First, a (very) brief history lesson. In 1938, Evelyn Waugh published Scoop, a lively and evocative satire about life in Fleet Street. The newspaper i...
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When the news broke about movie producer Harvey Weinstein’s serial abuse of women, I can’t say I was shocked. I mean, what he has done was...
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A million years ago, Clive James (in my humble opinion perhaps the best television critic of my lifetime), admitted to his infatuation with the Ameri...
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The government of Qatar has a major project. Qatar National Vision 2030 (QNV 2030), announced in October 2008, is a huge overview of where the country...
Read MoreFOREIGN: Winner of the World Cup of Wealth. And of War?
Airline loyalty cards are handy things. I have a British Airways one, which is sensible enough given that I live in the UK, even though one immediatel...
Read MoreFLYING: Air miles high club
They are not short of money in Qatar. Granted, the men who are working on building the stadia that will stage the 2022 World Cup in that small Gulf st...
Read MoreFINANCE: The price of a name in Qatar…and Malta meltdown
Fashion Street, in the borough of Tower Hamlets, London E1, is indeed in one of the more fashionable (as in trendy) areas of the capital: Shoreditch. ...
Read MoreFASHION: Street-wise and the autumn magazines
A visit to the Centro Botin in Santander, itself a gloriously located small city (population about 170,000) in Cantabria on Spain’s northern Atl...
Read MoreFUN: A new cultural treasure for Cantabria
You may have read that Hugh Hefner died recently, aged 91. In theory at least, being the founder of the Playboy empire, he had lived the sort of of li...
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