By Matt Hardy The weekend’s Premiership action saw a battle at the top, a dominant West Country performance and major controversy. Here are four takeaways from the four matches in round eight. Master versus apprentice Yesterday’s match between Saracens…
Slaughter and May lets lawyers clock out of emails from 10pm to 8am
By Louis Goss Magic Circle law firm Slaughter and May is set to let its lawyers log out of their emails after 10pm in a bid to prevent “unnecessary incursions” on its employees’ work-life balances. However, lawyers at the elite London firm must still b…
AJ Bell: Getting young people to invest isn’t easy amid cost-of-living crisis
By Ben Lucas ENCOURAGING younger people to invest their hard-earned cash is not easy in the current economic climate, the chief executive of AJ Bell has said, adding that the recent launch of its investment app Dodl, which is aimed at younger investors…
Difficult decision to come from Sunak and Hunt on bank surcharge
By Jack Barnett The government has not ruled out reversing a tax cut on the UK’s biggest banks as it scrambles to overfill a huge hole in the public finances. Asked today by City A.M. if chancellor Jeremy Hunt and prime minister Rishi Sunak would commi…
Musk mulls ring-fencing Twitter ‘beef’ with different ‘versions’ of site
By Charlie Conchie Elon Musk has suggested that Twitter could be split up into maturity-rated content streams to ring-fence harmful and extreme posts, as the debate over moderation of material on the site rages on. Musk completed a months-long fractiou…
Ministers rubbish Russian claims Britain was behind Nord Stream attack
By Charlie Conchie The Russian defence ministry has accused the British navy of attacking and rupturing the Nord Stream gas pipelines last month, a claim that British ministers described as an attempt to divert attention away from military failures in …
David Grutman, the “King of Miami” gives us his take on hospitality
By Steve Dinneen David Grutman is a hospitality impresario behind a string of restaurants, hotels and nightclubs in Miami. As he takes part in the AMEX Shaping Insights podcast, we caught up with him to quiz him on the state of hospitality Tell us abou…
Bros film review: Worthwhile LGBTQ rom-com
By Adam Bloodworth Like Love, Simon a few years ago, new comedy Bros has had a fight getting to the big screen. The first gay romantic comedy released by a major studio, the film’s Imdb page was review bombed by online bigots prior to its release, whil…
Rail union calls on Mark Harper to ‘avoid the mistakes of Grant Shapps’
By Ilaria Grasso Macola Rail union TSSA has called on newly-appointed transport secretary Mark Harper to “avoid the mistakes of Grant Shapps” and remove blocks to negotiations between workers and train operators. The relationship between former transpo…
Best pasta in London, according to Pasta Envangelists
By Adam Bloodworth Roberta D’Elia, head chef at Pasta Evangelists, shares her top five places to enjoy a bowl of pasta in the capital. The pasta bar in Harrods I may be slightly biased given this one is run by Pasta Evangelists but The Pasta Bar is the…