Mix it up: Take a tipple – it might even be good for your health March 24, 2015 As any good doctor will be all too ready to tell you, alcohol is bad for you. They’re right, of course – up to a point. Too much of the stuff is ruinous. But you can also drink too little. While ten cocktails a day may destroy your life, one in the evening might be [...]
Three new ways to up productivity: How to be more efficient in the office March 24, 2015 Economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by the early twenty-first century, innovations in technology would have whittled our working weeks down to a mere 15 hours. While this might seem like an (albeit attractive) impossibility, just a couple of small changes can increase your productivity and bring you closer to this vision. Contrary to [...]
KP comeback triggers dash for Ashes spot March 24, 2015 MERCURIAL batsman Kevin Pietersen could have just three county championship matches to forge an outlandish return to the England fold ahead of this summer’s Ashes series. Pietersen is poised to rejoin Surrey imminently after yesterday negotiating his release from the majority of his commitments with Indian Premier League franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad. The 34-year-old was thrown [...]
F1 prize money distribution unfair, says Max Mosley March 24, 2015 Former motor racing chief Max Mosley says he believes that Formula One’s £500m prize fund is unfair as it favours the top teams. F1’s prize money grew 6.1 per cent to a record £484m in 2014, yet this year many of the teams still need to boost their budgets with tens of millions of pounds [...]
Carrick and Cahill add to clamour for Harry Kane England debut March 24, 2015 ENGLAND duo Michael Carrick and Gary Cahill have both hailed the prodigious quality of Harry Kane as the prolific Tottenham striker looks set to make his senior international debut in Friday’s Euro 2016 qualifier against Lithuania at Wembley. Three Lions boss Roy Hodgson could throw Kane, who has scored 29 goals in 43 appearances during [...]
Greg Dyke hints David Gill could reignite England’s World Cup bid March 24, 2015 ENGLAND chiefs may lift their ban on bidding for the World Cup while Sepp Blatter remains president of Fifa following former Manchester United chief executive David Gill’s election to the governing body yesterday. Football Association (FA) chairman Greg Dyke warned that scepticism remained following England’s failed bid for the 2018 tournament, which was awarded to [...]
Golf Comment: Stenson may have been innocent but officials entitled to hurry him March 24, 2015 IT WASN’T obvious that Henrik Stenson was being hurried along towards the end of his thwarted challenge at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday, but he made his displeasure about it clear soon afterwards. The Swede complained that he felt hurried into missing putts by officials keen to enforce speedier play over the final few [...]
Second place not good enough for England, Lancaster warned March 24, 2015 ENGLAND rugby chief Ian Ritchie has heaped pressure on head coach Stuart Lancaster ahead of this year’s home World Cup by insisting that his repeated runners-up finishes are not good enough. Lancaster’s team earned admiration and sympathy for falling just a converted try short of a first Six Nations title of his tenure in Saturday’s [...]
Vegas bout set to break record March 24, 2015 THE long-awaited clash between undefeated American Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao is set to be the most expensive boxing match in UK pay-per-view history. Sky Sports Box Office has been awarded the rights to show live coverage of the fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday 2 May. The channel will charge [...]
Labour Promises: We won’t lift vat March 23, 2015 But the Tories demand to know – which taxes will the two Eds hike instead to rein in the deficit? THE LABOUR party will lay down a significant General Election marker today, with a pledge that VAT will not rise if it is elected to power on 7 May. Shadow chancellor Ed Balls will announce [...]
