Has Barclays broken Merlin’s spell already?

The Merlin agreement between banks and the Government states that deferred bonuses should be included when calculating the size of the bonus pool for 2010.

By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 17 February 2011 at 12:43 pm

Enter the hawk

Andrew Sentance is the member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee who has been calling longest and loudest for an interest rate hike, and he screeched some more yesterday.

By Sean O'Grady | Econoblog | Thursday, 17 February 2011 at 11:31 am

Caught & social: Take That and (after) Party

Daily gossip from the world of celeb

By Luke Blackall | Notebook | Thursday, 17 February 2011 at 11:21 am

Today from i: Computers v Men

Today’s graphic from i

By i paper | Notebook | Thursday, 17 February 2011 at 11:12 am

Digital Digest

Links to the best of the web

By Alice-Azania Jarvis | Digital Digest | Thursday, 17 February 2011 at 10:59 am

Tottenham and Arsenal lead England’s European redemption

I had a rather wry smile on my face last year when the UEFA Champions League semi-finals commenced as for the first time since 2003 there was no English representation in the last four of Europe’ premier competition.

By Varun Mathure | Sport | Thursday, 17 February 2011 at 10:53 am

Best of British gaming: The Oliver Twins

Today we profile not at one key British developer but two: brothers Philip and Andew Oliver. David Crookes looks back at their eggs-citing career.

By David Crookes | Notebook | Thursday, 17 February 2011 at 10:37 am

Online House Hunter: Your own dragon’s den

You can buy your own Dragon’s Den – our Online House Hunter shows even exclusive areas have their affordable streets.

By Alan Cleaver | Property | Thursday, 17 February 2011 at 7:00 am

iBet: Casting our eye across Europa

Benfica v Stuttgart, Europa League

Back Benfica at 4/7
Benfica have a proud European tradition and a fine home record – they have won nine of their ten games at home this season, their only defeat being the first game of the season. They are in quite amazing form really, having won their last 13 games in [...]

By Gareth Purnell | Sport | Thursday, 17 February 2011 at 1:00 am

“Losing to a $10m alarm clock”

Garry Kasparov has written an engrossing article about computers and chess in the New York Review of Books. Nominally a review of a book, of which Kasparov evidently has a low opinion, it is a wonderfully articulate meditation on his experience of being the best chess-player in the world at the very time when computers [...]

By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 16 February 2011 at 6:26 pm