Netflix and Stella Artois Bring the Perfect Serve to The Gentlemen Season 2 August 26, 2026 “The Gentlemen’s Serve” with Theo James and David Beckham Shows There’s Power in the Pour
That women ‘lack confidence to invest’ is a lazy answer to a major problem August 26, 2026 Explaining away the gender investment gap as a matter of confidence has shifted responsibility away from the industry and onto women.
Why Manchester City’s £86m Bouaddi signing should ring alarm bells in French football August 25, 2026 Manchester City’s €100m (£86m) signing of Lille midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi is more than just another example of a super-rich European giant hoovering up a promising talent. It is also the latest sign of French football’s talent drain, a phenomenon fuelled by the Premier League’s ever-growing spending power and the financial struggles of most of Ligue [...]
A love letter to Sweetings, the City’s oldest restaurant August 25, 2026 Ahead of our Toast the City Awards this October, we pay homage to Sweetings, the City’s oldest restaurant Britain is a country steeped in tradition and often too wedded to the past, but it also proved itself capable of great innovation. We should never forget that the Square Mile is a perfect example of world-changing [...]
The Danish retailer plotting to outsmart ‘unsentimental’ Modella Capital August 25, 2026 On the modern-day British high street, a Scandinavian shop featuring maze-like aisles, quirky homeware and bags of licorice near the till is not quite a reinvention of the wheel. But Mikkel Grene, chief executive of Danish homeware retailer Søstrene Grene, believes his business can go toe-to-toe with Ikea and Flying Tiger for pride of place [...]
Top FTSE headhunter rescued by rival after plunging into administration August 25, 2026 A City-based boutique headhunter which won executive-level talent for a host of FTSE 250 firms and collapsed after pumping investment into an AI platform has been purchased by one of its competitors, City AM can reveal. 6 Group, a global executive recruitment consultancy, purchased Savannah Group and its AI platform, MapX, in July after founder [...]
Can the Capital Access Window finally revive AIM? August 25, 2026 August is usually a sleepy time for capital markets. Investors head off on their summer jaunts, firms take a breath after a frenzy of results in late July and advisors start mapping out back-to-school plans for September. Not so in the world of regulation. This year, Britain’s watchdogs have introduced what could prove one of [...]
The Highland tourist tax: Is Scotland pricing out whisky tourists? August 25, 2026 The latest available data from the Scottish Tourism Economic Activity Monitor in Scotland (STEAM) shows that between 2012 and 2024, visitor numbers to the Highlands increased 82 per cent to 9.4m. Spending increased by a similar amount, to £2.1bn. A large share of that is directly linked to the Scotch whisky sector. You’d think, therefore, [...]
Spurs take outlay to £320m with Savinho deal but still aren’t England’s biggest spenders August 25, 2026 Tottenham Hotspur have taken their summer spending past the £300m mark by completing the signing of winger Savinho from Manchester City. The Brazilian is the fourth player to join Spurs for a fee of more than £50m since the end of last season, following Sandro Tonali, Mateus Fernandes and Jan Paul van Hecke. They have [...]
FTSE 100 creeps closer to record high as investors dodge AI turmoil August 25, 2026 The FTSE 100 is creeping toward another record high after logging its best run in three months, as investors hunt for stocks detached from AI and tech. London’s blue chip index has recorded five straight days of gains and ticked up 0.18 per cent on Tuesday to trade at 10,875 by 11:45am. If it continues [...]