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🍾 1990s London restaurantsBeing the decade of Britpop, the YBAs and New Labour, Soho was full of people doing things the...
13/09/2026

🍾 1990s London restaurants

Being the decade of Britpop, the YBAs and New Labour, Soho was full of people doing things they’d never done before, “and would never dream of doing again”, says Dylan Jones in The Times Magazine.

The long, boozy lunch was still alive and well. Blur’s Alex James remembers sitting down at the Ivy with Damien Hirst and Keith Allen at 1pm one day in 1998 and not leaving until well after 9pm. “I’ve still got the receipt, and it’s like a bog roll,” he said. “It was thousands of pounds and it was all drinks, apart from some French fries we had at six o’clock.” And you’d be surprised by just how much s*x was going on…

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🥧 Custard commandoNoël Godin, a Belgian entertainer and anarchist who has died aged 80, was the leader of the “Internati...
12/09/2026

🥧 Custard commando

Noël Godin, a Belgian entertainer and anarchist who has died aged 80, was the leader of the “International Patisserie Brigade”, says Michael Rosenwald in The New York Times: a gang of “custard commandos” who showed their distaste for pomposity by hurling cream pies at executives, politicians and celebrities.

“There are a thousand forms of subversion, all of them interesting,” Godin once told The Observer. “But few, in my opinion, can equal the convenience and immediacy of the cream pie.”

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11/09/2026

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Some will be surprised it took a team of experts three days of discussion to arrive at a classic, universally popular co...
09/09/2026

Some will be surprised it took a team of experts three days of discussion to arrive at a classic, universally popular colour, says Katrina Burroughs in The Sunday Times, But the entire industry has in recent years “gone gaga for green”.

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🇩🇪 The AfD victory in Saxony-AnhaltThe AfD’s Ulrich Siegmund may have portrayed himself as a friendly, approachable cand...
07/09/2026

🇩🇪 The AfD victory in Saxony-Anhalt

The AfD’s Ulrich Siegmund may have portrayed himself as a friendly, approachable candidate, but he was surrounded with right-wing extremists and failed to distance himself from supporters harassing journalists or giving the Hi**er salute.

With these people now “on the threshold of power”, Germany faces nothing less than “the end of liberal democracy”.

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🏝️ Bendor IslandToday, the heady paradise is once again open to the public following a five-year, $115m renovation, says...
30/08/2026

🏝️ Bendor Island

Today, the heady paradise is once again open to the public following a five-year, $115m renovation, says Alexander Lobrano in Air Mail.

Its 93 bedrooms are spread across two luxury hotels and five old fisherman’s cottages, and there are four restaurants, three bars, an art gallery, pétanque courts and a crêpe stand.

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🏡 How the rich move houseWhen the very rich move house, it isn’t just the pots and pans that need boxing up, says  in Ti...
29/08/2026

🏡 How the rich move house

When the very rich move house, it isn’t just the pots and pans that need boxing up, says  in Times Luxx .

The elite removals firm Cadogan Tate was once asked to deliver a desk to a study in the tower of a French château; they first had to row it across a moat before passing it through a window.

They also employed a crew of 20 Amish craftsmen to dismantle a cattle barn in Pennsylvania and reassemble it in Colorado.

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👸 Dolly PartonPerennially cinched into tight sequined gowns, with mountainous wigs and make-up “seemingly applied with a...
26/08/2026

👸 Dolly Parton

Perennially cinched into tight sequined gowns, with mountainous wigs and make-up “seemingly applied with a trowel”, Parton joked that “it costs a lot of money to look this cheap”.

But even as she achieved global stardom, she never forgot her humble origins, says George F. Will in The Washington Post

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😍 Democrat thirst trapsAhead of the midterms, the Democrats are going all in on “bringing s*xy back”, says Avery Lotz in...
24/08/2026

😍 Democrat thirst traps

Ahead of the midterms, the Democrats are going all in on “bringing s*xy back”, says Avery Lotz in Axios. There have been Democrats flaunting unbuttoned shirts on CNN and “exposed biceps on the rally stage”.

Democrats have often been seen as “schlubby and… nerdy”, says one politico, but today, “rizz, for lack of a better word”, is everywhere.

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