How European is the UK? Five charts that show how we differ from the EU in alcohol consumption, living costs and working hours August 18, 2015 It's a potent question at the moment: what does it really mean to be “European”? It turns out our living costs, alcohol consumption and general life satisfaction make the UK the sixth most European country in the EU, according to analytics firm Qlik. In a study pulling together statistics about how we live, work and [...]
Diabetes has become a huge problem in the UK – here are four recent breakthroughs that could keep it under control August 17, 2015 Thanks to our unhealthy lifestyles and expanding waistlines, the number of diabetes sufferers in the UK has gone up significantly over the last decade. Read more: Metformin: The world's first drug to increase life expectancy could go on trial next year Figures released today by the charity Diabetes UK show that there are currently [...]
Becoming Mr Matchmaker: Venntro founder Ross Williams talks going mobile, nature v nurture, and ginger dating August 16, 2015 A week today, Ross Williams will be a married man. “Oh, I’m not stressed, nervous, anxious, oh no,” he laughs. But Williams shouldn’t worry – after all, he’s got a wife and mother-in-law-to-be who are “absolutely fantastic” organisers, and his relationship was founded on a very firm footing: he and his fiancée met on an [...]
What future for forecasts? It’s time economists grappled with the flaws in their models August 12, 2015 Macroeconomic forces influence truly vast sums of money, but the process of analysing them is notoriously unreliable. Economic forecasting is often very wide of the mark and seriously inaccurate just one year ahead. Traditional economic forecasting has conspicuously failed to identify turning points in the economic cycle, while the highly sophisticated DSGE (dynamic stochastic general [...]
Can Arsenal still be champions? Only one other club has lost their first game and won the Premier League August 10, 2015 If Arsenal are to win this season's Premier League they will become just the second club to do so after losing their first game of the season. Read more: Don’t blame Petr Cech for Arsenal loss, says Arsene Wenger The ballooning hype surrounding Arsenal's title credentials was suddenly burst yesterday after an impressive West Ham [...]
Public Health England warns “neglected” over-40s to get more sleep, stop smoking and reduce alcohol comsumption August 10, 2015 The UK's public health body will launch a new campaign warning those between the ages of 40 and 60 to live more healthily after it found those in middle ages are "neglected". In a document published last month, Public Health England said because most health campaigns target the very young and the very old, the [...]
Where in Britain drinks the most tea and eats the most biscuits? August 10, 2015 Everyone loves a cuppa, but perhaps not as much as we used to. The nation is drinking less tea, causing sales to drop, although we are still necking 76m kg of the stuff every year – that's the equivalent of each person in the UK downing 460 cups, according to research from Mintel. So it's [...]
Making a splash: Orlebar Brown founder talks bagginess, Stateside growth and being laughed at August 9, 2015 Spending two years building a business on your tod can’t be easy. But for Adam Brown, founder of swimwear and fashion brand Orlebar Brown, it turned out pretty well. Back in 2007, Brown decided to set up the company. The story of how, while at a friend’s birthday pool party in Rajasthan, which was [...]
Astronauts on International Space Station about to harvest first-ever space-grown food, as Nasa develops “Veggie” plant growth chamber August 9, 2015 Nasa astronauts have been growing lettuce in space, as the first-ever space-grown fruit and veg is about to be harvested on the International Space Station. Forget freeze-dried meals, astronauts are about to get a better deal. Nasa has developed a plant growth chamber dubbed “Veggie” and sent it into orbit. Produce from the mini-greenhouse is [...]
The restaurants truffling feathers: Best truffle venues in London August 6, 2015 London’s love-affair with the truffle continues apace with the opening of Sackville’s in Mayfair. Here are some of our favourite truffle spots SACKVILLE’S This Mayfair new opening is crazy about this distinctive fungus, serving it on practically every dish. Last week our restaurant critic fell in love with Sackville’s self-titled wagyu steak burger with foie [...]