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Watching Crufts and remembering one of my favourite features that I wrote at Bloomberg Dog racism! Weird diseases! Bitter rivalry! Behind the Show for Man’s Best Friend Lurks a Ruthless Competition www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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What a story The Cold War murder of our star reporter — solved after 48 years www.thetimes.com/article/c82d...

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This is genuinely fascinating

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Look! My story's on @londoncentric.media! What happens when your phone is (almost inevitably) stolen while you're walking around central London www.londoncentric.media/p/kitchen-fo...

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How to avoid price drops, why should avoid "faster" handbags, and why not all "newness" is novel A guide to luxury handbags as an asset class www.darkluxury.news/p/hermes-bir...

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In luxury just two per cent of customers are responsible for 40 per cent of sales Why luxury is in its Marie Antoinette era open.substack.com/pub/darkluxu...

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Looking forward to settling down and watching the new Meghan documentary tonight

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The US may have $4 a gallon gas but the UK has £2.50 a dozen eggs

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Even the smaller stories about what US cabinet members are up to during routine ceremonial visits are thoroughly weird archive.is/zwIde#select...

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Queues for pints in London as the sun comes out, gorgeous

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Harassment, abuse, low pay and HR in the pocket of the CEO. This report by @bectu.bsky.social about what it’s really like working in the UK fashion industry is a must-read. open.substack.com/pub/darkluxu...

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Must read investigation into organised crime operating in and around one of the world’s most luxurious department stores

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Logging on to check out my share portfolio in the week Trump attempts to upend generations of Western policy and takes sides with Russia’s propaganda. Up 1%. Ok then.

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Thread about a very interesting earnings call from Hermès CEO Axel Dumas

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

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The fact that the US postal service briefly decided to shut down all parcels coming from China because of a Trump order and then said actually we’re not going to do that is about the 17th most newsworthy thing today

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Our investigation into how Chinese gangs smuggle Louis Vuitton handbags out of Europe, and cash in 21% VAT refunds is now live on Jing Daily jingdaily.com/posts/china-...

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Chinese gangs are tricking Louis Vuitton staff to get cheaper handbags to service the $100 billion grey market. @darkluxury.news can exclusively reveal the gangs' latest innovation: cashing in extra profit by fraudulently claiming EU VAT refunds on those purchases.

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Haven’t been able to stop thinking about Ryan’s reporting about what happened to Twitter since the election - Musk is trying to dismantle the US federal government

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If you’re interested in the €1.5 trillion luxury business, you should really sign up to my newsletter to get the scoop going out later today darkluxury.news This is the kind of exclusive that billionaire LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault will want to read

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I’ve done a lot of embarrassing things in my life but I’ve never lost a U.S. history debate with Donald Trump and then gone on a podcast to boast about it

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Billionaire LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault announced his company's financial results for 2024 this week, and what he didn’t say was perhaps as important as what he did He dodged a question about US tariffs, instead criticising French taxes He also not-so-subtly marked his childrens' homework...

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A real pleasure to talk about the start-up @darkluxury.news I'm working on with Charlotte, I hope you'll tune in to listen

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The US Federal government operating in the similar way to how Twitter did after Elon Musk purchased it Of course, the US Federal government is not a start-up, but worth remembering Twitter has been estimated to be worth about 20% of its pre-purchase valuation www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Krugman: “I’m scared now in a way I wasn’t in the 1970s.” open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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I’m not sure how making Americans paying 25% more for Colombian coffee and oil is meant to get Colombia to do things Trump wants, but I guess we are about to find out

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The Suffragette line is great and all, but it creates a yearning in me for the Suffragist line I want to violently bomb between Wanstead Park and Upper Holloway No walking for me, I want a woke it to the max on the Overground line

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Exclusive: Savile Row's Kilgour is coming back from the dead Famous for dressing Cary Grant in North by Northwest in its heydey, it's the latest chapter in the messy rise, fall, and now, rise again of this famous menswear brand www.darkluxury.news/p/savile-row...

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As ever with the Royal Family, it all comes down to money

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Jake Chansley, the far-right conspiracy theorist and Capitol rioter who was pardoned by President Donald Trump on Monday, plans to buy some guns to celebrate. www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-shaman...

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What the fuck was that salute from Musk

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The harshest of hats for Melania. Could put an eye out with that thing.

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I just wish AI tools would get out of the way of web tools Sometimes (often!) I just want to read a document, read a transcript, READ an email, not summarise it or manipulate it in some way

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There are so many weird and bad potential consequences of TikTok just shutting down to US users on Sunday I found out that luxury brands, which spend millions on TikTok, are scrabbling around trying to get refunds for already paid ad campaigns

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Pitti Uomo is the slightly chaotic, sometimes silly, but ultimately very serious trade show in Florence, Italy for the menswear industry. 🧵

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Seems kind of grossly appropriate timing for David Lynch to die as Mulholland Drive and surroundings of the Inland Empire smoulders, in the twilight time before the U.S. hands power back to Trump. The weather forecast is not good.

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Building on literal bomb sites. www.thedailybeast.com/jared-kushne...

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Trump's threat to put 25% tariffs on Canada is an interesting one. The U.S. gets 60% of its crude oil from there, along with almost all of its natural gas, large amounts of its electricity imports, and lots of uranium for nuclear power. www.thedailybeast.com/fuming-canad...

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The height of flags has become a political touchpoint in the U.S. www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-newsom...

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UK share trading platform Freetrade has agreed to be sold to IG group for £160 million

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