Britain has been battered by some pretty ferocious winds during the course of this month, largely a distinctly unpleasant experience for most of us. B...
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A story last year on the satirical Arabic website Al-Hudood (apparently it’s bit like a cross between Private Eye and the Onion) ran under the h...
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The Italians have a way with food. A wonderful way and in so many different ways. But if there’s one element of Italian food that stands out it ...
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Last year’s Saudi International was preceded by Justin Rose defending his decision to play in Saudi Arabia (that’s Mecca on the home page)...
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The Premier League is big business and part of the huge revenues its clubs generate derive from the sales of replica shirts from their official mercha...
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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 ...
Read MoreCutting the booze could lead to a cruise (or maybe a flight to somewhere)
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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