Episode 30: The twins have arrived October 3, 2011 5.18am. I sit at the kitchen table. Alone. Exhausted and elated. Undergraduate philosophy comes back to me. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must pass over in silence.” And what can one say of the birth of one’s children? Born either side of midnight, twins with different birthdays. A daughter born at 23.57 [...]
Regent Street Japanese with style and substance October 3, 2011 Senkai 65 Regent Street, W1B 4EA 020 7494 7600 FOOD **** SERVICE *** ATMOSPHERE *** Cost per person without wine: £60 STEERING clear of food with “style” is a culinary hobby. I can’t help the suspicion that “Chinese-style” chicken, for example, has less than a token resemblance to Chinese culture. At most, there’s a sprinkling [...]
QUAFFER’S CORNER October 3, 2011 HEAD SOMMELIER AND MANAGER OF LUTYENS RESTAURANT ICOOKED a curry on the weekend, which made me think about choosing wine to accompany spicy food. It’s easy to fall back on the old standby of beer, and I often do (Franziskaner Weissbier from Bavaria, usually) but there are some easy guidelines that will help make your [...]
OUT OF OFFICE October 3, 2011 LE CAPRICE CELEBRATORY MUSIC BOOK Which love song does Gary “a million love songs” Barlow think is the greatest ever written?* Find out in a limited edition book from legendary restaurant Le Caprice to celebrate its 30th anniversary. With an introduction by Jools Holland, and featuring regulars such as Sir Paul McCartney, Gary Barlow and [...]
City prefers Boris ahead of Osborne October 2, 2011 BORIS Johnson would make a better future Prime Minister than George Osborne, according to the City A.M. / PoliticsHome Voice of the City panel. Of those who expressed a preference, fifty-seven per cent said theywould pick Johnson, the Mayor of London, (inset picture) as the next Tory leader compared to just 43 per cent for [...]
More UBS execs to go in shake-up October 2, 2011 SEVERAL senior executives from UBS’ risk management division are set to be axed in the next few days as the bank tries to move on from the $2.3bn (£1.5bn) “rogue” trading scandal. Carsten Kengeter, the head of the investment bank, is seeking to regain the initiative after criticism of UBS for its lack of communication [...]
Greece to miss debt targets October 2, 2011 GREECE is set to miss its deficit targets for both this year and next, its finance ministry admitted last night. Finance minister Evangelos Venizelos said that the deficit is due to come in at 8.5 per cent of GDP this year, almost a whole percentage point above the 7.6 per cent target agreed with Greece’s [...]
It’s make or break for the Tory party October 2, 2011 POLICIES to boost growth. That is what the Conservative Party conference, which started last night, must focus on. Growth has ground to a halt, partly because of global forces but also because too little has been done to make the UK once again a competitive place in which to work, invest and operate a business. [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING October 2, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES BTG GAINS TOP BANKER AS IT EYES EXPANSION Roger Jenkins, the high-profile former Barclays executive, has joined BTG Pactual as a managing partner as Brazil’s largest independent investment bank and asset manager gears up its ambitious expansion plans. Jenkins, a star banker best known for orchestrating a £7bn fundraising for Barclays from Middle [...]
Slovakia in EFSF vote challenge October 2, 2011 Slovakia’s ruling coalition will have to reallocate cabinet posts or face a snap election unless it can find its own majority in parliament for a crucial vote on the Eurozone’s rescue fund, the main opposition party Smer said yesterday. The Eurozone’s second poorest country of 5m people has become a major risk to the bloc’s [...]
