Brush up on your shaving skills with luxury skincare September 26, 2011 BEWARE, King of Shaves, there’s a threat to your dominion. The new generation of men’s skincare has evolved from an unexpected quarter. Women’s beauty brands have cottoned on to the fact that after shaving, men really do take care of their skin. Cult classics from luxury brands such as Eve Lom and Dr Sebagh are [...]
FIT IN THE CITY September 26, 2011 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT CAFFEINE makes the headlines nearly every week with studies claiming that it’s responsible for everything from improving memory to raising metabolic rate. But now there’s a new reason for caffeine to hit the headlines: last week, Toby Scheckter, racing driver and son of F1 driver Jody Scheckter, released his very own [...]
EPISODE 29 – AWARDS TIME: TO WIN OR NOT TO WIN? September 26, 2011 And the winner is…” Hushed anticipation falls over the ballroom of the Grange St. Paul’s Hotel. Even Sir Roderick has ceased pontificating and looks across the table at me, swollen with pride or perhaps it’s the foie gras with a hint of menace about the lips. The envelope is opened. Emma grasps my hand beneath [...]
The lightest dinner out in town September 26, 2011 Galoupet 13 Beauchamp Place, SW3 1NQ 0207 036 3600; www.galoupet.co.uk FOOD *** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE *** Cost per person without wine: £40 THERE is so much that is pleasing about Galoupet. It looks like the kind of place you’d find in one of those super-cool northern European cities like Malmo or Arrhus, frequented by thin-legged [...]
The last word in dinner: the Krug experience at Petrus September 26, 2011 THERE are a lot of champagne-matched dinners to be had in London. But few are as stellar, or premium, as the one at Gordon Ramsay’s relaunched Petrus in Belgravia (not far from the old site at the Berkeley). This is a £450 per head chance to sup on Petrus chef Mark Askew’s finest dishes, prepared [...]
Trillions needed to shore up Euro September 25, 2011 EUROZONE leaders are close to accepting the market’s view that they will need to throw trillions of euros at the region’s debt crisis to have an impact. Following an IMF summit in Washington led by Christine Lagarde, the region’s leaders have admitted that Europe’s bailout fund needs to be beefed up and leveraged to have [...]
Retailers: Shop floor beats uni September 25, 2011 SHELF-STACKING in a supermarket from 16 can be a better career move than studying for A-levels and a degree, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) will claim today. On-the-job training and good career prospects can be preferable to a longer formal education with higher debts, the industry body will say. Retailers invest an average of £1,275 [...]
$625m Russia payout for BP September 25, 2011 THE BOARD of Russia’s third-largest oil producer, TNK-BP, has approved an additional $1.25bn (£806m) dividend payout to shareholders, a spokesman said last night. A source familiar with the situation said the additional payout for the first half of 2011 was approved at a board meeting in Cyprus on Friday. “On top of $4.2bn already paid [...]
Crisis exposes the rot at euro’s heart September 25, 2011 EVER since it was created, the Eurozone’s mission has been to defy economic constraints in the name of politics. Whenever they were told by economists that the euro wasn’t an optimal currency zone, the Euro-establishment would simply shrug, rejecting technical economic arguments out of hand. Anything is possible with enough political will, they would say, [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING September 25, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES US TAX AUTHORITIES TARGET BANK DEALS US tax authorities are targeting cross-border finance deals worth billions of dollars between leading US and UK banks as they step up efforts to clamp down on abusive tax avoidance, a joint investigation by the Financial Times and ProPublica has found. Four US banks – BB&T, Bank [...]
