Eggspect more this Easter: The gourmet eggs you won’t regret shelling out on March 31, 2015 PRESTAT LONDON GIN TRUFFLE EGG For a very British egg, look no further than the Queen’s chocolatier Prestat, whose egg nods to its 100-year-old London heritage. This milk chocolate and lemon oval is filled with white chocolate truffles flavoured with gin, lemon and juniper. £15 from prestat.co.uk. PAUL A YOUNG EGG-FILLED EGG [...]
International Friendly: Townsend in from cold to reheat tepid England and preserve run March 31, 2015 Hodgson indebted to his substitutes as Three Lions rally to make it nine games without a defeat ITALY 1 ENGLAND 1 ENGLAND boss Roy Hodgson savoured the impact of substitute Andros Townsend after the Tottenham forward maintained his side’s unbeaten streak with a late leveller last night against Italy in Turin. Hodgson was furious with [...]
It’s proven: People with rich parents have bigger brains March 31, 2015 Rich and well-educated families are more likely to have children with big brains, according to a new study looking at socioeconomic status and brain structure among young people in the US. Led by The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Columbia University Medical Centre, nine universities across the country collaborated to analyse [...]
Genre affects musicians’ life expectancies and their causes of death March 31, 2015 The music industry is typically associated with a live fast, die young lifestyle in the public consciousness. This is fuelled by incidents such as the murder of nineties rapper notorious B.I.G in an unsolved drive-by shooting a year after the death of his rival Tupac. So psychology and music professor Dianna Theadora Kenny dug into [...]
General Election 2015: How does Martin Freeman stack up in celebrity political Top Trumps March 31, 2015 One the hallmarks of both UK and US elections is that each party wheels out their celebrity backers to add a bit of glamour to the men in grey suits. Yesterday, Martin Freeman – star of Sherlock, The Hobbit and a host of other hits – explained why he supports Labour. Freeman is far from the first [...]
The new Meningitis B vaccine for babies on the NHS: How much of a difference will it actually make in the UK? March 30, 2015 Later this year, the NHS will start rolling out its new Meningitis B vaccination programme for all babies in the UK. As part of the national childhood immunisation scheme, they will receive three doses of the GSK-owned medication, first at two months, then at four months and finally at 12 months. It makes Britain [...]
Kate Robertson: In a digital era, politicians must start a dialogue, not waste time on negative ads that come back to bite them March 30, 2015 Negative "attack advertising" has a great pedigree in British politics. Think of the snaking dole queue of 1979, proclaiming "Labour isn’t working", or the image in 2001 of William Hague adorned with the hair of Margaret Thatcher. "Be afraid, be very afraid", the caption read – aggressive, but with wonderfully British "edge" you never [...]
Who you know, not what you know: Social contacts still key to a start in career March 29, 2015 Getting on to the career ladder is easy – if you are well connected and are willing and able to do about seven internships, a report suggests today. Young people today need, on average, to have seven work placements to get on to the career ladder, when in the past one would have normally been [...]
Ed Miliband: David Cameron’s divided party is now a clear and present danger to UK business March 29, 2015 ELECTION COUNTDOWN 38 DAYS TO GO Today the Prime Minister is going to Buckingham Palace. Parliament is dissolved and the General Election is finally underway. This election is not simply a choice between parties and leaders but between different visions of our country, of how we succeed, of the kind of country we [...]
The Shanghai’s the limit in this city that never stops March 29, 2015 Londoners are obsessed with christening skyscrapers. From the Walkie Talkie to the Cheesegrater, new buildings are barely granted planning permission before they are slapped with a nickname, reducing years of meticulous planning to a childish slogan. If the residents of Shanghai had a similar habit, they’d have little time to do anything else. The skyline [...]