FTSE bosses income rises 10% to £5.5m on average per annum
City bosses have seen another huge yearly income rise, which will further anger the general population who are struggling by on stagnant wages. The news also comes as a recent study found that increased pay for businesses bosses does not necessarily improve the companies performance. This recent study, by the High Pay Centre, has revealed that chief execs of FTSE 100 firms saw their average income increase by ten per cent in 2015. Shockingly, median pay rose to almost four...
Kitten raised by David Cameron thinks it’s a Tory
Larry the rescue cat was adopted by No.10 from Battersea Dogs & Cats home as a kitten. Realising he needed a strong male role model staff paired Larry with the then Prime Minister David Cameron. The two quickly became inseparable. The kitten was close to death when it was adopted by No.10 and David Cameron is said to have told Larry to ‘pick himself up, get off the couch and start contributing to the household’. Larry was described by David...
Should UBER Drivers Be Required to Pass ‘The Knowledge’?
Three-hundred and twenty routes, 25,000 streets and 20,000 landmarks; that's what you have to master to become a Green badge holder. The Knowledge is a test that is as synonymous to London taxi drivers as the black cabs they drive. Regarded as one of the hardest taxi driver test to pass in the World it has been described as like having an atlas of London implanted into your brain, taking months to pass and years to master. But the traditional test, which was established in 1865...
Watch: Jim Furyk Becomes First Player to Record a 58
American golfer Jim Furyk became the first player to score a 58 at the Travelers Championship in Connecticut. The 46-year-old hit 10 birdies, an eagle and no bogies to shoot a 12-under-par round, becoming one of six men to hit sub-60 for 18 holes. Furyk told Sky Sports 4: "It's pretty cool. "A million and a half rounds played in the history of the PGA Tour and you look at the great names ahead of me. It's humbling - to stand alone at...
Fort Process Reveals Arts Festival Line-Up
Fort Process is an expansive multi disciplinary music and arts festival that takes place in the evocative spaces of Newhaven Fort in East Sussex. After an acclaimed, sold-out debut in 2014 the festival is back for a second edition, with an extensive programme (in excess of 100 artists) featuring site specific sound installations, international musicians, talks, films, poetry and workshops. The Fort Process experience is quite unlike any other: half the festivalgoers are hidden underground, making their way through a...
Trump is America’s Brexit
Obama recently delivered one of the biggest speeches of his life, and one of the most damning criticisms of Donald Trump to date. After eight years of being heckled by "The Donald" and his fellow conspiracy theorists, this one was personal. Around 45 minutes he spelt it out with these bold words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aip0BAWrdLw&feature=youtu.be&t=40m43s "That's why anyone who threatens our values, whether Fascists or Communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end." This powerful sentence puts Trump shoulder to shoulder with Mussolini, Stalin,...
Introducing EzTrader – the options trading platform
Options trading is a fast paced, fascinating and potentially highly rewarding form of financial trading that allows individuals to invest and trade in options - also known as binary options trading and digital options. TheLondonEconomic.com introduce EzTrader, the options trading platform. What does it involve? An option essentially describes a financial contract, giving the owner the right to buy or sell an asset at a fixed price, before or on a certain date. Although the owner has the right to...
Top tips for making the right choices with furniture
In today’s retail world, you’re never far from a bargain, but there’s often a downside to this. Things that are cheap often aren’t built to last, and you may find that you have to replace big items more quickly than you might like. You might find your time and money is better spent in researching major home furniture purchases and increasing your budget to get items that you’ll get many years of use and enjoyment out of. Dining chairs...
AI Only a Click Away for UK SMEs
By Mor Philosoph, Head of Wix ADI Technology Only five years ago, artificial intelligence (AI) was for science fiction films only. It is only recently that it has become a part of the day to day business vernacular. Within a very short space of time it has stopped being fodder for futurists’ conversations and charged headlong into the here and now. A quick look around will tell you that AI is more prevalent that you might think. Banks use it...