Harry Wallop

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Harry Wallop

Inspector Dan Green doesn’t look like a City of London policeman. He is dressed for a day at the seaside or, possibly, a music festival, in Saucony running shoes, a pair of snazzy navy blue shorts, a short-sleeved striped shirt and a baseball cap. That’s because he is undercover, along with a dozen other police, roaming the streets of the Square Mile on a sunny Thursday evening in May.

4 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Harry Wallop

Dave Burke is starting a new high street bank in an attempt to disrupt the banking status quo of branches closing and services moving online. This is an ambitious project, considering that it is hard to open any high street business, let alone one that requires a notoriously tricky-to-obtain banking licence. One of the few to have done so in recent years, Metrobank, has struggled, to put it mildly.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Harry Wallop

We can all more or less guess what most men find attractive about a woman’s appearance – the other way around is often more nuanced and less predictable. Rather by accident, however, I think I may have cracked it. Forget the ripped bod à la Olly Murs, whose new look has divided opinion so acutely among his online fandom. Instead, what women respond to most in a middle-aged man is… hair, and the thicker the better.

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Harry Wallop

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Harry Wallop

What do you buy the man who has not just one Rolex, Vacheron Constantin or Audemars Piguet, but a whole collection of luxury watches valued at more than £8 million? Easy. You buy him a watch safe. This may sound dull, but when it is made by Luke Wycherley, it is a sophisticated storage unit as intricately designed as the watches themselves.