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Hitting the right note
It’s Proms season again, that extraordinary eight weeks of glorious classical music, old favourites, challenging new works and exuberant audiences. With tickets starting at a fiver and the entire...
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Discovering a dynamic duchess
Last week I drove around the great walls that still completely enclose the mediaeval city of Lucca in Tuscany. I was en route from Pisa airport to stay with friends in the mountainous and lush...
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The great Trans American train journey
p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }a:li A 5,000 mile, ten state, 4 day journey from Salt Lake City to Washington DC.An unexpected visit to Salt Lake City results in an interesting challenge: how to travel to...
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Pulling up the drawbridge - or the Queen Bee syndrome
In the past week we have heard three women at the top giving their reasons for rejecting quotas as a way of getting more women up there alongside them. Firstly Christina Odone in The Telegraph...
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Towering genius
Coffee time in San Giuliano Termi Back in Tuscany a year after the visit that laid me low (see Discovering a dynamic Duchess) and we are catching up with lost opportunities. So on a hot and sunny...
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Fanfare for the uncommon man - and woman
The award-winning Imperial College Big Band: engineers, scientists and medical students, making music around the world The other morning, switching from Radio 4 to Radio 3 – a habit usually...
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Who's that girl/woman/captain of industry......
There we were, listening to the head of one of the most successful engineering companies in the world declaring his support for promoting women on to boards. The event was a seminar organised by the...
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A big hand for the drama queens!
Dame Helen Mirren with co-host Rosario Dawson at the Nobel Peace Prize concert in OsloI promised a follow-up on my first report on the recent CIC Diversity Panel Seminar looking at how to increase the...
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A tale of two plumbers
A feature appeared the other week in Stella, the Sunday Telegraph magazine, about five women working happily in non-traditional jobs. Annabel Smith, Britain’s only female beer inspector, Diane...
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On the right track
Shauni O'Neill, station masterAs the woman tube driver on the Northern Line announced the other morning, in a clear and cheerful voice, that she was waiting for signals to change before moving on, I...
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The great Arizona road trip -1
On the road to Phoenix: the Saguaro cactus of southern ArizonaThe thermometer registers 82 degrees Fahrenheit, as we set off from Tucson on the first leg of our road trip north to the Grand Canyon. As...
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Must women leave home to become powerful?
You can tell by the pitch of the voices as you pass through the imposing doors of the Royal Institute of British Architects, that homage to Art Deco in Portland Place, that the capacity crowd for the...
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The great Arizona road trip - 2
Green fingers in the desertScottsdale is a charming suburb of Phoenix, full of wide boulevards and smart houses sitting in large plots shaded by palo verde and acacia trees. The temperature is still in...
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Milestone, millstone or the same old grindstone?
A good week for those who think that there aren't many high powered women in the construction and property sectors. Just two days after a packed audience at the RIBA listened to seven dynamic women...
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The great Arizona road trip - 3
Lone raven hi-yo over silver stream. Ghost rider at Tonto Creek.Rivers, rodeos and ramblingThe next stop on our journey is the Rim Country, named after the Tolkien-esque Mogollon (pronounced...
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The great Arizona road trip - 4
Red Rock CountryWine, women and (bird)songAfter discovering this morning that breakfast does not come with the bed at Kohl’s Ranch Lodge at Christopher Creek in the Rim Country, we check the...
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Vocal minority run the show
There may have been only one woman amongst the 11 property sector panellists at the Annual Conference of the British Property Federation (BPF) the other week, but three other influential women taking...
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The great Arizona road trip - 5
The tortuous road through Oak Creek CanyonFriday the Thirteenth - the Grand CanyonThe wind rises and sky darkens as we take the scenic route out of Sedona through Oak Creek Canyon up into the...
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The great Arizona road trip - 6
From rosy sunset to white dawnA State of extremesWe wake at 6.00am in a room bathed in a cool eerie light. Looking through the window our view has become monochrome, the trees covered in snow with more...
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