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...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...blocks fill the horizon, with the clamour of nearby King’s Road reduced to a faint hum....
...There is the ghost of colonialism too — the station was a pet project of King Leopold II. But the overriding sense is of a structure ecclesiastical in its splendour and scale....
...A few minutes’ walk from the Gateway of India, it overlooks shoreline palm trees and sailboats on the Arabian Sea....
...It’s widely worn in Succession, HBO’s series about the back-stabbing antics of the family of a billionaire media mogul, Logan Roy — the programme has an exceptional array of knits in each and every episode...
...on 400 years of opera, in partnership with London’s V&A museum....
...Offshore, an electrical storm provided us with a Caribbean son et lumière....
...Imagine our horror to find that David Cameron had descended on us with his trail of newspapermen, together with David Beckham and family (ditto), plus the Rooneys et al....
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...After graduating in classics at King’s College, London, I put on a play in Edinburgh with the hope of becoming a successful writer and director....
...It is a journey that takes us back to a time before most of us were born, long before the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act, and Brown v....
...Extracted from ‘Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008’ by Sarah D Coffin, Gail S. Davidson et al....
...The most flamboyant of the new projects are probably the man-made island developments, echoing The Palm and The World in Dubai....
...Just below, young boys play in the surf on the wide sandy beaches of the Atlantic....
...democracies tend to adopt policies that harm most of their voters....
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