In October last year I did something I hadn’t done in absolutely ages. I went to a rock/pop concert. It was the first time I’d ever done t...
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This blog is inspired by a short story from FT Money (the ‘personal finance section of the year’ as it’s flagged) in the Financial ...
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I guess it was semi-appropriate that the Premier League Boxing Day fixtures were shown on Amazon. For the majority of us, what it primarily does is no...
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Tiger Woods will turn 44 a week from today (on December 30). As little as 18 months ago the occasion would have been expected to be little more than a...
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I don’t know if you would call a baseball cap ‘fashionable’ but for sure they have basically not gone out of fashion since 1860, the...
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Over 60 years ago, Vue magazine called Soho “the world’s wickedest square mile”. It wasn’t because of its all-round badness; r...
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You couldn’t make it up, although you would think that someone had. A couple of weeks ago The Times ran a big piece about Ruja Ignatova, a Bulga...
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Venice’s affectionate nickname, La Serenissima, means ‘most serene’. From outside it usually looks like an enviably calm and tranqui...
Read MoreFOREIGN: La Serenissima drowning in its sorrows
In an article in the recent issue of Luxx magazine, an offshoot of The Times which is aimed at people with substantially money than me, Janice Turner ...
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