The Best Restaurants & Bars for St Patrick’s Day in London
With St Patrick’s Day falling on a Friday (17th March) this year, the weekend will be filled with all manner of fun events taking place across London. Of course, there’s the annual parade, which will take place in Central London on Sunday, plus the city’s fair share of Irish pubs to spend the weekend supping ice cold pints of Guinness. From specially curated Irish menus to Irish craft beer tasting, we’ve rounded-up our pick of London’s best restaurants and bars...
UK construction industry could lose 8% of workforce post-Brexit, new RICS figures reveal
The UK construction industry could lose almost 200,000 EU workers post-Brexit should Britain lose access to the single market, putting some of the country’s biggest infrastructure and construction projects under threat, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has revealed. RICS has cautioned that for Brexit to succeed, it is essential to secure continued access to the EU Single Market or to put alternative plans in place to safeguard the future of the property and construction sectors in the UK....
Leading Entrepreneur invests in Concierge and Travel Businesses
Leeds Entrepreneur invests in luxury via Concierge and Travel Agency businesses One Hundred Lifestyle and Zero Zero One Travel Agency A leading Leeds entrepreneur and funding guru has taken a step into luxury with a six figure investment into West London based concierge service One Hundred Lifestyle, and it’s sister business, the travel agency Zero Zero One Travel. Both One Hundred Lifestyle and Zero Zero One cater to discerning clients looking for lifestyle management and perfectly tailored custom holiday experiences....
11-year-old UK child prodigy to become world’s youngest orchestra conductor
Super Talented Matthew Smith is a Grade 5 standard violinist and also plays the guitar, drums, piano and viola. Incredibly he will take the lead when Nottingham Symphony Orchestra (NSO) play Die Fledermaus at the Royal Concert Hall in the city on April 2. The concert will make Matthew the world’s youngest conductor – beating the previous record of a 14-year-old boy who directed the Venezuelan youth orchestra. The schoolboy has been practising with the 75-strong orchestra once a week...
Cameron’s £1bn big society project is failing & nobody is surprised
When David Cameron became PM he talked of the “big society,” imagining armies of citizens carrying out good works for free in their spare time. Unfortunately most people have to work long hours to make ends meet and to appease slave driver bosses. It was a nice idea, but in practice it couldn’t work, especially has Cameron also announced austerity measures, that meant that everyone’s finances were tighter than ever before as public series suffered. After Cameron lost the EU...
Restaurant Review – The Gilbert Scott
In a similar vein to Marco Pierre White, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsey – Marcus Wareing has become a TV chef personality whose equal parts loved and loathed. Over the past three years, the chef has perhaps become best known as the second toughest judge on MasterChef: The Professionals, but he’s also the name behind three London restaurants. At one end of the spectrum, Marcus at The Berkeley in Knightsbridge is the chef’s two Michelin-starred mother ship, offering one of...
The Olive Tree: Film Review
By Stephen Mayne @finalreel Some narratives are so obviously constructed to hit a series of emotional highs; the power begins to ebb away. The Olive Tree is like that, marching along a transparently pre-ordained path. And yet it remains a mostly charming experience through the sheer weight of emotion brought to bear by director Iciar Bollain and writer Paul Laverty. The tree of the title plays a vital role in bringing a number of moving parts together, though the crux...
Mum who is terminally ill draws up bucket list to marry b/f and visit every country before she dies
A terminally ill cancer sufferer told she has just months to live has drawn up a bucket list to visit every country in the world and marry her boyfriend before she dies. Jo Sutton, 37, is part-way round a global trip in a determined bid to “live her life to the fullest” and tick off all 196 countries across the world. She originally penned “40 countries to see before I’m 40” after her mum, Pamela, died of breast cancer five...
Consciousness – A story with a sting
By Dr Nigel Mellor Discussing consciousness is entering a dangerous swamp with lots of traps, dead ends and scary monsters. Scientists can’t even agree on a definition. The whole shebang can also get very mystical. So let’s lighten up. We’ll start with a few things we can agree on, even though the first topic, emergence, itself can be a bit of a puzzle. “Mind” will get some in apoplectic rage. But we’ll finish off with a whiff of basic Buddhism,...