League of London’s billionaires

Caroline Knowles delves into London’s plutocrat’s paradise with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong, or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey Via Kensington, Notting Hill, Mayfair, and elsewhere. Her walks…

Retail Therapy

Most Covid restrictions in the UK come to an end on Monday, with the “Living with Covid” plan enforced in England, people are flocking to Harrods, for much-needed retail therapy.  

Fortescue Metals buys Williams F1 battery and tech arm for £164m

Fortescue Metals buys Williams F1 battery arm and technology arm of the Williams Formula One racing team  for £164m ($222.2m). Andrew Forrest Australia’s richest man, Fortescue’s founder and chairman, who is worth more than £13.3bn ($128bn) is buying the battery said “ This announcement is the key to unlocking the formula for removing fossil-fuel powered…

Adverts for cosmetic surgeries to be banned for under-18s from May

  The UK advertising watchdog says the rules for adverts for cosmetic surgery  including breast enhancements and nose jobs designed to change person’s physical appearance are to be banned targeting under 18s across  TV programmes and social media. It is illegal to perform cosmetic procedures on under-18s but there have previously been no restrictions on…

Dating Revolution: The world has never been more connected, or more alone

Funny memoir about sex, dating, and relationships in the digital age, intertwined with investigation into the challenges to love and intimacy wrought by dating apps by 49-yar-old famed Vanity Fair writer and New York Times-bestselling author Nancy Jo Sales asks who to blame for the modern dating malaise:tech companies. Jo Sales award-winning journalist and single…

Future five EV cars other than Tesla in China

There five brands of Electric vehicles with 40 per cent of the global EV market with over 1.3m EV car sales in 2020.  Zeekr only launched a few days ago and they have pedigree, as the people that own then also own Volvo and their parent company Geely. Nio is China’s best-known homemade, high-end EV…

Real-life mermaid in seas and lochs

Kate MacLeod 24-year-old from Uig, Lewis is often swimming in seas and lochs around the West coast of Lewis during gale-force conditions complete with her own Ariel style tail fin, in summer and winter at the Outer Hebrides. She started her interest in wild swimming when she was a girl and for the last 10…

Churchill painting sold for £7m

Former British Prime minister Sir Winston Churchill’s painting The Tower of The Koutoubia Mosque painted in Marrakesh during World War Two, depicting the minaret of the mosque behind the ramparts of the old city with mountains in the background and tiny figures in front, owned by Angelina Jolie, has sold for £7, at the Christies…

Cultural Power of Clothing: Titillated by adapted Dress Codes

For centuries clothing has been a wearable status symbol, fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. A Woman in London, wear embroidered velvet boots, hair not seen a brush for days, and deconstructed jackets, while in America women wear sleek Armani or Donna Karan suit,…