Rugby’s domestic derbies should not be played in the international window February 8, 2022 The East Midlands derby between Leicester Tigers and Northampton Saints is one of the fixtures fans look for when the schedule is released. Saracens against Harlequins, Bath against Gloucester, Tigers against Saints – these are the staples of English domestic rugby, the bitter rivalries decades, if not centuries, in the making. So its beggars belief [...]
Shunting civil servants around the UK will never deliver what enterprise can February 8, 2022 You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. Advice from the past that seems pertinent to a government committing levelling up into law. What was a slogan is now “12 national missions” published in a white paper last week, to provide a central mission for government to deliver economic parity to all regions of the [...]
Sam Torrance: Nicolai Hojgaard is destined to be a world beater February 7, 2022 Big-money tournaments elsewhere in the Middle East may have attracted the headlines but the best golf story of the weekend for me was Nicolai Hojgaard. The young Dane and his twin brother Rasmus are going to be world-beaters and Nicolai took the next step on that journey with an extraordinary victory at the Ras Al [...]
London suburb of Harrow emerges as unexpected hotspot for tax avoidance February 7, 2022 The London suburb of Harrow has been revealed as the unexpected centre of tax avoidance in the UK with 346 taxpayers coming forward to admit tax avoidance last year, placing it first out of 120 areas of the UK. In fact, The number of people admitting to tax avoidance in Harrow has jumped 280 per [...]
UK government should upskill managers to level up the country, CMI says February 7, 2022 The UK government should invest in efforts to upskill Britain’s managers in its bid to tackle regional inequality, according to the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). The trade body for managers said the government should fund schemes to improve Britain’s leadership skills, in order to increase productivity and level up the country. CMI chief executive Ann [...]
Meta share price plunge sees investors buy up almost 20 times more shares February 7, 2022 New data has revealed that investors purchased 1,828 per cent more shares day after Meta's fourth quarter announcement last week after the tech giant's stock dived 26 per cent.
Letters: Blackrock, paper, scissors February 7, 2022 [Re: BlackRock enters the TikTok fray with ‘financial wellness’ account, Feb 4] Blackrock, the world’s biggest asset manager has decided to join Tik Tok, to give advice to people on “financial wellness”. This sort of performative “up with the kids” attitude is not unsurprising, but it is problematic. The more the big names jump onto [...]
Inside the content creators’ industry, not everything is as glossy as it seems February 7, 2022 Say “influencer economy” to most people and there remains a temptation to shrug it off as a handful of Youtube stars making a few grand here and there for make-up videos. In truth, the influencer economy has become mainstream – almost 50m people around the world consider themselves “content creators”. That spans from impossibly youthful [...]
Silencing Joe Rogan ‘not the answer,’ says Spotify Boss February 7, 2022 The chief executive of Spotify has rejected calls to ban Joe Rogan from the platform after removing dozens of his podcast episodes.
Six Nations: France start with win but there’s room for growth February 7, 2022 France’s opening round victory over Italy in the Six Nations on Sunday wasn’t dripping with a special je ne sais quoi, but it was a hard earned result to get their promising quest for a Grand Slam underway. Flying wing Gabin Villiere had three career tries prior to kick-off in Paris but doubled that tally [...]