Make sure you are the centre of attention when presenting October 20, 2010 HERE’S a statistic for you: according to Microsoft, 30m PowerPoint presentations are made every day. You are probably thinking one of two things now. Either that this is a wonderful thing, and it means that clear, concise information is being conveyed all over the planet as we speak. Or you imagine a horrible hell of [...]
ODD JOBS October 20, 2010 SEAN WOOLLERSON PIRACY INSURER, JLT My first job after university was with M&S, but I joined JLT about 20 years ago and now one of the big things I deal with is Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. I get calls in the middle of the night to tell me that a ship has [...]
ASK THE EXPERT | HOW TO DELIVER BAD NEWS October 20, 2010 LUCKILY for most of us, we don’t have to announce anything as difficult as cuts in the welfare budget, unlike George Osborne, who outlined his comprehensive spending review yesterday. Yet at some point in their careers all managers have to deliver bad news. So when you do, what’s the best way? For starters, explain, explain, [...]
A Qatari takes on Wall St October 20, 2010 KAPITOIL BY TEDDY WAYNE Duckworth, £8.99 IT’S 1 October, 1999 and Karim, a genius computer progammer from Doha, is landing in New York. He’s been brought to help a company called Schrub Equities protect itself from the Y2K bug – New York’s biggest security concern at the time. The opening of this first novel by [...]
OUT OF OFFICE October 20, 2010 LAST CALL: ENLIGHTMENT IN HAMPSTEAD Director Ed Hall’s new tenure at the Hampstead Theatre got off to an amusing start with Enlightenment – a play that is stylish and wide-ranging, if not particularly enlightening. Lia and Nick lose their 20-year-old son in a terrorist attack in the Far East. Things becomes sadder and odder from [...]
LIFE COACH October 20, 2010 EVERY smart chap should have a smart watch, and preferably more than one – the sheer diversity of classy watches out there means that the old idea of making your money, buying a Rolex and having that as your one watch is no longer current. Different watches can be worn for different occasions or moods, [...]
It’s the season of the most celebrated ingredient of all October 20, 2010 ALL this talk of tightening belts is enough to make one want to do precisely the opposite. Thankfully, when it comes to big, indulgent blowouts of the kind where the only important cut is that of the expensive meat on your plate, the most indulgent ingredient of them all is in season. The “Alba Madonna” [...]
GOING OUT October 20, 2010 The most exciting launch on the way this Autumn has to be the brand new Hakkasan Mayfair, opening its doors on Bruton Street mid November. The tucked away Hanway Place original has been an amazing success since its launch nearly 10 years ago. Along with fine, modern Chinese cuisine it ushered in a new breed [...]
Recipe: Risotto with white truffles October 20, 2010 240g Italian short-grain rice Two shallots 50g of bone marrow (optional) 50 g grated parmesan 10 cl dry white wine 1.5 liters of chicken stock 50g of butter 5 cl whipped cream 10cl of olive oil Salt Espelette pepper White truffles: 5g or more per person There are three essential rules for a perfect risotto: [...]
EU proposes Europe-wide VAT October 19, 2010 The European Commission has published proposals for direct taxes across the European Union (EU), including a possible Europe-wide version of VAT. The proposals are part of a package of options being explored to find new ways of funding the EU budget. The UK, France and Germany have all rejected the idea of direct taxes in [...]
