Tim O’Callaghan

Jan 9, 2025 | winnmediaskn.com | Kate Berry |Hannah Warren |Tim O’Callaghan |Jane Andrews

by Kate Berry, Hannah Warren, Tim O’Callaghan and Jane Andrews(BBC) – Many black staff members at London’s world-famous Harrods department store would leave the shop floor before Mohamed Al Fayed toured the premises, former employees have told the BBC. Staff would be given a warning before he appeared, says a former security guard, which was followed by a “beeline of certain people, certain races”, leaving the floor. “The level of racism was very clear,” said “Henry” (not his real name).

Jan 9, 2025 | bbc.co.uk | Kate Berry |Hannah Warren |Tim O’Callaghan |Jane Andrews

Many black staff members at London's world-famous Harrods department store would leave the shop floor before Mohamed Al Fayed toured the premises, former employees have told the BBC. Staff would be given a warning before he appeared, says a former security guard, which was followed by a "beeline of certain people, certain races", leaving the floor. "The level of racism was very clear," said "Henry" (not his real name).

Jan 9, 2025 | flipboard.com | Kate Berry |Hannah Warren |Tim O’Callaghan |Jane Andrews

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Jul 15, 2024 | architectsjournal.co.uk | Tim O’Callaghan |Alan Gordon

Since it was announced unexpectedly (for quite a few of us, at least) in October last year, the principal designer role defined by the Building Safety Act (BSA) has been met by a mixture of confusion, fear and indifference by architects. There has been a lot to take in from this 2023 amendment to the Act and there remains a lot of discussion and uncertainty around what it will mean in practice. At our own practice, we’ve spent quite a bit of time looking at the implications.

Dec 13, 2023 | architectsjournal.co.uk | Tim O’Callaghan |Alan Gordon

Earlier this year we advertised for a new Part 1/graduate position in the practice. As is good practice, we listed the salary on the job advert; in this case ‘upwards of £26,000’ – a decent wage, we thought, for a graduate. But when we put the advert up, to our surprise we started receiving comments suggesting that people couldn’t live in London on that wage and that the salary was ‘unethical’. ‘How could this be? It’s London Living Wage!’ we protested.