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.

The Internet of Things is quickly becoming a reality as manufacturers are increasingly linking “things”, such as smartphones, appliances, cars and machines, to the Internet and to each other. As the Internet of Things continues to develop and expand, much discussion revolves around the role that connected devices will play in users’ everyday lives. The IEEE recently carried out a survey which identified the ways in which consumers envision using connected devices.

 
Fishing with dolphins
Yves de Contades took a luxury tour of the Sultanate of Oman and went fishing with dolphins.

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
 
Q: Tell us a little about your professional background

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.

Yves de Contades interviewed Mr Lahcen Haddad, the Moroccan Tourist Minister and he has many fascinating things to say about the new developments and changes in that stunning country.
Morocco has a superb balance of the old and the new. They are embracing new technological advances whilst retaining their best traditions. The aim is to create a country that remains unspoilt and build a lasting tourist industry with a focus on luxury and sutainability.