How did you start your career of presenting? Since I was 7 I have always wanted to perform. I did musical theatre, dance, drama and athletics. But it wasn’t until I was 15 and had the opportunity to host a show at my school for black history month that I knew I wanted to be…
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Rethinking Thinking with Elon Musk, There’s A Great Need For Rethinking Old Assumptions, By Martin Cohen
GIVEN the tricky environment faced by businesses now: according to philosopher Martin Cohen in his new book (Rethinking Thinking: Problem-Solving from Sun Tzu to Google) published this week, there’s a great need for rethinking old assumptions. Take Twitter, for example. If you should pop over to Twitter today, you will soon realise that opinion is…
Read More”Conservatism”, An Excerpt From ”A San Francisco Conservative”, By David Parker
“The conservative temperament is an acknowledged feature of human society everywhere,” wrote the British philosopher Sir Roger Scruton (1944-2020) in his influential 2014 book, “How to be a Conservative.” Everywhere and throughout history, classical liberalism, conservatism, reason: Apollo. Romantic liberalism, progressivism, emotion: Dionysus. Scruton – a noted author on the subject of conservative politics, and…
Read MoreThe Islands Bringing Blockchain and FINTECH to The Commonwealth, By Lord Marland
”The Commonwealth of Nations, simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is a political association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire. The chief institutions of the organisation are the Commonwealth Secretariat, which focuses on intergovernmental aspects, and the Commonwealth Foundation, which focuses on non-governmental relations amongst member states”. The Commonwealth is run by the…
Read MoreMarta Lamvosek’s, I Am A Woman, Sovereign By Nature at ME London’s Marconi Lounge For International Women’s Day on the 8th of March Until 17th April
ME London and ME by Melia are delighted to present visual artist and photographer Marta Lamovsek and her extraordinary collection: ‘I am a Woman: Sovereign by Nature’. Marta invites guests to her universe of vibrant photographic portraits of women during a monthly residency at ME London’s Marconi Lounge between 8th March and 17th April, celebrating…
Read MoreEfiɛ Gallery Presents Shard Song – A Major Solo Exhibition By El Anatsui To Launch Its New Permanent Space In The Creative District of Al Quoz, Dubai
Efiɛ Gallery presents Shard Song – A major solo exhibition by El Anatsui to launch its new permanent space in the Creative District of Al Quoz, Dubai Efiɛ Gallery will launch their new permanent Dubai gallery space in the Al Quoz Creative Zone on Tuesday 8th March 2022, with a major solo exhibition, titled Shard…
Read MoreI-MAGAZINE Interviews Scottish Ardross Distillery’s Barth Brosseau
What attracted you to the whisky industry, and how did the Ardross dream come to be realised? Frankly, I am not too sure! I would like to say it was a purely analytic, rational process that brought us there but explanations after the fact too often give an illusion of linearity in decision-making. The reality…
Read MoreInterview With Harry Hadden-Paton (The 7th Marquess Of Hexham In Downton Abbey) About His Broadway Play, Flying Over Sunset
Why did you want to get into acting? Because I loved it and I loved the other people doing it. I had a strong sense that life was too short to spend it doing something you didn’t love so I feel very fortunate – in this tricky profession where you’re reliant on others to employ…
Read MoreIn The Heart Of Leicester Square – London’s Most Exciting New Hotel, The Londoner, By Edwardian Hotels London
The hottest hotel launch in London this year is confirmed to open its doors to guests in September 2021. The much-anticipated debut of The Londoner marks the beginning of a rebirth for Leicester Square and the introduction of the world’s first super boutique hotel. From one of the UK’s largest family-owned hotel group Edwardian Hotels…
Read MoreNeurotechnology – The Advance In Science and Technology, By Lord Soley
Science and technology advances at an ever-increasing rate and that requires us to adjust to its advantages and dangers. We are all adjusting to changes brought about by the use of AI but an even bigger change is upon us. It is the extraordinary developments of neurotechnology. With neurotechnology we can expect major advances in…
Read MoreI-MAGAZINE Interviews Elliot Grove, Founder of The Raindance Film Festival
Few people know more filmmakers and screenwriters than Elliot Grove. Elliot is the founder of Raindance Film Festival (1993), the British Independent Film Awards (1998), and Raindance London Film School (2007). He has produced over 700 short films and five feature films: the multi-award-winning The Living and the Dead (2006), Deadly Virtues (2013), Amber (2017),…
Read MoreSouth Korean Contemporary Mixed Media Artist, Ilhwa Kim, Interviewed By Tiffany Haughton, HOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art)
What is this exhibition/collection about? I have been putting more focus on the sculptural nature of my works in previous shows. In my upcoming show “Open your Seed”, I explore more of the narrative aspect, the potential stories my seeds have been telling, which I did not listen to enough for the past years. I…
Read MoreI-MAGAZINE Spends An Evening With Orlando Rock, Chairman, Christie’s Auction House
How did you first become involved in the auction industry? My introduction to the art world was by involuntary osmosis. My father had developed an almost obsessive interest in country house sales and antique shops – with some of my earliest memories being squashed between bubble-wrap and blankets in the back of a Volvo estate…
Read MoreBecoming Director & CEO of The Essex Peabody Museum in a Time of Upheaval and Change, By Lynda Roscoe Hartigan
Today, I stand at the helm of the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) as its first woman Executive Director and CEO in a time of considerable social upheaval and change. The COVID-19 pandemic has given us all a new lens through which to view our past, our present state, and our future. It has altered our…
Read MoreI-MAGAZINE Interviews Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi of JGM Gallery on Collecting Contemporary Art
Australian-born Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi is the founder of JGM Gallery, the London-based leading specialist in contemporary British & Australian Aboriginal art. JGM Gallery offers a rolling calendar of exhibitions throughout the year. The gallery is in Battersea, next to the Royal College of Art. Jennifer’s art career started in her hometown of Melbourne, where she…
Read MoreFortnum & Mason Hosts Museum-Worthy Exhibition, Mined from Frank Cohen’s Collection Until October
For the first time in over three centuries of trading, London store Fortnum & Mason is hosting a museum-worthy exhibition, a showcase of modern and contemporary British art, mined from the collection of ebullient collector Frank Cohen. Sometimes dubbed the ‘Saatchi of the north’ or the ‘Manchester Medici’, Cohen’s colourful press cuttings have sometimes obscured the fact that…
Read MoreRoyal Piano Restorer And Conservator David Winston to Sell Private Collection of Rare Pianos, September 23rd 2021 via Auction House Dreweatts
Dreweatts auctioneers is to thrilled to offer the private collection of David Winston, Restorer and Conservator of Pianos to HM the Queen. The collection includes 26 exceptionally rare and important pianos dating from the 18th century to present day. This landmark sale will take place on Thursday, September 23rd, 2021. Amongst those expected to achieve…
Read MoreBaroness Pauline Perry of Southwark, Creativity, Containment, Chaos and Community. How Will We Review The Pandemic?
So – we are promised a full ‘review’ of the pandemic and ‘lessons to be learned’ some time in 2022. Dominic Cummings has even offered his extraordinary version already. No promises of what will be reviewed, or who will conduct the review have yet been offered but we can guess that it will be more…
Read MoreThe Human Condition, The Greatest Change in History, By Jamie Cawley
In 1870, more than four thousand years after it was built, the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt was still the world’s tallest man-made structure. By 2010, only 140 years later, there were more than 10,000 buildings taller than the Great Pyramid. Something fundamental changed between 1750 and 1800 and it changed in Britain. Since…
Read MoreRisking It All – Why Women Need Freedom, Not Feminism, By Author Ella Whelan
The idea of women as weak has always bemused me. Perhaps it’s because I grew up a head taller than most boys at school, perhaps it was because I was reared on stories of women who never let a little muscle get in their way. I was often told about my mother’s political heroine (and…
Read MoreHRH Prince Philip – The Epitome Of Public Service, by Lord Popat
The nation was gripped with sadness following the passing of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh – Britain’s longest serving consort of a British monarch. Prince Philip was indeed an extraordinary man who lived an extraordinary life. He was the epitome of public service who devoted his entire life to Crown and…
Read MoreInterview With Sir Kenneth Olisa, Chairman, Restoration Partners and HM’s Lord Lieutenant for Greater London
One of your biggest achievements was floating your company on the stock exchange. How did you go about that or get to that point? It was the crazy time when the dot.com boom was nearing its zenith and we were approached by a public company shell with cash and no technology knowledge. On first view,…
Read MoreBorn Digital, A Distracted Generation, By Former Merrill Lynch Chairman EMEA, Robert Wigley
Big tech companies’ apps and devices consume the world’s collective attention in pursuit of their profits, with insufficient attention to the harms they cause users and the good of society. I believe we can say that Society’s attention is neurologically hijacked by a tsunami of devices, ‘weapons of mass distraction’, that lock it in what…
Read MoreInterview With Fernando Sulichin, Argentine Filmmaker and Philanthropist
How has your upbringing in Buenos Aires influenced your approach to filmmaking? Yes, it had a lot of influence because Buenos Aires is very far away. There was no internet, no communications so whatever you got was nothing to do with what could be the truth or the facts. There was misinformation. But the movies…
Read MoreThe War of the Generations, by Baroness Perry of Southwark
‘Old Age is honourable’ – so says the old proverb. Do we still believe this today? Of the many sad outcomes of this year’s battle with the Coronavirus, perhaps one which bodes most ill for the future is the divide which has opened up between the old and young in our society. The numbers are…
Read MoreThe Women of Westminster, by Rachel Reeves MP
In the one hundred years that women have taken seats as MPs in the House of Commons, vast progress has been made for women’s rights both within and outside of Parliament. At the beginning of 1919, no women MPs sat in the Commons, despite legislation being passed in the previous year enabling women to serve…
Read MoreStrong Leadership Vital In The Fight Against COVID-19, Gain Competitive Advantage
As the world begins to come out of lockdown businesses from across the globe are beginning to reopen, readjusting to the new normal we all now face. Strong leadership has never been more important as companies look for that competitive edge that will help them navigate through all the uncertainty. Alex Ellinis, founder and director…
Read MoreIncredible Africa, ‘Africa Focused Business’, By Will Adoasi, Founder, Vitae London
Africa has always had a place in my heart, especially my motherland Ghana. There have been countless charities set up to help and develop the continent in so many different ways. From education to clean water, to fair trade and live aid. Although these charities have had an incredible impact on different parts of Africa,…
Read More‘Our Mission’, by General Director of Scottish Opera, Alex Reedijk
I was appointed General Director of Scottish Opera, Scotland’s national opera company and largest performing arts organisation, in 2006. The Company was founded in 1962 by Sir Alexander Gibson, who wanted ‘to lay the treasures of opera at the feet of the people of Scotland’, and inaugurated with a production of Madama Butterfly at the…
Read MoreI-MAGAZINE Interviews The Wiener Holocaust Library’s New Director Dr Toby Simpson
The Wiener Holocaust Library has existed for over 80 years. How much has it changed since its beginnings? Alfred Wiener set up the Library in 1933 living in exile in the Netherlands. Facing the growing Nazi menace, Wiener ultimately chose to ship the organisation and its collections to London, just before the war. Once there,…
Read MorePaul Feeney – Quilter CEO Writes on Mental Health In The Workplace.
I believe mental health is the last great taboo in business and breaking it is central to creating a more prosperous and resilient society. If we fail then people will continue to suffer in silence. They will continue to fall back on the ever present self-destructive ‘coping devices’ of alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling and eating…
Read MoreSeven Dials, Covent Garden, London’s Most Original Shopping / Lifestyle Destination
‘The dial monument at the center of ‘Seven Dials’, Covent Garden is the main focal point of the area, each street leading off the round about hosts a different personality with a fantastic variety of brands on offer. Packed with independent boutiques, international fashion labels, heritage brands, beauty salons, men’s grooming specialists, traditional pubs, cool…
Read MoreInterview With Justice of The Supreme Court, and Author, Lord Jonathan Sumption OBE,
Justice of the Supreme Court, Jonathan Sumption talks to I-MAGAZINE’s Henry Hopwood-Phillips about language, history, politics and the fourth volume of his history on the Hundred Years’ War. Any hard won lessons in life? No it’s been terribly cushy. OK—any moderately difficult hurdles sur- mounted? I suppose I was in academia for long enough before…
Read MoreI-MAGAZINE speaks to Emma Moir, Director at Box Galleries, Kings Road, Chelsea
Can you tell us about your artistic background prior to opening Box Galleries? I started Box Galleries in 2012, having worked in a large commercial gallery and being given enough autonomy to have the belief I could do it myself! Although I studied Law I always had a creative side and, at one point, was…
Read MoreMarking the Bicentenary of The Entrance of Marie-Louise, Duchess of Parma Into Her Duchies in 1816
“I love man as my fellow; but his sceptre, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.” Mary Wollstonecraft, A vindication of the Rights of Woman, written in the year of Marie-Louise’s birth Today, we…
Read MoreInterview With Adventurer Henry Cookson, Founder, Cookson Adventures
Hello Henry, you have achieved some remarkable feats. Have you always had an adventurous streak? My parents run a small travel business, so that inquisitive nature was with me from an early age, but it really all began after I left school and travelled to Kenya to work as a guide on a riding safari.…
Read MoreThe Importance of Hospitality, by BBC Home Editor, Mark Easton
The phrases ‘corporate hospitality’ and ‘hospitality industry’ make me uncomfortable. They seem to come from the dictionary of double-speak, loaded with contradiction that threatens to pervert our civil society. Hospitality must never be commercial or industrial – quite the reverse. It is generous and intimate: present in the sincerity of a smile, the twinkle of…
Read MoreInterview With Emma Winchurch-Beale, President, World Media Group & International Sales Director at The Washington Post
Why are the WMAs important? The World Media Awards are hosted by the World Media Group, a strategic alliance of the world’s leading international media brands, and together we represent a strong quality environment for advertising going forward. Our role is to be the champion of high quality and trusted journalism. With the back drop…
Read MoreMichael Bloomberg & Carl Pope – Climate of Hope, ‘Can We Heal The Environment’.
What happens if we do bust the 1,000-gigaton carbon budget? We can still bring concentrations of those gases back down to a level that sustains a stable climate. We won’t get back quite the climate of the last 500 years, but we can shoot for one that future generations can adjust to. We have some…
Read MorePeaches Golding OBE, ‘The Importance of Diversity in Executive Recruitment’.
I entered the world of executive recruitment with the perspective I gained over twenty years in the boardroom. My journey along the corridors of corporate power demonstrates how tough it has been for the boardroom to reflect the ethnic and gender diversity visible in today’s society. I do not believe this is a deliberate strategy…
Read MoreAn Evening With Rabbi Marc Schneier, ‘Strengthening The Relationship Between Israel and the Gulf’
How did you get involved with the Gulf? When the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, the custodian of the two great Mosques, launched his interfaith initiative in 2008, the then Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir, reached out to invite me to the first interfaith gathering convened by King Abdullah and the…
Read MoreChristopher Hill – The Future of British Foreign Policy, Where are we Going?
The endless arm wrestling over Brexit has meant that Britain has been eyes down since June 2016, preoccupied with the backstop, the deal or no deal, and the internal agonies of the Conservative Party. The opportunity costs in terms of pressing domestic issues neglected are obvious. Much less discussed has been the long term future…
Read MoreEmily Young – Sculptor
What initially led you to become a Sculptor? When did you know it was the medium for you? My grandmother was a successful sculptor, so there were no huge taboos to break, the family home was full of her work, though she died years before I was born. For a while, till my early thirties,…
Read MoreRichard Ovenden – Curator, Bodleian Library in Oxford
The position of Bodley’s Librarian is one of the top librarian jobs in the world. Richard Ovenden took the job in 2014, becoming the twenty-fifth curator of the legendary Bodleian Library in Oxford. As such, he is responsible for the largest university library in the UK and one of the major research libraries in the…
Read MoreRobert Lacey – Model Woman
Between 1947 and 2007 Eileen Ford created the largest and longest lasting model agency the world has ever seen, famed for its blonde and slinky beauties whose thighs would stretch for miles. If you booked a Ford model, you got Ferrari and Porsche glamour—with Rolls-Royce prestige and prices: Jerry Hall, Lauren Hutton, Christie Brinkley, Christie…
Read MoreThe Importance of Anniversaries, By Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston
Anniversaries are helpful to put things into context. Give or take a year or two it’s 100 years since world war one started, 50 years since Winston Churchill died, 40 years since the UK joined the then Common Market and its been just over 25 years since the Berlin Wall fell. After that the Soviet…
Read MoreInterview With The President of The USA, Donald J. Trump
As Chairman and President of the enormously successful Trump Organization, how do you see the business evolving over the next ten years or so? For example will you be branching out into other industries to seek growth or stick to your current mainstays? That’s hard to determine. I’m always open to possibilities, and we have…
Read MoreLord Soley – The Story of a Statue
A little over a year ago Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chair of the Arts Council, made an important plea for fair funding of diversity in the arts. I believe he is right and my experience as Chair of the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal tends to confirm it. Until we unveiled the statue of Mary Seacole…
Read MoreBaroness Ariane de Rothschild
She is Switzerland’s most powerful lady banker, Baroness Arriane De Rothschild occupies the second highest position in the Edmond De Rothschild group. I-MAGAZINE decided to get to know her better.
Read MoreThe Ramifications of Churchill, by Lord Watson of Richmond
The Ramifications of Churchill – I have written a number of books over the years but never has one excited me as much as the one I have recently completed.
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