Cut the obfuscation and let Britain move beyond Brexit June 17, 2019 Gone ’til November. The lyrics of rapper, activist and one-time Haiti presidential candidate Wyclef Jean. And it is the view of the great many of those vying to be Prime Minister: while we might be in the EU until October, we will be gone by November. You’d be forgiven for raising an eyebrow. Groundhog Day [...]
Queen’s Birthday Honours 2019: Oscar-winner Olivia Colman among 1,000 on main honours list June 8, 2019 Oscar-winner Olivia Colman was among more than 1,000 people to receive honours on the Queen’s birthday after becoming a CBE. Andrew Parker and Alex Younger, the heads of MI5 and MI6 respectively, were among those to receive a knighthood, along with Bafta winner and theatre actor Simon Russell Beale. Read more:The Queen marks D-Day anniversary [...]
Pawning the family treasure: Rare chess piece set to fetch up to £1m June 3, 2019 A rare and long-lost medieval chess piece could fetch up to £1m at an auction in Edinburgh tomorrow. Sotheby’s is putting a Lewis Chessman piece up for sale some 55 years after it was snapped up by an eagle-eyed Edinburgh antiques dealer for £5. Read more: David Hockney's pool painting breaks record for living artist [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Back Sextant to get the measure of handicap rivals May 31, 2019 IT WON’T take an expert to pick out SEXTANT as the most likely winner of the penultimate race today. Sir Michael Stoute’s fast-improving four-year-old is getting better with every gallop, and though he may not be the biggest price winner you’ll ever back, he looks a very solid bet at 9/4. So many of Sir [...]
Keystone Law beats market expectations in first full-year results since listing May 8, 2019 Keystone Law today posted a 35 per cent increase in revenue in its first full-year results since it became the third English law firm to float in November 2017. The firm beat market expectations with revenue of £42.7m and adjusted profit before tax of £5.1m. Keystone, which launched in 2002, operates a platform model, recruiting [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Don’t be a Fool and stick with Fahey’s in the opener May 8, 2019 THERE really is nothing quite like Chester, although the track most similar to it is probably Happy Valley in Hong Kong. Like with Happy Valley, it is the races over five and six furlongs where the draw is the most important. In today’s opening Gateley PLC Handicap (1.50pm), the last seven winners have all burst [...]
Why FinTechs are barking up the wrong tree April 30, 2019 While fintechs wave the flag of disruption and chant ‘financial inclusion for all’, the knights that promise to save the masses from the vagaries of traditional financial services have a more pressing agenda – profit. Both nascent and established players in consumer-facing financial service industries are searching for the holy grail that delivers droves of [...]
For a brand like Nike, nothing beats an athlete with a crazy dream April 23, 2019 As Tiger Woods rolled in his final putt, securing victory at Augusta and claiming his long-awaited fifteenth major title, Nike was ready and primed for the magical moment. Some 14 years after his last victory at the Masters and 11 years after his last major title, Woods now stands just three behind the greatest golfer in [...]
Facebook permanently bans a dozen far-right groups and individuals including BNP, Britain First and English Defence League April 18, 2019 Facebook has permanently banned a dozen far-right groups and individuals, including the British National Party and its former leader Nick Griffin. The social media network imposed the bans today as part of its “dangerous individuals and organisations” policy. Read more: Facebook uploads email contacts of 1.5m new users in latest privacy blunder It comes amid [...]
US private equity activity slumps in first quarter April 11, 2019 Private equity activity in the US slumped in the first quarter of this year following a record breaking year in 2018. US deal and exit count dropped 27.9 per cent and 42.5 per cent respectively between January and March this year. Read more: Private equity investment bounces back at the beginning of 2019 Year-on-year deal [...]