Posts by Liam Redmond
The Real-Life Wardrobe of Chanel Beads’s Shane Lavers, Whose Everyday Pants Are Vintage G-Star Raw Jeans
Shane Lavers, known by his stage name Chanel Beads, is a week away from releasing the follow-up to his 2024 debut album, Your Day Will Come. In a bizarre and poignant move, he chose to name it the same thing. Fittingly, over the course of my afternoon in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with Lavers, 32, I’ll come…
Read MoreThe ten most common HR challenges for small businesses
For significant business success, you generally can’t go it alone. You need advisors, mentors, customers, suppliers and often, staff. However, a lot of business owners are terrified of taking on employees because of the additional challenges which they bring. At the end of the day, there is nothing which stops an employee bringing an employment…
Read MoreHR Outsourcing for Small Businesses: Costs, Benefits and How to Choose a Provider in 2026 – Small Business UK
Businesses with fewer than 50 employees rarely have an HR team. Outsourcing HR allows a small business to free up time for whoever has been seconded to the role, usually a senior manager with some HR experience in the past or you if you’re running the business. However, not only does this leave your small…
Read MoreCanva launches £4,000 small business grant challenge – Small Business UK
Canva is running a pitching competition giving five small businesses £4,000 in grant funding. There are opportunities for the top 100 entries and support for every small business that enters. The challenge is open to founders based in the UK and Ireland who are over 18. You must be starting, run, co-run or represent a…
Read MoreWe Persuaded a Skeptical Denimhead to ID the Best Jeans on Amazon
What to Look for in a Great Pair of Jeans on Amazon Just because top-quality jeans exist at Maison Bezos, that doesn’t mean that everything you’ll find there is worth your time. If you don’t have the microscopic eye of a denim nerd, then we’ve got your back. Well, your quads, in this case. So…
Read MoreIs TikTok better than Facebook for small business ads? – Small Business UK
What is the one thing you won’t forget about quarantine? For many, it’s the day they downloaded TikTok and immediately became hooked on one of the most entertaining social media platforms to date. You may think that TikTok is only for Gen Z and dancing, but increasingly older demographics have flocked to the platform. Now,…
Read MoreIf a customer won’t pay, can you retain their property? – Small Business UK
Many businesses face the problem of customers not paying their invoices promptly or at all. In circumstances where a business is in possession of their customer’s property, such as a garage repairing a car, then it may sometimes be possible to retain that property until payment is secured of the invoice or debt. The legal…
Read MoreHow to manage your accounts and bookkeeping as a sole trader – Small Business UK
Want to know how to manage your accounts and bookkeeping while you focus on your business as a sole trader? Here we explore how to find the right software for your business and some of the best platforms on the market As a sole trader, having the right accounting software is key to optimising the…
Read MoreJosh O’Connor Tied His Own Ties on the ‘Disclosure Day’ Press Tour
Josh O’Connor has spent the past few weeks quietly assembling one of the strongest menswear runs to kick off summer. While crisscrossing the globe promoting Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day, the English actor served up an armful of standout fits with the help of a new stylist, Jason Bolden. The run began in Paris…
Read MoreHired your first employee? Here’s how to set up payroll – Small Business UK
This step-by-step guide to setting up payroll is right for you if you’re a sole trader hiring for the first time but yet to hire an HR manager. We’ll explore what payroll actually is as well as how to manage it. What is payroll? Get ready – this will likely be one of, if not…
Read MoreAgainst All Odds, It’s the Summer of the Giant Short
The debate around men’s shorts rages well before the dog days of summer, zig-zagging between extremely short to extremely long to extremely specific 5-inch inseams. But as fashion trends continue to fracture, a singular overarching silhouette feels less and less definitive. We’re at a place where every silhouette and every inseam is fair game. If…
Read More‘Obsession’ Blew Up the Box Office. Here’s What Could Come Next
If you haven’t seen Obsession yet, where the hell have you been? 20-year-old directorial wunderkind Kane Parsons might’ve also recently unleashed existential hell with Backrooms and delivered A24 its biggest-ever hit, but the real horror movie success story of the year so far goes to Curry Barker’s gnarly, twisted not-a-rom-com. To the uninitiated: the film…
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