Starbucks

My time on Hinge

31 August 2024 9:00 am

Back to work, back to school, back to politics: the French call it la rentrée and my own summer idyll…

Unconscious bias: is Starbucks like the old Met Police?

9 June 2018 9:00 am

Starbucks closed its 8,000 American coffee shops for half a day to give staff unconscious bias training. Training is to…

Let’s pay for the BBC content we use

1 August 2015 9:00 am

What follows is a proposal for reducing the BBC licence fee and improving the corporation’s output while saving the British…

Mexican wave

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Tours that start in Mexico have a nasty habit of repeating on one. Of all the British groups touring in…

Will Osborne’s tilt against Double Dutch tax dodgers play into Farage’s hands?

4 October 2014 9:00 am

George Osborne’s promise to crack down on multinational companies’ avoidance of UK taxes by the use of impenetrable devices such…