By Philip O'Meara @philipomeara “Oh, no, you’re not a veggie…” Beyond its inconvenience (inconveniencing a friend or eating another mushroom risotto at an unimaginative restaurant), it’s the implication that being vegetarian is an inherently bad – or at least unhinged – position which has encouraged me to put down my reasoning in ...
By Steve Taggart The call for nominations have just opened for the 43rd Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award. The award, which counts Dame Marjorie Scardino DBE FRSA, Anya Hindmarch MBE and Dame Zaha Hadid DBE as past winners, celebrates the success of business women worldwide who share the same qualities as Madame ...
By Charlotte Hope Lifestyle Editor @TLE_Lifestyle We all want the perfect wingman, well apart from me, as I'm a woman (obvs) that would just be a date surely? But for the single man, recent research has revealed what makes the perfect partner to pull the ladies. They found the perfect "wingman" is ...
By J T Coombes www.globalmagnacarta.com @GMagnaCarta In this new millennium 21st century Society is saddled with systems way past their sell by date. . . . A 15th century democratic system, complete with glass ceiling . . . An 11th century monetary system that increasingly holds the world to ransom ...
By Stu Benington, Vice President of the Cloud/SDN Business Unit at Coriant London residents and businesses were recently promised lightning fast mobile internet speeds, when Mayor Boris Johnson vowed to deliver 5G services in the capital by 2020. Johnson claimed the enhanced mobile connection speeds 5G would provide will ensure ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It says a lot about PMQs that a plain grey T-shirt (it looked a bit C & A if I’m honest, if that store even exists anymore) was by far the most interesting event at today’s PMQs. Harriet Harman, wore a feminist T-shirt following the ...
TLE campaigns to scrap the nominal card charge on card transactions. The next time you’re asked to pay a nominal 50p or £1 charge in a shop, bar and restaurant for using your card, ask yourself why you’re paying it. It may seem inconsequential, but a 50p charge for paying ...
By Steve Taggart Women would rather her fella was putting up some drawers; rather than pulling hers down. However, men just want their partner to fix it in the bedroom rather than the garden shed, a study has revealed. Researchers found that while women simply want a partner to clear ...
By Simon Bennison - Food writer Away from the tartan and tat of the castle end of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, sits the refined and inconspicuous Wedgwood The Restaurant. Since 2007, husband and wife team Paul and Lisa Wedgwood have created their own version of fine dining without pretence, to sit ...