Sitwell Scoffs: French garages and Le Moulin de l’Abbaye
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Month: August 2013
Spinning for Syria: Why there's always someone willing to play devil's advocate
In every war, there are people willing to promote even the side committing the atrocities As we watch the horrible…
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Guest Recipe: William Drabble’s roast grouse with blackberries and port wine jus
Ingredients 4 young grouse Sauce 100ml olive oil 100g butter 2 shallots peeled and sliced 4 sprigs of thyme 2…
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William Drabble guest-edits Food Friday
William Drabble is executive chef of Seven Park Place at St James’s Hotel & Club, Mayfair and here he talks…
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A wolf in dog’s clothing
As I grew up in a city, we were small-dog people — my first was a Pekinese called Typhoo who…
ByNot bathwater any longer: Moonshine makes a comeback as a luxury spirit
LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE Without quite losing its reputation as illicit hillbilly homebrew, moonshine has led a whisky renaissance, says…
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A wolf in dog's clothing
Before I had a baby, I thought of myself as the consummate dog-lover. Dogs were friends, always excited to see…
ByAfter German elections, Merkel will still be left footing the bill
The austerity Merkel will now enforce on the laggards just drives down the whole eurozone Merkel is looking like a…
ByDay of the remains: after Richard III was recovered, who owns your corpse?
It wasn’t surprising that there was a huge amount of press coverage when archaeologists at Leicester University uncovered Richard III’s…
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Farmland starts to hit Mayfair prices
The report, from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, has found that since 2004 farmland has risen to around £7,441…
ByWhen a super-basement turns out to be a super-pain
When is enough enough? The recent reports that a hedge funder is spending £4 million building a subterranean complex in…
ByWhat’s the best way to give to the Syrian refugee crisis?
As the civil war in Syria becomes more acute, so too does the refugee crisis in neighbouring countries. Since the…
ByWhat's the best way to give to the Syrian refugee crisis?
Emergency appeals are a fantastic way of raising large sums of money very quickly. UK donors have shown themselves to…
ByBusiness Times: Singapore may be able to peek into bank accounts
Sources are concerned that removing the court order process would dilute Singapore’s attractiveness as a trust jurisdiction Trust industry associations…
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STEP: Julius Baer data thief sentenced to jail
Lutz Otte sold the account information to the German tax authorities for EUR1.1 million in order to pay his own…
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Watch: What opera in Beirut tells us about the rest of the Middle East
In today’s Monday Minute (published on Tuesday because of the bank holiday), Josh Spero reflects on what a trip to…
ByFive ways to make your divorce easier
Getting divorced at any time is stressful and difficult, but here are five tried and tested tips to help you…
ByOn the trail of opera in Beirut, amid wars and lies, and what it tells us about the Middle East today
Could Beirut be the new Bayreuth? Lebanon’s fledgling opera scene is emerging from desperate Civil War days with the help…
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Monday Minute – 26th August 2013
In this week’s Monday Minute Josh Spero is looking at the opera scene of the Middle East.
ByAlice Water’s quiet slow food revolution
Still Waters Runs Deep For the past 40 years Alice Waters has led a revolutionary campaign to change the way…
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