lunches

The collective haze of gloom brought about by these past couple of weeks — heck, months — of cold and rainy weather finally seems to have eased, at least for now. Don’t get me wrong, I love a day of rain to stay in and watch TV while lying on the couch as a big pot of soup cooks on the stove. But after the 15th consecutive day, I’m a little over it.Most everyone else I’ve talked to recently is also very much over it, and now that the sun has finally come out, we’re all champing at the bit to be outside again, even if the…

No company is certain to avoid significant cutbacks in an economic environment as volatile as the current one, and Apple isn’t immune to the business challenges that have hit other tech giants. It is expected next month to report its first quarterly sales decline in more than three years. Apple has also slowed hiring in some areas. But the iPhone maker has been better positioned than many rivals to date in part because it added employees at a much slower clip than those companies during the pandemic. It also…

Getty/Anadolu AgencyFirst it was remote working, now Twitter boss Elon Musk is looking at taking away free lunches for staff. According to the New York Times, the new Twitter CEO and Tesla/ Space X founder has decided that Twitter will no longer put out free lunch for staff in a bid to save the company $13 million (£11m) a year. On Twitter Musk later claimed that there were "more people preparing breakfast than eating it" in an exchange with a former Twitter executive on the platform, after previously suggested that…

I can’t remember calling him James. It was Jimmy from the off. An email came from his agent: Jimmy wanted to talk about my script but he’d prefer to meet me in person. Could I come to Los Angeles? I was on the next flight. I wanted him badly for the role of Tom Rockwell, a retired air-force colonel with a lot to hide, for my film Out of Blue, a neo-noir adaptation of the Martin Amis novel Night Train, starring Patricia Clarkson as the detective investigating the death of Tom’s daughter.I met Jimmy at the Polo Lounge of…