The sense of desperation and decay hits you in the most unlikely places, especially on the Champs-Élysées itself – the famed thoroughfare acknowledged as the most beautiful in the world. But today there are piles of rubbish, vagrants with nobody to beg from, and lines of high-end shops, cafés and restaurants with security grills permanently … Read more
The sense of desperation and decay hits you in the most unlikely places, especially on the Champs-Élysées itself – the famed thoroughfare acknowledged as the most beautiful in the world. But today there are piles of rubbish, vagrants with nobody to beg from, and lines of high-end shops, cafés and restaurants with security grills permanently … Read more
November 1917, and the day dawned dank and foggy over the water-logged trenches near Cambrai in eastern France. Not surprisingly, Gefreiter (Lance-Corporal) Wilhelm Bar of Germany‘s 27th Reserve Infantry Regiment was feeling more demoralised than usual. Then suddenly, out of the mist, burst a hurricane of shellfire, swiftly followed by the grinding sound of hundreds … Read more
Sharon White is having a baptism of fire at John Lewis. As a partnership organisation, it is held to higher standards of governance than other retailers. One can only imagine the pain involved in shutting eight stores and placing 1,300 jobs in jeopardy. This on the same day as another High Street stalwart, Boots, revealed … Read more