Race row caddie in clear as chiefs say Woods case closed November 6, 2011 RACE row caddie Steve Williams has escaped sanction for his remarks about former world No1 Tiger Woods, despite world golf chiefs calling them “entirely unacceptable in whatever context”. New Zealander Williams (inset), sacked by Woods in July after 13 years, told a caddies’ awards dinner on Friday that he relished his new employer Adam Scott’s [...]
GOING OUT November 2, 2011 The Hawksmoor empire has opened their third and beefiest establishment in Guildhall and its separate 50-seater bar helps reinforce the group’s penchant for cocktails as well as steak. Pall Mall just got a bit posher with the addition of The Balcon and its new St James’s Bar. Drawing inspiration from Coco Chanel’s 1920s Paris apartment [...]
When black bowler hats gave way to red braces October 26, 2011 THE BIG Bang set the City on a course of profound expansion, not just of wealth, but of people and culture and even location. Twenty-five years after deregulation, London’s financial and legal districts are full of the sort of people that would have made the bowler-hatted old boys of the post-war period shudder. Women, foreigners, [...]
MAYFAIR’S FINANCIERS HELP EAT ALL THE PIES October 18, 2011 PIES AND prosecco were yesterday on the menu at Dartmouth House at Mayfair’s answer to the long-running annual Gull’s Eggs lunch. Mayfair hedge fund managers met hotel brokers at the Macmillan Cancer Support fundraiser, including Jones Lang LaSalle’s Jonathan Goldman, who has a personal connection to the cause, having recently endured a 20-hour operation for [...]
Coveted Edwards unsure of Welsh future October 17, 2011 HIGHLY-REGARDED Wales defence coach Shaun Edwards is unsure if he will remain in the role after his side returns from their World Cup adventure. The former rugby league star will be on the Welsh bench, potentially for the final time, on Friday for the third-place play-off against Australia. Edwards, also head coach at Wasps, has [...]
BlackBerry outages spread to North America October 12, 2011 BlackBerry’s blackout on online services has worsened today, spreading to north America while still keeping users offline in Europe, India, Africa and the Middle East. All online services provided by BlackBerry’s Canadian maker Research In Motion have now been wiped out for a third day in four continents, just two days before rival Apple’s new [...]
SIR PAUL JUDGE OPENS PENTHOUSE HOME FOR COFFEE AND CHAMPAGNE October 2, 2011 IT WAS hard to know who won the cake-making competition at Sir Paul Judge’s coffee morning on Friday – “they were all anonymous” – but with free champagne from Bollinger and chocolate from Green & Blacks on tap, no-one was counting. The Chartered Institute of Marketing president threw open his riverside penthouse for the Macmillan [...]
Romantic comedy takes on greatest gothic romance September 8, 2011 Film FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS Cert: 15 IT’S entirely possible that it’s the moribund state of the rom com genre that makes this film seem so sparkily entertaining. After the tawdry likes of Just Go with It, Life As We Know It and No Strings Attached – a film with which this shares some plot similarities [...]
LORD FINK WARMS UP FOR PARTY MARATHON September 7, 2011 HE HAS survived running the world’s largest hedge fund and managing the books for the Conservative Party. But the test that will really prove the making of Lord Stanley Fink is a 24-hour, country-hopping bender from London to Spain. Next Thursday, Fink and his business associate David Johnstone, who co-founded the luxury brands holding company [...]
Rocking the Scouse in UK’s friendliest city September 6, 2011 LIKE many metropolis-dwellers, Londoners tend to think they’re the centre of the universe – and certainly of England – regardless of where they’re from. But if you’ve recently had your toe trod on at rush hour, been barked at by an angry commuter or ignored by a surly waiter – oh, and charged £10 for [...]