Lee Thompson has spent the last three months travelling around the world shooting incredible pictures, but rather than use the familiar "selfie" he believes the "surroundie" is the next big thing. He has so far taken shots in Bolivia, Peru, India, Finland, and Sri Lanka as part of a marketing...
This bank holiday weekend, following a stream of tweets about New Year's eve celebrations and fleeting references to making America "great again, Donald Trump managed to fit in potentially seismic policy moves on foreign policy, trade and health care into a solitary 140 characters. Gone, it would seem, are the days...
When the Conservatives came into power in 2010 rail fares in Britain were already high. Since then, in a mere six years, they have risen by an astonishing 27 per cent - three times faster than wages. But the tragedy isn't just that we're spending six times more on rail fares than our counterparts...
Anyone who woke up this morning in a good mood deserves a medal. As the alarm chimed for the first time in two weeks and the winter's chill made escaping the confines of your bed sheets unthinkable there must have been a nation-wide exhale of contempt for life, for today is...
To protect the innocent, the guilty and myself, nothing I tell you will be entirely true. Here is what I remember about cooking for the Leading Sportsman one New Year’s Eve. One of the nicest people I’ve had the pleasure to cook for, the LS was tall, relaxed, confident, and...
London to New York is the world's busiest intercontinental route and, given that it is peppered with business travellers, probably one of the most lucrative. But flying Transatlantic on a budget is a market that hasn't yet been fully realised. Back in 2014 one low-cost carrier came up with a solution....
What's the most outrageous thing your boss has ever asked you to do? Cleaning toilets, teaching English to foreign colleagues and wearing revealing or indecent clothes to model in are just some of the items featured on the top 50 list of unexpected tasks. Researchers found requests from the boss...
Being overweight reduces the motivation to exercise - explaining why New Year resolutions to shed the pounds often fail, according to new research. It has always been assumed obesity makes it harder for people to move around. But scientists now reckon the mental affect of the condition could be just...
Children as young as four can pick up racist prejudices from their parents' body language, according to new research. The finding suggests prejudice is learned rather than instinctive - and handed down through the generations. Toddlers can 'catch' social bias through non-verbal signals expressed by grown ups, say scientists. Most...