With Cameron's ad hoc remarks on a final term, 2015's election candidates could take a few tips from those who have learnt the costs of candour. Alex Matchett meets those in the know
Month: March 2015
At GRAD and the Saatchi Gallery – Two exhibitions showing the present and past threats of Russian politics
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Evgeny Granilshchikov stops speaking Russian and answers directly in English: 'Of course, absolutely,' he says, affirming he has felt pressured by the state because of his art. 'It happened in Russia in 2011, the manipulations in the elections. Quite soon after that a lot of tragic events started to happen - those people who participated in the peaceful demonstrations in 2011 were accused and imprisoned for fabricated reasons - the second film speaks about it.'
Dunhill’s 1A St James’s combines the best of cigars and Clubland
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At first glance, 1A St James's looks more like a wood-panelled Apple store than a cigar merchant in the heart of Clubland. Dunhill's recently and spectacularly revamped tobacconist is gleaming and precise, with discreetly decorated walls and the occasional single cigar arranged on a plinth. A place to pick up a packet of fags, this is not.
