Formula 1: City A.M. hand out post-season awards after dramatic finale December 13, 2021 After 22 races, countless flashpoints and one sensational title battle, the Formula 1 season is over… probably. Max Verstappen is the latest world champion and Mercedes took the constructors’ title for a record eighth consecutive year. But away from the biggest prizes, who performed best – and worst – throughout this most compelling of seasons? [...]
SPOTY 2021: Daley, Sterling and Storey included in nominees December 13, 2021 The BBC have this morning announced the six-name shortlist for Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY). The six nominees are: diver Tom Daley, boxer Tyson Fury, swimmer Adam Peaty, tennis player Emmu Raducanu, footballer Raheem Sterling and Paralympic cyclist Dame Sarah Storey. The last 14 winners have been men, with the last female winner coming [...]
Avoidable errors have left Ukraine at the mercy of the Kremlin December 13, 2021 Cast your mind back to 2012 and the US Presidential election. Apart from the striking civility of political debate even a decade ago, what’s most memorable about the campaign is Barack Obama’s savage putdown to Mitt Romney’s foreign policy credo. “The 1980s called – it wants its foreign policy back,” said the President. Romney’s crime [...]
Formula 1: Verstappen wins on last lap of last race on last weekend December 12, 2021 After the way this 2021 Formula 1 season had been going up to this concluding weekend, you probably would have got short odds on it coming down to the last lap of the last race of the last weekend. It’s what we deserved. All hail Max Verstappen, the 24-year-old Dutchman who joins a roster of [...]
Pensioners’ internet usage rockets by 69 per cent from pre-pandemic thanks to Squid Game and Bridgerton December 12, 2021 The popularity of Netflix dramas such as Squid Game, Bridgerton and Tiger King is driving a significant increase in internet usage among pensioners, according to new broadband usage data released by connectivity provider TalkTalk.
Calls for Cressida Dick to resign after inquest finds Met Police failings “probably” led to more victims of the serial killer Stephen Port December 10, 2021 An inquest jury found this afternoon that mistakes by the Metropolitan Police "probably" contributed to the deaths of the victims of serial killer Stephen Port, leading to calls for Cressida Dick's resignatio
Champions Cup kick-off has been tainted by Covid complications December 10, 2021 Cardiff and Munster’s youngsters and fringe players may be dreaming of famous upsets this weekend in the Champions Cup but, for me, the situation has tainted European club rugby’s big kick-off slightly. It’s nobody’s fault that the two teams have dozens of players unavailable after being caught up in the omicron breakout while playing in [...]
The Book of Dust at Bridge Theatre: Philip Pullman prequel is enchanting December 9, 2021 Set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage is the origin story, if you like, of the trilogy’s much-loved heroine, Lyra. A crisp adaptation by Bryony Lavery and wondrous direction by Nicholas Hytner make for a truly magical reimagining for stage. The Bridge’s metaphorical curtains [...]
The metaverse allows us to embrace ch-ch-changes December 9, 2021 It's time to relax and just go along with the flow of it all - the metaverse is in good hands, says Dr Chris Kacher.
City up in arms over looming imposition of plan B to curb Omicron December 9, 2021 City bigwigs today are up in arms over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s stricter measures to curb the spread of the Omicron variant. Speaking to City A.M. in the Square Mile’s drinking hole, Leadenhall Market, one insurance broker said “at some point we’ve got to learn to live with it”. “Enough is enough,” another City worker [...]