From first page to last page in a fortnight. This nugget slipped Diary’s attention the other week, happily ensconced as we are in our home-working world of pyjama bottoms, slippers and constant rotation of England shirts for the duration of the Euros. Always more assiduous – and certainly more stylish – deputy editor Tim Burke saw fit to put it in his recent leader, but he didn’t share the all-important photo. And, now that Boris has announced “freedom day” (just, as it happens, when we personally know of more people self-isolating than at any other stage during the pandemic), we need to freshen up our wardrobe for our eventual return to the City.
So time to pay due heed to IWG and iconic British fashion designer Giles Deacon for a post-pandemic workwear collection that “reimagines how we will dress for the office as WFH comes to an end”. The IWG X GILES capsule collection includes three prototype looks (male, female and non-binary), and is informed by “both Giles’ creative vision and a nationwide office worker survey of how attitudes towards dressing for work have shifted since the pandemic”. Clearly, after so many months of reduced activity, loose fit is very much in – and slankets will be all the rage in offices this autumn. Can we get one with an England badge?
Line in the sand
“Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey” is what we imagine Line of Duty star Adrian Dunbar said when he learned of the looming threat of development to a historical site in Dublin. Dunbar, whose character Ted Hastings is known for his way with words, has announced his support for campaign body 1916 Relatives Group, which has been fighting for almost 20 years to preserve a 1916 terrace of 16 houses on Moore Street, and which is now opposing moves from Hammerson to buy the site. Given the persistence of the heritage campaigners, though, presumably he didn’t complete the rest of Hastings’ iconic donkey quote: “Can we just move this thing along, before it drives us all round the bloody bend?” One would have thought, after six series of Line of Duty, Dunbar would be wary of joining another long-running saga destined, inevitably, to divide opinion in the end…
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From first page to last page in a fortnight. This nugget slipped Diary’s attention the other week, happily ensconced as we are in our home-working world of pyjama bottoms, slippers and constant rotation of England shirts for the duration of the Euros. Always more assiduous – and certainly more stylish – deputy editor Tim Burke saw fit to put it in his recent leader, but he didn’t share the all-important photo. And, now that Boris has announced “freedom day” (just, as it happens, when we personally know of more people self-isolating than at any other stage during the pandemic), we need to freshen up our wardrobe for our eventual return to the City.
So time to pay due heed to IWG and iconic British fashion designer Giles Deacon for a post-pandemic workwear collection that “reimagines how we will dress for the office as WFH comes to an end”. The IWG X GILES capsule collection includes three prototype looks (male, female and non-binary), and is informed by “both Giles’ creative vision and a nationwide office worker survey of how attitudes towards dressing for work have shifted since the pandemic”. Clearly, after so many months of reduced activity, loose fit is very much in – and slankets will be all the rage in offices this autumn. Can we get one with an England badge?
Line in the sand
“Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey” is what we imagine Line of Duty star Adrian Dunbar said when he learned of the looming threat of development to a historical site in Dublin. Dunbar, whose character Ted Hastings is known for his way with words, has announced his support for campaign body 1916 Relatives Group, which has been fighting for almost 20 years to preserve a 1916 terrace of 16 houses on Moore Street, and which is now opposing moves from Hammerson to buy the site. Given the persistence of the heritage campaigners, though, presumably he didn’t complete the rest of Hastings’ iconic donkey quote: “Can we just move this thing along, before it drives us all round the bloody bend?” One would have thought, after six series of Line of Duty, Dunbar would be wary of joining another long-running saga destined, inevitably, to divide opinion in the end…
For the nonce
Like the thrill, the excitement and the expense of real estate investment, but would prefer to do away with the whole inconvenience of owning a physical thing? Then NFTs are for you! Diary won’t pretend to know even the slightest thing about non-fungible tokens (it’s something to do with blockchain, isn’t it?), but we know where you can find expert advice: Nonce Finance. It seems the company set up on Twitter in November (@noncefinance), describing itself as a “NFT Fractionalization protocol with high liquidity NFT-ERC20 bridge” (us neither). But only in the last few days has it discovered that its chosen brand has a somewhat unfortunate meaning to British eyes. It is currently polling followers on whether to change its name, with 27.7% voting no, 12.5% voting yes… and 52.2% choosing the more resounding “F*** yes”. As for the rest, including Diary? Option D: what’s an NFT? For what it’s worth though, Nonce, we say stick to your guns, Google Brass Eye, and maybe don’t ask Phil Collins to do your ads?
Can you digs it?
The ultimate university league table is out. No, not the tallies based on academic performance, graduate satisfaction, career prospects and trifling things like that… the really important one, ranking the greatest levels of rental demand for student accommodation ahead of the new academic year. And, excitingly, it’s a dead heat at the top of the latest Student Rental Hotspots Index by UniHomes, based on the number of student homes listed on the market that have already had a let agreed as a percentage of total stock available. Coming joint first, with 60% of all rental stock already taken, are the University of St Andrews and the University of Cambridge. This comes as a double accolade, after they took second and third place respectively in the Guardian’s “best universities 2021” table. Further honours go to the University of Nottingham (44%), the University of York and the University of Glasgow (both 42%), completing the big five. But the outright winner (with a perfect 100 score) in the Guardian’s list, the University of Oxford, is nowhere to be seen in the UniHomes top 10, which can only come as a crushing disappointment… like winning the league, but crashing out of the Champions League in the first round.
