Mayoral candidate Ivan Massow plans to raise £400m from a London tourist tax June 16, 2015 London could rein in almost half a billion pounds in public revenue with a tourist tax, a Conservative mayoral candidate has told City A.M.. Ivan Massow, who is in the running to take over from Boris Johnson as mayor of London, believes there should be a charge a rate of £1 per star per [...]
The Eurozone will remain mired in crisis unless it faces up to the facts April 12, 2015 During my years in the trenches in Washington, my staff christened one of my favourite analytical canaries in the coalmine the “we are where we are moment”. That is, you can determine whether a crisis is actually being dealt with simply by looking at the rhetoric of the opposing forces involved. If they hadn’t moved [...]
Daylight Saving Time 2015: A short look at when clocks go back and forward around the world March 27, 2015 The clocks are finally going forward on Sunday, and while this means sleep fans will lose an extra hour's kip, it also means summer is (technically) here. In the northern hemisphere – home to the United States, Europe and Asia – most countries (but not all of them) tend to observe daylight saving time between March [...]
Daylight saving time March 27, 2015 dfsafdsafdsafdsa Country Region/states Start date for daylight saving time (DST) End date for daylight saving time (DST) Australia South Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, New South Wales, much of Tasmania Sunday October 4 Sunday April 5 Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia, Christmas Island No daylight saving time in 2015 – Lord Howe Island [...]
Germanwings flight 4U9525 crash: Airlines including EasyJet, Monarch Airlines, Virgin and Thomas Cook have just changed their cockpit procedures so two people must always be present March 27, 2015 Following the revelation that Germanwings flight 4U9525 may have been crashed deliberately, some of the world's largest airlines have confirmed plans to change their cockpit procedures so two crew members must always be present. Airlines including EasyJet, Monarch Airlines, Emirates, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Virgin and Thomas Cook all said they have changed their policies. The [...]
Vienna tops list of cities for highest quality of life as London drops down March 4, 2015 If you've had enough of overcrowded tubes, ridiculous rents as well as overpriced bars and restaurants – and have always wanted to work in another country – then these are the cities you should be setting your sights on. Vienna's quaint coffee shops, meandering bike paths and majestic architecture propelled it to the top spot of [...]
The five sins of the Greek crisis that could doom Europe to irrelevance February 22, 2015 There is nothing so dangerous in foreign affairs as being half right. All along, this has been the primary reason I have been far more sceptical about a happy ending to the present euro crisis than conventional wisdom allows for. Both the Greek and German protagonists think they are entirely morally correct. Such an absolutist [...]
World records: DJ Gilles Peterson on why Ibiza is dead February 5, 2015 Gilles Peterson gets around a bit. He’s like a globe-trotting John Peel, one of the few mainstream DJs who can get away with playing everything from Sierra Leonean psychedelic afro to Japanese punk-jazz. On top of his BBC 6 Music show he runs the Worldwide Festival in Sète and spins records at some of the [...]
Airbus climbs on board mission to send humans into space… for £310m December 11, 2014 Airbus has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to build part of the US Orion vehicle, which is being designed to carry humans into space. The aircraft manufacturer will design a back section of the new spaceship – the part responsible for propelling it up into space. It will also carry [...]
Boisdale gets its smoke on with a 35th birthday bash for Forest November 4, 2014 Forest, the pro-smoking lobby group, celebrated its 35th anniversary at one of finance’s favourite watering holes last night. Boisdale Belgravia happily provided an ample heated smoking area along with Cuban cocktails and Latin canapes. “The world is obsessed with people’s rights, but one sizeable group with no rights are smokers,” Boisdale owner Ranald Macdonald told [...]