The final days of June last year were a wonderful time for vicarious lovers of bling. On the 22nd, the third season of Julian Fellowes’s lavish TV series, The Gilded Age, dropped on HBO. Just days lat

There’s a new plague in the capital’s premier restaurants – and it’s not rats. It’s not business rates. It’s not even the eye-watering energy bills. According to the man behind The Ivy, Le Caprice and

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My fresher’s year at Edinburgh University offered a few rude awakenings. The first: learning the university had run out of self-catered accommodation. The next was that the uni’s solution was to have

One of the least financially literate people I have ever met was a friend who as a teenager accumulated an unarranged overdraft of £50 on her newly opened bank account. Having been told she must recti

ILLUSTRATION BY PAUL COX Going full Celt VOICING ...