Here's the disinterested assessment of Goldman Sachs on the impact of UBS's $2 billion rogue trader, seeing a handy chance to swipe at a rival...... more
The Bank of England confirm that the five banks that committed to lending more money to business under Project Merlin are well on track to hit their target... more
Bosses have rejected a Iain Duncan Smith's demand that they give jobs to Britons rather than immigrants, saying they wanted candidates with a 'strong work ethic'... more
Now Sir John Vickers has stopped a thousand miles short of breaking up our big banks in favour of some fairly limp "ring-fencing", the least the banks can do in return is to halt the incessant hinted threats to quit the country... more
To the Olympic Village, where those responsible for its design and construction were keen to show how green and lovely the place will look when 17,000 athletes and their coaches arrive in almost exactly three years' time ... more
The worst of the recession is over, but talk of recovery is premature and unemployment continues to head over three million, a leading business group predicted... more
Bonuses may be, er, a bone of contention these days, but at the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership they're handled with all the style and grace you'd expect from the never-knowingly-undersold retailer. ... more
We have been asked to make clear that it is not aAIM Group that has gone into administration as we reported on December 4 (Frost and Ferguson hit as £3bn property fund collapse) but its subsidiary aAIM Ltd (now called JCCO 114 Ltd).... more
The 52nd London Film Festival opened with the world premiere of a movie that started just round the corner from its showing in Leicester Square... more
RON HOWARD'S film is surprisingly gripping. It turns on the incremental power shifts in the set-up and execution of the 1977 TV interview in which David Frost got the disgraced President Richard Nixon to admit he had let the American people down with his criminal conduct in the Watergate affair.... more
The London Film Festival kicks off with the premiere of Frost/Nixon just yards from where it was originally staged as a play at the Donmar Warehouse... more
Chris Tarrant and his legal assistant girlfriend Jane Bird made their first ever public appearance together last night at Sir David Frost's summer party.... more
The riveting Frost/Nixon continues to enthrall, as do a new adaptation of one of Virginia Woolf's most "difficult" works and a classic by Euripedes.... more
Frank Langella's extraordinary acting feat as President Nixon in the gripping Frost/Nixon can be truly described as "great", says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
Nicholas de Jongh picks out five of the best theatrical productions currently onstage in the West End, from the highly entertaining The 39 Steps, to the superb Frost/Nixon.... more
Peter Morgan's enthralling play Frost/Nixon follows President Nixon's extraordinary trial by television and offers fascinating insights on the relationship between politics and the media.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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