All posts tagged: spoil

BBC ‘knew who Banksy was eight years ago but didn’t want to spoil the mystery’

BBC ‘knew who Banksy was eight years ago but didn’t want to spoil the mystery’

Published by Sam Flores

Unmasking Banksy should have been an irresistible scoop for a BBC reporter. But the corporation’s former New York correspondent has confessed that he caught the elusive artist on film nearly a decade ago, only for the footage to be buried. Arriving at the scene of a newly completed Banksy mural in New York City in 2018, Nick Bryant caught its creator coming out of a nearby coffee shop with fresh paint still on his hands. A BBC cameraman filmed the encounter as the panicked artist made his escape. When Mr Bryant called his bosses in London to inform them that they had a world exclusive, they took advice from an unlikely source. The BBC’s former New York correspondent Nick Bryant has revealed his close encounter with Banksy “Minutes later, a phone call came through from London,” Bryant said. “A senior colleague told me that his daughter had accompanied him to work that day, and thought it was wrong to unveil Banksy. “We should not be the news organisation, she reckoned, to tell kids there was …

Dad Leaves Kids In Economy While He Enjoys First-Class Because He Doesn’t Want To Spoil Them

Dad Leaves Kids In Economy While He Enjoys First-Class Because He Doesn’t Want To Spoil Them

Published by Jenni Sidey

Anybody who has ever flown with children can tell you that it is not for the weak. It seems like people have been understandably complaining about everything from the price to the logistics of flying with kids since the beginning of air travel. This is why some travelers have opted not to do it. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they board the plane without their kids, though. It just means that they choose not to sit with them. One father shared his controversial parenting technique where he flies separately from his children even though they are all aboard the same plane, and encouraged other “rich” parents to do the same.  The dad leaves his children in economy while he sits in first class because he feels like he ‘earned it.’  Samuel Leeds, a highly successful property investor, recently took some heat on TikTok after documenting how he travels with his family. While Leeds flies in first class with his wife, their three young children fly in economy with their nanny.  Leeds filmed his children sitting …

England spoil Scotland’s party to take top spot in Women’s Six Nations

England spoil Scotland’s party to take top spot in Women’s Six Nations

Published by Sam Flores

A record-breaking party for Scottish sport, and England spoilt it. On the day of the largest standalone crowd for a women’s sporting fixture north of the border, beating the near-19,000 who witnessed Scotland defeat Jamaica at Hampden Park in 2019, England’s march towards an eighth successive Six Nations title continued with aplomb, as John Mitchell’s world champions delivered a 12-try clinic at Murrayfield. England were depleted but one might not have known, inflicting Scotland’s heaviest defeat in this fixture since 2011. In hindsight, and taking into account the extraordinary depth at Mitchell’s disposal, it seems bonkers to peg them with an availability crisis but the truth is that no other side – women’s or men’s – in the world could cope with England’s absentee list and continue with such dominance. Three second rows, Zoe Stratford, Abbie Ward and Rosie Galligan, are pregnant, as is hooker Lark Atkin-Davies, while five others have suffered championship-ending injuries. Seven of the 13 forwards who played in last autumn’s World Cup final win were absent, including Alex Matthews who is …

Anthropic is having a moment in the private markets; SpaceX could spoil the party

Anthropic is having a moment in the private markets; SpaceX could spoil the party

Published by skeptic

Glen Anderson has been brokering trades in private company shares since 2010, back when the number of institutional investors focused on the late-stage private market could be counted on two hands. Today, he says, there are thousands. As president of the investment bank Rainmaker Securities, which focuses solely on private securities markets and facilitates transactions in roughly 1,000 stocks, Anderson has a front-row seat to one of the most nail-bitingly large moments in the history of the secondary market. And right now, he suggests, the narrative has three main characters: Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX. The upshot: the storyline is more complicated than the headlines suggest. Anderson’s read on Anthropic is consistent with what Bloomberg reported earlier this week: demand for the company’s shares has become almost insatiable. Bloomberg quoted Ken Smythe, founder and CEO of Next Round Capital, saying that buyers had indicated to his outfit that they had $2 billion of cash ready to deploy into Anthropic, even as roughly $600 million in OpenAI shares that investors are trying to sell haven’t found takers. …

Parenting expert shares verdict on whether grandparents can afford to spoil their grandchildren

Parenting expert shares verdict on whether grandparents can afford to spoil their grandchildren

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the Well Enough newsletter with Harry Bullmore for tips on living a healthier, happier and longer life Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore The impulse to shower grandchildren with gifts and treats often stems from a place of love and excitement, yet the long-term impact of such indulgence warrants consideration. Annabelle Hird, a BACP-registered counsellor and member of the Counselling Directory, specialising in supporting parents and carers, has explored why overindulging can become problematic, offering practical advice for families to navigate these dynamics sensitively. Why do many grandparents want to spoil their grandchildren? Hird said: “A lot of people see becoming a grandparent as a chance to ‘do over’ parenthood, and maybe make up for some of the things that they wish they had done the first time around. “Meanwhile, there’s also a real desire to have meaningful relationship with their grandchildren and I think many grandparents feel like they need to work really hard for that relationship with their grandchild. “Due to change …

Is it bad to spoil my grandchildren?

Is it bad to spoil my grandchildren?

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the Well Enough newsletter with Harry Bullmore for tips on living a healthier, happier and longer life Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Showering your grandchildren with gifts and treats comes from a place of love and excitement, but what impact could this type of spoiling have in the long term? We spoke to Counselling Directory member Annabelle Hird, a BACP-registered counsellor who specialises in supporting parents and carers, who explained why overindulging grandchildren can sometimes be problematic and has offered some practical advice on how families can navigate this sensitively. Why do many grandparents want to spoil their grandchildren? “A lot of people see becoming a grandparent as a chance to ‘do over’ parenthood, and maybe make up for some of the things that they wish they had done the first time around,” reflects Hird. “Meanwhile, there’s also a real desire to have meaningful relationship with their grandchildren and I think many grandparents feel like they need to work really hard for that …