Santa Cruz deputy police chief Steve Clark said: “It was all about who would be allowed to hang out at the Starbucks downtown. “The Vagos brazenly came in and tried to cement their presence. It was a pretty strong play on their part to establish themselves as the premiere club. “Only in Santa Cruz would

Business leaders sign Starbucks chief's political pledge in a sign of the deep frustration over political paralysis and dysfunction in the US capital

I hope The Times' paywall works and not just because it offers free-to-air blogs like ConHome new opportunities. It was James Forsyth who pointed me to the customers of Starbucks, clutching their £2-a-go coffee frappuccino and a free copy of...

Pizza Express, Starbucks and Travelodge are among a group of leading firms which have agreed to offer training places to the unemployed under Conservatives plans.

Starbucks was bad enough but McDonald's is worse - An anonymous art historian at the Louvre in Paris, reacting to the news that a McDonald's will soon open at the famous museum. Come to think of it, when I visited the Louvre earlier this year, I discovered an exhibition devoted to "The Da Vinci Code". Might I suggest that this is much, much worse....

Peter Mandelson’s spat with Starbucks is clearly over. In February he went on a tirade after seeing the chairman of Starbucks talking the UK economy down on US TV: “Why should I have this guy running down the country? Who the fuck is he? How the hell are they [Starbucks] doing?" But today he is pictured on the front of G2 drinking out of a Starbucks cup. The most interesting thing...

Coffee any time just as long as it ain't Starbucks. Starbucks is a determined anti-union shop, as detailed at drink soaked trots and stopstarbucks.com. Here's a question: what's the difference between Starbucks and Walmart? The answer is that they both spend a fortune on union busting lawyers rather than concentrate on what they do, in Starbucks case, making and selling coffee. Here...

With a founder who is pro-Israel and a symbol of globalization, Starbucks was bound to attract the haters.

Take some custard Put some green food dye in it Mix well and put in a Starbucks Takeaway coffee cup Then throw it over the fucking hypocite Hoon who is now chanting that we should drive fucking milk floats. Whilst he builds a new runway at Heathrow that nobody wants. Hat tip to Fox Trot Oscar

If you only think of genocide when you hear the name "Rwanda," it's time to think again. Today, Rwanda is moving forward, fervently set on rebranding itself into one of Africa's most investment-friendly havens. And it appears to have some of America's most recognizable names in business in its corner. A just-published article in Fast Company counts the CEOs of Starbucks an...