London can be top of the pile for skills and tech: New York shows us how August 19, 2015 Everyone in this city has their own story. Mine, like so many Londoners, is of someone whose parents moved here to make a better life for themselves and their family. And now, as my campaign picks up momentum, I’m fighting hard to become Labour’s candidate to be mayor of London. What an incredible honour. I [...]
Over-qualified and under-employed: The majority of graduates are “in non-graduate jobs”, says the CIPD August 19, 2015 New graduates are being massively under-employed when they try to join the labour market, with thousands taking their first step in their career in jobs that don't require their hard-won degrees, a new study has found. The research, by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), found graduate over-qualification has reached “saturation point”, with [...]
Coe and Bubka face D-day in fight for international athletics hotseat August 19, 2015 BRITAIN’S Lord Coe was due to find out on Wednesday morning whether his bid for the most powerful position in world athletics has been successful. Coe, who following a successful track career of his own led efforts to attract and then stage the London 2012 Olympics, has been vying with Ukrainian former pole vaulter Sergei [...]
Oval wicket should aid Michael Clarke’s Australia in Ashes finale August 19, 2015 England still have a long way to go to reach No1 in the Test rankings but I believe there is enough talent in this young team to take them there. Ben Stokes needs to keep improving, keep taking wickets and scoring runs. He’s a really talented cricketer and he knows what he has to [...]
Upcoming City slickers should take better care on social media August 18, 2015 YOU ALWAYS hear rumours of big companies trawling through prospective employees’ social media profiles to look for dirt, but the finance world is slacking on the job. The Capitalist is privy to a few accounts of London’s young City slickers, and these are just a few of the hot takes and drunken escapades coming out [...]
Culture – not economics – explains why London pupils excel at A-Levels August 18, 2015 Last week saw the ritual tears and joy of the announcement of A-Level results. An encouraging aspect was the increase, albeit small, in the percentage of entries in traditional academic subjects, now standing at 51.2 per cent. This is yet another example of incentives at work. The universities have been signalling that non-academic passes, no [...]
“Summer boom” in upmarket central London lettings as Mayfair has post-election bounce August 18, 2015 It's not just super-rich property buyers who breathed a sigh of relief when the result of the General Election was announced: new figures suggest landlords were also pretty relieved, after corporate relocation enquiries for homes in Mayfair jumped 40 per cent in the past three months. Read more: One estate agent is enticing the super-rich [...]
Jason Day’s success could be the start of a new three-way era, featuring Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy – Sam Torrance’s Golf Comment August 18, 2015 The parade of birdies, magnificent shot-making and record scores that we witnessed over the last few days as Jason Day held off Jordan Spieth to win the US PGA Championship is exactly what we want from golf. Day was just superb. He had challenged at Majors before but hadn’t lasted the pace and could [...]
Hot Tub Cinema returns to London – with champagne August 17, 2015 City slickers – we know what you like. You like champagne. You like movies. You like doing normal weekend activities on rooftops and in weird circumstances. Well good news: Hot Tub Cinema is returning to London after a leaving Shoreditch residents for a UK tour last year. For those who aren’t familiar with the concept, [...]
Unemployed young people to attend job “boot camp” under new government plans August 17, 2015 Young unemployed people will be forced to attend a “boot camp” to help them back into work, under new plans set out by the government today. The compulsory three-week camp is part of a “no excuses” approach to reducing youth unemployment, said paymaster general Matt Hancock in a statement. The policy will come into force [...]