Mascara to keep you floating on through spring’s rainiest days May 14, 2012 Hypnose Doll Eyes by Lancome If you can forgive the name, this Hypnose edition gives massive curl and volume. £21, at Debenhams Exaggerated lashes mascara by Yves Saint Laurent YSL is one of the daddies of the mascara department. Always good for volume and separation, this is one of the best. £15-23 at Debenhams Faux [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS May 14, 2012 Grab a Tortilla next time you’re in Wimbledon Posh Mexican take-away Tortilla has continued its expansion with a new branch on Wimbledon’s The Broadway. The grill specialist now has stores in eight locations across the capital, including Leadenhall Market, Canary Wharf and Southwark. If freshly prepared burritos and fajitas are your thing, this is the [...]
The return of the Old Fashioned is proof of a cocktail renaissance May 14, 2012 FADS in cocktails come and go, but with each movement something of the best is kept, or later rediscovered. Quality endures. And thankfully we’re drinking through something of a renaissance, with no resurgence as welcome as that of the Old Fashioned. The Old Fashioned represents everything that’s good and true. Its name derives from around [...]
DIMON: I WAS DEAD WRONG May 13, 2012 In an extraordinary mea culpa, JP Morgan chief executive Jamie Dimon said yesterday that he had been “dead wrong” to deny rumours that the bank could lose billions on a botched hedging strategy, a scandal that is likely to force several of the bank’s senior executives to quit. “I was dead wrong,” said Dimon in [...]
Voters inflict huge defeat on Merkel May 13, 2012 GERMAN leader Angela Merkel suffered a crushing defeat in local elections yesterday, after voters voiced their opposition to the Greek bailout at a time of austerity at home. In a shock blow to Merkel’s efforts to keep the Eurozone intact, the Social Democrats (SDP) received 38.8 per cent of votes in North Rhine-Westphalia and the [...]
City jobs market growing as recovery gathers pace May 13, 2012 THE NUMBER of newly available financial services jobs jumped to its highest level in six months in April, recruitment industry data showed today, as the sector continued to recover from last autumn’s crunch in financial markets. New City placements rose 19 per cent on the month, from 2,797 to 3,339 according to Morgan McKinley’s latest [...]
Grexit will happen much more quickly than politicians think May 13, 2012 CURRENCIES are social constructs. They are only worth something because everybody else believes them to be worth something. That was partly true even of traditional, commodity backed currencies – you can’t eat gold – but it is undoubtedly the case of today’s paper money. We accept notes and coins – or digital claims to them [...]
Greek elections loom as talks collapse again May 13, 2012 Greek politicians failed again last night to form a new government, increasing the likelihood of fresh elections next month. President Karolos Papoulias hosted a meeting of the three largest parties’ leaders but could not build a deal between pro-bailout PASOK and New Democracy, and anti-bailout Syriza. The two pro-rescue parties did offer to renegotiate parts [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING May 13, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Canary Wharf claims high ground on City Canary Wharf will finally come of age over the next two months when the UK’s “new” financial centre overtakes the traditional City of London as the biggest employer of bankers in Europe. According to Financial Times research, the transfer of 8,000 jobs by US bank JPMorgan [...]
London property searches soar May 13, 2012 Financial and political turmoil in southern Europe caused a surge of interest in London property last month with buyers from Greece and Spain showing strongly among investors seeking a safe haven for their money. The number of Greeks searching for homes costing more than £1.5m on the website of property agent Savills jumped 39 per [...]
