Liberal Democrat Vince Cable slammed for “white faces” Brexit slur | City A.M. March 11, 2018 Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has been slammed for saying the Brexit vote was driven by a nostalgia for a time “when faces were white”. Speaking at his party’s spring conference today, Cable said young people had been disappointed by the outcome of the EU referendum and that the vote had plunged the country into [...]
Cliveden House review: Celebrate your last moments of childlessness with a luxury babymoon to this stately home March 9, 2018 A babymoon may sound like a wheeze designed to milk that most susceptible of consumers, the prospective parent, but dismiss it at your peril: it’s a last chance to indulge your egocentric childless selves, so grab it with both hands. With that in mind, I whisked my better half to Cliveden House and Spa. Where: [...]
Saving for school fees March 6, 2018 A good education can be predictably expensive. Parents can now expect to pay upwards of £200,000 in order to secure their children a private education, from nursery to upper sixth. The onset of autumn is synonymous with the start of the new school year and parents of young children, or prospective parents, might be looking [...]
Focus On Victoria: A £4bn investment has completely changed the area from dowdy offices to shiny penthouses and hip restaurants March 5, 2018 If the Queen’s getting a £369m refurbishment of Buckingham Palace, it seems only fair that the neighbourhood surrounding it should get a polish, too. £4bn should just about cover it, and that’s how much has been invested in the area by developer Land Securities over the last five years. Around £700m of that has gone [...]
What happened when we got a job picking weed in California’s booming cannabis industry March 5, 2018 The rugged wilderness of Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity Counties, northern California’s “Emerald Triangle”, produces over half the cannabis consumed in the US. Every year, from September to December, the region swarms with seasonal agricultural workers known as “trimmers”, or “trimmigrants”, here to work the land to supply America’s legion of stoners. For years the going [...]
Blockchain and artificial intelligence to cause a flurry of tech M&A, but private equity’s bubble could burst warns new report from Hampleton Partners March 5, 2018 A flurry of technology mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are set to happen before 2020, a new report predicts. However private equity firms – which have recently been elbowing trade buyers out of the way to splash the cash on tech targets, such as in the $5.3bn (£3.8bn) buyout of Nets – could soon see their [...]
Pub group Hawthorn Leisure to attract interest from competitors as private equity owner calls closing time on investment March 4, 2018 The 300-strong UK pub group Hawthorn Leisure is up for sale, according to industry sources, as its private equity owner looks to pass the group on. The young pub group, which was founded in 2014 by former Merrill Lynch banker Noah Bulkin with funding from Avenue Capital, is in the early stages of a process [...]
Ollie Phillips: England head coach Eddie Jones must rediscover the courage of his convictions March 1, 2018 It is certainly not panic stations or all doom and gloom for England. They are the second best side in the world and can still feasibly win the Six Nations despite their setback against Scotland, but there are concerns. When Eddie Jones was hired, he inherited a squad that he could do no wrong with. [...]
Keeping the little guys in the loop: How Funding Circle hopes to fix the financial system March 1, 2018 Let's be honest, financial institutions can be bleak places. Pretentious, impenetrable, and determined to make you feel conscious of your own tiny existence. So when I step into the bustling hive that is Funding Circle’s office, it’s a breath of fresh air. There’s not a suit in sight, the place is immersed in a babble [...]
Snow in London: Met Office extends weather warning to the end of the week February 27, 2018 The Met Office has extended its yellow warnings for snow in London until the end of the week, as the so-called “beast from the east” continues to cast a chill over the UK. Temperatures will stay below 0°C for most of the week, according to forecasts, with snow showers and “significant” wind chill also set [...]