LIFE THROUGH A LENS April 11, 2012 Emporio Armani 9682 Aviator Men’s Sunglasses, £125, sunglassesshop.com Sporty but oh-so-fashionable, these classic aviator-style shades featured in the spring/summer 2012 runway shows. Super-comfortable and equally good for strolling Mayfair or hitting the beach. Ray-Ban Black Folding 4105 Men’s Wayfarers, £125, my-wardrobe.com If you’re tired of all the aviator cool out there, try a classic with [...]
From Nero to Posh, a long love affair with sunnies April 11, 2012 Victoria Beckham’s image is defined by her bug-eyes – you almost forget they’re the effect of enormous pieces of plastic and not simply part of her anatomy. Shades have become such a hallmark of where you stand on the trend spectrum that it’s easy to forget that they have a purpose, and that is to [...]
Introducing the $1bn app April 11, 2012 What is Instagram? It is an app, previously available for free on the iPhone and iPad but this week expanding to Google’s Android platform, that allows people to share photos with their “friends” online. It works a bit like a specialist Facebook, allowing you to post pictures to your profile, which are visible to people [...]
Are games getting a little too clever? April 11, 2012 Gamers hate the debate about whether games are on a level with film and literature. People tend to use annoying phrases like “transcend the genre,” implying that games are somehow intrinsically worse. You don’t hear theatre critics saying “why, that play was so good it could almost have been a novel”. Anyone who regularly plays [...]
WHO ELSE IS RIPE FOR A TAKEOVER? April 11, 2012 Pinterest All eyes have now shifted to picture-sharing site Pinterest, with some commentators saying the firm’s meteoric rise prompted Facebook’s Instagram bid. The female-oriented site is slick and very addictive. Tumblr If Instagram is worth $1bn, blogging site Tumblr could fetch an eye-watering sum. It is incredibly popular, hosting almost 50m blogs and attracting more [...]
Grumeti can bounce back from Cheltenham defeat April 11, 2012 AINTREE’S prestigious three-day Grand National meeting gets underway this afternoon and it may be worth finding a TV just after 2pm to watch the remarkable Big Buck’s beat Sir Ken’s (one of the great Champion Hurdlers from the 1950s) unbeaten sequence of 16. Now, Paul Nicholls’ four-time World Hurdle winner is a best-priced 1/4 with [...]
Boxer Georg can land a punch in the Fox Hunters’ April 11, 2012 The first taste racegoers get of the Grand National fences at this year’s meeting comes in the John Smith’s Fox Hunters’ Chase at 3.40pm. Paul Nicholls last won this race 10 years ago with Torduff Express and he saddles the likely favourite Gwanako who was pitting his wits against Big Buck’s at this meeting last [...]
Euro crisis back with a vengeance April 10, 2012 FEARS over the future of the Eurozone reignited yesterday, sparking a collapse in stock markets and a sharp upturn in borrowing costs for struggling Mediterranean states. Yields on Spanish and Italian government bonds soared throughout the day, reversing the recent calming downward trend that had been temporarily achieved with a €1 trillion (£824bn) refinancing operation [...]
Charities to lose out after Osborne’s tax relief raid April 10, 2012 CHARITIES and tax lawyers attacked George Osborne’s plans to limit tax relief on donations yesterday, calling the move “heavy handed” and “perverse.” Relief will be limited to the income tax paid on the first £50,000 of a donor’s earnings or 25 per cent of their income, reducing incentives to give to charities. “As a result [...]
Time for a few home truths about Britain’s housing crisis April 10, 2012 EVERY so often, a piece of research comes along which is a must-read. A document yesterday from the Institute of Economic Affairs is one such report: it reveals in no uncertain terms why house prices are so high in the UK, and what needs to be done to ensure that generations of young people are [...]
