RALPH STEADMAN SHOCKS,SCINTILLATES AND EXCITES AT THE MUSE GALLERY,  PORTOBELLO –   269 Portobello Road until 21 September 2025. UK Charity for the Arts 1162300  info@themuseat269.com “THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A MISTAKE….A MISTAKE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING ELSE”. Ralph Steadman. “Once Upon a Line” is the title of this exhibition shown partly during The Portobello Film Festival. There are quite a number of artworks of famous personalities in this exhibition including Shakespeare, George Orwell, Robert Burns and William Burroughs as well as Virginia Woolf. These are in the inimitable style of Steadman using limited colour and huge artistic expression with a … Continue reading Ralph Steadman at the Muse Gallery

Legendary Italian-billionaire fashion king Giorgio Armani dies ages 91 “With infinite sorrow, the Armani Group announces the passing of its creator, founder, and tireless driving force: Giorgio Armani,” his fashion house said in a statement. He was the archetype of Italian style and elegance, reimagining men’s and women’s suits for a modern audience. His company Armani expanded from fashion into an empire spanning beauty, fragrance, music, sport and even luxury hotels, bringing in more than £2bn a year. Donatella Versace paid tribute to the late designer on her Instagram page, “The world lost a giant today, he made history and … Continue reading Giorgio Armani dies aged 91

Future robots Students at MIT have designed and developed tiny robots that weigh less than a gram capable of pollinating crops or enable the deployment of cell-sized autonomous robots for drug delivery within the human body. Continue reading Micro robots

Gujaratis from western India, with their enhanced numerical skills, mental agility and speedy solutions to arithmetic problems and cognitive abilities, performed mentally without the use of calculators or paper, with their focus on the bottom line profit. Gujaratis in the diamond district of New York, Manhattans 47th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenue, follow the Jews in diamonds businesses as finished diamonds come here from all over the world where million-dollar deals are sealed to serve the elite. All diamonds of 47th Street are new ones, very few come from pawns or estate sales, as they arrive in New York by multiple … Continue reading World of Gujaratis

Nick Gibb, the long-serving schools minister of a series of Conservative administrations between 2010 to 2024, and headteacher Robert Peal, explores the key principles behind the reforms and reveals the impact they had on school leadership, accountability, teaching methods, curriculum design and pupil behaviour. Addressing the long legacy of “progressive” approaches to teaching in English schools, and the development of evidence-led alternatives, the book demonstrates the approaches to education such as “warm-strict”, “teacher-led instruction”, and knowledge-rich curriculum have been simultaneously both controversial and hugely successful. Tories put rocket boosters under the academies and free schools programme and how, those new … Continue reading Reforms that shaped England’s school system

Soviet Kurgyzstan-born poet, translator and student of literature of both East and West, Ismailov’s exploration of poetry, and digital artificial intelligence with infinite imagination crafting a post-modern ode to poetry across centuries and continents.  Crossing the poétes maudits with beloved Sufi classics, blending absurdist dreams with the life of the famed Persian poet Hafez, moving from careful mathematical calculations to lyrical narratives. He demonstrates a dazzling celebration of how poetry resonates across time and space, in We Computers, In the late 1980s, society has been obsessing over computers impersonating humans, Ismailov has been impersonating a computer.  Originally written in Uzbek and published … Continue reading The New Normal…

Soho House sold to MCR Hotels and Ashton Kutcher-led group (third largest hotel owner-operator in the US) for £ 2bn. Its new owner last year brought London’s BT Tower for £275 and also owns the High Line Hotel in New York. The London-based member’s club move back to private ownership after four years of uncertainty on the New York Stock Exchange. MCR’s founder Tyler Morse will join Soho House’s board of directors alongside Kutcher, while existing major shareholders including founder Nick Jones ( who founded in 1995, London) and Ivy Collection boss Richard Caring will certainly retain their stakes in … Continue reading Soho House sold for £2bn