Keanu film review: a clever pastiche of action films and urban culture starring TV duo Key and Peele July 14, 2016 How far would you go to save a cat? That's the question asked by this new action-comedy from TV duo Key and Peele, the cousins forced to become gangsters by a nefarious drug dealer (Method Man) in order to get their beloved kitten Keanu back. The stars have a terrific natural rapport, morphing seamlessly from [...]
Sunderland demand FA speed up decision on whether to hire Sam Allardyce as England boss July 13, 2016 Sunderland chiefs have called on the Football Association to move quickly and appoint a new England manager after Black Cats boss Sam Allardyce was interviewed for the vacancy on Tuesday. The club confirmed that Allardyce had left a pre-season training camp in Austria to hold talks with the FA over succeeding Roy Hodgson, who quit [...]
Our prayers have been answered: There is now a “micro winery” that continuously produces wine July 12, 2016 It's the invention many of us have been waiting for. An American professor has teamed up with a university in Switzerland to develop a miniature device that will continuously produce wine – albeit at a rate of one millilitre per hour. Although many would probably want to own a device for recreational use, it has [...]
Brexit is a chance to be even bolder on corporation tax cuts and infrastructure to unleash Britain’s competitive dynamo July 6, 2016 US foreign policy was said to have undergone a pivot towards Asia and a reset towards Russia during the first Obama administration. Those two words, pivot and reset, could now be applied to UK economic policy in the wake of Brexit. The pivot is a new potential focus on reducing the tax burden to boost [...]
George Osborne should turn attention from cutting corporation tax to helping smaller businesses July 6, 2016 The Chancellor’s biggest ever policy U-turn appears to have snuck under the radar amid the political resignations, betrayals and leadership bids currently dominating the headlines. On Sunday, Mr Osborne announced that he plans to cut corporation tax to less than 15 per cent in an effort to attract companies deterred from doing business in a [...]
Game of unknowns: why Gove’s attacks on corporatism are the last thing the economy needs July 5, 2016 An establishment outcast with a skill for political maneuver – there is an unnerving parallel between Michael Gove and Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones. And with the blood barely dry from his bludgeoning of Boris, the wannabe PM has wasted little time pin pointing his next line of attack, none other than the world of [...]
Why British homeowners still aren’t buying into the idea of the home connected by smart tech June 29, 2016 Take any object in your home and you can guarantee that at some point a Silicon Valley startup has tried to create a web-enabled version of it. The ever expanding “Internet of Things” (IoT), as it’s clunkily termed, now includes almost every household item under the sun. Many are useful, such as thermostats, light bulbs, [...]
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? Housebuilder shares stage partial recovery June 28, 2016 Housebuilders showed that any reaction is a good reaction this morning, after almost all their share prices staged partial recoveries following yesterday's carnage. FTSE 100-listed Barratt, Berkeley Group, Taylor Wimpey and Persimmon all triggered the London Stock Exchange's circuit breaker yesterday, meaning their shares were suspended from trading for five minutes after they fell more than [...]
Who’s in and who’s out of Jeremy Corbyn’s frontbench team? June 27, 2016 The Labour Party has been plunged into turmoil following the EU referendum result, with mass resignations, a leader who insists he is going nowhere and the prospect of bitter leadership battles in both the Labour and Conservative parties this summer. With the string of frontbench resignations stacking up and Jeremy Corbyn himself scrambling to announce replacements, for [...]
All change at the Labour Party as resignations stack up and Corbyn announces a new cabinet June 27, 2016 The second day of chaos in the Labour Party has begun, with a string of front bench resignations and a new cabinet announced by Jeremy Corbyn. Around ten ministers and parliamentary private secretaries (PPS) have quit this morning, following yesterday's pandemonium in the party which resulted in one-third of Corbyn's shadow cabinet leaving. Corbyn responded before the [...]