The age of Donald Trump is an assault on the senses. There is a brutish grandeur to a president who, in his heavy, shoulder-padded Brioni suits, looks like a buffalo painted by Holbein. Geopolitics has been warped into a Lord of the Flies fever dream, presided over by a bronze face-painted playground bully. Bedazzled cowboy…
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It is 29 years since the book Bridget Jones’s Diary was published, but the column itself, which ran in the Independent (without a byline for Helen Fielding, although everyone knew it was her) and the Daily Telegraph, is 30 years old this year. That’s two years younger than our heroine when she first appears, a…
For hungry children coming home from school, afternoon tea trumps breakfast as the most important meal of the day. And while the average primary school student might be satisfied with a Vegemite sandwich, when Australia’s top chefs were young they were feasting on sardines or perfecting a dish that is now a top seller at…
In a former multistorey car park, models in elegant tailoring walk the catwalk soundtracked by Kate Bush. It looks and sounds like one of the four most famous fashion weeks: London, Paris, New York or Milan. But this is a cloudy February night in Berlin. The brand, GmbH, showed its designs in Paris this time…
Rainbow and gold coloured wedges, an electric blue wig and a black and hot-pink strapless gown are not what you would expect a grandmother in rural Zambia to wear. But Margret Chola, in her mid 80s, has become an internet sensation and accidental fashion icon after she agreed to swap clothes with her New York-based…