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Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Succession star to bring first-ever one-man show to Edinburgh
Brian Cox is heading to Edinburgh with his first-ever one-man show, It's All About Me. The award-winning actor will appear at the Edinburgh Playhouse on October 5 as part of his debut solo tour across the UK and Ireland. The tour begins on October 1 in Northampton and concludes in London on November 4. Tickets go on sale at 10am on Wednesday, June 25, and are available from (Image: Supplied) Mr Cox said: "I am looking forward to this tour as it marks something a little different for me - sharing the stage with myself. "As the title indicates, the show will focus more than ever on my life and career. Read more: San Francisco 49ers to use 'global gravitas' to help 'crown jewel of Europe' Rangers Glasgow University building vandalised ahead of graduations this week Man struck by car in 'targeted' Glasgow incident "In the second half, the tables are turned and the audience will have the chance to put their questions to me. It should be a lot of fun." The show will trace Mr Cox's journey from the streets of Dundee to international fame in Hollywood. The second half will see Mr Cox joined on stage by producer Clive Tulloh, who will present questions from the audience. The actor is widely recognised for his role as Logan Roy in the hit television series Succession, a performance that earned him a Golden Globe. His career spans more than 65 years and includes a Primetime Emmy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and two Olivier Awards. The tour will visit cities including Bristol, Ipswich, Dublin, Belfast, Dundee, Brighton, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Southend, Bournemouth, Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester, York, and London.
Business Insider
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Neo Pepe $NEOP Presale Passes $2M Raised with Stellar CertiK Audit
Neo Pepe Coin ($NEOP) has crossed past the $2 million milestone in record-breaking speed, propelling it toward Stage Four of its anticipated presale. Launching less than a week ago, the project's early growth reflects strong interest, with investors rallying behind its revolutionary approach to decentralization, governance, and liquidity. Over $2,000,000 Raised Within days, Neo Pepe has hit a notable $2 million raised and strong participation in the project's presale. This achievement not only underscores investor confidence but highlights the project's compelling narrative—a serious, thematic rebellion against traditional financial centralization, aptly branded as the Memetrix. Neo Pepe Coin recently achieved a 71.96 score on its Certik Audit, validating its credibility as a legitimate and secure project. Neo Pepe's presale is meticulously structured across 16 dynamic stages, progressively increasing the token price to reward early supporters. Now, as it rapidly approaches Stage Four, the window to secure tokens at advantageous pricing is narrowing swiftly. Community Governance Treasury DAO Further differentiating Neo Pepe Coin is its innovative 2.5% auto-liquidity mechanism. Each transaction enhances liquidity pools, with LP tokens permanently burned, creating sustained price stability and growth potential. Complementing this powerful feature is a fully decentralized governance model, empowering token holders with real decision-making power on strategic listings and treasury allocations. Auto Liquidity Mechanism Neo Pepe Coin's early performance has been marked by steady presale participation and a structured rollout strategy. With its ongoing stage-based pricing model, thematic framing, and auto-liquidity mechanics, $NEOP continues to progress through its planned presale phases. With Stage Four approaching, Neo Pepe Coin continues through its presale schedule, supported by consistent participation and structured pricing mechanics. The project's distinctive theme and token model remain central to its current phase of growth. Users can secure a spot now and discover why Neo Pepe Coin is setting new standards in crypto innovation. For more information, users can join the Neo Pepe community on socials or visit the official website today. About Neo Pepe Coin Neo Pepe Coin ($NEOP) is a decentralized cryptocurrency designed to challenge centralization, regulatory overreach, and market manipulation. Leveraging the thematic narrative of the Memetrix, Neo Pepe Coin symbolizes a bold movement towards financial democratization and innovation. The project features a structured 16-stage presale, robust community-driven governance, and an auto-liquidity mechanism ensuring sustainable growth and stability. Contact CMO Logan Roy CrypTechnologies Ltd.
Forbes
4 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
'You're Not Ready': The Quiet Crisis Of CEO Succession
Older employee looking out of office window. Logan Roy, brutal patriarch of Succession, delivers one of the show's most revealing lines without blinking: 'I love you. But you are not serious people.' It's more than a takedown. It's a generational indictment. A founder who won't let go. A next generation unsure if they're trusted to lead. That dynamic isn't just a popular TV plotline. It plays out inside real boardrooms, family enterprises and executive teams. The CEO successor is named but sidelined. The current leader still takes the big decisions. The person next in line is visible but not empowered. The plan exists, but the trust behind it is fragile. Most CEOs, founders and boards don't ignore succession. But they often treat it as something to finalize later. The Illusion Of Time In a conversation with a board and CEO, I was told their succession strategy was solid. The business was performing well. The future CEO had been identified. There was 'plenty of time.' So I asked: 'If your CEO stepped down tomorrow, who could step in—credibly?' There was a pause. Then a quiet recognition. While a successor had been named, they had not been exposed to the board. They had not led through volatility. They had not owned the story externally. My next question was even simpler: 'Is the board aligned on that person's readiness?' The answer: 'Not entirely.' That hesitation isn't rare. It's an early signal that belief has not yet become readiness. The candidate is identified but not yet fully seen. The CEO Clock Is Ticking Double-time The quiet urgency is already visible in the top seat. In Q1 2025 alone, 646 U.S. CEOs left their roles — a record high. According to Spencer Stuart, CEO tenure among the S&P 500 has declined– from 11.2 in 2021 to 8.3 years in 2024. The leadership cycle is shortening. The window to prepare is shrinking. And in many boardrooms, the successor still isn't visible. In fact, interim leadership has soared in 2025. Of all incoming CEOs this year, 18% of them were named on an interim basis, compared to 6% during the same period last year. What departs with a CEO isn't just decision rights. It's strategic memory, investor trust, unspoken influence and the instincts shaped by years of complex calls. From the outside, the transition may look smooth. Inside, momentum has already begun to drift. Consider a familiar scenario: a CEO announces their retirement two years out. A successor is named. But over those two years, that successor is kept adjacent—invited to sit in, but not to lead. They don't build board relationships. They aren't tested with external investors. The team doesn't look to them when pressure hits. When the handoff comes, they are still a mystery to the people who matter most. Now contrast that with a company like Microsoft. Before Satya Nadella became CEO, he had led multiple business units, shifted internal mindsets around cloud, and earned deep trust inside and outside the organization. He wasn't just selected. He was prepared. The board wasn't surprised. The team wasn't skeptical. The culture didn't pause. One organization hoped succession would work. The other ensured it would. In my conversation with Piyush Gupta, ex-CEO of Singapore-based DBS Bank, he reflected on how much of his own leadership readiness came from being placed in tough, often uncomfortable roles early on—across geographies, away from familiar systems, in moments of high stakes. Those crucibles didn't just build experience. They built identity. He said it was in those formative tests that he learned to make sense of ambiguity, lead without defaulting to control, and develop judgment under pressure. That kind of preparation isn't theoretical. It's earned. And it starts long before the title ever changes. Gupta also aced his own succession. When he announced his departure, he named his successor in the same breath—Tan Su Shan, a longtime internal leader, would step into the role. No drama. No scramble. Just clarity, stability, and a transition that matched the precision of the institution he helped build. Four Shifts Boards And CEOs Must Make Now I've worked on CEO succession with public companies, founder-led firms and family businesses. The ones who handle it well don't view it as an HR process. They treat it as a cultural investment—something that reveals the organization's capacity to learn, evolve and trust. Succession doesn't begin at resignation. It begins when a CEO chooses to shape what comes next. Some CEOs delay because they still feel useful. But often, their most lasting influence happens in the final chapter—as teacher, mentor or transition partner. Not from obligation. From conviction. Reengaging the outgoing CEO in a purposeful handoff builds credibility. It creates space without leaving a void. It protects the legacy while empowering the future. Mentoring a CEO successor is unlike any other leadership relationship. It requires confrontation with complexity—activist pressure, investor expectations, media scrutiny, internal dissent. Successors don't need guidance alone. They need access. They need to be pushed, heard, contradicted and invited into the spaces where presence matters most. A name on a board deck does not equal a ready successor. Many boards assume that a strong internal leader can step up. But readiness doesn't come from potential alone. It comes from repeated exposure to risk, to contradiction, to conflicting expectations—and the maturity to navigate them. Real stakes reveal themselves in breakthrough moments. Investor briefings. Board negotiations. External crises. Not rehearsed behind closed doors—but tested in the open. Authority isn't proven in simulation. It's forged in the marketplace. On the global stage. In lived, not scripted, experience. The CEO role isn't granted. It's demonstrated in advance. The real handoff is already underway. It happens in how the current CEO frames tradeoffs. In who they bring into key conversations. In how often they explain why a decision was made—not just what the decision was. Culture doesn't replicate by instruction. It transmits through observation. Boards should look for the signals that successors are being shaped early. Not through formal grooming, but through informal inclusion. What CEO Legacy Actually Means Most CEOs eventually ask: what will I leave behind? But legacy isn't what follows you. It's what endures without you. It's the strategic clarity that remains intact. The team that doesn't stall. The confidence that continues when your name is no longer the one in headlines. In the strongest transitions I've seen, the outgoing CEO doesn't just vacate. They clear the way. The successor doesn't wait to be told they are ready. They act like it. Because they were trusted with the work that matters. Because someone showed them the horizon early. Because the board aligned not on safety, but on strength. And when succession is handled well, no one needs to say 'You are serious people.' The successor already proves it.
Scotsman
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Succession star Brian Cox announces tour of one-man show, including Edinburgh
Succession star Brian Cox has announced his first ever one-man show, which he will tour around the UK and Ireland this autumn, including a stop in Edinburgh. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... The show, It's All About Me!, will tell the story of the multi-award winning actor's life and career - from the back streets of Dundee to the glittering lights of Hollywood. He will launch the 18-date tour on October 1 in Northampton and is due to appear at the Edinburgh Playhouse on October 5, then visiting venues across the country before finishing in London's Adelphi Theatre on November 4. Brian Cox will bring his one-man show to the Playhouse on October 5 | supplied Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday 25 June, at 10am from Brian Cox has won numerous prestigious awards for both stage and screen. And he is now a household name, thanks to his role as the infamous character Logan Roy in the acclaimed TV show Succession, for which he won a Golden Globe. Over his 65 years in the acting business, Brian Cox has also been the recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and two Olivier Awards. The publicity for his one-man show describes it as 'a journey that is full of laughter and pathos' and adds: 'Expect candour, searing honesty, and hilarious stories.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Brian will be joined on stage by producer Clive Tulloh, who will put questions from the audience to him. Brian Cox said: "I am looking forward to this tour as it marks something a little different for me - sharing the stage with myself. As the title indicates, the show will focus more than ever on my life and career. In the second half, the tables are turned and the audience will have the chance to put their questions to me. It should be a lot of fun."
New Statesman
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New Statesman
Brian Cox: 'Starmer? I just can't take the man!'
From the top floor of a flat in Primrose Hill, Brian Cox can be seen picking his way along the edge of the park. This flat belongs to a PR boss in charge of Cox's new project, but Cox lives nearby. He disappears from view, and somewhere far below, a door slams. When he arrives at the top of the house, a bit out of breath, he points out his new place: the one with scaffolding. Cox, married to the actor Nicole Ansari-Cox with whom he's performed on stage, has long spoken of separate rooms as the secret to a happy marriage, but now there are separate flats too. 'She's heading towards minimalism. So I said, 'Good luck!'' Ansari-Cox lives across the park, which is an uphill walk. 'So she'll be visiting me – occasionally! Ha ha ha!' Famous for playing the raging and the blustering, Cox has, since his Golden Globe for his role as the media monster Logan Roy in Succession, been involved in a strange blurring of life and art in the cafés of Primrose Hill. He has been seen pouring soup down a sink when it didn't meet his expectations ('This is shit!'). Was this the real Cox, or the method acting he regularly decries? 'I used to swear a bit, but now I swear all the time.' Like Ian McKellen after he played Gandalf the Grey, Cox is a serious Shakespearean thesp who shot from the I-know-your-face-but-I'm-not-sure-where-from level of fame to getting mobbed in the street in his seventies: quite a psychological transition. But unlike McKellen, Cox gets asked not for selfies but to shout 'fuck off' (like Logan Roy) into strangers' phones. In 2019, he found himself at a reading of Ronan Farrow's Harvey Weinstein book, Catch and Kill, in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. 'So there I am, watching this extraordinary investigative journalism, this #MeToo thing, unfolding, and it finishes and we give him a round of applause. A lot of Hollywood ladies are there, and they turn round and see me, and they take out their phones and they go, 'Can you tell us to fuck off?' I go, 'You're asking a white dinosaur to tell you to fuck off? This is why we're unevolved, because we don't know what the fuck we want!' Yet there is a moral code behind Cox's choice of raging bastards. He wouldn't play Donald Trump. 'Never. It's a bad part. You look for characters who have some redeeming qualities. Well, I can't be arsed in somebody I have no respect for whatsoever.' He wouldn't play Nigel Farage either: 'Can't stand the man… Can't bear the sound of his voice, and that mouth!' Is there a danger in digging for virtue in the lives of the bad? What use is deep character work when those characters do disastrous work in the outside world? 'My great thing is I love babies,' Cox says. 'I love toddlers, toddling about. I look at them and I go, 'What happens? What do we do to these creatures? How do they become Adolf Hitler?' If you went into one of those baby things where they're all in different slots [he means a maternity ward with babies in different beds], you couldn't say, 'That baby's Donald Trump and that one's Marilyn Monroe.' I find it extraordinary, what we do to children. You should be looking after them, showing them positive nature. We're not evolved as human beings… We're so stupid, and that's when we see our stupidity at work – this shift towards the right.' Cox and his family lived seven to a two-bed flat in Dundee. His beloved father died when Brian was eight: his mother, a jute spinner, had a series of nervous breakdowns afterwards, receiving electroshock therapy, and he was raised by his three sisters. Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe 'I had the worst fucking childhood of anybody I know, and I turned out OK!' he says. Then he is back on the problem of humans. 'It's one of the tragedies of life that we come into this great world thinking the best of thoughts, and then we end up compromised beings. We have to be compromised, because we live in a world with other people. And I can be pretty misanthropic about other people – especially in Primrose Hill on a Sunday!' I'm interviewing Cox because he's playing the Scottish economist Adam Smith in a new James Graham play called Make It Happen, all about the 2008 financial crisis and Fred 'the Shred' Goodwin, whose extravagant tenure as CEO of RBS led to Gordon Brown's government bailing out the bank in 2008. He just got the script this morning. He decribes the banker he'll be playing as 'really quite a horrible character, an appalling man. Mind you, he was from Paisley, ha ha ha!' Cox suggested the part of Smith to Graham: that he would to appear as a ghost, Jacob Marley-style. Cox recently spoke at Gordon Brown's Adam Smith Centre in Kirkaldy, a global foundation set up, Brown told me, 'in an attempt to rescue Smith from being co-opted by neoliberal zealots'. 'He gets a bad rap for stuff,' agrees Cox. 'He was an extraordinary man. I said to James, it would be interesting if Adam Smith suddenly came back in 2008 and said, 'What the fuck is going on here?'' So my first line is, 'What the fuck is going on?' And then I say, 'What is this word, 'fuck'? I don't understand this word. Why am I saying it?' Gordon Brown features in the play. 'He's a very upright man, the best kind of Protestant,' Cox says. Cox's transatlantic burr was the voice of New Labour in the 1997 election. 'Well, I did a lot of voiceovers,' he says. 'And I am – still am – a socialist.' He never thought Corbyn was fit for leader, and as for Starmer, 'I just can't take the man at all! I was on a panel with him – Question Time, with Mary Robinson, the [former] president of Ireland, and that MP, Christopher Grayling, who was a bit of an idiot and got in trouble over expenses but was actually rather sweet. Starmer was there with some lackey, and he never exchanged a word with any of us! It was all about presentation. And he talks about England all the time! 'English, the English football'. You're the Prime Minister of Great Britain!' Cox was known to have pledged his allegiance to the Scottish National Party, and was friends with Alex Salmond, but he feels differently now. 'My view now is that I hate the word nationalist. I don't like the idea of the Scottish National Party, the connotations of that – but I liked the party itself. It used to be a ridiculous party about socks and kilts, and that's all gone out the window, thank God. I used to mock Sean Connery: 'You cannae be President Sir Sean Connery, it's not gonna work!' 'Now, I believe that we should have federal representation. Look at the British Isles – you can't really break them up, they're such a cluster, there in the Atlantic, away from everything else. You've got to accept that we have to get on together. We need a federal society where everybody is responsible to the British Isles. That's my new thing now. I'm not into parties that want to separate off. We need to find a way to make Wales and Scotland and Northern Ireland part of a federal Britain. Wales gets the tap end of the bath every time.' Eve Matheson as Cordelia and Brian Cox as King Lear, with Derek Hutchinson and Ian McKellen at the National Theatre, 1990 Cox loves stitching. Not tapestries and needlework but darning his own stuff. He recently found that his Scottish ancestors came from Burntisland, a town in Fife known for its weavers. But a DNA test showed that only 12 per cent of him is Scottish, and all the rest Irish: 'So I'm 100 per cent Celt. I'm pure in that way.' He was not turned on to acting by the thrill of being on stage, but by the enormous sense of 'calm' he felt at being pulled, as a young boy, out of bed to perform for his dad's friends on Hogmanay. 'I remember the atmosphere in the room: this sort of focus. Human beings are so extraordinary when they're in a congregation.' When his father died, the family fell into debt, partly because Charles Cox, a shopkeeper, had served so many of the local community on credit. 'I had to be independent from the age of nine, which I actually loved. I don't depend on anything: if it happens, it happens, if it doesn't, it doesn't. When you have that kind of loss and subsequent poverty, you go, 'Oh, well, that's it.'' Now, like many who began in poverty, he enjoys his money. Unlike his wife, he is maximalist. He has a big Japanese art collection: 'There's not a part of the wall that's not covered in paintings.' And he loves the vibrant American painter Bob Kane ('not the Bob Kane who wrote Superman'). He raises the subject of method acting, which is interesting as he has already generated a lot of headlines slagging off Jeremy Strong, his co-star in Succession, who adheres to the process, and fractured his foot running in the wrong shoes for his art. Cox's objection is that people can go off into their own little world when they do it, and damage the ensemble: 'It's really an act of selfishness.' He is steeped in theatre theory, and delivers a long anecdote about Strasberg and Stanislavski. If it's not method acting Cox does, then what is it? 'I just try to learn my lines and not bump into the furniture.' In fact, his approach comes in part from the influence of his personal guru at Lamda, the director Vivian Matalon, who was a student of the Meisner technique. Sanford Meisner was all about intention. 'That's what feeds me as an actor. Why are you on the stage? What are you doing? Why does he react to that? What is it that makes him go that way as opposed to that way? Those are the important questions. Not about 'What am I feeling?'. It's not about what you're feeling. It's what you do that creates what you feel.' So how has he applied the Meisner technique to the life of the great economist Adam Smith? 'Well, I haven't done it yet.' Brian Cox will appear in 'Make It Happen' at the Dundee Rep Theatre, 18-26 July 2025 [See also: Gen-Z is afraid of porn, and Sabrina Carpenter] Related This article appears in the 18 Jun 2025 issue of the New Statesman, Warlord
