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Bonjour and bienvenue to the Clooneys. Gorgeous George, his wife Amal and their eight-year-old twins have been granted French citizenship. The Hollywood actor has long had a deep streak of Europhilia, owning luxury properties in Berkshire and Lake Como, Italy, as well as his pad in Provence. Located near the village of Brignoles, the Clooneys’
I can remember when I first realised that something strange was happening to white men in Hollywood. It was around 2014, and my younger colleagues in LA – often British writers, directors and actors who had moved to California to ‘make it’ – began reporting, anecdotally, that their work was disappearing. By that I don’t
I had only been to Fortnum & Mason once before. The first time I went, I wasn’t sure what I was getting in to. I remember that the distinct, pale eau-de-nil (mint green) exterior – its signature color – was framed by cream trim and Georgian sash windows stacked neatly across several stories. It was
Like all men, my dear friend Chris Black is an absolutely terrible person to shop with. He behaves only marginally better than a boy toddler. As we stood on the street outside Fortnum’s, this New Yorker’s greeting to me was, “I’m not really a Christmassy kind of person.” How anyone could say this when they
Teams from two Islamic countries playing in one of America’s wokest cities on the anniversary of Stonewall – what could go wrong?
Inside Roger Goodell’s bid for global power
The pièce de résistance was roast goose with gravy and potatoes in goose fat
Summer is absolutely the wrong time to get out the smoker
The distillers and distributors must be Kentucky-based and preferably family owned and operated
But what would you do if there was no risk of being caught? Some people want to kill
He’s been labeled a ‘villain’ for doing what any reasonable person would do
Exploring the charms of Chucktown
Despite the scarring incidents, people eat like kings in the Anne series
These ersatz pastries are sold without taste or conscience
Villa Treville retains the director’s sense of chutzpah and style
The past few weeks has seen the pleasing spectacle of beautiful female film stars (Sydney Sweeney, Keira Knightley – even the previous Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer Jennifer Lawrence, who once said that an orange victory would be ‘the end of the world’) refusing to toe the accepted Hollywood line on politics, be it by not kowtowing
A new drinks-party-shirking method has taken hold in British society. I call it ‘Lastminute.non’. Previously, the way of not going to someone’s party was to write a polite message of refusal at least a week in advance, giving the host or hostess ample time to absorb the sad but inevitable fact that various friends would
I have arrived in Naples, Italy, after an arduous flight from a chaotic London Gatwick Airport. I’m settled in a glamorous top-floor apartment in the Quartieri Spagnoli – the romantic old ‘Spanish Quarter’ – where Vespas fizz over cobbles and laundry hangs across alleys like flags of endless surrender. Most importantly, I’m clutching my Apple
There’s no shortage of catastrophic predictions for New York under Zohran Mamdani’s leadership. While the city probably won’t see breadlines, the wildly expensive, exhaustingly derivative restaurants that dominate its food scene are likely to become more dominant. Mamdani’s big pledge on food is to ‘make halal eight bucks again’. But it’s a ‘false promise’ of
An attendee collapsed as Trump made a statement on fat jabs
Welcome to the People’s Republic of Santa Monica
The Royal Ballet and Opera’s new restuarant should be a destination, whether or not Tristan und Isolde whets your appetite
It is a place of dreams and deceptions
A talent arms race is driving up the coaches’ price tags – even when those coaches are horrible
The House Oversight Committee found Biden was ‘incapable of self-functioning’
Former Trump White House economist warns patients will suffer
The scale of the problem is no longer a matter of opinion; it’s a number
A world that appears ‘diverse’ in its mosaic of faces and flags has become increasingly uniform in its cuisines
I’m known as a ‘budding plant scientist’ in the village, but homemade GMOs?