The snakes and ladders of society.
A chronicle of drama, scandal and success in London, Paris, New York and elsewhere
Correspondence that most certainly does deserve a wider audience
Lettersofnote.com was established in 2009 and gets more than 1.5 million visits per week. The website includes letters from individuals as diverse as the Queen, Mick Jagger, Ernest Hemingway and a little boy named Jim Berger who wrote to Frank Lloyd Wright to ask him to design a house for his dog. (more…)
Byron Bradshaw examines the do’s and don’ts first date attire
Recently, I received a frantic text message from a friend who was getting dressed for a first date with a woman he met online. “What do I wear?” he lamented. (more…)
20 questions with goldsmith, designer and sculptress Sabine Röemer
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
“Follow your heart. It is always right”.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
Life is about the people you meet and the things you create with them.
A self-publicist we’d rather not have heard about
Our dislike for Speaker John Bercow is well known but equally ridiculous is a report in today’s Evening Standard about an incident between him and a Range Rover Sport driver named Nathalie Pulford in Ixworth Place, Chelsea. (more…)
20 questions with New York based fashion entrepreneur Byron Bradshaw
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
I’d rather be dead than boring.
20 questions with car dealer and Rolls-Royce specialist Richard Biddulph
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
Service, service, service and more service.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
“Life is not a dress rehearsal” is one choice and my second is: “You never heard a man on his deathbed saying: ‘Gee, I wish I had spent more time at the office’”.
WPP backed CHI&Partners acquires stake in Halpern
The world of public relations can be fickle and few who work in it command the level of respect that Jenny Halpern Prince has built up since she founded Halpern on her kitchen table in 1992. Today, in an email newsletter, it was announced that a stake in her agency had been acquired by CHI&Partners, a company backed by Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP. (more…)
The characters of social networking
In the first of a series, we take a look at the character types who use Facebook. (more…)
Party loving David Pun appears in ‘Meet The Russians’
We didn’t expect the first episode of Meet The Russians would offer anything other than clichéd claptrap, but there was actually at least one scene of note. (more…)
20 questions with Hank Butitta of ‘Hank Bought a Bus’ fame
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
The will to create. My family and friends are my unconditional support, but design is my passion.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
“It’ll be fine”: Although it’s more of an anxious reminder than a motto.