A couple of months ago I visited the annual art fair, Frieze London, held near the centre of town in Regent’s Park. It was a fantasy of sorts, i...
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Is cave exploring really fun? Many people do like it, indeed love it, and in some respects I should, but all considered I prefer my underground experi...
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La Poule au Pot inhabits a quiet corner of London SW1 – not quite Belgravia, not quite Sloane Square, certainly not Victoria. It’s a tradi...
Read MoreFOOD: Feeling very French
Joachim Low is the manager of the current world football champions, Germany. Either under that name or West Germany, they have won the World Cup four ...
Read MoreFOOTBALL: From Russia with Low (it’s pronounced a bit like ‘love’)
On Wednesday the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, announced his 2017 budget. He scrapped stamp duty on the purchase of houses priced under...
Read MoreFINANCE: Pretty shitty in the City
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...
Read MoreFICTION: A beastly profession
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...
Read MoreFASHION: The dark side of the beauty business
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...
Read MoreFILM: Not much of a party but quite animalistic
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...
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