We’re all mortal
A certain amusement here. Pizza Express is under mounting pressure from debts, rising costs and fierce competition, credit ratings agency Moody’s warned as it downgraded the restaurant chain. Fears are...
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All 140 staff at Emoov were expected to be given their marching orders on Tuesday night after the online estate agent collapsed into administration. The start-up, which had engineered a £100m three-way...
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Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, is under fire over his former government’s connection to a so-called “freeport” which risks enabling money laundering and corruption. In...
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Patisserie Valerie executives Luke Johnson and Paul May are facing fresh questions after failing to disclose they were also landlords to the stricken bakery chain. The duo, the chairman and former...
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More than 3,500 bankers in the UK are paid more than €1m (£850,000) a year, according to pay and bonus details published by the European Banking Authority. OK Luke Hildyard, the director of the High...
View ArticleWhat’s actually wrong with gentrification?
Tottenham’s new stadium: Beacon of light or a Trojan horse for gentrification?
View ArticleAnyone want a free 3D printer?
A manufacturer is asking if I’d organise a review of a 3 D printer. This one. If I can organise it the deal would be they send the printer and you get to keep it. In return we’d want a proper – ie, not...
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Settlements to the families of 346 people who died in the two catastrophic Boeing Max plane crashes will be calculated, in part, by how long the victims knew they were doomed. Lawyers handling claims...
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Jeremy Corbyn has drawn up plans to take control of Britain’s energy networks in a multi-billion pound power-grab modelled on the nationalisation of Northern Rock. A leaked Labour party document has...
View ArticleWe knew there was going to be a trick here
That the Labour Party wants to renationalise the electricity and gas networks is true. That the Labour Party is insane is true. Even, that the Labour Party is insane to want to renationalise the...
View ArticleLike, you know, getting stonkingly rich?
Top graduates are no longer flocking to the City of London as banks and finance firms are losing out to trendier businesses in technology and other more fashionable industries, bosses fear. Dame Helena...
View ArticleDon’t think leases work like that, do they?
Fears that thousands of shops housed in railway arches would face crippling rent rises are being borne out after the sale of Network Rail’s property portfolio, owners of the businesses have said....
View ArticleDos and Don’ts Of Slot Gaming
Do’s and don’ts of slot gaming It may not seem like an obvious thing to talk about, but that’s because it is. There’s lots of do’s and don’ts of slots, many of which few of us really think to think...
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They also put together a list of demands for executives to address what they considered “rampant” sexism and racism at the company. CEO Sundar Pichai Yeah, the American company whose CEO is an Indian...
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It’s been 100 years since we’ve seen anybody like Elon Musk — here’s why that’s so disorienting Barnum died in 1891, so more than a century….
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Sports Direct sacks former directors and senior management at House of Fraser What else are you going to do with the people who screwed up?
View ArticleShort answers to simple questions
Can Britain’s flexible office boom survive an economic downturn? No. It’s a liquidity mismatch. It’ll all come to the most terrible tears when hte market turns.
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He made millions bringing authentic pizzas to Britain, but by the time of his death, businessman Peter Boizot had lost all of his money. The Pizza Express founder, who died last December aged 89, left...
View ArticleWooden skyscrapers
You know, I can’t help feeling that thee’s a risk here: British Columbia is no stranger to wooden giants. Along its western coast, Douglas fir and Sitka spruce trees topping 60 meters in height have in...
View ArticleSo, don’t bother to write for Medium then
Medium says it offers a chance to get published behind their paywall. Doing so then gains you some portion of what people pay to be able to get past the paywall. I tried this. Two essays. Not saying...
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