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Deborah Dawton, Chief Executive, Design Business Association:

Andy Hunns, CD, Small Japanese Soldier:
Music has no creative boundaries and the 60's saw music at its creative peak. No Internet, no record company need for short-term commercial success, the artist was given freedom to find their sound. I love this era and its style, its belief and its capacity for doing things differently.
Jump The Gun in Brighton is a shop that celebrates this period and I wanted to step back to this time and try to imagine what it would be like.
Born too late. Story of my life but it's inspired me without me knowing it.

The Mille Miglia starts in Brescia in the north of Italy, descends down the east coast to Rome over two days, and then ends with a single day dash from Rome back up to Brescia on the west coast. It is a magnificent cortege of the greatest racing cars and classic road cars ever built. To enter, the cars must have either been in the original Mille Miglia, or a car of sporting history listed in Palmares Winner’s Lists of international significance. This is about as exclusive as it gets even before the costs of the race and the cars come into it.

Yves de Contades interviews:David Murrin a leading market analyst and fund manager who lectures widely on financial markets and appears regularly as a keynote speaker on CNBC, at international conferences and on company boards and is the author of Breaking the Code of History
 
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BBC journalist Maggie Philbin says crisis-driven thinking is breeding a generation of lost business opportunities (but technology could help to turn that around. The recession has made many British businesses depressed and inward-looking, and a leading journalist says short-term thinking is not only stifling recovery, but threatening to blight the prospects of the coming generation.Growth in the UK remains unlikely, with business confidence at its lowest level in 20 years, according to a recent survey by accountancy firm BDO.

This must surely have been the most glorious Goodwood Revival Ladies day ever. The sun blazed down on the biggest collection of classic cars, planes and motorbikes in the world, keenly admired by thousands of vintage fashion coiffed and attired revellers.This Revival hosted the most iconic cars of all time, a priceless collection of the greatest engines and car designs ever seen all in one place. Three Spitfires and two Hurricanes even buzzed overhead as we arrived, a unique and exceptional greeting.

Silver & Light Ian Ruhter takes his life and his savings on the roads of America.He converted a truck into a giant camera to photograph people and landscapes across the States.He employs an old wet plate photographic technique that is simply timeless. These are stunning unique images and each is created straight in the truck. True one off's.Beautiful.See a part of his journey in this video
SILVER & LIGHT from Ian Ruhter on Vimeo.

Professor Ian Stewart has just released his latest book 17 Equations That Changed The World with Profile Books.
Like all of his books it is simply superb. Take it as an engaging historical romp through all the amazing equations and what they have brought us and what they promise to bring in the future.
Or learn all the things that were missed in school and now seem so simple when he explains them with such clarity, enthusiasm and passion.