Restaurant industry risks ‘lost generation’ without more support, top chefs warn September 27, 2020 Raymond Blanc and Michel Roux Jr have warned that the restaurant industry risks losing a generation of talent and will “suffer enormously” amid fresh coronavirus restrictions and gaps in government support. Industry figures have condemned the new 10pm curfew as “devastating”, while a quarter of hospitality businesses fear they will go bust by the end [...]
Botticelli portrait set to fetch $80m as it goes up for auction September 24, 2020 One of the last known privately-owned portraits by Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli is expected to fetch at least $80m (£63m) when it goes under the hammer in January. The 550-year-old painting, titled Young Man Holding a Roundel, will go up for sale as part of Sotheby’s Masters Week series of auctions in New York next [...]
Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on Tatum September 24, 2020 Tatum is a unique platform that tackles blockchain developers’ biggest problems today: speed, accessibility and interoperability. It reduces development time to mere hours and is extremely easy to use. Anyone with little to zero coding knowledge can benefit from its features at no cost – Tatum has made its platform open source for everyone. As [...]
Paxful CEO Ray Youssef’s Journey September 24, 2020 Started from the bottom From being homeless in New York City to the CEO of an international crypto company, Ray Youssef shares his journey as a co-founder of Paxful, a global P2P crypto marketplace with a mission to empower the forgotten four billion unbanked and underbanked around the world to have control of their money [...]
The realities of the four-day working week September 23, 2020 Many publications have recently covered the news of how 500,000 new jobs could be created through a four-day working week. While the reality of this extensive job creation remains to be seen, there are certainly those across the nation who can comment on the general effectiveness of a four-day working week. Most UK employers still [...]
Night-time businesses slam 10pm curfew as ‘devastating’ September 22, 2020 Businesses in the UK’s night-time economy have slammed the Prime Minister’s announcement of a 10pm curfew on venues for up to six months as “devastating”, and warned that it will lead to wide-scale business collapse and unemployment. Boris Johnson today announced a 10pm curfew on all hospitality and leisure venues in England in a bid [...]
Entrepreneurship can be taught – so why don’t we teach it more? September 22, 2020 It is hard to think of a tougher task than teaching school children remotely. Until this month’s return to the classroom, schools across the country have been forced to adapt these challenging circumstances. Not everything has worked out, but projects such as Oak National Academy thousands of free online lessons show the potential for innovation [...]
Coronavirus: Pubs and restaurants forced to shut at 10pm from Thursday September 21, 2020 Boris Johnson will tomorrow put a 10pm curfew on all English restaurants, pubs and hospitality venue in an attempt to curb surging coronavirus rates. The new rules, which will come into force on Thursday, will also see the hospitality sector restricted to table service only. The intervention comes after a sharp rise in coronavirus cases [...]
Pubs to shut at 10pm under new restrictions September 21, 2020 Boris Johnson will tomorrow announce that pubs in England will have to shut at 10pm in an attempt to limit the spread of coronavirus, it was reported this afternoon. The new restrictions are set to be introduced amid warnings that there could be as many as 50,000 cases a day in the UK by mid [...]
Exclusive: Internal report says ex-People’s Vote boss has ‘case to answer’ on sexual harassment allegations September 21, 2020 A former Labour election strategy chief and boss of the People’s Vote campaign “has a case to answer” in regards to multiple allegations of sexual harassment, according to a report commissioned by a company he used to lead. An inquiry conducted by the anti-Brexit European Movement group and seen by City A.M. lists a string [...]