The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline intended to connect Moscow and Germany, opposed by the US, which has imposed a series of sanctions in an attempt to stop it, as well as by several other EU member states. When Angela Merkel met Vladimir Putin, after the US military killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in a…
The art form of yoga is no longer the preserve for hippies or hip-millennials, as a multi-dollar industry with varieties including hot yoga, naked yoga, beer yoga, and doga have taken over. The Indian spiritual discipline is a £20billion-a-year mainstay of the wellness industry. Shearer reveals a cultural cast of characters past and present in…
This is the life memoir of a young start-up employee, who offers clues as to how and why at the height of 2010 start-up boom they were ubiquitous and now they seem to have disappeared. Uncanny Valley gives an insight with a time-lapse of the past seven years in Silicon Valley- from giddy days of…
This is the story of the world’s most controversial product tobacco’s fortunes and how science triumphed over addiction. The US has been active in picking economic winners and losers with price supports for farmers, regulatory interventions and outright state funding for innovation through the Defense Research Projects Agency. From Jamestown to the Marlboro Man,…
New technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines as advances in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk. So how can we thrive in a world with less work? Susskind reminds us that technological progress could bring about unprecedented prosperity, but the challenge will be…
THE PERFECT WAY TO GET OUT AND ABOUT AND JOIN THE ARTISTIC ELITE documented in the wonderful “Art London” a new book on the scene. This neat little book is a wonderful guide to all things Art mainly in London. I have been to some of the Art Fairs referred to on page 8 and…
The modern liberalism since 1843, The Economist has been the single most devoted and influential champion of liberalism anywhere in the world. Today, neither economic crisis at home nor permanent warfare abroad, has dimmed the Economist’s belief in unfettered markets, limited government and a free hand for the West. The history of liberalism is on…
The year is 1964, in Ceylon, Jay and Kairo have debut meeting, “ I needed a guide, a hero, illumination, Jay, I now know, needed an acolyte” says Kairo, the narrator of the book, when Ceylon is on the brink of change with schools closed, the government in disarray, the press is under threat and…
Many of us take the buildings around us for granted. We pass them on a bus, work worship or live in them and sometimes never look into the complex subject of the designing placing and construction of them. But this book breaks the mould and makes us think! This handy sized book measuring 5 by 7…
Review of “33 Walks in London that you shouldn’t miss” by Nicola Perry. Photographs by Daniel Reiter. Anyone who lives in or visits London would love this book. I have read a few different chapters on walks and all of them are timed, contain photos, are directed and contain fully comprehensive details on what you…