Like the characters who wear several layers of clothes even though it’s a hot summer in 1833 in Baile Beag, an Irish speaking community in Donegal about to have a new civilisation and language imposed on them by the English, director Ian Rickson’s production of Brian Friel’s Translations (1980) is shot through with multiple meanings, some of which seem untranslatable into words- apt as Friel’s part inspiration for the play was George Steiner’s After Babel, a reflection on the science...

David Lammy's critique of the UK's top universities has become a national talking point this week as calls for Oxford and Cambridge to "put their vast wealth to better use by funding sophisticated access and outreach programmes" surface. The debate raised by the Labour MP is almost identical to that made by RH Tawney in 1906, when he argued that the ancient universities were wasting their wealth on scholarships for the wealthy. They should, he said, spread their "roots into the...

The city of tomorrow is at the heart of debates today. Initiatives by big corporations are thriving. At CES 2018, Google presented Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary experimenting in Toronto with its projects for the city of tomorrow. Projects to develop autonomous mobility are proliferating. Like GAFA, industrial players aspiring to meet city-dwellers’ complex expectations are reinvesting in the city and street. In his first book, Philippe Baudillon, chairman of Clear Channel France, Belgium, Netherlands, proposes an exploratory approach to understanding...

The end is in sight — the end of your present career track, at least. Like any good strategist, you’ve done your due diligence: You’ve met with a financial adviser to create a financial plan, devised an exit strategy from your current job, and (perhaps) begun staging your next entrepreneurial act. You’d just prefer that act not to take place in the U.K. And that can be arranged. Whether you’re approaching traditional retirement age or looking to “quit” earlier in...

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...

After years of uncertainty caused by the clubs owners SISU, this will be the clubs first promotion for over 50 years.

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...

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...

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...