I found it hard to leave Budapest when I was there last year. Not because I’d enjoyed the city (though I did), but because I had to queue...

Thirty years ago today, a shiny new British Rail Class 373 electric train left Waterloo station in London. Thirty years ago today, a...

Faking something is wrong, right? You'll be arrested if you try to imitate currency, an item of jewellery or a work of art and end up in...

Today is London History Day, the annual celebration of the capital's past started a while back by Historic England and supported by the...

Hotels provide a home away from home regardless of price, location or style and whether they were purpose-built or converted. Indeed some...

Microsoft is to allow games developed for its Xbox to be made available on other companies’ consoles; arch rival Sony may be having...

Today, Lloyd’s of London reopens its Underwriting Room after a three-month closure. The central area of the Richard Rogers Partnership’s...

Growing up, a bank holiday would have seen me immersed in the craft of model-making. Using Lego, Meccano and Airfix, and with subjects...

I’ve been moved by events in the past dozen days, from the new Prime Minister’s ‘God save the King’ outside No 10 Downing Street to the...

Back in the office today after months of working from home? It’s been a novelty for most of us, but technology, interior design and...

We are, it seems, rapidly losing interest in the physicality of paper as a medium for messaging, apart of course from this time of year....

This week in the office I picked up a telephone handset for what I realised was the first time in several years. I’ve had a work mobile...