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A few months ago in Primrose Hill, I overheard a woman from the Camden New Journal, the local paper, asking in a café about rumours of a Gail’s...
When I saw that Jocelyn Wildenstein, aka the Bride of (art dealer Alec) Wildenstein, had died at the age of 84, I began compulsively flicking...
With quiet, sinister inevitability, the health and safety edifice has been marching through the festive season, capturing new terrain. Arguably the...
With quiet, sinister inevitability, the health and safety edifice has been marching through the festive season, capturing new terrain. Arguably the...
Being a woman walking on the street at night, especially on your own, is still scary. No matter that we live in an age of progressiveness and equal...
James Joyce called Guinness ‘the wine of Ireland’. Now it feels a bit more like the Coca-Cola of alcohol – as much brash branding as beer. Once, it...
This week, the Groucho Club in Soho had its licence suspended by Westminster Council after a request from the Metropolitan police, who are...
Going to restaurants used to be fun. So much so that in the first two booze-sloshed decades of the 21st century, restaurants were the key setting...
Old or young, fat or thin, body-positive or body-embarrassed, man or woman, everyone with money seems to be on a weight-loss drug: Ozempic, Wegovy...
In the showy harbourside enclave of Sandbanks, in Dorset, properties regularly go for upward of £7 million; one bungalow there recently sold for...
Spain is busy with an image update. Thanks to a host of savvy media stories, we’re now supposed to think of Spain not just in terms of package...
The Starmers were supposed to have the moral high ground – at least according to Labour eschatology – and yet we read of their grubby relationship...
Few will mourn the demise of TGI Fridays, which collapsed into administration this week. The restaurant chain’s 87 branches in the UK have been put...
When Black Lives Matter created the figure of the Karen, it was a sign of that movement’s darker, bullying qualities. What exactly was wrong with a...
Over the years, I have spent a pretty penny on therapy. I have also spent a lot of money in Waitrose, of which there is a big branch that I like to...
As far as chefs and food writers go, Yotam Ottolenghi has been pretty influential on my life – a life that revolves quite heavily around food....