The digital media innovators of tomorrow are taking disruption to the next level October 21, 2016 When Jill Lepore, critiquing Clayton Christensen's The Innovator’s Dilemma in the New Yorker, queried his theory of disruptive innovation ("disrupt, and you will be saved"), some commentators felt she had a point. But a theory of change proposed by Christensen back in 1997, the idea that companies will fail if they do not disrupt themselves, [...]
The best running tech and gadgets of 2017 review: From wearables to fitness trackers and sports earphones January 18, 2018 Are you marathon ready? How are your glutes? Firm and rippling? Should they be rippling? Oh my god somebody Google “rippling glutes” right now and tell me what it says. In the meantime, it’s time to peruse City AM’s exhaustive list of the absolute best running tech of 2017, from things that go around your [...]
Bonfire Night 2017 London: Where are the best fireworks displays? Which events still have tickets? November 3, 2017 This weekend, the skies of London will be lit up with countless colourful fireworks displays – so get ready to wrap up and eat as much street food as possible. But if haven’t remember remembered to book tickets in advance, are the displays you should still be able to get into. Alexandra Palace The organisers [...]
The Death of the Beard: Has the trend for facial hair finally reached its peak? May 2, 2018 The age of the neo-dandy has drawn to a close. Tweed is out. The moustache has twirled its last. The beard is dead, and we are but mourners at its wake. At least, that is what the streets of London would seem to suggest. So many naked chins thrust into the wind like the jutting [...]
Exploring the lost coastlines of Mozambique, one of Africa’s fastest growing tourist destinations July 14, 2017 The southern African nation of Mozambique boasts one of the continent’s longest coastlines. It stretches for two and a half thousand kilometres along the Indian Ocean and is dotted with some of the best beaches on the planet, like the spectacular manta ray meeting point of Tofo and the coral reef enclosed bay of Pemba. [...]
For the next generation of astronauts to shoot for the moon, a STEM education is vital | City A.M. August 29, 2017 The United Kingdom is a nation of explorers. Captain James Cook, David Livingstone and Captain Robert Scott sailed and trekked the world to discover new frontiers. These voyagers mapped the world for the explorers of the future. Fast forward to the twenty-first century, Tim Peake, became Britain’s first astronaut to blast-off into the stratosphere to [...]
I went up a mountain in Sri Lanka to meet a reclusive mystic and here is what I learned September 14, 2017 Somewhere high up in the hills surrounding the town of Kandy in Sri Lanka, there lives a man called Rahju. An artist, spiritualist and musician, Rahju practices meditation while riding along coastal roads on his motorcycle. His paintings are inspired by the writing of Buddhist philosophers and the intergalactic observations of the Hubble Space Telescope [...]
The early bird catches the worm (and a much bigger salary) June 9, 2016 Early birds catch the worm (and a much bigger salary), new research has found. A survey of more than 2,500 Brits has found that those who wake up before 7am earn an average £15,000 more a year than late risers. Read more: Short on your luck? Research finds tall people earn more at work The [...]
Six Senses Zil Pasyon: The Seychelles island resort that’s reintroducing native wildlife to the surrounding environment July 7, 2017 Two of Felicite island’s landscape gardeners wave as they scoot past me in their electric tractor, and I am caught, yet again, intently photographing giant boulders. I’m becoming obsessed. I’ve been on this Indian Ocean island hideaway a few days already, but still I’m captivated by its ancient rocks. They have the all the drama [...]
The Angry Birds Movie is a story for children about a collection of rare birds violently catapulted into shoddily built towers May 12, 2016 In a post-Battleship world, it seems no premise or product is too remote to base a film on. Step in Angry Birds, the mobile game that was the saviour of long commutes everywhere when it burst on to the scene in 2009. The spin-off movie was met with incredulity but hopes have quietly risen given [...]