Start your weekend with a bang this Thursday evening at 6pm June 17, 2012 How do you celebrate something as multifaceted as Canada? It is a place of contradictions: both a glass-fronted metropolis and a cluster of stone relics, stubborn and robust. It throngs with people of all nationalities and hums with activity that is at once local and global. Crammed into a single square mile [...]
Four days of open doors and hidden treasures June 17, 2012 WALKING around at street level, you only glimpse a fraction of the City. For the most part, it operates and exists behind closed doors and, at close to 2,000 years old, it has its fair share of stories and secrets tucked away. “There is an enormous amount going on under the radar in the City [...]
Champagne sunset Friday night at Tower Bridge June 17, 2012 THE CITY is magical at night,” says Stella Ioannou, Project Director of Celebrate the City. She’s right, of course. The London skyline is among the most recognisable anywhere in the world and its finest rooftops and spires – from the dome of St Paul’s to the tip of the Gherkin – are clustered in and [...]
Bring the family to the Cheapside Fayre on Saturday June 17, 2012 WHEN people talk of cities as playgrounds, they tend not to be thinking about swings and roundabouts, but bars, restaurants and the like. It’s not exactly child-friendly. However, families are at the heart of Celebrate the City and a significant proportion of the festival programme has been built with them in mind. “When it comes [...]
Recipe for success is a special blend June 17, 2012 Q Three years in the City – how has it been? A Considering we opened High Timber just as the recession kicked in, overall it has been fabulous. There are so many big characters in the City; the restaurant always seems to have a buzzing and fun atmosphere. Q What’s been great and what’s been [...]
Shopping in style at the City’s 10 best June 17, 2012 Paul A Young, Bank 1 London’s most delectable chocolatier has shops in Islington and Soho, but our favourite is the outpost on Threadneedle Street. Just a stone’s throw from Bank, the store is a beacon of temptation, with its opulent display window and signature purple exterior. Paul, who has flame-red hair, oversees an operation in [...]
Five of the City’s cultural treasures June 17, 2012 London Metropolitan Archive, Northampton Road, Clerkenwell This is a true treasure trove – archive heaven for anyone interested in the City’s fascinating history. It’s got an extraordinary range of collections and records about the capital, and also runs a wide selection of talks, guided tours, film screenings and exhibitions. The archive is one of the [...]
Government’s plan to subsidise credit could easily backfire June 15, 2012 USUALLY, formal dinners at Mansion House in the City are highly enjoyable but somewhat predictable affairs. This one was unusually exciting. For the first time I can remember, the speeches from George Osborne and Sir Mervyn King included major news bombshells. The Bank is launching an £80bn “funding for lending” plan to cut the cost [...]
London Time – The world on your wrist June 13, 2012 In our latest watch feature we look at the appeal of watches with a global outlook, pay tribute to a modern classic, find Cameron Diaz bringing some glitz to TAG Heuer and join Formula 1 ace Stefan Johansson at the track to discover why he’s now producing watches himself. Click on the images below to [...]
It’s time governments stopped bailing out bankrupt banks June 11, 2012 IF you are tempted to celebrate Spain’s bailout, or if you agree with its football-mad PM that it was a “triumph”, a great European “victory”, I would urge you to reconsider. Sure, chucking at least €100bn at insolvent, incompetently managed second-tier Spanish banks will pour oil on stormy Eurozone waters. It will reduce the immediate [...]