Courtesy of the Financial Times Not much suggests a connection between Siena, the most majestic of Tuscany’s hill towns, and the flatlands of Santa Clara, the city in northern California which houses...

Tomorrow, San Francisco’s mayor, London Breed, will give her annual State of the City report. It is sure to contain references to the city’s virtues but should also address the issues hurting all San...

Lift or Lyft? The company that cannot spell seeks a $100B tax bailout from California

It is easy to forget that, when he was a student, the man who brought us the Macintosh, iPhone and iPad (and, with his little finger, Pixar) collected bottle caps to make ends meet. The need to...

Over the course of two years in the early 1940s, my grandparents (a former city magistrate and a nurse) were forced into three progressively smaller apartments in Munich and then herded into wooden...

Tussling with technology but imprisoned by the straight-jacket of convention It’s hard to imagine that a London cab driver and a New York book editor have much in common – but they do. Both are...

Six books that explain the frenzied interest in the World Cup When Brazil and Croatia kicked off the World Cup yesterday, the English speaking literary giants were absent. It isn’t until England...