The history of the power lunch, without men At the turn of the millennium, all over the media, women breaking through glass ceilings were eyeing just how the men were doing it and rising to the challenge. However, those days of the girl gangs who…

London’s BT tower turns hotel British architect Thomas Heatherwick is working on creating a luxury hotel for US-based MCR in the once vital 177-metre pointy structure originally known as the BT Post Office Tower. Full of microwave aerials, telecommunications equipment, the now obsolete tower once…

Swan Upping on the Thames A quirky leftover from medieval times, the five-day Royal Census of the swans still happens each year on a special part of the Thames River. Each July, a handsome flotilla of Thames rowing skiffs, carrying a number of colourfully dressed…