RAPID RESPONSES January 15, 2012 Disagree with Nick I very much agree with Allister Heath’s comments on Friday [Clegg’s latest nonsense] about Nick Clegg’s initiative regarding job applications. As you say, the key is improving education, and not coming up with idiotic proposals such as this. I come from a pretty humble background, and had a solid, redbrick grammar school [...]
Land of the rising dram December 7, 2011 HEAD up 25 floors to the top of Tokyo’s Shiodome Park Hotel and you find a craftsman at work. Ensconced in the centre of one of Japan’s finest drinking dens, the sultry Bar a Vins, Mr Takayuki Suzuki hand-carves perfectly spherical orbs out of ice. These he drops into a tumbler and pours over whisky [...]
Steve Jobs was an amazing businessman – but Einstein’s the genius behind the iPod October 17, 2011 THE recent death of Steve Jobs is a timely moment to step back and reconsider what innovation is really for. Reading the obituaries and testimonies posted across the internet, you would not be alone in assuming that Saint Jobs had cured the world of cancer and is now in heaven, reconfiguring God’s messaging system from [...]
Glamorous war reporter’s memoir of danger and love August 17, 2011 GHOSTS BY DAYLIGHT BY JANINE DI GIOVANNI Bloomsbury, £16.99 JANINE Di Giovanni is statuesque: a voluptuous brunette, she seems to tower over most of her peers. She seems larger than life but this is not just a physical thing: for twenty years she reported on the world’s grizzliest wars, returning again and again to Bosnia, [...]
Scotland comes to the Wharf August 8, 2011 Boisdale Canary Wharf Cabot Place, Canary Wharf, E14 4QT www.boisdale.co.uk FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE Cost per person without wine: £45 CANARY Wharf is not the easiest place to bring culture to – even at its most alive, it has a certain, well, spartan feeling. Those open precincts, crisp architectural angles and endless escalators scream deal-making and [...]
Seaweed and bog myrtle? Yes please July 17, 2011 IT is a bright spring day in the gentrified area of Christiana in Copenhagen, and the houseboat that is the Nordic Food Lab – or the ministry of bonkers food as it should be known, is a hive of activity. Birch twigs are being slowly cooked “sous-vide”, to be turned into tea. Buttermilk is being [...]
BLACKBERRY PLAYBOOK in association with SELFRIDGES&CO. selfridges.com July 6, 2011 BlackBerry® has already revolutionised the way we work and do business. Now, as the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet launches, it’s also transforming the way we play. BlackBerry PlayBook marks a much-anticipated debut in the tablet market and is now available to purchase at SELFRIDGES. It’s the first tablet on the market to offer users the best [...]
It’s time for a free speech revolution May 23, 2011 THERE is something beautiful about the First Amendment to the US Constitution. For those of you who need reminding, here it is: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably [...]
Cosiness meets luxury in the new generation of pub hotels May 22, 2011 IF you’re skipping out of town for a weekend, you don’t always want the ultra-plush, waited-on-hand-and-foot trappings of a smart hotel any more than you want the chintz and limited comforts of a B&B. For cosiness, convivial hospitality and excellent nightcap options, a stay at a pub with rooms can be the answer, not least [...]
PROPERTY NEWS February 17, 2011 BLOCK MANAGEMENT REVOLUTION A computer programme called “Blockcare”, designed to manage the administration of small apartment blocks, has been launched by managing agent Ringley Group. The software could significantly lower the fees that leaseholders are charged by traditional managing agents – up to 90 per cent over the course of a year. There is a [...]