The world has a waste problem. The amount we throw away, both at home and in the office, far exceeds what is sustainable. Yet, rather than taking significant steps to reduce it, global waste looks set to triple by 2100. Having just endured the hottest year on record, it should...
Between February and June 1999, famed art forger John Myatt was in jail. He was there for what Scotland Yard described as “the biggest art fraud of the 20th century.” Myatt’s fakes of famous paintings by masters like Van Gogh and Matisse had sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds...
We were presented with several forecasts for the future of the UK economy in 2016, all differing slightly in their optimism. There were the gloomy predictions of the Remain campaigners—which led to George Osborne’s infamous ‘punishment budget’, and there were the more cheerful predictions from the Brexitiers. As it turned...
At peak times, there are more than 543 trains hurtling around beneath our feet. As the oldest underground transport system in the world, The London Underground has seen the number of passengers passing through it’s 270 stations increase beyond measure. Today our tubes and trains creak under the weight of...
Much as the eyes are the window into the soul, shop windows are the eyes to the shop. A store’s window design is the first thing that consumers see, and therefore use to construe their first impression of the store. But there’s far more to the art of window design...
There’s no doubting the massive growth of online craft sites like Etsy and Threadless. Developed in 2005 as an online marketplace for co-founder Rob Kalin’s unique wood-encased computers, Etsy is the leading community forum for artisan crafters, and registered thousands of sellers within months. It now rivals the likes of...
If you go to the Horror section of your local bookstore today, you won’t find books by Stephen King, Mary Shelley or HP Lovecraft; instead, you’ll find a stack of newspapers from the past couple of years. Okay, that’s not quite true—let’s just call it an alternative fact—but it may...
During his successful campaign to become the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan promised to make London’s housing crisis his “single, biggest priority.” In fact, Khan said in his manifesto that “it doesn’t matter whether you’re talking to business leaders, local residents, charities or community groups: far and away the biggest...
Moonlight’s Best Picture win at the 89th Academy Awards will always be remembered as the most botched Oscars moment of all time. Which is a shame, because it is historic in many other ways. Moonlight is also the first Best Picture winner to have an all black cast and to...