Smoke & Mirrors

“Smoke & Mirrors” – at The Tabernacle Gallery, 35 Powis Square off Portobello Road, London W11 2AY. Nearest tubes – Notting Hill Gate or Ladbroke Grove. Sat – 9 am – 11.30 pm, Sun 9 am – 10 pm, Closes 10 pm Sun 19 June. A show of photographs, video, and installations is available to…

Federal Reserves actions prevented the collapse of US economy

On January 29, 2020, Jay Powell gave the first press conference of his third year as chair of the Federal Reserve, by flipping open a white binder, looking up briefly to welcome the assembled reporters, and then looking down to read his preprepared statement. His demeanour was low key but his message was upbeat: the…

Day five thriller

Second LV=Insurance Test, England Vs New Zealand, Trent Bridge (Day four).   New Zealand 553 (Mitchell 190 off 318, 23 fours, 4 sixes, Bundell 106 off 198, 14 fours, M Bracewell 49 off 87, 9 fours, Anderson 3-62, Broad 2-107, Stokes 2-85) & 224-7  Young 56 off 113, 8 fours, Conway 52 off 109, 8…

GE’s boss’s influence

David Gelles, New York Times reporter, former financial Times reporter and  “Corner Office” columnist reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that’s wrong with capitalism today and offers advice on how we might right those wrongs. In 1981, Jack Welch, a scrappy Boston-born outsider, who was the surprise choice for…

Development : Winners and losers

To eradicate extreme poverty there should be a generation of the explosive growth of the sort mustered by Japan, South Korea, and China, and more recently countries like Vietnam and Bangladesh have reached economic escape velocity, In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes as overall poverty has fallen, people live…

League of London’s billionaires

Caroline Knowles delves into London’s plutocrat’s paradise with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong, or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey Via Kensington, Notting Hill, Mayfair, and elsewhere. Her walks…

Justin Bieber reveals facial paralysis

Justin Bieber has had to postpone three of his Bieber’s Justice World Tour shows which began in February due to facial paralysis, a Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which shingles outbreak affects the facial nerve near someone’s ears. The 28-year-old Canadian-born singer said in a three-minute Instagram video “As you can see this eye is not blinking.…

Seagrass vital for the environment

Cornwall Wildlife Trust is doing the sea search driving project, a partnership between the Marine Conservation Society and other organisations, which collets species and habitat information from all around the UK and sees seagrass for the first time. And their critical importance to human health and wellbeing. Seagrasses are marine flowering plants, located in shallow,…