Gary Motherwell CA: “Allies can support LGBT+ colleagues through actions” June 23, 2021 Gary Motherwell CA, Finance Director at Golden Charter, discusses overcoming his fear of coming out, how he has witnessed attitudes towards the LGBT+ community shift during his career and how CAs can support their LGBT+ colleagues. Tell us a little bit about your childhood, where you grew up and what the family dynamic was like [...]
Google Campus closes in the end of an era for London tech startups June 22, 2021 Google has decided not to reopen its London campus for startups, which formed part of the capital’s mini–Silicon Valley, saying it will offer services online. The coronavirus pandemic and working from home has likely swayed the decision to shut the seven-storey East London campus. “This shift demonstrated that, similar to the support we provide in [...]
Protecting the green belt is not about the environment, it’s blinkered self-interest June 22, 2021 The UK needs approximately 345,000 new homes per year if we are to tackle our housing crisis. It is also estimated that by developing just 5.2 per cent of the existing Green Belt, we could build 1.4 million homes. Everybody knows the UK is in the throes of a housing crisis, yet we refuse to [...]
Michelin starred Pied à Terre in Fitzrovia stops lunch due to ‘Brexit and Covid’ June 21, 2021 In another sign of the post-Covid recruitment crisis, one of London’s oldest Michelin-starred restaurants has closed its lunch service until further notice. Fitzrovia’s Pied à Terre says Brexit and Covid have impacted recruitment so badly it is no longer able to open for the whole day. The restaurant said it could not “protect the welfare [...]
Meet the youngest professional winemaker in the UK June 21, 2021 At 25, Tommy Grimshaw is perhaps the youngest professional winemaker in the UK. His office is at Crawthorne Farm, part of the 1,000 hectare Langham Agricultural Estate around the Grade 1 listed Melcombe Manor House in Dorset. “We take a low intervention approach to both grape growing and wine production, meaning that all of our [...]
YouTube and Snapchat team up with government up to boost vaccine take-up among young Britons June 21, 2021 Youtube and Snapchat are among a group of social media platforms to sign up to help the government boost vaccine take-up among 18 to 29-year-olds in England. The new partnership will see the tech giants use things like stickers, filters and videos to encourage people to get the Covid-19 vaccine. The platforms involved are Snapchat, [...]
Luca is an enjoyable Pixar Lite that’s in thrall to the work of Ghibli June 18, 2021 The past eighteen months has seen a complete shift in what we mean by the term ‘straight to on demand’. Once the preserve of movies that weren’t worth a cinema release, circumstances have meant a hybrid solution is now the sensible choice for a lot of new releases. That said, the big movies are still [...]
Delta variant now makes up 99 per cent of new Covid cases in UK June 18, 2021 The Delta variant now accounts for 99 per cent of new Covid-19 cases in the UK, according to the latest Public Health England data. In the week to June 14, Britain reported another steep rise in new cases of the Delta variant, which was first identified in India. The latest PHE data showed the variant [...]
GB News has been ‘cancelled’ and made a roaring success out of it June 18, 2021 In less than a week, GB News has achieved what it set out to do. In his opening introduction, Andrew Neil vowed to expose “cancel culture” and focus on the news that matters to people outside of the “Westminster bubble”. Right on cue, a host of companies from Octopus Energy to the cider firm Kopparberg [...]
42m Brits: Four in five UK adults given first dose of Covid vaccine June 17, 2021 The government today said over 42m adults in the UK have received their first dose of the Covid vaccine. The latest figures show almost 73m doses of the vaccine have been administered in the UK, with more than 30m adults receiving both doses. The government says it is on track to offer a first dose [...]