I recently spent a few days with my wife in Lisbon, our first visit there. Strictly it’s not paradise, it’s only Portugal, but neverthel...
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The groovy French fashion brand Vetements introduced a DHL T-shirt at a Paris catwalk show last autumn. When it became available to buy earlier this...
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In Terence Malick’s latest film Knight of Cups, Christian Bale plays Rick (just ‘Rick’ – there are only Christian names in Chr...
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I was rooting around among my old golf clubs the other day – getting some of them out for the photograph you see here, in fact – when one ...
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There was an old advertising-copy line for Mars bars which read ‘A Mars a Day helps you Work, Rest and Play’. It’s so old, in fact, ...
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Every week we move nearer to what may come to be known as the era of ‘The Great Twatsby’. Not that Donald Trump is necessarily nailed on ...
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It is almost 20 years since Pharmacy restaurant opened on Notting Hill Gate. It was cooler than a freezer-fresh martini; the brainchild of Damien Hirs...
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The FA Cup semi-finals have been and gone for another year. No replays any more, which I think is a good thing (they should get rid of them altogether...
Read MoreFOOTBALL: Going to ‘Wem-ber-ley’, yes, but it’s the getting home that’s the killer
The most famous work of J.G. Ballard, who died aged 78 in 2009, is very possibly Empire of the Sun, a vividly autobiographical novel set in the Far E...
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