44 h. ago Morning Coffee: Firing bankers in London is about to become a lot harder. Jane Street as a private equity firm

Morning Coffee: Firing bankers in London is about to become a lot harder. Jane Street as a private equity firm  eFinancialCareers

Economics

48 h. ago EBBA designs London coffee shop to act as "momentary refuge"

EBBA designs London coffee shop to act as "momentary refuge"  Dezeen

Events

63 h. ago All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles review – a deliciously sweary, prize

The actor Paul Hilton brilliantly inhabits the character of a ranting working-class academic in this debut novelSome books feel so suited to the audio format that they could have been written with the voice in mind. All My Precious Madness is one of those. Mark Bowles’s debut novel, which won the audiobook fiction category at the inaugural British Audio awards (where, full disclosure, I was a judge), is a deliciously sweary monologue from a middle-aged malcontent.A sideways reflection on working-class identity and masculinity, the novel gives voice to Henry Nash, a man of little patience. Sitting in a London coffee shop and trying to write a monograph of his father, he rains judgment on the other patrons whose obnoxious phone calls he can’t help but overhear. An Oxford graduate turned writer and academic, Nash lives in a Soho flat where he has been known to furtively drop eggs on passersby who disturb him with their drunken racket. Continue reading...

Politics

9 d. ago ‘Our underachieving careers make the friendship easier’: Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater on Blue Moon and their 32

As they launch their 10th film together, the actor and director look back on how their stellar careers have progressed in tandem, through co-stars’ addictions and Hollywood pressures‘I like this, it’s good,” Ethan Hawke tells Richard Linklater, midway through a lively digression that has already hopped from politics to the Beatles to the late films of John Huston. “What’s good?” asks Linklater. “All of this,” says Hawke, by which he means the London hotel suite with its coffee table, couch and matching upholstered armchairs; the whole chilly machinery of the international press junket. “I like that we get to spend a couple of days in a room,” he says. “It feels like a continuation of the same conversation we’ve been having for the past 32 years.”It’s all about the conversation with Linklater and Hawke. The two men like to talk; often the talk sparks a film. The director and actor first met backstage at a play in 1993 (“Sophistry, by Jon Marc Sherman,” says Linklater) and wound up ch...

Politics

9 d. ago ‘It felt dangerous. You got naggy’: Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater on power, combovers and Blue Moon

Ahead of their 11th movie together, the actor and director discuss musicals, the legacy of Philip Seymour Hoffman and what being bald and 5ft tall does to your flirting skills ‘I like this, it’s good,” Ethan Hawke tells Richard Linklater, midway through a lively digression that has already hopped from politics to the Beatles to the late films of John Huston. “What’s good?” asks Linklater. “All of this,” says Hawke, by which he means the London hotel suite with its coffee table, couch and matching upholstered armchairs; the whole chilly machinery of the international press junket. “I like that we get to spend a couple of days in a room,” he says. “It feels like a continuation of the same conversation we’ve been having for the past 32 years.”It’s all about the conversation with Linklater and Hawke. The two men like to talk; often the talk sparks a film. The director and actor first met backstage at a play in 1993 (“Sophistry, by Jon Marc Sherman,” says Linklater) and wound up chatting...

Politics

9 d. ago Morning Coffee: London bankers laugh and cry on a day of curious ineptitude. Who gets credit for a huge Citi deal?

Morning Coffee: London bankers laugh and cry on a day of curious ineptitude. Who gets credit for a huge Citi deal?  eFinancialCareers

Economics

3 w. ago London Nootropics: Is it time you joined the adaptogenic coffee revolution?

Discover how London Nootropics is redefining coffee with adaptogenic blends that boost focus and minimise caffeine crashes.

Politics

4 w. ago Morning Coffee: London JPMorgan analyst in her 20s launches complaint against pay. Goldman Sachs MD interviews

Morning Coffee: London JPMorgan analyst in her 20s launches complaint against pay. Goldman Sachs MD interviews  eFinancialCareers

Economics