http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-35648-vicky-ward/topic-rss.do Vicky Ward RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23681444-manhattans-latest-parental-punishment.do I have seldom been as relieved to read an article as one that appeared last week by New York Times writer Andrew Das 2009-04-27T08:15:30Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23672141-the-big-apple-is-learning-to-live-again.do THE Russian businessman I was having a drink with lived in London. "I prefer London to New York right now; in London not everyone talks about their depleted bank balance; in New York everyone does," he said. I agreed 2009-04-06T08:21:11Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23668695-sex-appeal-takes-years-to-master.do DETAILS magazine has dictated that the sexiest woman on the planet is not Scarlett Johansson, or Gisele Bundchen, but Jennifer Aniston — who is 40 2009-03-30T09:54:25Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23665684-if-we-kill-the-rich-dont-we-kill-the-dream.do MY neighbour at dinner, a hedge-fund manager originally from Texas, was emphatic 2009-03-23T09:12:57Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23662521-the-guillotine-hasnt-arrived-here---yet.do These days it's not just financial journalists who follow the movements of financiers. So, too, do the entertainment channels and press 2009-03-16T09:20:09Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23643391-let-frivolous-fashion-defy-the-ny-blues.do New York Fashion Week is here - and, as Lela Rose, the Texan designer, says as she threads her needle and fits her models, "the show must go on" 2009-02-16T09:18:23Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23637402-bad-times-bring-out-the-best-in-manhattan.do 2009-02-09T12:13:55Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23628012-cloud-cuckoo-land-on-wall-street.do 2009-01-26T09:26:35Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23611329-parent-trap-with-harpoons-thrown-in.do If the recession doesn't kill you, parenthood will. That has been my experience over the New Year 2009-01-05T09:25:23Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23608741-haggling-my-way-through-the-blues.do I wish I could say that this holiday season has felt as cheerful as usual. But the emptiness in New York's streets and stores both on December 24th and 26th merely amplified the depressing retail statistics 2008-12-29T09:34:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23606346-just-dont-tell-us-what-your-manicure-costs.do "What recession?" shouted the front page of the New York Post last week, beside a picture of a blonde Swedish countess, Marie Douglas-David 2008-12-22T10:51:22Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23601706-spot-the-next-madoff-is-our-new-parlour-game.do IT BEGAN with the names of corporate victims who had lived high on debt, such as Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone, casino king Sheldon Adelson and Lehman president Joe Gregory 2008-12-15T09:10:26Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23598259-with-her-legs-palin-didnt-need-a-makeover.do Just when I'd hoped Sarah Palin would disappear from public consciousness, it seems we can't get rid of the former Republican vice-presidential candidate 2008-12-08T10:29:49Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23595052-for-one-fearful-moment-i-long-for-home.do On the eve of Thanksgiving, the TV screens filled with the terrible footage of the attacks on Mumbai 2008-12-01T10:37:56Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23591383-for-some-this-crisis-is-on-another-planet.do We're told a global recession of almost Depression proportions is taking place, fragmenting the social hierarchy 2008-11-24T09:11:35Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23587739-cancel-christmas---sorry-but-no-one-gets-anything-this-year.do Given that it hasn't yet got properly cold here, it feels like a very strange hallucination 2008-11-17T09:06:31Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23584378-my-night-of-joy-then-exhaustion-dawns.do For a moment last week, around midnight on Tuesday, we all went mad with joy 2008-11-10T10:18:48Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23571870-the-silicon-chips-arent-down-yet.do "How poor are you?" That's what formerly rich guys ranging from hedge-fund kings and tech pioneers to bankers and trust-fund heirs are now asking each other at dinners around town. 2008-10-13T09:39:58Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23564181-and-a-small-glass-of-chateau-plonk-please.do Last week saw not just the initial failure of Hank Paulson's bail-out bill but also the death of the $800 bottle of wine 2008-10-06T07:50:55Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23561522-lose-your-job-and-watch-friends-vanish.do Alberto Vilar once promised so many millions to both New York's Metropolitan Opera and London's Royal Opera House that his name was engraved in both places — only to be removed in 2005, when prosecutors charged him with stealing most of his fortune 2008-09-29T09:14:06Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23530723-creative-brits-are-the-talk-of-the-town.do In New York, the pre-movie hype about Woody Allen's latest movie, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, had all been about the kiss between Penélope Cruz, onscreen and real-life girlfriend of male lead Javier Bardem, and America's modern version of Marilyn Monroe, Scarlett Johansson 2008-08-11T08:22:08Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23525660-its-official-guys-can-wear-shorts-to-work.do For women, dressing for summer here is a whole lot easier (and cheaper) than in London. You know that stepping outside will feel like walking into a blast furnace, so you choose pretty light sundresses and then you buy a cardigan to battle the freezing air-conditioning inside 2008-08-04T07:48:59Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23518495-divorce-is-up-personal-trainers-down.do Last week, in the wake of the near-implosion of mortgage insurer Fannie Mae, and with rumours swirling about the fate of Lehman Brothers, where the stock has plummeted 70 per cent, I got an email from a friend 2008-07-21T07:59:18Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23515896-tough-times-but-still-they-keep-giving.do New York's billionaires, it seems, have not really noticed the downturn. They still spend their summers on lavish yachts in Europe, and are still flying in their own planes 2008-07-14T08:26:31Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23495351-london-youve-changed-for-the-better.do For the first time in a year I have spent the week in London, working and seeing friends. It has been an eye-opening experience; after all, it has been 11 years since I lived here 2008-06-16T09:16:37Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23492658-my-nursery-shame-as-a-no-show-mom.do Vicky Ward gains a new respect for nursery school graduation ceremonies 2008-06-09T12:10:06Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23489241-big-apple-macho-men-spin-out-of-control.do I will readily confess to being a New York gym rat: I like to go for a run or workout on the elliptical machines 2008-06-02T08:29:16Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23485694-give-me-michelle-over-hillary-any-day.do It was an intensely political evening. First, the premiere of the amazing new film Recount, starring Kevin Spacey and Denis Leary, turned the dry legal arguments about "hanging chads" in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election into fascinating drama. Then screens hung down at New York's Four Seasons restaurant so we could watch the results come in from the polls in West Virginia 2008-05-19T10:16:05Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23484121-lifes-just-a-deal-for-the-new-gurus.do G W Bush christened himself "The Decider", and expounded upon his ability to make swift decisions that come not from his brain but his gut. And look where that has got us 2008-05-12T14:51:36Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23479511-im-ditching-butch-hillary-for-gentle-obama.do For me, no matter what happens in Pennsylvania, I'm done with Hillary Clinton. I have long felt that either Democratic candidate would suffice as President. 2008-04-21T09:54:11Z