Cape Town Has Become Africa’s Conference Capital. The Event Agencies Behind It Are Raising the Bar.
There is a moment, roughly forty-five minutes into a well-run corporate conference, when the room shifts. The delegates stop checking their phones. The speaker finds a rhythm. The lighting, the acoustics, the pace of the programme — everything aligns, and…
Writers Used to Fear AI. Now the Smart Ones Are Learning to Talk to It.
The anxiety arrived right on schedule. When ChatGPT burst into public consciousness, the literary world responded with the same instinctive dread that greets every new technology capable of producing sentences: this is the end of writing as we know it….
Singapore’s East Coast Is Getting Its First Major Private Launch in Two Decades. Buyers Are Paying Attention.
For as long as anyone in Singapore's property market can remember, the East Coast has been the side of the island that people talk about with a particular kind of affection. The laksa. The satay by the sea. The cycling…
The Quiet Boom in Britain’s Online Garden Sheds
There was a time when restocking your gardening supplies meant a trip to the local garden centre, a wander past the ornamental pots and water features, and a slightly guilty detour through the café for a scone before you got…
She Left London Film Sets Behind. Now She Shoots Weddings on Maui.
The photograph that stays with you is never the one where everyone is looking at the camera. It is the father wiping his eyes during the first dance when he thinks nobody is watching. It is the bride's best friend…
The Unpredictable Tides of Internet Gaming Culture
I have spent an inordinate amount of time recently just watching how things spread online. It is fascinating, actually, but also deeply chaotic. You can never really predict what will capture the collective attention of the internet on any given…
On a South Carolina Farm, a Family Business Turns Names Into Heirlooms
The sign above a nursery doorway is a small thing. A few letters, cut from birch, sanded smooth and finished by hand. It weighs almost nothing. It costs less than the crib beneath it. And yet, for the parents who…
The Tender That Got Away: Why More UK Businesses Are Outsourcing Their Bid Writing
Somewhere in Britain right now, a business owner is staring at a 47-page Invitation to Tender and wondering whether it is worth the effort. The contract is worth six figures. The deadline is in ten days. And the last three…
A Family-Run Fragrance Shop Bets That Gothenburg Is Ready for Affordable Luxury
When shoppers step inside the Femman precinct at Nordstan — Sweden's highest-grossing shopping centre, drawing nearly twelve million visitors a year through central Gothenburg — they expect to find fashion, food and the familiar pull of established retail names. What…
The Silent Sentinels: Navigating the Murky Waters of Digital Supervision
It is hard, perhaps almost impossible, I think, to truly know what happens on the screens of the people we care about. We hand these glowing rectangles to teenagers, to employees, and we just sort of… hope for the best….