“There’s definitely an uncomfortable age difference.”Then there is another throwaway remark of Douglas: “There is nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.” Could he really be so flippant? The answer is, yes. “It’s sort of creepy if in real life I’d be married to Michael Douglas,” [...]

“We’re featuring Paul Nicholls, Ewan McGregor, Jay Kay, Gary Barlow, Johnny Depp and the Backstreet Boys with their new facial hair,” says celebrity editor Paul Hart “It makes them older-looking, which girls find hornier. This month’s issue includes handlebar ‘taches reminiscent of the Mexican bandit in The Roadrunner.
For its August issue, GQ asked a journalist [...]

But, with offices already established in Brussels, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Dublin, Computer Futures is keen to present itself on a wider stage.”I think a lot of our expansion is going to come from mainland Europe,” he adds.If this might appear to be a bit of a stretch for a company like Computer Futures, Mr Bottriell [...]

Well, curious thing, extraordinary, the whips suddenly find that they need Simpson for all these vote thingies! Poor old Alan finally got on, puffing, with only minutes left. Poor show, eh, Captain? Oh, and we’re all very happy here because we’ve just heard that lovely Peter Mandelson, the rich man’s Fraser Kemp, will be going [...]

We’ve had to make concessions, but what was the alternative? No agreement, and you drive them underground, and Nato would end up fighting the KLA.” If all goes wrong, that could yet happen. If they’re going to surrender their arms, they want to do so with dignity, without undue haste. They see themselves as victors [...]

Early on in this short and highly readable book the authors describe “the seven deadly sins in implementing transitions in mergers, acquisitions, and gut-wrenching change”.The first is “obsessive list making”. This is a result of over-preparing for the deal and involves a master list of tasks and details that “becomes a mind-numbing, morale-destroying, ego-deflating, knee-buckling [...]

It was not as if he knew either of the deceased specially well They had met a few times; that is all. And the Mail, despite its half-hearted conversion before May 1997, had done its best over the years to damage the Labour Party in all kinds of ways, sometimes in ways that were none [...]

Eventually Barings was snapped up by Dutch group ING – renamed ING Barings in memoriam to the passing of a chunk of British history.A rather more laudable struggle continues to this day and is being fought by the hundreds of bondholders, who in many cases had entrusted their life savings to Barings. Theirs has been [...]

The committee wants to find out if mutuals bring benefits to customers that they don’t get from non-mutuals and if there is a case for legislation to protect them.
This is a last-chance lifeline for mutuals. They are gloomy about their future unless the Government changes the law to hold-off cash-rich predators and individual carpetbaggers.After hearing [...]