Forgotten Film Friday: Long Weekend
By Michael McNulty The office is abuzz with the conversation typical to a Friday afternoon. What are you going to do tonight? But, who needs to make plans when you’ve got a Forgotten Film Friday picked and ready for viewing? Not you, it’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy this weeks offering. Given the attitude and opinions concerning environmental policy of a certain person, who lives in a Big White House, Long Weekend feels all the more relevant today....
Swipe Right to Like Dating Apps Are Ruining all the Fun
Finding the perfect significant other is extremely difficult especially when taking into account that UK online dating has taken a huge surge in terms of popularity. Online dating apps which are based on swipe right to right are ruining our dating lives and are turning them into opportunities for people to be selfish and shallow when it comes to finding the perfect match. Thanks to mobile devices as well as location sensing apps, people are becoming connected extremely easy and...
The future is bland: how business rates are driving independent businesses out of London
If you’ve just walked past your fifth Pret a Manger of the day and you’re wondering where all the independent retailers and cafes in London have gone, business rates might be the answer. According to a report in the Evening Standard, only major chain stores can afford to pay the new levels of business rates which are coming into effect in a few months time. Business rates experts have long been warning that the 2017 business rates revaluation will be...
How Donald Trump’s presidency could affect international students in the US
International students and professors at US universities were among those caught in the wake of President Trump's revised executive order to ban anyone from six predominantly islamic countries from entering the US. There are currently over a million international students at US universities, and there is concern among them that this ban, along with Trump’s general anti-immigration rhetoric, could have severe ramifications for them. It’s worried colleges too, the Association of American Universities warned that the order could cause irreparable...
Watch – We will face a “third parliament of austerity” after 2020, says IFS
This is just what you didn’t want to hear, especially if you have been slapped with a National Insurance tax rise, as a self-employed worker. The IFS has made a post-budget statement and it makes grim reading for the nation. The impact of Brexit is unknown, but the future already looks gloomy. Well over a decade of austerity will be too much for a lot the UK’s population to take. In 2020 it will be 15 years without an effective...
Bar of the Week – Ralph’s Coffee & Bar
Following suit with designers such as Burberry, Hackett and watchmakers Larsson & Jennings, Ralph Lauren have opened a new food and drink-based venue within their flagship store on Regent Street. Ralph’s Coffee & Bar joins the likes of The Polo Club in New York, RL Restaurant in Chicago and Ralph’s in Paris, and thus marks the brand’s first space dedicated to food and drink in the UK. The intimate space has table seating enough for 24, plus 12 stools at...
NHS on its knees: January was worst month on record
The crisis in the NHS continues and it is getting worse, hitting historically high levels of patient waiting times. This January, official figures have shown, that A & E department waiting times were the worst the NHS has faced. More people than ever had to sit in emergency departments, for over four hours, before they were seen by medical staff. Over the winter period the Red Cross said the NHS was facing a humanitarian crisis. The Conservative Government said this...
In pictures – Autistic man who had a life-long passion for monkeys visited by a real one on his DEATH BED
Frail Ian Cadman, 58, met two-year-old marmoset Millie on his final day on Earth as he lost his battle with cancer. His declining ill-health meant staff at Wigan and Leigh Hospice, Grt Mancs., couldn’t carry out their surprise visit to nearby Knowsley Safari Park for him. So the kind-hearted staff decide to bring the monkey business to Ian – and sadly just a few hours after the visit he died surrounded by his family. Mr Cadman’s twin sister Karen Lund...
S.Pellegrino Launch UK & Ireland Round of Young Chef 2018 Competition
Following the success of last year’s S.Pellegrino Young Chef competition, four of the UK and Ireland’s leading chefs have partnered with S.Pellegrino in a global search to find the world’s best young chef. Earlier this week, a launch breakfast at Café Murano witnessed the competition’s four chef judges and mentors gather to discuss the competition, along with last year's UK & Ireland winner George Kataras of M Threadneedle Street. The four chef judges include Angela Hartnett MBE, Alyn Williams, Phil Howard...