Perspectives from a small planet
"The truth is I’ve wanted to visit Jamaica since, aged 12, I watched Tom Cruise woo Elizabeth Shue beneath the Dunn’s River Falls in Cocktail"
"There’s nothing wrong with gold taps, but it’s not my taste"
The first chef to run three restaurants, in three cities, with three Michelin stars
"Let me tell you, there are some really rotten people in schmoozy class"
Screenwriter Deborah Charles can't leave Hollywood, because the flight will kill her
“It’s just like Ibiza. But bigger." When Hurricane Sandy hit her home in New York, Ruby Warrington found that her particular cloud had a neon lining
"London lived with bombings in the 1970s and early 80s. So why does Beirut always get it in the neck 20 years after the civil war, the original leitmotif for chaos and mayhem, ended?"
Reactionary high jinks and high style aboard the Indian Maharaja
Father William Whitcombe on the world of haute ecclesiastical dress and the sartorial perfection of Gammarelli in Rome, tailors to the Vatican
"As long as I live, I will never wear a tie. Not even for my Emperor"