Naked Wines CEO: How to choose the right bottle of wine January 14, 2025 Meet the chief executive "fighting" to turn around Naked Wines, which enjoyed huge success during the pandemic but has been struggling since.
The week’s best wine: sod Dry January – why I’m doing ‘Try January’ instead January 14, 2025 City AM’s wine columnist Libby Brodie on the best wine to buy this week, and where she’s been drinking it Last week I touted the Damp Lifestyle and this week I recommend exchanging Dry January for Try January. The beauty of wine is that it offers a kaleidoscope of flavours from all over the world, [...]
For your next career opportunity, look beyond the boardroom January 14, 2025 After a successful career in business, Sir Rod Aldridge stepped onto the board of the North’s leading arts institution The Lowry. Here explains why the best career moves are sometimes the most unexpected When I was approached about the role of chair at The Lowry, the North West’s leading arts institution, I’ll admit it felt [...]
Steve Borthwick England squad: Three Champions Cup bolters to watch January 14, 2025 This morning England manager Steve Borthwick names his squad for the Six Nations, with a trip to Dublin up first next month. Last weekend’s Investec Champions Cup action, then, was the very last chance for players to give a good account of themselves before today’s announcement. But it wasn’t all rainbows and butterflies for hopefuls [...]
We need a government that gets business, not businessmen running government January 13, 2025 The idea that business leaders can transform the way government works didn’t start with Elon musk, but success in politics demands different skills to entrepreneurship, says Eliot Wilson Business feels let down by the current government. Before the general election, Sir Keir Starmer and his shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, staged an updated performance of the [...]
Tech giants must obey UK’s online safety laws, says minister January 12, 2025 British law has not changed and tech giants must still obey it, the Science Secretary has said in response to Meta’s decision to do away with content moderation teams. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that his social media platforms would replace their longstanding fact-checking programme with a “community notes” system similar to Elon [...]
NFL 2025 London Games: Jets, Browns and Jaguars heading to capital January 10, 2025 The New York Jets, Cleveland Browns and Jacksonville Jaguars will play in London on this year’s NFL International series. The New York Jets return to the capital a year on from their 23-17 defeat to the Minnesota Vikings at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Browns return to London for the first time since 2017, when they [...]
AIM: IPOs on London’s junior market stayed at rock bottom January 10, 2025 The number of IPOs on AIM has continued at its record low numbers in 2024, sailing below the level of the financial crisis. IPOs on London’s junior stock market totalled just 11 last year, the same number as in 2023 and below the 13 recorded during the 2008 financial crisis. While the amount of money [...]
Purton Power can get Young Champion’s head in front January 10, 2025 THERE are a handful of Four-Year-Old Classic Series candidates who put their reputations on the line in the feature race on the Sha Tin card, The Racing Club Cup (8.05am), a handicap over seven furlongs. The likes of top-weight Packing Hermod, officially rated fourth in the top 50 four-year-olds in the territory, Rubylot, well-handicapped with [...]
Back to the 80s to fix the housing crisis January 10, 2025 Experts have been warning about the housing crisis for decades – and the solutions have been staring us in the face for just as long, says Kristian Niemietz “[T]he planning system […] has significantly increased land and housing prices […] and distorted the economic structure, all of which have led to the British standard of [...]