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My weather app is great. It tells me exactly what benevolences—and challenges— the sky will bestow today. Hour by hour. My weather app is crap. When it warns me about heavy rain, the sun keeps smiling brightly. When it tells me to expect a warm and dry afternoon, the sky ends up laughing on my […]

My dining table is more than 50 years old. My parents bought it when they moved house in the 1970s. It was a great novelty then: round, with a revolving centre for serving yourself, otherwise found only in the Chinese restaurants of the day. It was passed on to me a couple of decades ago. […]

You walk into a situation. Perhaps it’s a media briefing by a big corporate. The funeral of a noted politician. The birthday party of your kid’s best friend. Or a street in a war zone, after the smoke has cleared. What do you see? Tina Brown has had one of the great modern editing careers. […]

I recently had to move out of a house my family had occupied for nearly a quarter of a century. It was a lovely old house from a bygone era, standing proud for more than 90 years. It had a Mediterranean vibe, with whitewashed walls and colourful creepers, and Italianate details and flourishes from another […]