,000. A bunch of dunes might not be your idea of [...]
Life is returning to the Docklands property market May 28, 2009 Nowhere gratifies the spirit of the property doom-mongerers like Docklands – loaded as it is with architectural emblems of the boom years; a development graveyard of flats left empty as banks fell and buyers took fright. In other words, a homebuyers’ nightmare. This, however, is proving an unfairly dim view to take. Charlie Fisher, sales [...]
Life is returning to the Docklands property market May 28, 2009 Nowhere gratifies the spirit of the property doom-mongerers like Docklands – loaded as it is with architectural emblems of the boom years; a development graveyard of flats left empty as banks fell and buyers took fright. In other words, a homebuyers’ nightmare. This, however, is proving an unfairly dim view to take. Charlie Fisher, sales [...]
RAMSAY RUFFLES A FEW RIVAL FEATHERS May 31, 2009 AFTER years of back-stabbing and open mutual hatred, you’d have thought Gordon Ramsay would have checked his facts before starting a slanging match with arch rival Marco Pierre White. Both celebrity chefs have fed many a wealthy City mouth at the likes of Maze and Restaurant Gordon Ramsay and White’s Marco at Stamford Bridge and [...]
BARCLAYS HIRES CLINTON SPINNER PENN FOR POST-CRUNCH COUNSEL August 5, 2009 BARCLAYS has brought in the big guns. Actually, it’s just the one gun, but they don’t come much bigger – Mark Penn, the American political pollster-cum-public relations guru who numbers both the Clintons, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and Microsoft boss Bill Gates among his powerful clients. Penn is the worldwide chief executive of [...]