In Sounds that Swing record shop in Camden, regular customer and Elvis fan Nick Martin. All photographs: Quintina ValeroIn Sounds that Swing record shop in Camden, regular customer and Elvis fan Nick Martin. All photographs: Quintina ValeroLondon holidaysIt’s Record Store Day on Saturday. To celebrate we asked the author and photographer of London’s Record Shops to choose their favourites
The past 14 months have been brutal for all retailers, but independent record shops have had it tougher than most. Read More...
BusinessObituaryDame Anita RoddickPioneering green entrepreneur who used the profits of her ethical beauty business to campaign for a better worldDame Anita Roddick, who has died aged 64 after a brain haemorrhage, opened her first Body Shop in Brighton in 1976. The year is important. The beauty business was not then about bodies, which were merely the soaped tail end of the face and hair market, its lotions laboratory tested, industrially concocted and sold through chemists' chains or the phoney salons of department stores. Read More...
Photograph: Guardian Design/Getty/VettaThe anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline – and it can’t happen fast enough. By Caroline Fraser
by Caroline FraserWhen I was a baby, my grandfather delighted me by playing a game. He made a fist sandwich, fingers laced together and hidden in his palms, showing me his thumbs closed upon them. Slowly, he would say, “Here’s the church, and here’s the steeple,” raising his index fingers together to form a peak. Read More...