Done the Blue Lagoon in Iceland? Upgrade your next trip by visiting the Retreat Spa September 18, 2023 You’ve done the Blue Lagoon, now enhance your Iceland trip with a visit to the more exclusive part, The Retreat, says Daniel Edward Winter may be coming, but the water’s always warm in Iceland. If you know where to look, Iceland is one of the hottest countries on Earth. The roughly decennial volcanic eruptions remind [...]
Bitcoin moving back into the green with 5% weekly uptick towards $27,000 September 18, 2023 Bitcoin continues to inch upwards towards $27k, starting the week at $26,900, while Ethereum is trading for around $1.6k.
City Pages: 5 books on the changing world of work September 18, 2023 We review five new-in titles that re-examine our relationship to our jobs in the brave new post-pandemic world of work.
The 5 best independent book shops in London September 18, 2023 Morning Wire took to the streets for a book crawl to pinpoint the five best book shops in London – judging on vibes, atmosphere, curation and bonus extras.
House prices: Third of asking prices knocked down by £20,000 September 18, 2023 House prices are still being battered by high mortgage rates, with a third of properties knocked down in price by an average of £22,000
Business rates ‘aren’t fit for purpose’ and are stifling small businesses, says FSB September 18, 2023 The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is calling upon extensions and changes to existing rate relief bills for small businesses.
The Notebook: Kokou Agbo-Bloua on humanity’s obsession with fire, the moral dilemmas raised by AI and why China’s outlook is a case of ‘heavy cloud, no rain’ September 18, 2023 Today, it’s Societe Generale’s global head of economics,cross-asset and quant research Kokou Agbo-Bloua with the Notebook pen The Red Flower and future energy We all remember the enchanting lyrics of the Monkey Song, ‘I wanna be like you’, from Walt Disney’s 1967 film The Jungle Book. In the movie, Mowgli is captured by a troop [...]
Independent bookshops are thriving – as long as they offer more than just books September 18, 2023 Morocco Bound is a lesson in adaptability. Even its owner “[doesn’t] know what to call it these days”. Music venue, community space, workshop facility hosting poetry slams, comedy nights, life drawing sessions and more, it was – originally – a book shop. “I’m an architect,” Jonathan Dransfield, the owner, tells me. An architect who wrote [...]
Basic competence a first step – then Tories can afford ideology September 18, 2023 Liz Truss has been accused of many things over the past year, but nobody could level any accusations about her willingness to front up. Many politicians would have retired, tail very much between legs, to the outer reaches of our public life and sought the quiet life. Not Truss, who today will reassert her position [...]
Proton boss: UK banks won’t function if encryption disappears September 17, 2023 The issue of encryption has become a pressing conundrum for both tech companies and lawmakers involved in the UK’s Online Safety Bill in recent months. Now at least they agree that there is currently no viable technology to access messages without compromising user privacy. Encryption is a crucial way of turning messages into an unreadable [...]