Sam Laidlow ditches tri-suit to claim ‘home’ win at London T100 Triathlon July 28, 2024 British-born Sam Laidlow delivered a home win of sorts in the first ever London T100 Triathlon in Docklands on Sunday. The 25-year-old from Bedfordshire took the lead on the bike and held off New Zealand’s Kyle Smith on the run to win by 25 seconds at the ExCeL Centre. Laidlow represents France, where he has [...]
Mnemonic review: Complicité smash is back after 25 years July 25, 2024 Mnemonic | National Theatre Mnemonic, a play about the strange, imaginative act of remembering, is given an extra extra-textual layer in this 25 year revival, as much a rumination on the original as it is a restaging. A production by legendary theatre company Complicité, it’s a thick tangle of overlapping stories, as densely packed as [...]
Best London restaurant revealed as top bistro crowned ‘perfect local’ July 24, 2024 An eatery in London's Clapton has been named as the best restaurant in the capital while the top British local has also been revealed.
The Hot Wing King at the National Theatre is a spicy play July 23, 2024 Memphis-born Katori Hall is a cultural juggernaut. Audiences may be familiar with her previous work, such as the magnificent, Olivier-winning play The Mountaintop, which imagines the final night of Martin Luther King, her collaboration on the book for Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, or her foray into television with the enjoyably sleazy premium soap opera [...]
Walkie Talkie: Loss almost doubles to £150m at Canada landmark July 23, 2024 The company behind the 'Walkie Talkie' building in Canada saw its operating loss more than double to almost £150m during its latest financial year, it has been revealed.
Meet the group recoding the City’s ‘tech bro’ culture July 18, 2024 Since Anna Brailsford took the helm in 2019, Code First Girls has surpassed 200,000 participants, and the sign-ups aren't slowing down.
Build, Baby, Build: Let’s go for 20m Londoners July 18, 2024 Radically upzoning London and allowing millions more people to move to the capital could make Britain as rich as America with a welfare state surpassing that of Denmark or Sweden, says Sam Bowman
Why this British tech company is succeeding where Cazoo failed July 17, 2024 Tom Leathes, co-founder and chief executive of Motorway, puts his company’s success down to a fundamentally different business model.
Mitie: Shard-based outsourcing giant swoops for electrical engineering firm ESM Power July 17, 2024 Outsourcing giant Mitie has landed a high-voltage deal as it acquired leading electrical engineering firm ESM Power.
CityFibre and Community Fibre ‘weighing up’ G Network swoop July 11, 2024 Cityfibre and Community Fibre are eyeing a takeover of smaller rival G Network, which connects hundreds of thousands of central London premises, according to reports.
