Lauren Goldie

Muse Gallery – FUTURESCAPE – Lauren Goldie until 17 November 2024269 Portobello Road London W11 1LR http://www.themuse@269.comhttp://www.laurengoldie.com Check for opening times before setting off. Nearest tube is Ladbroke Grove.Lauren is a graduate of the annual Muse Residency programme. She is also a PHD Researcher at Central St Martins and is continuing her interest in speculative technologies and potential environmental consequences of asteroid mining.Lauren employs artistic practices to represent distant space entities and excavation processes. Futurescape is directly representative of a NASA sample retrieval mission to the asteroid Bennu and the MISSE – Materials International Space Station Experiment. The presentation of … Continue reading Lauren Goldie

Trump triumphs after spectacular fall

Republican Donald Trump elected US President to return to pinnacle of global power with is America First agenda, after defeating Democrat  Kamala Harris in historic comeback. Trump takes key swing states in decisive win and his Republican Party gains control of the Senate as millions of Americans voted to give him a second chance. Trump secured 279  (71, 315, 400 votes) to Kamala Harris 223 (66,231, 247 votes). Four years after leaving White House, Donald Trump is set to move back in, The election campaign which saw him survive two assassination attempts and his original opponent President Joe Biden dropped … Continue reading Trump triumphs after spectacular fall

Capture the elusive by consistent action

The real, lasting keys to motivation is how to get yourself to do things you don’t feel like doing. Capturing the elusive, awesome force of momentum, to make you unstoppable. This is the acceleration secrets of super achievers. If you’re serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of The Compound Effect to create the success you want. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Darren Hardy’s The Compound Effect, based on the principle that little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default No gimmicks. Hardy’s insightful detailed … Continue reading Capture the elusive by consistent action

Thriller

Spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of West’s spy war with the Soviets Strewn across Europe, he has eyes on a more peaceful life. With his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumour in Whitehall – unconfirmed and a little scandalous – that George Smiley might almost be happy, with some quality time with is wandering wife Anne. But when Hungarian assassin, sent to London to dispatch Laszlo Banati an émigré Magyar agent, has a sudden change of heart and switches sides, Simley is back called back to investigate to find … Continue reading Thriller

Shifting tides of society

A novella composed as a triptych, about two sisters and a night that changes everything, from the master chronicler of our heart’s hidden desires. Evelyn had the surprising thought that bodies were sometimes wiser than people inside them. She’d have like to impress somebody with this idea, but couldn’t explain it. On a Winter Saturday night in post-war Bristol, bringing to life with its docks, bombed out streets and crumbling grand houses, with ever moving sea and endless rain act as brooding backdrops and metaphors for the characters’ emotional turbulence. Sisters Moira and Evelyn, newly middle class,  their mother a … Continue reading Shifting tides of society

Rags to Riches

Rags to riches story of twice homeless man becoming multimillionaire entrepreneur, Dean Forbes has topped a list celebrating influential black Britons. Forbes has now been named number one on the Powerlist 2025, after being number two last year. Forbes overtak3s the place of British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful at the head of the list. Dean Forbes,  who grew up in a single-parent family on a housing estate in Lewisham living with his disabled mum, after failing to make it as a professional footballer, began his career in a call centre, but his entrepreneurial skills made him the boss of several software … Continue reading Rags to Riches

A celebration of luxury teas – how refreshing!

I met John Hales at The Independent Hotel Show who has put together a luxury hospitality tea programme for food service applications. This includes 15 count luxury 1 gallon iced tea bag pouches – 11 types including Long Island Strawberry and Grand Breakfast as well as Mediterranean Blue and TurmericGinger Peach. Presentation boxes, wire display racks and tea pots are all available too. Tea for hot drinks includes 24 luxury whole leaf teas in pyramid bags. Cochin Masala Chai, Blue Nile Chamomile, Cascade Peppermint and Jasmine Gold Dragon are just some of them.Details to order are above including the website. … Continue reading A celebration of luxury teas – how refreshing!

Water Beds with Hydro massage

Specialist treatment beds to improve health and vitality. Dayon Hydrospa – The Power of Relaxation. Combines water heat and massage – full or partial. You float weightlessly on warm water on a massage bed with the hydromassage relieving tension, promoting blood circulation and giving soothing back relief. The water is inside the mattress. There is no moisture involved. How does it work? Well it involves hydrojet technology, infrared heat of up to 50C and this serves as penetrating into tissue with an intuitive app control.Turn your energy on – Dayon Recharge – An energy booster for your cells. Over 4,400 … Continue reading Water Beds with Hydro massage

Boarding school challenges

Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, bring us a “Our Evenings”. Gay life in England across the decades, from 1960s to the pandemic captured with glowing intensity through an actor’s memories. A dark luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from on the finest writers of our age. Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of … Continue reading Boarding school challenges

Where care is in the age of sexual equality

Over the past 60 years family life has changed dramatically with greater choice and autonomy, especially for women and a more equal domestic sphere have brought great gains for human freedom. David Goodhart, argues there have been losses and unintended consequences too – in family instability, children’s declining mental health, and ever-rising demands on the welfare state and social care system. Sharp falling birth rates also present major challenges. Especially in the bottom half of the income spectrum, the costs are now too high. The Care Dilemma argues that we need a new policy settlement that supports gender equality while … Continue reading Where care is in the age of sexual equality