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Meet the go-to cigar sommelier of London’s clubland
Darius Namdar is the man to go to for advice on cigars in London’s clubland – and you’d better believe…
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Andrew Motion on Britain: ‘What a beautiful, interesting, valuable, loveable place – and what a mess’
The former Poet Laureate encounters a different United Kingdom from the one he left in 2015 I’m writing this in…
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Spear’s leader: It’s time to be good Europeans
Our inescapable Europeanness almost makes Brexit an irrelevance, assuming that is that a deal can be salvaged from the current…
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Liquid Lunch: Gina Miller on Brexit, her story and being a ‘dynamic’ fatalist
Christopher Jackson finds the prolific campaigner’s energy undimmed ‘You’ve introduced me to somewhere I didn’t know,’ says Gina Miller brightly…
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Banksy’s shredded masterpiece – who bears the loss?
Arabella Murphy, private wealth director at law firm Maurice Turnor Gardner discusses Banksy’s infamous girl with a red balloon ‘disaster’…
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Review: Sir Philip Green and the collapse of BHS – damaged goods?
Christopher Silvester delves into Oliver Shah’s defiant biography of a famously ill-mannered businessman ‘Nobody’s going to buy your fucking book,’…
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Review — Our Uninvited Guests: The Secret Lives of Britain’s Country Houses 1939-45
Julie Summers’ sprawling collection of wartime requisition stories represent every bit of the English dream, writes Peter York My first…
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Interior design heralds the return of colour
After two decades of the age of beige, the interior design world is at last breaking out into a celebration…
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How Waterstones’ boss James Daunt is keeping print alive
James Daunt arrived at Waterstones just as Amazon was about to wipe it out – and yet he turned the…
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Spear’s Midas interview: Trinny Woodall
The style guru talks make-up, entrepreneurs, favourite eating haunts and earning a crust cutting ham with Olenka Hamilton How much…
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£Y€$ (Lies) review: an immersive revival of the financial crisis
Belgian theatre collective Ontroerend Goed gives the audience a thrilling taste of the trading activities which led to the 2008…
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William Cash: A call for mental health support for the wealthy
Wealth doesn’t guarantee good health – and when it comes to mental health it may even endanger it, writes William…
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Review – Michael Jackson: On the Wall
Emily Bevan heads to the National Portrait Gallery to examine the extent to which culture worships the King of Pop…
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Upcoming: ‘The Gilded Desert’ and other allegories of the beau-monde
Adam Dant delightfully satirises the ‘Domus Aurea’ that is Annabel’s and the gentrification of Chelsea in the artist’s latest series…
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The Diary: Sophia Money-Coutts on California
Sophia Money-Coutts takes a drive down the Pacific coast and discovers the magic and curious contrasts of Californian life To…
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The marvels of Christo’s pyramid in Hyde Park
Christo’s latest floating project has landed in the heart of London and made quite a splash, writes Anthony Haden-Guest It…
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Sotheby’s slumps in high-end art, while Christie’s achieves ‘sale of the century’
A disappointing half-year at the auction house signals to the intensity of competition at the top, particularly with its biggest…
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Review: The King and I, London Palladium ★★★★★
Laura Plumley hugely enjoys a brilliant reimagining of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic at the London Palladium Everyone has their…
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Review: Picasso 1932, Tate Modern
An important exhibition at the Tate Modern shows the sheer extent of Picasso’s creative energy, writes Christopher Jackson It was…
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