Bugatti Veyron L’or Blanc: the $2.5m supercar

Bugatti ‘s latest one-off Veyron L’or Blanc, supercar dressed in finest perocelain which cost 42.5million. The exterior of the 1001 horsepower Veyron L’or Blanc is surfaced in aluminium and carbon fiber mix, with wheel center caps, fuel filler cap and interior trim all fashioned by KPM from porcelain most of it designed by hand. Ettore…

New seaweed sunscreen is ecological and skin friendly

Scientists say a new sunscreen made from seaweed could be on sale within two years. Seaweed sunscreen would not affect marine life negatively, unlike current lotions and seaweed contains an agent that absorbs damaging ultraviolet and harmful sun rays. Palythine – the seaweed chemical can reduce acne and wrinkles and aid healing of scars plus…

Nestlé pays $7.15bn for right to sell Starbucks packaged coffee business

  As part of a global alliance, Nestlé the world’s leading nutrition, health and wellness company has agreed a £5.28bn ($7.15bn) cash deal with Starbucks to sell its coffee beans directly to consumers through supermarket and other food shops around the world outside the US brand’s café chain. Nestlé already owns Nescafe and Nespresso brands…

Victoria Veenstra Charms the children in an instrument making session

Victoria Veenstra – holder of two degrees in classical music, specialising in Baroque and the recorder ( some recorders cost over £1,000) performs and teaches music in Friesland – a stunning extensive rural part of Holland, much favoured by holidaymakers who like to camp or get back to nature – very popular also for young…

Even Hybrid cars could be banned from 2040

  The Government are tightening the clean air agenda and drawing up plans to outlaw the hybrid cars that exclusively relies on traditional engines such as the Toyota Prius, by 2040 and over 98 percent currently on the road would be banned. However, Chris Grayling, the Transport Secretary, who has Toyota’s UK headquarters in his constituency is…

200 years of Karl Marx

A Biography of Karl Marx one of the greatest thinkers of 19th-century rendering him more relevant than ever. A World to Win follows Marx through childhood and student days, his enduring friendship and intellectual partnership with Friedrich Engels, and Marx’s influences and explains his political and intellectual interventions and builds on the legacy of his thought,…

Equality and privilege in the midst of emerging superpower

 India one of the most divided nations on the planet aspiring to become the next superpower. James Crabtree reveals the titans of politics and industry-shaping India in a period of rapid change – from controversial Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the leading lights of the country’s burgeoning billionaire class. India is the world’s largest democracy, with…

Tilting voting from the elite democracy for the few

Zimbabwean-born ex- Goldman Sachs economist, and a free market polemicist, Dambisa Moyo’s Edge of Chaos, reveals the economic failings of the west, as the advanced industrial economies are suffering from weak growth because their leaders so far have failed to take tough long-term policy decisions. “Liberal democratic capitalism has become weak, corrupt and oblivious to…