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...We are meeting at Dean Street Townhouse, a restaurant opened by his friend and Soho House founder Nick Jones....
...Born from Gen X’s sense of alienation, grunge music and style are cyclically rediscovered and co-opted by new generations of teenagers....
...BID Art on a Postcard x War Child Art on a Postcard, the charity founded to raise funds for the Hepatitis C Trust, is dedicating its next auction of 4in-by-6in artworks to War Child, which provides aid...
...My journey to Corrour with my friend Alison is under happier circumstances and sunnier skies....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] With thanks to Arthur C Brooks and Michael Skapinker. This episode of Working It was produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval and mixed by Simon Panayi....
...On August 17 1661, his guests, including Louis XIV, were treated to a stupendous banquet by Fouquet’s master chef François Vatel, whose kitchen can still be visited. A new play by Molière followed....
...His current WhatsApp status, seen only by those who have his phone number, is a quote from Martin Luther King Jr: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends...
...Attempts to sideline him during Tesla’s launch phase fail after he hires Robert Downey Jr to be his friend....
...Lunn and his pioneering friends....
...In mid-May, Taylor Swift’s father Scott called up his friend Joe Kernen, a veteran CNBC anchor, with a dilemma....
...Nothing immense happened, so I took my mug back through to the kitchen, rinsed it and let it drain by the sink....
...Big announcements, such as the X rebrand or the August proposal to scrap the site’s blocking feature have come from Musk, not Yaccarino. Marketers find some of his tweets galling....
...even some classic r/WallStreetBets “due diligence”....
...We are able to do that only because we reduced the deficit by 80% ahead of the pandemic. Borrowing and debt Next, I turn to my Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister’s pledge to reduce debt....
...“In 2021, I was kicking around looking for my next book, and a lot of friends, including Mike Bloomberg, said I should do Elon,” Isaacson explains....
...Until August by Gabriel García Márquez (Viking/Knopf)Before his death in 2014, the legendary Colombian writer was at work on a novel he decided should never be published....
...Right through to the cautious elder statesman of the current day, still carving out his own niche in the spectacular, if unforeseen and still unfolding, boom years....
...Then, on April 19, a survey of his landscapes opens at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin (to August 4, smb.museum)....
...I will go — and riffing off the Jackson Hole theme earlier — I’ll go short R-star. R-star is basically the economist’s profession imaginary friend....
...by George Benjamin, Picture a Day Like This, a new Philip Venables commission based on Larry Mitchell’s queer classic The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, and Christian Gerhaher starring in...
...the OBR, for which I thank Richard Hughes and his team....
...In August 2015, the steel columns of the Seagram building sliced through the sunlight and confined several dozen power lunchers at the Four Seasons restaurant inside a bronze cube....
...By the time our friends’ children were finally in bed it was 10pm, the lasagne was desiccated and the adults not quite drunk enough not to notice....
...It is a humid August day on the Greek island of Samos....
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