What to do with wilting salad leaves: Mark Hix finds the perfect solution while foraging in his mate’s garden July 10, 2018 I’m waiting to move into my new house in Charmouth, Dorset, so I’ve been living with my friend Paddy until it’s finished. Only, I’ve been living in my old house, not his. Confused? Well, the old one is a Scandi wooden lodge that moves quite easily, so it’s very convenient for the interim period. Read [...]
Everything you wanted to know about how to pull off the 72-hour water fast July 10, 2018 Last week I wrote about completing a three day water fast, during which I ate and drank nothing but… water. Since then I’ve received messages from people all over the world wanting to know more. Here are some answers to the most frequently asked questions. Is it dangerous? Despite fasting having been around for thousands [...]
M&S could cease to exist without radical change, warns chairman July 10, 2018 Marks & Spencer’s management confessed existential dread to shareholders today, as its new chairman warned the retailer could disappear within years if the business is not overhauled. Speaking at the company’s annual general meeting (AGM), chairman Archie Norman said: “In decades to come, there could be no M&S.” It marked a blunt first appearance for [...]
Youtube dedicates $25m to fighting fake news by providing support for trusted journalists July 10, 2018 Youtube has announced it will be investing $25m (£18.8m) into making changes on its site that can better support trusted news providers to produce online content. The site will now start to prioritise videos from verified news sources on its Breaking News and Top News tabs so that it’s “easier to find quality news”. In [...]
House prices in Holland Park: Celebrities flock to the spacious Georgian mansions in the connoisseur’s Notting Hill July 10, 2018 The fact is, the secret’s out about Notting Hill. It’s a Richard Curtis film, it hosts Europe’s biggest street party every August and its doors are painted in bright pastel colours. The connoisseur of the north west London property scene would look slightly southwards to its greener, more understated sibling, Holland Park. “The area has [...]
Tesla is building a plant in China that can make 500,000 vehicles a year July 10, 2018 Tesla has reached a preliminary deal with the Chinese government to build its next gigafactory in Shanghai, with a plant that can make 500,000 cars a year. The Shanghai government confirmed the deal in a statement this morning, after reports surfaced earlier today surrounding Tesla chief executive Elon Musk’s visit to the city. Bloomberg added [...]
Sculpture in the City and Frieze Sculpture Park are encouraging people to reassess our favourite landmarks and public spaces | City A.M. July 10, 2018 What is public property? Is it the streets we walk on or the parks we sunbathe in? Can art be public property and what happens when you take it out of the stuffy confines of a gallery and plop it right in front of an office or train station? Two initiatives launched this week that [...]
Donald Trump: UK is in turmoil July 10, 2018 Donald Trump has said the UK is in “turmoil” and suggested his meeting with Vladimir Putin may be “the easiest” out of a list of coming engagements, which will kick off with the Nato summit tomorrow. Speaking to journalists in front of the White House before getting onto Marine One, his official helicopter, en route [...]
Dominic Raab impresses business groups in first meeting as Brexit secretary July 10, 2018 Dominic Raab has been given a tentative thumbs up by business groups after the new Brexit secretary stuck to a meeting this morning, which had been scheduled under his predecessor David Davis. Business groups including the British Chambers of Commerce, Institute of Directors, Confederation of British Industry and manufacturers group EEF were among those who [...]
Microsoft unveils its ‘iPad Pro-killer’, the smallest and lightest Surface device yet July 10, 2018 In the biggest challenge we’ve seen to the iPad’s dominance of the tablet market so far, Microsoft has unveiled a cheaper, lighter and smaller competitor in the form of the two-in-one Surface Go. Though it has a similar style to the previous Surface models, the new Surface Go has a smaller 10-inch screen, weighs less [...]