Ex-Dragon’s Den star plans £10m placing to fund expansion of London bar chain May 12, 2021 Nightcap, the hospitality investment vehicle founded by ex-Dragon’s Den star Sarah Willingham, has launched a £10m placing to fund the expansion of London’s Adventure Bar Group. Nightcap, which is Aim-listed and was founded to help drinks-led businesses recover from the coronavirus pandemic, said the £10m is “significantly higher than originally planned” due to “strong demand” [...]
The Secrets We Keep: Noomi Rapace leads tense drama-thriller May 12, 2021 Noomi Rapace, star of Prometheus and the original adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, leads this tense drama-thriller which keeps you guessing until the end. Set in the suburbs of Post-War America, Rapace plays Maja, a Romanian immigrant happily married to mild mannered doctor Lewis (Chris Messina). Their content existence is shattered when [...]
Amazon wins €250m in EU back tax battle May 12, 2021 In a fight over back taxes, Amazon will not have to pay €250m to the city of Luxembourg, Europe’s second-highest court heard today. The General Court said that the online retail giant had not received a selective advantage. “The Commission did not prove to the requisite legal standard that there was an undue reduction of [...]
Members’ clubs in the age of Covid, from Groucho to Boisdale May 12, 2021 Are you clubbable? Some people are, fiercely, while others disdain the whole idea. It is thought men are more clubbable than women, though that may not be supported by facts. In any event, if you are what PG Wodehouse would have called a clubman, you will be eagerly awaiting Monday 17 May and the reopening [...]
Bitcoin can continue to dominate… but only if it solves scaling issues May 12, 2021 Dr Chris Kacher weighs up the future of Ethereum and Bitcoin, and how they can co-exist in a world of deflationary tokenomics.
50 days after the Ever Given blocked the Suez canal, supply chains still have not recovered May 12, 2021 On the 29th of March, tug boats and dredgers freed the Ever Given from the banks of the Suez Canal. In just six days the blockage obstructed over $60 billion of global trade, sending disruptive ripples to every corner of the world. The beached container ship, weighing in at 220,000 tonnes and longer than the [...]
Boris Johnson confirms working from home advice set to be scrapped on 21 June May 12, 2021 Boris Johnson has confirmed the government will scrap its work from home advice on 21 June if its roadmap out of Covid restrictions goes to plan. The Prime Minister told MPs today that he is confident office working will come back en-masse and that “I think it’ll come back remarkably quickly, but it does depend [...]
Goldman Sachs director quits after making millions from Dogecoin May 12, 2021 A London-based Goldman Sachs banker has reportedly quit after making millions from investing in Dogecoin. The meme cryptocurrency has surpassed growth of any other digital currency this year, boosting its price by more than 10,000 per cent. Aziz McMahon, head of emerging market sales at the US investment bank, resigned after benefiting from the cryptocurrency’s [...]
Scottish campaigners call on Boris to block separatist referendum plans May 12, 2021 Scottish campaigners demanded Boris Johnson reject calls for a second independence referendum north of the border. Scotland Matters, a pro-union group, drove an advertising van around Westminster yesterday arguing that despite the SNP’s victory in last week’s Scottish elections, there is no mandate for the referendum the party demands. One message displayed pointed out that [...]
Linklaters elects first female senior partner in 183-year history May 12, 2021 Linklaters has elected Aedamar Comiskey as its new senior partner, the first woman to serve in the role since the law firm was established in London in 1838. Comiskey will begin her five-year term on 1 July 2021, when she will succeed current senior partner Charlie Jacobs. Comiskey said: she was “hugely proud” to have [...]
