Author: Danielle Trigg

Summer arrived in the UK this week. And The Ivy Collection has responded in the most appropriate way possible. From Monday 23rd June through Friday 26th June, guests dining from the à la carte menu at participating Ivy Collection restaurants will receive a complimentary St. Germain Hugo Spritz when ordering a main course. No catch, no minimum spend beyond the main itself. Just a free drink landing on your table while the sun’s actually out. Timing, it turns out, is everything. What’s in the Glass The Hugo Spritz has quietly become one of summer’s most reliable drinks — lighter than…

A Once-in-a-Career Moment Some dives stay with a diver for life. In 2020, diving off the coast of Abu Dhabi, Darrell Seale came face to face with a whale shark around five metres long — a large, slow, spotted fish moving through the Arabian Gulf as though the divers nearby were of no concern. The footage he captured that day reached audiences around the world. A scuba diving instructor with international recognition since 1999, Seale has logged more than 2,500 dives and works between Trophy Club, Texas, and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Across a long career, the whale shark…

Some restaurants are built for evenings. The Ivy works just as well in daylight. We stopped in recently for lunch, and the midday setting suited the room surprisingly well. That signature elegance — warm without being formal — carries through perfectly in the afternoon. If anything, the natural light made it feel a little more relaxed than an evening visit might. Service was exactly what you’d expect from The Ivy – attentive, unhurried, and genuinely warm without anyone making a performance of it. The kind of lunch where you don’t feel rushed toward the door the moment the plates are…

Celeste White and Dr Robert White received The Salvation Army’s Nehemiah Award for their support of the Napa Culinary Training Program. The Salvation Army grants the award and records it in the organisation’s own publication. The Salvation Army grants the Nehemiah Award to people whose steady support has fed real value into its programmes. In the Whites’ case, the award ties to their backing of the Napa Culinary Training Program, which works in step with The Salvation Army’s mission in the Napa Valley region. The Napa Culinary Training Program runs job training and culinary skill work for participants. It sits…

Through a chat with Claude or any other MCP-compatible AI assistant, check positions, place orders and manage risk without leaving the tools you use. ThinkMarkets has launched ChelseaAI. It links a live ThinkTrader account to an AI assistant. Ask the AI to check your positions, place a trade, read market conditions or move a stop-loss. It runs the task. No fresh login. No app to switch. ChelseaAI runs on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP is an open standard. It lets AI assistants link to outside services in a safe way. ChelseaAI works with any MCP-ready assistant. ThinkMarkets points to…

Stepping into the world of parenting is an adventure, but let’s be honest, some of the first hurdles like navigating the maze of baby gear can be nerve-wracking. The sheer number of options can feel overwhelming, especially when it comes to choosing the right pram. With so many styles, features, and price points, it’s easy to get lost. But here’s the secret: the perfect pram is the one that seamlessly fits your family’s unique lifestyle. Decoding Pram-Speak Before you start your search, it’s helpful to understand the basics. You’ll hear terms like pram, pushchair, and travel system. A pram is…

Political strategist Alberto Lage and psychologist Iracema Rezende wrote the book to examine a question they encountered throughout their work in Brazilian campaigns: how does sustained pressure change the way candidates think, communicate, and decide? The answers, they argue, reach well beyond politics. “Inside the Candidate’s Head: The Psychology of Running for Office – Lessons from Brazil’s Campaign Trenches” is now on sale in English worldwide. The Portuguese edition topped Amazon Brazil’s bestseller lists across several categories, and a Spanish edition extended its reach into Latin America and Spain. Lage and Rezende first released the book as “Cabeça de Candidato”…

Evghenia Gutul, who serves as the elected Head (Baskan) of Gagauzia, an autonomous region in southern Moldova, has brought out a book of 30 letters she wrote while held in prison. “The Gutul Case. Anatomy of Political Persecution” covers the series of disputes between Gagauzia and Moldova’s central government that preceded her arrest and her transfer to solitary confinement. The letters are free to download in English, Turkish, and Russian at www.egutul.com. Legal figures with experience in political persecution cases have responded to the book’s release. Gonzalo Boye, a lawyer who works on cases involving state repression, described the collection…

MODULE-T has launched MODULE-T UK, a standalone British operation designed to bring the company’s modular building range closer to clients in the UK. The move forms part of a wider European expansion at a time when more organisations are looking to off-site construction to get infrastructure in place without the cost and complexity of conventional building projects. The company has traded for more than 15 years and delivered projects across 120-plus countries. Its product portfolio includes portable office cabins, sanitary and WC units, changing rooms, storage containers, flat-pack cabins and prefabricated modular buildings, serving industrial, public sector and event clients.…

Three investors have backed Mindtail, an Istanbul-based mobile games studio, with $2 million at pre-seed stage. APY Ventures led the round, with Inveo Ventures and Ak Portföy GSYF also putting in money. Mindtail will use the capital to hire, build AI-based production tools, and test marketing approaches. The studio plans to grow its team to roughly three times its present size. Its first game is in development and will be named publicly in the near future. Founders who built products played by hundreds of millions of people R. Tamer Özgen, Umut Yıldız, Sarper Karabağ, and Doğuşcan Öztürk started Mindtail to…

Shaher Moh’d Ali Awartani co-founded Café Milano Abu Dhabi in 2017 alongside H.E. Yousif Al Otaiba and Mubadala Investment Company, establishing the Washington, D.C. restaurant brand at Abu Dhabi’s Four Seasons Hotel. The move took Awartani into the hospitality sector for the first time, adding a consumer-facing business to a portfolio that had been built around infrastructure, real estate, and financial services. The original Café Milano in Washington has a long association with diplomatic and political life. That character carries through to the Abu Dhabi location, where the Four Seasons clientele includes government and institutional figures in a similar way.…

Some books we read. Others read us. Mia Martin draws this line with care, and she intends it plainly. The South Florida author has thought at length about what takes place inside a reader when a story is working at its best — not the emotional response, which is well charted, but the shift in perception that powerful fiction can produce. The way a novel can, once read, alter the angle at which a person pays attention to the world. “The stories that shaped how I read didn’t teach me about literature,” Martin says. “They taught me how to look.…