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S4 Capital’s lust for whopper growth wrenches its auditor’s nerves

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S4 Capital has all the makings of a Harvard case study. It’s a tale of a mercurial advertising scion, spurned by a business he previously founded, who in 5 years turned a shell company into a global advertising giant. It’s a tale that is still in its early chapters. S4 Capital was founded in 2018 […]

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The Powerful and the Dammed; a tell-tale newspaper editor reveals all

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I’m a fussy and impatient reader. Either the book fascinates and I read it voraciously or it fails to enthral and it’s quickly dropped. This wasn’t the case with Lionel Barber’s tome, ‘The Powerful and The Dammed’. For 15 years Barber was editor of the Financial Times (retired Jan 2020) and by his account turned

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