Canary Wharf: Four memories
Before construction was started in 1988, I went down with my Olympus OM1 and took some black and white photographs of the empty and redundant Canary Wharf. The dock was much bigger then (a VAT...
View ArticleA scientific guide to bad people
Bad people – we all know some, you may even work with some. They can be manipulative, untrustworthy, economical with the truth, sly, brash, ungrateful and ambitious, and sometimes all of these things....
View ArticleThe Sharp End: How to join the 0.001%
You may have read that a UK lottery ticketholder has recently won a prize of nearly £108 million. The individual who has scooped the whole amount, has become the 745th richest person on the Sunday...
View ArticleThe Sharp End: Taking the slow road to good health
“The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise” – Peter O’Toole In a couple of weeks’ time some 35,000 people will compete in the London Marathon. During the 2012...
View ArticleThe Sharp End: The secret of casual dressing
As the seasons turn, it’s time to update your casual wardrobe. If you’re a man with a strong sense of style who knows his own fashion mind then you can stop reading now. On the other hand, if the idea...
View ArticleThe Sharp End: Minehead – A lesson in cost control
What’s the connection between the backwater West Country town of Minehead and our own economic powerhouse of the City of London? My guidebook says of Minehead: “With no ‘Must Sees’ in town…there’s...
View ArticleThe Sharp End: A convert to the world of bed and breakfast
This is turning into a big 12 months for the bed and breakfast scene. Back in January, Bindon Bottom in Dorset was voted the world’s best bed and breakfast hotel and six of the global top 10 B&B’s...
View ArticleGaming: Time-waster, modern version of downtime or development tool?
When I’ve finished typing this article, I’m going to walk over to my iPhone and delete Candy Crush Saga from its memory. This ridiculous and addictive game is clogging up my life, leaving me with...
View ArticleThe Sharp End: The decline of the strawberry and the joys of fruit-picking
I’m just booking my Wimbledon tickets and my mind is turning to strawberries. Most mornings I take a punnet of strawberries from the fridge and slice a few into my muesli. Thirty years ago this would...
View ArticleThe Sharp End: Blue-sky thinking
Although US carmaker Chrysler came to be associated with some very unpleasant vehicles we should all take a moment, as spring turns to summer, to thank the company for saving the convertible. In 1982...
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