All the words in ‘Courvoisier Great Gatsby Pop-up at Harrods’ are fabulous apart from ‘pop-up’, which I’m afraid I tend to associate with cheap, temporary, cardboardy, hipster flights of fancy. Fortunately, the other words here have such strong connotations of cultural longevity that ‘pop-up’ is drowned out. A dark, dark [...]
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Cutty Sark: Good Enough For Scorsese
Go on, admit it. You can’t always reach for a bottle of fine single malt, which means that where needs must, a blend...
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RAW Fayre: Western Slovenia
Outsize ants crawl over crazy paving at the Klinec homestead’s terrace. The vista in their midst – Medana’s...
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Duvel Triple Hop
Might I point out that sprint has sprung. Isn’t it obvious? Cold wintery nights, grey dull days, bitter winds and...
The Luggage Room
We stroll up to the front of the hotel, searching for a likely entrance. There’s nothing. We enter the hotel through the revolving door and search the foyer. Still nothing. We find a doorman and discreetly make enquiries about a ‘Luggage Room’. “Ah” he says, sizing us up. “Outside, look for the small, black door to your right – you need to knock”.
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The informed and advertising-savvy among you will know the name immediately. Rory Sutherland. Vice-Chairman at OgilvyOne London and Vice-Chairman at Ogilvy & Mather UK, writer, commentator, evangelist of behavioural economics and star of TED lectures; all that and an obvious love of cravats. And now, to top that illustrious career [...]
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