Battersea Power Station deserves its glossy makeover – but I’ll miss its crumbling glamour
Battersea Power Station once generated nearly a fifth of London’s power. It must have hummed and clanked almost as much…
Nothing quite beats a British beach
‘May I take a picture of your snake?’ I asked the tattooed man with a python around his neck, regretting…
Forget open-plan kitchens – the traditional dining room is back
Dining rooms have been in the doldrums for decades. Even Mary Berry has given up on hers. ‘Most of us,…
Dinner at Modigliani’s
When you arrive for dinner and your host is massaging a purple cauliflower, you know you’re in for an interesting…
Decision breakers
‘The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision,’ said Maimonides. How right he was. Today,…
