Morgan gives its 65-year-old car a racing makeover. Introducing the Morgan AR Plus 4 May 16, 2016 There is an office deep within Morgan’s ‘frozen in time’ Malvern HQ, where there hangs a picture of Sir John Harvey-Jones. He was the star of Troubleshooter, the 1990 BBC TV series that made Morgan famous again. “Modernise or die” was Sir John’s advice for the firm. It didn’t. But neither did it die, and [...]
Long Weekend: Healthouse Las Dunas in Marbella, the five star detox hotel with a menu created by a two-Michelin-starred chef May 16, 2016 The weekend: Smoke too much? Drink too much? Check into Healthouse Las Dunas, where they don’t let you do very much at all. Its detox programmes – lasting between two and 21 nights – use a blend of healthy fine-dining, medical consultations, cooking lessons and spa treatments to relax and re-educate its guests. Or just [...]
Catch some waves in beautiful Taghazout Bay: The upcoming surf-capital of Morocco May 16, 2016 Agadir and its coastline have been likened to the French Riviera, but while this windswept Atlantic resort has its charms, it would be generous to call it a Moroccan Saint-Tropez. What Agadir lacks in va-va-voom, however, it makes up for with action. Ten miles north of Agadir is Taghazout, a laid-back beach town and Mecca [...]
Property Entrepreneurs: How flatsharing website Weroom spread through social media May 12, 2016 Flat sharing is great – so long as you get on with your fellow flatmates, and don’t fall out over the washing up, or who has paid the bills. But those softer issues can be hard to think about, when you’re on the hunt for a place to stay. And it was this set of [...]
Why paying for London property in US dollars could save you a fortune May 12, 2016 Every week, City A.M. invites an industry professional to write about an emerging trend in the property market. Wise investors spend their time looking for smart places to put their money. The current weakness of the pound against the US dollar has presented an opportunity in the London property sector for smart money from outside [...]
Green Room film review: Patrick Stewart and Imogen Poots star in this short, sharp horror full of slicing, mauling and stab-stab-stabbing directed by Jeremy Saulnier May 12, 2016 You know that puzzle where you have to get a fox and a chicken and some grain across a river? Green Room is like that, only the river is a neo-Nazi club-house, the grain is a punk band who have witnessed a brutal murder, the chicken is some furious men with guns and the fox [...]
Focus On Shepherd’s Bush: Westfield expansion and old BBC Television Centre homes put W12 in limelight May 12, 2016 For years now, the east has been the land of regeneration. The long lead up to the Olympic Games in Stratford and the success of the City fringes have seen most of property agents’ “up-and-coming” rhetoric focused in that direction and one could be mistaken for thinking there was simply nowhere else for traditionally prosperous west [...]
The Angry Birds Movie is a story for children about a collection of rare birds violently catapulted into shoddily built towers May 12, 2016 In a post-Battleship world, it seems no premise or product is too remote to base a film on. Step in Angry Birds, the mobile game that was the saviour of long commutes everywhere when it burst on to the scene in 2009. The spin-off movie was met with incredulity but hopes have quietly risen given [...]
George Shaw brings his haunting My Back to Nature series of paintings to the National Gallery May 12, 2016 George Shaw is best known for his highly detailed renditions of high streets and urban scenes from middle England, favouring enamel paint more commonly used for Airfix models. These deliberately unspectacular, eerie images reached their widest audiences following his nomination for the Turner Prize in 2011. It is fascinating, then, to see how this traditional [...]
How do you create a sex-heavy unreality for an unshockable twenty-first century audience? May 12, 2016 Diarist Samuel Pepys saw A Midsummer Night’s Dream – for the first and last time – in 1662, describing it as the most “ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life” despite “some good dancing and some handsome women”. Centuries later, can the sex-fuelled plot still baffle a contemporary audience? Emma Rice takes a stab in her first production as [...]