June 2015

THE upside to hosting an event is that you stay sober enough to remember what people said. It was always my achilles heel as a journalist that I’d pick up the best stories or gossip when attending a dinner or while out for a drink with business people and then not remember it the next […]

I THINK I may have found a new calling as a racing tipster. Our new events and travel business, COPA, held its first event yesterday, Ascot in the City, at The Foundry restaurant in Leeds. The premise was simple – bring the high quality horse racing, high fashions and fine food and wine of Royal

THEY used to say that you know you are getting older when policemen start looking younger. My measure of the ageing process was always slightly different. Going into business journalism in my late 20s, everyone I met and interviewed seemed much older than me. I don’t know whether that gave me too much of a

WHAT makes a city attractive? A vibrant economy, varied retailers, thriving arts scene, great public spaces. We all have our favourites cities around the world and we have our individual reasons for choosing them. But in the majority of cases it is because those cities combine the attractions above – along with lots more –