Holly Willoughby recently posted a makeup free photo of herself on Twitter. She joins the growing brigade of female celebrities publicly baring their natural faces to prove that it's not always necessary to pile on the slap as soon as the first ray of sunlight penetrates their retinas in the morning. Continue reading...
I 100% believe that UFO and extraterrestrials are with us constantly, and it is only a matter of time until it is fact. Continue reading...
I could wax lyrical about the inner book and all that but hardly a day goes by when someone tells me how much they would like to write a book. Well, in many respects, it's never been easier to publish your own. Continue reading...
At a time when an entire generation faces higher tuition fees coupled with lower job prospects and top universities are admitting fewer state school students, education already has a price. Add private tuition into the equation and we have a system that further enables wealthier people to punch above their weight. Continue reading...
Newspapers and broadcasters are preparing obituaries for RIM. The Blackberry apocalypse is nigh. Continue reading...
Gay Pride is a day when people with peroxide blonde hair wear speedos whist blowing a whistle down Baker Street, an allocated day in the calendar you're allowed to be LGBT on the streets of London. But it was once much more than a celebration of rainbow flags made in China: it used to be political. Continue reading...
It might have been one of Hollywood's least convincing marriages, but the freshly torn asunder union of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes is shaping up to be a VERY convincing divorce. Trust me, guys, if you've only got time to be a bit obsessed with ONE showbiz divorce this summer, make it this one. Continue reading...
What those who are trying to regulate banking don't fully grasp, is the kind of person who tends to reach the top of finance, often has a particular attitude to money, liable to land it in trouble. Continue reading...
It will only be once the eurozone is stabilised and working reasonably effectively, that it will it be possible for people to give time to working out the shape of a new European Union. Continue reading...
Kate Spade New York does playful uptown girl sophistication like no other. For Autumn though, the all American girl seems to be drawing on her European gap year as ladylike chic, so on trend for Winter, gets a French twist. Continue reading...
Can you imagine what it would be like to wake up one morning to discover that it was suddenly illegal for you to be you? That the law said because you had blue eyes, or were short or because you wrote with your left hand you could go to jail. The character I'm best known for - Captain Jack in Torchwood - spends his life fighting every kind of threat to humanity you could think of. That's all fantasy, of course, but this is real. People are being killed and many, many more live in daily fear for their lives. And the threat comes from something that is much harder to fight than fictional aliens - homophobia based on prejudice, hatred and ignorance. Continue reading...
Thirty years ago today, a young man died in a hospital room in London with a mysterious new virus that nobody understood. Today and every day this year, 20 other people will contract that same virus in the UK, despite the fact that we now know how to prevent it and how to treat it. Why? Continue reading...
Last week my co-director Juliette Tarrant and I met with members of London's finance community in preparation for the market launch of our social housing REIT. Continue reading...
If concerns about Europe and exposure to the amount of bad debt on European banks balance sheets weren't enough for the banking sector to think about, the current furore surrounding the Libor fixing scandal isn't likely to change public perception of mistrust with respect to the problems facing a sector... Continue reading...
Way ahead in the future, if someone were to write a history book about today, then the recent years starting from the global financial crisis, covering the commencement of US troop pull-out from Iraq and the power of the people in the Middle-East ideally termed as 'Arab Spring', then the time period from 2009 to 2012 could potentially lead to many fat chapters. Continue reading...
You do not hear much about the people in advertising; the ad agencies? Yes, maybe - but hardly anything about the people. Continue reading...
Recently I've had the honour of recognising the achievements of a group of young people who are tipped to be the next big thing in their field. Continue reading...
Break the banks up and they won't be too big to fail; they will - finally - be small enough for success. Continue reading...
For now the spotlight is focused on this issue, but before it moves on we mustn't miss the opportunity to transform our wider support for children and young people in care, ensuring that we protect all vulnerable children. Continue reading...
With the arrival of new businesses that can do it better, faster or smarter, the incumbents need to watch out - the 'creative destruction' of the banks could be sooner than they think. Continue reading...
When Barclays board tried to force through a massive pay deal for Bob Diamond, they looked weak. Now that he's been forced to step down, they look weak and stupid. The reason that the argument over Bob Diamond's pay mattered was that it put the relationship between CEO and board under a spotlight - and made them both look ugly. Continue reading...
