Ed Warner: Sewing ruling bodies together is not always the answer November 18, 2021 I’m a late adopter of LinkedIn, only joining this summer as a means of promoting Sport inc. Compiling my profile, I paused for just a second before deciding not to include my inglorious 52 days as interim chair of the British Basketball Federation back in 2018. On Sunday, as the T20 World Cup neared its [...]
The German dream of levelling up is still just a shell under Boris Johnson November 18, 2021 Politicians and policy experts in this country often like to compare it to Germany, with many thinking – rightly or wrongly – that it is the model of a well-functioning state. The Prime Minister did this in a recent flagship speech on his still undefined levelling up agenda. Boris Johnson lamented how, three decades after [...]
Treasury needs to play nice with regulators to make a success of post-Brexit rules November 18, 2021 Uncertainty is a killer for businesses. Too bad it is everywhere you look. Unknown unknowns are impossible to root out, but firms have developed coping strategies to allow them to live in a deeply fragile world. The underlying factors that triggered the financial crisis were unknown unknowns to (almost) everyone, even if they seem obvious [...]
Half of teenage girls would not work for employer with gender pay gap, Indeed reveals November 17, 2021 Almost half of UK teenage girls have stated they would not work for an employer with a gender pay gap. Data from an Indeed research has revealed that 48 per cent of girls aged between 16 and 18 would rule out working for an organisation that has a gender pay gap against women, while only [...]
Go green or go home: employees’ demand for sustainable business travel hikes November 17, 2021 The majority of UK workers want to cut air travel and expect their employers to provide sustainable business travel solutions. Data from Trainline Partner Solutions has revealed that 53 per cent of UK employees believe that, before the pandemic, businesses were irresponsible with their levels of business travel, with 31 per cent admitting they had [...]
Celebrating the women in wine November 16, 2021 Only five per cent of the Chef de Caves in Champagne are women and Caroline Latrive of Champagne AYALA is one. Wanting to do something about this disparity, she partnered with SquareMeal to support the Female Chef Of The Year Award, a similar industry where male chefs outnumber women at a rate of over four [...]
Lucrative for luxury: Metaverse could untap $50bn for brands by 2030 November 16, 2021 Opening the door to the Metaverse to meet the growing digital demand for luxury goods will present brands with a $50bn revenue opportunity within the decade, according to a new analysis by Morgan Stanley. In projections that are slightly difficult to compute right now, considering revenue streams for digital mediums for luxury brands are currently [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: In-form Manfred Man unlikely to stop the winning feeling November 16, 2021 CHAMPION jockey Zac Purton gets his first ride of the season for the Douglas Whyte stable when taking over from Jerry Chau aboard Harmony Fire in the Kokura Handicap (1.15pm) over five furlongs. It seems strange that Chau has been substituted having won twice previously on the progressive four-year-old, but maybe the narrow nose defeat [...]
Trevor Steven: England have mojo back as World Cup countdown begins November 16, 2021 As we’ve come to expect from Gareth Southgate’s England, they completed a very comfortable qualifying campaign for the Qatar 2022 World Cup with a flourish this week. While Monday’s 10-0 walkover in San Marino grabbed the headlines, a better benchmark of their performance came in Friday’s 5-0 win against Albania. England have got their mojo [...]
Just keep moving November 16, 2021 [Re: Uber’s model was rife with flaws but the gig economy deserves saving, yesterday] The piece in support of Uber is fair enough, but it ignores the fact that a lot of Uber traffic came from tempting people off of public transport. In doing so, it added to the problem of climate change and congestion, [...]