Is there a right time to retire?

Gone are the days of carriage clocks, uncomfortable presentations and a pat on the back as you clear out your desk at age 60 or 65. Retirement at a certain age is no longer a foregone conclusion (if it ever was). These days, people can retire at any age, but many keep working into their 70s and even beyond. Is there really a right time to retire? Let’s take a look at retirement through the ages and some of the...

What Is the Long-Term Outlook for UK Markets Following Brexit Negotiations?

Ever since the UK voted for Brexit back in June 2016, the UK economy has seen its fair share of turbulence (not least with the pound dropping by 7% against the euro on the day of the vote). Whilst the Brexit waves are causing a little less of a stir in the economy then they were nearly two years ago, the looming exit date in March 2019 moving ever closer is sure to see a resurgence in economic turbulence. Here...

Time for Crucial NBA Competitions

Just a few days, and we’ll witness the event that will define a new NBA champion.  The main favorites of the last years haven’t changed. So, will Golden State protect their title or someone of their rivals challenges them? The first play-off round of the NBA was quite stressful. At some competitions, all 7 matches were needed to detect the strongest. So, for instance, one of the favorites of the Eastern Conference, Celtics, entered the next round only at the...

Thinking of a new adventure place this summer holidays – think Cancun

Summer holidays are on and so are your plans for some adventure & fun. A getaway to a place where you can unleash your adventurous part of heart will refresh you to the core. You, being an adventure lover might have wander places but if you haven’t visited Cancun yet, your checklist will go incomplete. Cancun is a city in south-eastern Mexico on the northeast coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It is renowned...

Leading Brexit campaigner applies for official residency card – in France

Former Vote Leave chairman Nigel Lawson is applying for an official French residency card, it has been revealed. Lawson, formally Baron Lawson of Blaby, has told Connexion he’s applying for his carte de sejour, a document that secures his rights to remain in Gascony post-Brexit. The move is on the recommendation of the French government who say Britons living in France should seek to get official residency cards. As of last month fewer than 15,000 ex-oats had them, which is roughly a tenth...

Activate deactivated: Conservative’s Momentum imitation folds after 8 months

Activate, the Conservative's imitation of Momentum, has folded after just eight months. The political movement was set up to engage young people in centre-right politics but has struggled to make any headway since it was launched in August last year. High membership fees, homophobic WhatsApp conversations and lavish meetings are highlight's of the organisation's short-lived existence. Many have argued that the group was doomed from the start having been set the impossible mission of becoming the vehicle for a conservative mass movement...

Restaurant Review: The Dining Room at The Goring

British food is having a moment. As Londoners continue to embark on punishing quests for the new and exciting, promises of classic British comfort food have become something of a comfort blanket for so many of us. James Durrant’s The Game Bird opened within The Stafford Hotel last year and quickly garnered praise for its archetypal menu of refined comfort food; boasting the likes of steak and ale steamed suet pudding, whole dover sole and at least one type of...

Film Review: Book Club

It would be far too easy to sneer, mock and feel a little exasperated by its saccharine sweet narrative, but Bill Holderman's new romantic comedy Book Club remains one of the most groundbreaking films of its genre, regardless of how contrived or predictable it might seem to some. Staring Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen as members of a book club who find a new lease of life thanks to the introduction some unlikely new reading material,...

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