Ice Alive
Joseph Cook is taking a closer look at the microbial life that can be found all over the planet’s glaciers and ice sheets. It is increasingly clear that this rich ecosystem affects the melt rates of polar ice and snow and could be accelerating climate change. Narrated by Jim Al-Khalili and starring Chris Hadfield. Courtesy of Rolex. […]
The Alternative For Diversity
Leadership: the promising alternative for Diversity & Inclusion progress By Hager Jemel, PhD Over the last decade, managing diversity and achieving inclusion have become major HR objectives and business imperatives for companies. However, in spite of the growing interest and commitment from both practitioners and scholars in these issues, improvement in terms of discrimination reduction […]
Is your travel itinerary making you unhealthy?
By Tim Hayes, founder of Peach We humans are clever; brilliant at finding ways to be unhealthy and even better at avoiding ways to change. We all know the usual suspects but, are we aware of how work travel could be causing a lot of damage to our health? Upgraded to business class – downgraded […]
GDPR: Four letters that could change your world. In a good way.
By Mark Walker, Strategist at Keko London The chances are that in the last few years you will have heard someone, somewhere, say the words: “data is the new oil”. Whether they knew it or not, they were quoting the architect of Tesco’s Clubcard programme, Clive Humby – and in the context of the imminent […]
A Game of Drones
How the Insurance Sector is riding the new technology wave By Malcolm Harvey Have you ever found yourself at a local pub, wine bar, or drinks party, where the conversation turns to insurance claims? You will invariably hear nightmare stories of how the insurance companies are far too quick to take your premiums, and far […]
T-shirt: Cult, Culture, Subversion
Fashion and Textile Museum London Until May 8th By Nick Landon It would be fair to say every person on planet Earth owns a t-shirt; whether it be diamond encrusted or a threadbare piece of advertising on the back of a malnourished street child in the many slums around the world. “T-shirt, Cult, Culture and Subversion” […]
Mexico’s Exotic Culinary World
Epicurean journeys: Of Ants & Gods. Mexico’s Exotic Culinary World by Hossein Amirsadeghi Mexico is a land of passions and paradoxes, the real deal in the Americas as far as culture, history, nation-building and political drama go, stretching back three thousand years. No other continental American country’s history can match the magical exuberance and cacophony […]
Bruce Oldfield – A man who knows what women want
by Lavinia Dickson-Robinson From his humble beginnings at Barnardo’s, Bruce Oldfield rose through the ranks and left St. Martin’s School of Art to critical acclaim in 1973. He started his own label in 1975 and became one of the leading couture designers in the UK, dressing some of the most beautiful women in the world, […]
Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy
By Lavinia Dickson-Robinson Tate Modern, 8 March – 9 September 2018 “When we love a woman, we don’t start measuring her limbs. We love with our desires – although everything has been done to try and apply a canon, even to love.” – Pablo Picasso The Tate Modern has without a doubt, staged one of the […]
Deciding between pleasure and investment strategies
Wine is one of the oldest investment categories in Europe. British traders have been importing clarets from Bordeaux, Port wines and Sherry for centuries. The old family adage was that you would buy 3 cases of each wine you would like to collect, 2 cases to invest and 1 to drink, the appreciation over time […]
