Highgate is an eminently pleasant northern area of the English capital. There are many nice shops, quality restaurants and spectacular properties in L...
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On Sunday afternoon, Arsenal fans saluted their team – and vice versa – at the conclusion of a Premier League season in which they had sig...
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(…with titular apologies to the Doors, New York City and Missouri) Sally Milz is a sketch writer for a late-night comedy show called The Night O...
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In a comparatively new forecourt just north of Oxford Street, right by the Facebook offices, is Circolo Popolare, an exceedingly popular (as in its na...
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David Hockney, the Yorkshire-born artist who has probably become most famous for his depictions of places in California and France (especially as in N...
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I recently enjoyed a four-day break in southern mainland Greece, in the Peloponnese, with one of my sons and his girlfriend. We played some golf, dran...
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Last week I went abroad for a short break, specifically taking a flight that went from Gatwick to Kalamata in the Peloponnese region of southern mainl...
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OK, so strictly this is not film: it’s an eight-part adaptation of a book on the Disney+ channel. But these days the crossover is such that it n...
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The biggest fiscal curse facing the nation, we have repeatedly been told by the government and the Bank of England, is inflation. The country has been...
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