Mr Goucho steaks his claim to city eating with bull run round Bank September 29, 2014 Avid readers of The Capitalist might remember the news of former Goucho MD Martin Williams’ plans to open a new steak venture, called M. Well, to announce its opening in the City in November, Williams sent his bovine legions for a walk around Bank yesterday. Will he send Mark Carney some steaks at the Bank, [...]
Twitter chief exec Dick Costolo goes for Iranian president Hassan Rouhani – but fails “foriegn” relations September 28, 2014 Iranian president Hassan Rouhani may be enjoying thawed relations with leaders of United Nations countries thanks to his efforts to stop Islamic State militants, but Silicon Valley is rather less easy to please, it turns out. Rouhani, who is a prolific tweeter, was happily tweeting from last week’s United Nations General Assembly in New York [...]
Michael Heseltine’s haircut homily is high value at Immigration Awards September 24, 2014 “I call him Michael, but I doubt he remembers my name,” Hugh Davies, ex-foreign office diplomat told The Capitalist of Lord Heseltine, at the High-Value Immigration Awards last night. Davies, a judge for awards (now in their second year and organised by InvestUK), met Hesseltine in 1973 when they were both part of the diplomatic [...]
Struggling to get a mortgage? Try to nab a new job at KPMG September 24, 2014 In the week that we found out (or merely had it confirmed) that London is the most expensive city to relocate staff to, KPMG has stepped in to save the day – for its employees in any case. The City firm announced yesterday it would be helping its staff on to the property ladder with [...]
Sir Tim Berners-Lee awarded Honorary Freedom of the City September 24, 2014 Given that Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave us the world wide web and with it, freedom to find information, it’s fitting he received the Freedom of the City of London yesterday. But not just any old Freedom, an Honorary Freedom of the City – a title saved for heads of state and people of great standing [...]
Twitter goes in search of Gareth and Ed Miliband’s Mili-Clan – Labour party conference September 23, 2014 Ed Miliband really likes normal people. He likes them so much, he mentioned a bunch of them in his big speech at the Labour conference in Manchester yesterday. Name-dropping celebs is so last year, it’s all about ordinary folk – Ed’s Mili-Clan. Gareth was the stand out Mili-Clan member – within minutes of Ed [...]
Watch: Pimlico Plumbers’ Charlie Mullins shows off his posh terrace and fluffy robe September 23, 2014 Charlie Mullins, chief executive of Pimlico Plumbers, lives the high life. And like anyone would be, he’s keen to show this off. A new video made with Mullins and two other high-profile business names, perfume doyenne Jo Malone and advertising whizz Mark Denton, has been made to illustrate the importance a single phone call can [...]
The N@ked $hort Club: Dr Stu lets us swim in his hedgie psychedelic soup September 22, 2014 What do you get when you combine dense hedge fund debate, poetry and psychedelic music? Well, as The Capitalist can now confirm, something rather wonderful is the answer. It’s called The N@ked $hort Club and it’s a radio show broadcast each Monday on Resonance FM. Last night, larger-than-life host Dr Stu invited The Capitalist [...]
Former Investec banker joins the crowd(funders) with CrowdShed September 22, 2014 Crowdfunding is the trend that just keeps giving and now one of the City’s own is striking out of banking and launching his own crowdfunding platform called CrowdShed. The person in question is ex-Investec, ex-Liberum investment manager Henry Freeman (pictured) and having handed in his notice at Investec almost exactly a year ago – his [...]
In pictures: Ed Balls involved in bloodbath at MP charity game September 21, 2014 This week, the political excitement has migrated south from Scotland to Manchester, where Labour has started its annual party conference. What better way to kick things off (literally) than with the now infamous MPs versus lobby hacks footie match? And it was a goodie. MPs including Ed Balls, Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham donned their [...]
