Apprentices match university counterparts for happiness and life satisfaction January 26, 2017 School leavers who choose an apprenticeship over further education are just as “satisfied with life” as people who go to university, a new study has found. 9,500 young people were examined as part of a research project conducted by UCL and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The study concluded that there is [...]
Revealed: David Cameron’s new jobs January 25, 2017 So David Cameron just got a new job this morning. This made us wonder just what life after No 10 is like for the former British Prime Minister who resigned following the shock outcome of last year's EU referendum. Take a look at the new jobs David Cameron is doing now: 1. President of the Alzheimer’s Research [...]
The UK’s young entrepreneurs have set their sights on big growth for 2017 despite Brexit uncertainty January 25, 2017 Young entrepreneurs expect ambitious growth for their companies this year, despite feeling uncertain about the impact of Brexit. According to Albion Ventures' fourth annual growth report, exploring the factors affecting growth among 1,000 small and medium-sized businesses, two-thirds of entrepreneurs aged under 35 predicted their business will grow over the year. And 18 per cent are feeling [...]
Now is the time for new coalitions in the Brexit debate January 25, 2017 We live in topsy-turvy times. Chinese President and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping recently emerged as the world’s unlikely flag-bearer for global capitalism, telling dignitaries in Davos: “Pursuing protectionism is just like locking oneself in a dark room: wind and rain might be kept outside but so are light and air.” Xi’s pleasingly poetic and [...]
Why Formula One’s new owners Liberty Media must step on the gas to reclaim lost ground from rivals January 24, 2017 The ousting of long-time Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone marks a coup and leaves a series of unanswered questions facing the sport. For decades critics have questioned how F1 is governed and how it generates revenues, and have therefore cast doubts on its long-term future. Although some commentators – notably former broadcaster Murray Walker – have observed how instrumental Ecclestone [...]
Wasps seal European Champions Cup quarter-final berth as Saracens draw Glasgow in last eight January 23, 2017 Wasps recovered from a sluggish start to secure a bonus-point 41-27 success over Italian side Zebre on Sunday and finish top of their European Champions Cup pool, earning themselves a trip to Leinster in the quarter-finals. Two tries from Ashley Johnson and further touchdowns from Danny Cipriani, Elliot Daly, Christian Wade and Nathan Hughes powered Wasps [...]
How well do you know your audience? Not as well as Spredfast’s Leo Ryan January 23, 2017 In the 1970s German philosopher Jurgen Habermas concocted the notion of Offentlichkeit – better known as the public sphere, or “an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems”. Some 40 years on, the advent of social media has realised his ideal tenfold, and the mass sharing [...]
HMRC in £468m small business tax haul January 23, 2017 Local compliance teams investigating small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) brought in substantial extra revenue to the taxman last year. HMRC has shifted its resources away from large businesses and towards SMEs, which they estimate represent 51 per cent of the country’s “tax gap”, the difference between the amount of tax collected and the amount [...]
Brace for “hard rebalancing” of UK economy in 2017 January 23, 2017 The fall in the pound will result in a “significant readjustment” of the UK economy away from consumer spending and towards exports, regardless of the results of the Brexit negotiations. Economists at Ernest & Young says UK exports will increase by as much as 3.3 per cent this year, and 5.2 per cent in 2018, [...]
The full transcript of Donald Trump’s inaugural address speech January 20, 2017 Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Here's what he said. "Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you. "We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country [...]