You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again.

To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

Life is all about seating and lighting.

Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the porkpie hats, you'll be hard-pressed to tell the years in which the pictures were taken.

Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.

Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.