Frank Lampard confirmed as new Everton manager January 31, 2022 Everton have confirmed the appointment of former Chelsea and Derby County manager Frank Lampard on a two-and-a-half year contract. Lampard succeeds Rafael Benitez, who was sacked after just half a season earlier this month. “It is a huge honour for me to represent and manage a club the size and tradition of Everton Football Club,” [...]
Letters: Music to my ears – if I want it January 31, 2022 [Re: Competition watchdog shines spotlight on music streaming, Jan 28] Leah Montebello wrote last week that the UK competition watchdog will “look at the roles played by record labels and streaming platforms” and decide if the market leaders hold excessive power. Music streaming has been around in some form for decades and even before the [...]
Growth fund Norrsken22 raises $200m to spur growth in African tech January 31, 2022 A tech fund backed by 30 ‘unicorn’ founders has today closed a $200m raise to seek out and spur growth in Africa’s future tech giants.
Spotify rolls out covid content warnings after Neil Young and Joni Mitchell launch protest January 31, 2022 Streaming giant Spotify will roll out Covid content warnings on podcasts after singer Neil Young withdrew from the platform in protest at the spread of misinformation.
Spotify faces the music amid Rogan row January 31, 2022 How the streaming giant may have taken its podcast push too far
Furlough scheme protects route back to work for young Brits January 31, 2022 The furlough scheme shielded young Brits from the worst economic impact of the pandemic, allowing them to return to work rapidly, reveals a fresh study released today. Despite fears over a wave of redundancies after the furlough scheme was wound down at the end of September, three in four young people who were unemployed during [...]
Editorial: These “tax-cutting Conservatives” seem very keen on hiking taxes January 30, 2022 If it quacks like a high-tax duck and talks like a high-tax duck, it is difficult to believe that it is fact anything but a high-tax duck. So it is with Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, who professed this weekend to be “tax-cutting Conservatives” in a column confirming they were dead set on hiking national [...]
Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young asking Spotify to remove her songs over Covid row January 29, 2022 Joni Mitchell has joined Neil Young and asked Spotify to remove all of her discography following a row with podcaster Joe Rogan over Covid misinformation. “I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify,” the author of ‘Both Sides Now’ and ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ said on her website last night. “Irresponsible people are spreading lies [...]
Letters: Workforce for the future January 28, 2022 [Re: Andy Haldane comments on re-skilling the workforce, yesterday] Andy Haldane, head of the levelling up task force, said yesterday that the government must invest in a huge program of re-skilling the workforce. In the UK at the moment, vacancies are at a record high. At the same time, we see great swathes of graduates [...]
Ollie Phillips: Absent internationals will help and hinder Premiership clubs January 28, 2022 I’m in Seville for the World Sevens Series, whetting my appetite for the festival of international rugby that is the Six Nations. It’s the best championship on the planet, and what will be interesting this year is how the Premiership clubs cope with losing internationals. Only Worcester failed to get a player in the England [...]