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Writer | Reporter | Former correspondent London 🇬🇧Paris 🇫🇷 I follow people with full names. 🔹 Book in the works - modernist architect Roy Simpson (1914-1997) Profile illustration: Thierry Perez
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Harvest season. 🍇Newly picked grapes from 60-120 year old #Shiraz vines growing in low-yielding, dry-land vineyards of Sth Australia’s #Barossa. 🍇Hand made wines. #Rockford Wines. Australian wine making at its tip top best.

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Renting creates a culture of anxiety for aged pensioners writes @caitkelly.bsky.social #seniorliving #safehousing #seniors #affordablehousing #housingforall

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Barry Humphries estate goes to auction at #Christies London Feb 13 - from Dame Edna memorabilia to an inscribed copy of Oscar Wilde’s 1893 play Salomé, (estimate: £40,000-60,000) Farewell possums. 💋

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“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time” - Abraham Lincoln NO. Trump’s scammy #crypto fooled all of the people - the only profiteers were insiders. Via #NYT

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Ella Baron @ellabaron.bsky.social via @thetimes.com

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“Elon Musk, the liquidator”. French daily Liberation calls it. “What has been happening in Washington in recent days increasingly resembles an institutional putsch.” @liberation.fr

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*Role Model* Being drunk. Throwing up in a taxi. Arguing with the driver. Smashing the taxi window. And to the UK Bobby; “You’re literally a white privileged f***ing person - a white privileged man.”

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The New York Times shamefully goes in search of a wannabe Trump Down Under. We’re not born in the USA. Or yesterday. #auspol

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*Spyware* meets *passion killers*…but Zuckerberg calls them ‘smart glasses’. Worthy of betting more than $100bn on development. What odds? via @financialtimes.com

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Villa Poiret, representing the beginnings of #modernism and built a century ago for the couturier Paul Poiret is for sale. Designed by architect Robert Mallet-Stevens, it stands 40k’s from Paris in Mézy-sur-Seine.

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As per the oligarch’s handbook: threaten the mainstream media….cultivate malleable new things

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Land ahoy”. 📣 When overtourism means you’re not welcome… “Cruise lines are not only enlarging their fleets, but are investing heavily in land-based real estate to create exclusive private island and beach club experiences…”via #NYT Enclaves of cruise culture, cocktails, not locals, incl.”

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