Best of travel: Coachella’s lesser known Desert X festival February 10, 2021 To tide us over until we’re able to travel again, we’re republishing classic travel stories from our archives. This week we revisit Laura Millar’s exploration of Coachella’s other contemporary art festival. Read more: Jaguar XF P300 review: revitalised luxury at a surprisingly low price ••• The locals were… curious. For the past few weeks, as they’d [...]
46 of the best London home delivery restaurant kits reviewed May 11, 2021 Restaurants with terraces may be open again, but bagging a reservation is another matter. With the best part of a year’s worth of pent up demand, that outdoor space is at a premium and those who don’t book ahead are likely to be disappointed. But don’t panic: you can get restaurant quality food delivered straight [...]
Lee Wilson CA on helping some of business’s biggest players get to grips with cryptocurrency September 7, 2021 This article first appeared in ICAS’ CA magazine. Lee Wilson CA, Head of Finance at Elliptic, is helping some of business’s biggest players get to grips with cryptocurrency. He gives Ryan Herman a whistle-stop tour of an industry set to influence all our lives. One of the more surprising aspects of the pandemic has been the [...]
Screenshot: Have the streaming wars just gone nuclear? May 21, 2021 This week **Media Moment of the Week: That’ll do, you donkeys **Have the streaming wars just gone nuclear? **Can London close the tech gap on Silicon Valley? Media Moment of the Week: That’ll do, you donkeys Shrek turned 20 this week. Ah lovely, an innocent reminder of youth, I bet you’re thinking. Wrong. It’s actually [...]
Cronyism and incompetence: The government is undermining trust in the private sector November 10, 2020 It should surprise no one that a Conservative government turns to the private sector for the efficient delivery of services. Private enterprise is agile, responsive, innovative and provides good value for money (or at least, it can do), and public money should always be spent in the most effective way possible. This is the ideology [...]
Perfect Porsche? This British-built 911 restomod comes close April 21, 2021 The Porsche 911 by Theon Design is a homegrown take on the restomod recipe, with a tuned flat-six, lightweight components and modern manners.
21 movies to see in 2021: Our bumper guide to the year ahead January 8, 2021 If 2020 had been the plot of a movie, no-one would have believed it. As the pandemic spread its tendrils across the globe, Hollywood’s studios were forced to shut their doors and an entire year’s worth of blockbusters either moved to streaming or were pushed back to 2021. This year the only thing we can [...]
That’s it, folks, AI version 1’s a wrap June 23, 2020 Well, we’ve done it. Pop the corks, and let’s enjoy a socially distanced Zoom party to celebrate. The current generation of AI, and in particular machine learning, has ended its beta phase and is now officially done. We can look forward to incremental update releases over the coming decade, but it’s packaged, available, everywhere, reliable, [...]
Exclusive: ‘Allow yourself to f*** up once in a while’, says Speak2Impact founder and TED talk writer Susie Ashfield June 9, 2021 Susie Ashfield started out as the voice of middle-class products on day time television; everything from Channing Tatum’s latest blockbuster to Jersey Royal Potatoes. Alongside her voiceover work, she worked as an insurance broker in the City, managing a portfolio of high-net-worth individuals, including celebrities and business high flyers. Seeing a gap in the market [...]
We are blind to the soft-left bias across British institutions March 3, 2020 A few weeks ago, I went to an art exhibition at Somerset House called 24/7. Billed as “a wake-up call for our non-stop world”, it promised to explore the many ways in which technology is speeding up our lives. This was, admittedly, something of a busman’s holiday. Back in 2016, I wrote a book called [...]