Planet Business: Office cake peril, Manchester United on the market and binoculars out to spot celebrities at Davos
Years since the late Malcolm Glazer and his family completed a takeover of Manchester United. Supporters have protested about the family’s ownership since the start of this era, blaming them for plunging the club into debt and failing to invest in it.Sum that Glazer’s six children are now reportedly seeking for Manchester United, with Britain’s richest man, Jim Ratcliffe, confirming that he has his eye on Old Trafford.
“If nobody brought in cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes in the day but because people do bring cakes in, I eat them. Now, okay, I have made a choice, but people were making a choice to go into a smoky pub,” she told the Times. The University of Oxford professor of diet and population health has identified the real enemy of office life here: people who try to ease the unremitting tedium of work by being generous with a jam sponge. Her serious point is that when it comes to food, people overestimate their ability to make informed choices and undervalue the impact of their environment.
Alas, just by reading Jebb’s observations about cake, the immediate response of many people will be to immediately crave cake – and possibly a smoky pub, too. As long as it serves cake.The World Economic Forum annual shindig in the Swiss town of Davos usually pulls in a raft of would-be Bonos if not Bono himself. This year, however, most of the A-list is skiing elsewhere.
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