Juvenescence is a biotech start-up seeking to increase human longevity, has closed a $100m funding round after its Series B financing, the UK-based company has been valued at £413.54m (US $500), and is lining up for a stock market listing next year. Jim Mellon, the investor who chairs Juvenescence, has influenced other billionaires to buy…
Victor Li Tzar Kuoi, the Hong Kong billionaire and son of the LI Ka-Shing acquired Greene King in the midst of weak pound to strike a £4.6bn deal for the UK’s biggest listed pubs and brewery group. CK Asset Holdings, the property investment firm founded by Li Ka-Shing (91) and run by Victor, his son,…
The British Overseas Territory’s justice ministry said yesterday that it was “unable to seek” a court order to provide the “restraining assistance required by the US”. Gibraltar has formally rejected a US legal request to seize the Iranian tanker that has been at the center of a stand-off between Iran and the West. The Grace1…
In 1824, Beethoven, at the premiere of his Ninth Symphony the Viennese gave the performance five standing ovations. Only the Austrian emperor ( who got three) enjoyed this but fearful of subversion, a panicked police commissioner had to shush them into silence. Last month, the same symphony’s “Ode to Joy” theme drifted from the floor…
The Second Vatican Council opened in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. With the prophecy that “a new day is dawning on Church, bathing her in radiant splendor” The identity of the Catholic media, about strict adherence to the church’s teachings, especially on marriage and sexual morals or is it a more liberal approach,…
Ji Tolentino is The New Yorker’s professional millennial journalist, in an era of malleable truth and widespread political delusion, who writes both contemporary and classical from social media to the gig economy, enhanced the pages of the old magazine with Zeitgeist animated essays, reports from the trenches of today’s gender wars. Her new book Trick…
Emiliano Sala (28) and his pilot was poisoned by carbon monoxide just before the plane he was in crashed into the Channel, it was revealed. Tests on the body found in the wreckage showed he had enough of the gas in his system to potentially knock him unconscious and induce a heart attack. The body David…
WeWork’s IPO would see the office-space provider becoming the latest private unicorn to go public in the face stormier markets and glooming economy. Executives are keen to complete the IPO while US stocks remain near record highs, as its rapid growth and balooning losses and heavy debts. The IPO doucments show the company had a…
Rio’s Piri Piri at 112 Lisson Grove London NW1 6UL opened on April 5th this year and is the third branch in London joining Croydon and Wembley. There are eleven more outside the London area. Rio’s Piri Piri branches first opened in 2015. Affiliated with Deliveroo Just Eat and Uber Eat, with a minimum order…
The Passion of the Playboy Riots, by Neil Weatherall Review by Rick Alancroft The play’s title is drawn from, The Playboy of the Western World by fellow Abbey director, J.M. Synge which in 1904 caused riots in the audience. The Passion of the Playboy Riots, is play that takes us on a whistle stop…