Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
‘Une invitation au voyage’ Last Monday I took the TGV from Paris to Cannes to attend the annual MIPIM property conference. This grand and familiar train journey was preceded by a café gourmand in Le Train Bleu, one of the city’s grandest venues. The brasserie above the Gare de Lyon is a mythical...
The push to decarbonise and achieve energy efficiency from real estate is having an ever-increasing impact on all parts of the property sector. Whilst it is accepted that the...
Content warning: this article discusses mental health, addiction and eating disorders. Back to Black is a new biopic about the life of musician Amy Winehouse. It covers the time...
If a person lives in a democracy, which thus far we do, you soon learn that politics is not an orderly business like cosmetic dentistry or carpentry, it is more like pond hockey...
My name is Nick French and I am a collector. And, yes, it can become an addiction. I used to shop because I enjoyed shopping and often the pleasure came not from the item bought...
When Design Engine Architects redeveloped the new urban campus for Oxford Brookes University, the hoardings screening the construction site were cleverly branded by the marketing...
It’s official, the proprietor’s palate has become jaded and faded. I have succeeded where countless glasses from the Stowells of Chelsea wine-box have failed. How so? Well,...
Joe Biden came to Manhattan for a couple fundraisers last week, which gave the NYPD a fine excuse to close off as many streets as humanly possible, which is why some people go...
Spitting Image, first broadcast in February 1984, is famed as an iconoclastic satire of 1980s political and popular culture. Its grotesque puppet caricatures became so...
You only live once and once is enough if you do it right. I told myself this the other morning as I decided to have a piece of toast with orange marmalade because when I warmed...