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In what is the third film in the series, Bridget Jones’s Baby is the first not to be based on a Helen Fielding novel (other than embodying the...
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Earlier this week I had breakfast at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 before flying off for a luncheon in Munchen. (Munich to you and me.) And early wa...
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I don’t know how many times I’ve eaten at L’Artiste Muscle but every time my feeling is that it was too long ago. If one were compi...
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As you will probably know, the United States yesterday trounced Europe by 17-11 at Hazeltine to win the Ryder Cup (pictured on the home page) for the ...
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Mega companies avoiding tax is a subject that isn’t going to go away. Nor should it – that is, as a talking point. In an ideal world the a...
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The recent and understandable trepidation of many North European holidaymakers about travelling to Turkey and even to France this past summer saw an u...
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