Has Fifa wildly overestimated the value of Club World Cup media rights? October 11, 2024 Was Fifa too hasty in rejecting Apple’s reported $1bn (£760m) offer for media rights to next summer’s inaugural beefed-up Club World Cup? That is a question football’s governing body may have to ask itself as time ticks down towards the new 32-team tournament in the US next summer. With only eight months to go until [...]
Check out this house built from the ground up for ‘wellness’ October 10, 2024 Property of the week | Clarendon Road, Notting Hill | £8.25m | For sale through Middleton Advisors If there has been one trend that has defined the 2020s so far, it is the proliferation and penetration of ‘wellness’, that imprecise but ubiquitous term that covers everything from physical fitness to mental fortitude. Property developers have not [...]
‘Everything has a beginning and an end’: Rafael Nadal announces retirement October 10, 2024 King of Clay and 22-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal has announced his retirement from tennis at the age of 38. Nadal won the French Open a record 14 times and is second only to Novak Djokovic for most Grand Slams. He will play his last matches at next month’s Davis Cup Finals in Malaga, [...]
The Capitalist: Labour’s boost for wealth advisors and bane for private schools plus friends like Boris’ October 10, 2024 Dispatches from a big night for Boris and Bloomberg, blockchain for gorillas and a giant bronze Mr Blobby: catch up on the latest City gossip in this week’s edition of The Capitalist BORIS UNLEASHED Boris Johnson launched his memoirs on Wednesday night in the grandest room at the lavish Institute of Directors on Pall Mall. The [...]
Top UK bankers warn prospect of windfall tax is spooking investors October 9, 2024 Top bankers have warned that tough regulation and high taxes are denting investment in Britain’s financial services sector ahead of Labour's much-anticipated Budget on 30 October.
Root tipped to take world record after breaking Cook’s England Test run tally October 9, 2024 Joe Root has been tipped to overhaul Sachin Tendulkar as Test cricket’s all-time highest run-scorer after he surpassed Sir Alastair Cook’s England record. Root passed his former captain Cook’s mark of 12,472 runs in the morning session of the third day of England’s first Test against Pakistan in Multan on Wednesday. That still leaves him [...]
Two IPL team owners battle to buy Manchester Originals in Hundred sale October 9, 2024 The interest is a significant boost for England cricket chiefs’ much-maligned sales process.
Channel 4 reports record loss as advertising troubles persist October 9, 2024 Channel 4 has reported a challenging year, amid a "tough cyclical TV advertising downturn", but said this is beginning to stabilise.
Nightmare fuel: Have Labour’s first 100 days proved a shaky start? October 9, 2024 During Liz Truss’ short-lived premiership, my friend confessed the then-Prime Minister was actually living out a recurring nightmare she occasionally had. The ‘plot’ of said nightmare? “The idea that you think yourself capable of something and you get to the top and you’re on the front page of every newspaper, and every news channel and [...]
How BT, EE, Plusnet, Talktalk, O2 and Virgin Media misled customers over mid-contract price rises October 9, 2024 Six of the UK’s biggest broadband providers, BT, EE, Plusnet, Talktalk, O2 and Virgin Media, failed to make mid-contract price increases clear to consumers, the advertising watchdog has ruled. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the companies misled consumers by placing important information about price rises separately to headline prices and in areas of less [...]