A crosstown journey, from Spitalfields to Soho – pretty easy by tube, could be an hour in a cab. First stop, pretty close to Liverpool Street s...
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My latest flight was to Lisbon, the Portuguese capital and veritably a fabulous city. It was a notable flight: it may have been the first one I’...
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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 ...
Read MoreGOLF: Something old, some things new
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 ...
Read MoreFANTASY: Trumpton Updated – Part II
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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