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DAVID BOWIE THE MAN WHO CHANGED MY WORLD

BURT REYNOLDS WHAT MAKES ME LAUGH LAWRENCE DALLAGLIO THE BIG LUNCH

THE LIFE OF A SEX JOURNALIST GARETH MAY IF I RULED THE WORLD REFERENDUM SPECIAL! FERNE MCCANN FARAGE VS. JOHNSON GIVE GAME A CHANCE TOM PARKER BOWLES

I DEMAND TO HAVE SOME BOOZE WILLIAM SITWELL

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Monday 18 April 2016 Your nest egg could HAVANA GOOD TIME!

become a valuable source of rendezvous’ and dinners, culminating in debt issue, as illustrated by Ross Leckie the weeks highlight The Habanos Cigar (p51) will devastatingly break the surface Festival Cohiba Dinner. and could, through a growing lack of income Profits. It is amazing how Cuba has survived, confidence and a downward economic with dignity and fortitude intact, after spiral, scupper the far from admirable 57 years of US embargo, but it sort of ship we all sail in. Somehow at the has. There is nothing quite like it. The moment we are afloat and the longer we Cuban people are second to none, the are, the greater the chances of us reaching architecture and landscape simply the economic stability we desperately Fig. 2: amazing, the culture and music totally need. It is the emotional response and the A more inspiring and of course the cigars are bureaucratic nightmare which frighten valuable sublime. If you have not been you should me most. In terms of UK assets I fear go (see www.esenciaexperiences.com). most for the City. Our global financial nest egg In the UK and Euro zone we have sector competitors will be unable to resist comparatively insignificant problems, feasting on the whole debacle. Fig. 1: but clearly everything is relative. That said our ambition has always An ordinary Although it is worth remembering, that been to take the diverse and entertaining nest egg we have overcome even more intransigent conversations from our restaurants and circumstances in the non-too distant the bars (Boisdale owns three restaurants past. Read Giles MacDonogh’s article in Bishopsgate, Belgravia, and Canary about Germany in 1946. From those Wharf) and articulate these views in print Arriving on an island off Cayo Jutias, north-west ashes the EU as well as the strongest - whether this be politics, economics, Cuba (March 2016) economy in Europe was born. Boisdale lifestyle, food and drink – or indeed Life has six excellent thought provoking interviewing our patrons themselves. essays on the subject of the European Some of our contributors (who are ith reference to the rather referendum arguing both in and out. We neither directly briefed, nor edited) have ridiculous, vainglorious should all have complete respect for both chosen to tackle the insidious activity photograph of me above sides of the argument. There are too many of the state to both manage our freedom (chosen by Harry not me!) I remember variables for anyone to be comfortably and sanctimoniously formulate the with phenomenal fondness this blistering certain of the outcome either way. orthodoxy by which we should live our Cuban blue sky day. We had driven a To my simple mind, all the facts lives. Christian May, Editor of City AM couple of hours on a rum fuelled bus from suggest that we should leave Europe. seriously questions growing restraints Vinales, a beautiful and remote part of However, the thought of 15% of global on our freedom of speech and William Cuba where the world’s greatest tobacco GDP falling into a period of uncertainty Sitwell compellingly, demands more is grown, to a sea peninsula in the middle and disagreement, whilst each nation booze! We passionately believe regardless of nowhere. From there we took a couple attempts to procure economic advantage of where the argument falls, in the right of small boats to an uninhabited island for out of the situation, using moral high of the individual to express his or her a lobster beach barbeque. I am standing ground as rhetoric, is unthinkable. How opinion. After all, the conversations in in my landing gear feeling like Columbus long could it all take to unwind: 2-6 our restaurant and bars would be very facing a gorgeous talcum powder, coral years? Europe would probably fall apart boring, without a little debate! OR YEARS, cracking open both bonds and equities. And in The value of an investment and any beach. Everything including the fantastic during the process which would bring your retirement nest egg and each case, our hunters have a income from it can fall as well as rise Cuban band playing beneath the palm us to another level of economic disaster trees had been shipped out that morning with untold violent recriminations Fconverting it into an annuity glittering reputation. The decision as a result of market and currency and had never been done before. There between and within the nations that was your only option. But following to access your pension savings is an fluctuations and you may not get is not room on this page for the words to once made up Europe as we descend describe that perfect day, but God was it into an abyss. Call me lily-livered but I Ranald Macdonald the changes in the law last year, extremely important one. Before you back the amount originally invested. fun! Soon we returned to the civilization think the world is just too vulnerable. If Editor-in-Chief Boisdale Life Magazine you can now fashion your nest egg do so, Artemis strongly advises you of Havana and non-stop lunches, bar things slow anymore the endemic global Founder Boisdale Restaurants & Bars into a valuable source of income to seek advice from a financial Profits. 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DAVID BOWIE: THE MAN WHO THE CASE FOR BREXIT CHANGED MY WORLD Roger Bootle Jonathan Wingate 30 18 WHY WE MUST REMAIN IN EUROPE WHAT MAKES ME LAUGH Diego Zuluaga Burt Reynolds 34 20 "JUST A GUY FROM SCUNTHORPE" PROTECT OUR SOVEREIGNTY HAVE FAITH NIGEL DEMPSTER REMEMBERED TONY JACKLIN Kate Hoey IN A GREAT BRITAIN John McEntee Danny Scott 36 Nigel Farage 22 26 40 WHY 9 OUT 0F 10 SCIENTISTS A WEEK WITH “THE KING OF SHAVES” IF I RULED THE WORLD PREFER EUROPE BREXIT IS INSANITY Will King Ferne McCann Jo Johnson Bruce Anderson 24 28 38 41

COMMENT LIFESTYLE

THE CONCIERGE Mark Palmer 53

THE BOISDALE TRAVELLERS CLUB Small Luxury Hotels 54

NEXT GENERATION WATCHES Timothy Barber OUR TAX SYSTEM "STICKS AND STONES..." HOW MUCH 56 IS APPALLING OFFENCE SHOULD WE TAKE? THE LIFE OF Jonathan Isaby Christian May SERIOUS WRIST AUCTION A SEX JOURNALIST 43 48 Michael Karam Gareth May 58 65 DON’T LET'S BE BEASTLY THE DEMANDS OF DEBT TO THE GERMANS A FLIM-FLAM’S FLYNN… PRIVATE AVIATION SMOKIN’ HOT Giles MacDonogh Ross Leckie Rory Ross Nick Hammond 44 51 61 69 TONDA METROGRAPHE Steel case Chronograph automatic movement Date in an aperture FOOD & DRINK MUSIC Integrated titanium / steel bracelet Made in Switzerland THE AMBASSADOR BOOGIE WOOGIE NIGHTS www.parmigiani.ch Jean-Marc Lallier-Deutz Jools Holland 71 87

GIVE GAME A CHANCE FIRE IN THE BLOOD: Tom Parker Bowles LISA SIMONE 73 Jonathan Wingate 88 I DEMAND TO HAVE SOME BOOZE! THE BOISDALE MENU William Sitwell Lawrence Dallaglio vs. BOISDALE LIVE JAZZ, BLUES & SOUL 75 Nancy Dell'Olio Richard Pite ATELIER PARMIGIANI 81 91 97 MOUNT STREET, MAYFAIR, LONDON W1K 2TD, TEL. 020 7495 5172 A SHORT HISTORY OF ITALIAN FOOD IN BRITAIN MISS WHISKY THE CORNBURY WHISKY INTERVIEW LONDON SELFRIDGES, THE WONDER ROOM | ARIJE Bill Knott Alwynne Gwilt Harry Owen WATCHES OF SWITZERLAND | FROST OF LONDON | BEAU GEMS 77 84 99 BIRMINGHAM RUDELLS | HARROGATE & YORK ODGEN | LEICESTER LUMBERS SCOTLAND AND NEWCASTLE ROX DIAMONDS AND THRILLS | TUNBRIDGE WELLS G COLLINS AND SON 11

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DIARY DIARY BOISDALE EVENTS JONATHAN ROSS CROWNED SNOW QUEEN CIGAR SMOKER DAVOS 2016 LISA SIMONE OF THE YEAR 2015, FOUNDED BY BOISDALE DECEMBER 2, 2015 Not wanting to miss out on the World Economic Forum – Boisdale sent a On 19 January Boisdale Canary Wharf saw Lisa Simone and her band team to host the Aberdeen Asset Bar – including Bar Manager, Joe Boxall perform for three nights – turn to page 86 to read our exclusive Tuesday 1 December 2015 saw Boisdale of Canary Wharf honour both cigar aficionados and celebrity cigar smokers If you would like Boisdale to pop-up at one of your own events, in interview with her. from around the world at the highly esteemed Snow Queen Cigar Smoker of the Year Awards Dinner 2015. Jonathan Switzerland or otherwise please email [email protected] Ross was awarded the trophy for The Snow Queen Cigar Smoker of The Year 2015, whilst legendary Hollywood actor and director, Burt Reynolds scooped the Snow Queen Lifetime Cigar Achievement Award.

Tapiwa Romeo Murisa, Jonathan Ross and Mark Thomson of Glenfiddich helps light a cigar BURNS NIGHT AT BOISDALE Harvey Ross for James Buntin, Balvenie Whisky Ambassador

Ferne McCann alongside Pipe Major Willy Cochrane and Ranald Macdonald, in Boisdale of Belgravia

Journalist & broadcaster Andrew Neil with Cigar Awards host Tom Parker Bowles and Jonathan Ross accepts The Snow Queen Cigar historian and author Peter Frankopan Boisdale Life Editor-at-Large Paddy Renouf Smoker of the Year Award 2015

THE BOISDALE WATCH CLUB

On 7 December Boisdale of Canary Wharf hosted the inaugural Boisdale Watch Club event in association with Assetsure. The first event offered a unique insight into the world of Bremont Watches where founder, Giles English spoke. The next Boisdale Watch Club event will be held on June the 15th and feature pieces from the new Patek Philippe Baselworld collection – to register your interest please email [email protected]

Cuban Ambassador Her Excellency Mrs Teresita Vicente Sotolongo and Jemma Freeman, Managing Guests included, Mitchell Orchant, Managing Director of cigar importers Hunters & Frankau Director of C.Gars

Giles English, Co-Founder of Bremont Watches alongside Harry Owen, MD of The Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, The Snow Queen Vodka team, including Roman Park, The Spectator's, Lara Prendergast with journalist, Boisdale Media & Commercial Director, Boisdale Restaurant Group Guests attend the inaugural Boisdale Watch Club Burt Reynolds MD and Natallia Kazimirava, Marketing Director Petronella Wyatt

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Pierre Koffmann (left) one of a handful of chefs in the UK to have been awarded Maria Ines Pina of Cloudy Bay Estates & Wines (middle) with Anouschka Menzies the coveted three Michelin stars at his restaurant La Tante Claire in London Founding Director & Head of Bacchus PR (right)

Pierre Koffmann, Bill Knott, Richard Corrigan, Silvano Giraldin and Ranald Macdonald 14 Pacific Oysters and 6 Natives were judged at the event

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DIARY BOISDALE JAZZ & CIGAR CLUB HAVANA JAUNT 2016

22 intrepid Boisdale members attended. Highlights included a lobster barbeque on an uninhabited island beach with a Cuban band, The Habanos Cohiba Dinner and the greatest malt whisky tasting ever to be held in Cuba hosted by Daniel Marshall with six expressions of the iconic Glenfiddich including the legendary 25 year old.

Our lunch venue in Vinales

The view of the tobacco plantation at lunch Anita Hough says it a tight squeeze!

Alan O’Sullivan & Henry Brett deep in thought Taxi to lunch! Uninhabited island lobster lunch on beach

Nicko Goncharoff, Sophia & Jacky in Orange taxi Ranald in pink car chosen by David Burnside Lunch at the National

Boisdale Glenfiddich Malt whisky Tasting at The Nacional hosted by Daniel Marshal left to right: (1) David Burnside, Andrew Macdonald, Count Gelardi, Georg Anderson (2) British Ambassador to Cuba Tim Cole, Daniel Marshal, Stephen Gibbs (3) Jemma Freeman & Gerry Stonhill

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modus operandi crystal clear when he he was writing about. by his passing. It is heartbreaking and DAVID BOWIE: THE MAN WHO CHANGED MY WORLD released Changes in 1971: “Turn and As an artist, Bowie had everything. very strange to think of a world without face the strange changes / Just gonna He was highly intelligent, innovative, him in it, but I will always be incredibly WORDS BY JONATHAN WINGATE have to be a different man.” Different artistically brave, provocative, eerily proud and grateful that he was in my MUSIC JOURNALIST AND BROADCASTER was one way of putting it, I suppose. ageless and impossibly cool. He left life for a few years. He was funny, kind, Contrary to his ultra-serious public an indelible mark on the musical and charming and inspiring… everything persona, Bowie laughed a lot. He would cultural landscape. Of course, there you would hope he would be. artist who synthesized complex avant- often joke about his poor recollection have been many great artists who have When I first heard the news that he garde concepts into coherent work that of the past, which he put down to his deeply touched the hearts and minds of hedonistic lifestyle back in the day. millions of people all over the world. “My memory’s like Swiss cheese… Kurt Vonnegut once wrote that that full of holes,” is a line I remember him Contrary to his ultra-serious public the only plausible mission of the artist saying on numerous occasions, always is to “make people feel they’re glad to accompanied by a huge, belly-aching persona, Bowie laughed a lot. be alive, at least a little bit.” Bowie was laugh, as if the joke had only just come one of only a handful of musicians who to him. The truth was, while the Bowie managed to make people feel like that. I knew, knew exactly who he was at On 6th July 1972, David Bowie and that point, I suspect that he sometimes achieved what we call legendary status, had passed away, I felt physically sick. the Spiders From Mars made their wasn’t quite sure who he used to be. but who left a mark like his? He was a one- Almost immediately, my phone started debut on Top Of The Pops when they He spoke like a man who wouldn’t off. After his death, I was struck, though ringing off the hook with requests for performed Starman. “I had to phone recognise his younger self if he passed not remotely surprised, by how much interviews, yet I was in a daze. The someone, so I picked on you hoo hoo,” him on the street. the whole world went into mourning world suddenly felt like a different he sang, looking straight into the camera Throughout the 70s, Bowie played and shock. I was trying to comprehend place. It still does. My old friend has and pointing at every teenage kid in the a cat and mouse game that made him the incomprehensible. Could someone gone, and I never got the chance to country. With his arm limply draped the most fascinating and inventive who had already become immortal say goodbye. “Planet earth is blue, and around Mick Ronson’s shoulders, Bowie rock star of his generation, one which during his lifetime actually die? there’s nothing I can do.” knew he was going to cause quite a stir. begged the perpetual question: Who is He may have been This was a country where National David Bowie? His constantly changing a cultural chameleon This picture of David and I was taken in February 1999 in an Internet café in Charlotte Street, London, Service had been obligatory until the cast of characters eventually took him and a fashion icon, he where we had just finished doing the first webchat on the recently launched BowieNet. Having come up early 60s and where homosexuality had over completely, and while his masks may have even been with what we thought was the ingenious idea of giving fans a way of interacting directly with Bowie, the only been legal for five years. helped to create a fog of mystique that the coolest man who whole thing became something of a logistical nightmare as word quickly spread and the Internet went into meltdown. We were delighted that the whole event had been such a roaring success, although I’m not Bowie burst into the spotlight in a followed him throughout his career, in ever lived, but when sure that the frazzled technicians who had to fix the problem were quite as amused as we were blaze of spiky orange hair and multi- the end, it left him unsure of whom he you boil it all down to coloured makeup and immediately really was. its very essence, the seemed to transform macho, early- “It’s OK as long as you’re really in key to David Bowie’s s Keith Richards once said at his management offices in London so 70s rock and roll into something far control of the image, as a painter is,” success was simple. of Mick Jagger - David Bowie that we could discuss his latest media more nuanced, cultured and weird. he once said. “But when you’re using He was a true genius was an interesting bunch of campaign, listen to his newest batch of Parents were puzzled and shocked, yourself as the image, aspects of your as a songwriter. guys. He was undoubtedly the most songs or just chew the fat and chat about the old rockers initially dismissive, own life get mixed into the image that The Bowie that I interesting man I ever knew, although music, literature, art or technology. but teenagers were transfixed. At you’re trying to project as a character, knew was a serious interesting doesn’t really begin to cover I probably spoke to him almost every long last, here was an outsider who so it becomes a hybrid of reality and and complex man, an it, and I would certainly hesitate to call day for five years, although I have understood them. fantasy. Then the awareness that artist in every sense of him “a guy”. Bowie was more like a absolutely no recollection of enjoying Through his songs, it felt like he knew that’s not the real you - and you’re the word, but after the whirlwind with an unquenchable thirst small talk with him. As you might us all, possibly even better than we uncomfortable having to pretend that shock of his untimely for stimulation and knowledge. expect, Bowie didn’t really do small ever knew ourselves. He seemed to be it is – makes you withdraw. I withdrew death, the main My world changed from the moment talk, although on any given day, our capable of being anything he wanted to through the use of drugs, which didn’t things that I think we met and he asked me to be his conversations could zigzag from Zen be, and he challenged you to think about help at all.” By the time I knew him, about when I look spokesman. It was utterly surreal. Buddhism to German expressionism. His yourself in exactly the same way. Bowie’s wild days were a long way off in back on my time with Initially, I felt like an impostor who the rear view mirror, and he was hooked him are laughter and would be found out before too long. I on nothing stronger than Lavazza coffee excitement. Although could not quite believe that my hero and Marlboro cigarettes. working with him actually thought I was good enough to be Bowie didn’t really do small talk, our From Ziggy Stardust through to could be incredibly one of the people in his extremely select conversations could zigzag from the Thin White Duke, Bowie became stressful, it was inner circle. To call him a perfectionist obsessed by the idea of creating and then always exciting, and would be an understatement, but it Zen Buddhism to German expressionism. hiding behind a series of diaphanous we had a lot of laughs instantly rubbed off on me and changed disguises that were designed to together. He was, the way I did everything. Working throw everyone off the scent whilst perhaps for the first for Bowie, you had to be at the top of effervescent enthusiasm for the things By tapping into the collective simultaneously leaving a trail of clues time in his life, truly, your game all the time – there was that he loved was incredibly infectious. unconsciousness, just like Elvis and that revealed just enough of himself deeply in love. Iman, David Bowie and his wife Angie, with their baby boy, absolutely no room for off days or errors Bowie was not an academic but he the Beatles, Bowie became a mythical to those who understood, or at least his second wife, made him happier than named Zowie in 1970. Special Edition print limited of judgement. certainly had the inquisitive mind of figure who literally changed the way thought they understood. In fact, Bowie he had ever been. “You would think that to 250 copies is available for sale from Boisdale. In his way he was surprisingly down a serious intellectual. As far as he was we thought about the world. He had wrote in a strange and secret code that a rock star being married to a supermodel Framed as seen with UV Glass £640 (Print Only £495 to earth, yet he often seemed to me to be concerned the world was a mutable place an innate understanding of the power nobody really understood, least of all would be one of the greatest things in 20in x 24in) part of the Boisdale Collection. hermetically sealed off from the outside with a seemingly endless supply of new of change and ambiguity in popular the author himself. I clearly remember the world,” he once said. “It is.” Email: [email protected] world, imprisoned by stardom. We ideas begging to be investigated. Bowie music – the idea that a moving target him telling me that it sometimes took Although we had not spoken in (Code: 000163298) almost always met behind closed doors was the Picasso of pop – a visionary was harder to pigeonhole. He made his years for him to fully comprehend what several years, I was profoundly upset

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PEOPLE WHAT MAKES ME LAUGH BURT REYNOLDS

Burton Leon "Burt" Reynolds (born February 11, 1936) is an American actor, director and producer. He starred in many television series and feature films, such as Deliverance (1972), The Longest Yard (1974) as well as its 2005 remake, Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and The Cannonball Run (1981).

WORDS BY BURT REYNOLDS

aughter is food for the soul, and it’s through. Jon being Jon, he came to the of the things I find most attractive in a a meal I’ve gorged on throughout hotel, borrowed a waiter’s uniform, woman. Dinah, Sally, Dolly all of them my career. I’ve been lucky in my life and carried a room service tray into the could make me laugh till my stomach to meet some God Damn funny people. room. I didn’t notice him walk in, so he hurt, their quick wit, was, in my eyes, So I guess the real question an asset that couldn’t go is not what makes me laugh unappreciated, and I think but who makes me laugh. that’s why so many people 1. Johnny Carson always loved them. had the ability to make me Two comic geniuses, laugh. He was a performer; Laurel and Hardy are in my always playing up for a opinion as good as comedy crowd. He couldn’t get can get. Their clockwork from his apartment in timing in their tit-for-tat Rockefeller Centre without routines where they traded stopping on every corner to blows, or pies, or attacks on do a shtick for anyone who each other’s possessions in looked at him. turn, each waiting calmly 2. Dom de Luise was one for the other to retaliate of the great clowns I had the according to the unwritten privilege to meet. In fact, laws of slapstick combat, producer Mel Brooks once was timeless. In fact, said to me that whenever Johnny and I even tried Dom was in the cast he had to emulate some of their to schedule an extra two brilliance and it was the days, just for the laughter. most fun I‘ve ever had in 3. Dean Martin – it was front of a camera. a party whenever he was One thing I will say around, so damn funny. I about laughter, is never be was once in Vegas standing afraid to laugh at yourself. with him backstage, he Once Mel Brooks wanted had a glass of bourbon me to ride around in a in his hand when the wheelchair and do all stage manager came over, kinds of funny things in reached for the glass and a movie, but I said “Look, said “you’re on, Mr. Martin. the thing I have most fun I’ll take your drink.” Dean doing is kidding myself, was so quick to reply so make me a movie star “Whoa, pally,” pulling the Burt won two Golden Globe Awards, for his roles with his name on top glass to his chest “I ain’t goin’ out there in Evening Shade (1990) and Boogie Nights (1997) of his house who can’t pass a mirror alone.” His one liners always floored me without spending five minutes in front and he always seemed to deliver them of it.” If you can laugh at yourself, I can when I least expected it. threw himself on the bed and kissed me guarantee, if you are anything like me, 4. Jon Voight. It was 1998 and I’d just square on the mouth. It shocked me out you will have a lot more laughter in missed out on the Oscar having been of my funk and we spent the rest of the your life. So on a final note, surround beat by Robin Williams in Good Will night laughing. Jon is always up for a yourself with funny people, appreciate Hunting. Despite having said that I’d good laugh and that night I needed all the laughs when they come your way rather have a Heisman Trophy than an the laughs I could get. and never be afraid to laugh at yourself, Oscar - I was gutted. That night I locked 5. David Steinberg was a great stand- because you never know when it will be myself in my hotel room and shut off up comic. I love the way he skewers the your last laugh! the phone to concentrate on feeling people and things he thinks are phoney. To win a signed copy of Burt’s sorry for myself. Jon Voight called to Now I know what you are thinking autobiography But Enough About Me commiserate, but per my instructions, where are the women on this list? Well, email – [email protected] Because all of our luxury hotels are just as uniquely interesting. the switchboard wouldn’t put him to me a good sense of humour is one (www.blinkpublishing.co.uk) Make up your own mind at slh.com

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there, told the court: "I saw a green was affected by fumes from the nearby sticking out of the bars of his bespoke NIGEL DEMPSTER REMEMBERED Honda Accord lying on its roof. There Victoria Coach Station. Ross was furious. cage. We shall not see his like again." was no one in the car and someone told But not quite as angry as Nigel was after At about 11am Nigel called. "You Irish Nigel Richard Patton Dempster (1 November 1941– 12 July 2007) was a legendary British journalist, author, me the driver had gone into Wine Rack. I I had upset him. Nigel had devoted a Cunt" he screamed "You Irish Turd" As I broadcaster and diarist. At his peak in the 1970s and 1980s Dempster commanded the largest salary on Fleet saw a white man with grey hair dressed quarter page in his Daily Mail column to tried to get a word in edgeways Nigel told Street. Best known for his celebrity gossip columns in newspapers, his work appeared in the Daily Express and in a grey suit standing at the counter I the death of his pet dog Tulip. The story me he was writing letters of complaint Daily Mail and also in Private Eye magazine. Dempster was remarkably self-assured, charming and plausible, said 'Have you had anything alcoholic to the extent that Princess Margaret became an acquaintance and informant. Straying peers and medallioned to drink?' He said 'No, nothing.’ His playboys came to fear a call from the dauntless, dapper Dempster. At his death, the editor of the Daily Mail speech was incoherent and his eyes Paul Dacre was reported as saying: "His scoops were the stuff of legend and his zest for life inexhaustible". were glazed. I could smell liquor on his At about 11am Nigel called – "You Irish Cunt" breath despite being a distance of at least three feet away." he screamed "You Irish Turd". WORDS BY JOHN MCENTEE, Tests later revealed Dempster had DAILY MAIL DIARIST almost double the legal alcohol limit in his blood stream, magistrates were told. He was eventually convicted of included a photograph of the elderly to Rosie Boycott my Editor and Lord unshine bathed Nigel Dempster’s and triumphs of Royalty, tycoons, Winstock, said he could find no evidence drink driving banned for two years and Chihuahua. The prose dripped with Hollick proprietor of the Express. And window table at the Savoy's River politicians, pop stars, racing figures and that he was suffering from the blood- fined £1,500. It transpired that he had pathos, "The Dempster household is in on the verge of tears he added: "My dog Room when I joined the great the occasional television personality. injury disorder. Nigel's lawyer, Robin drunk an entire bottle of wine before mourning... Christmas will never be the isn't even buried yet. I will never forgive diarist for lunch. “Would you like He was the supreme practitioner of Faley, said his phobia was so severe that driving the short distance you. I shall never speak to a drink?" asked the man dubbed by his craft numbering Princess Margaret, he had never had a tetanus injection and to pay his newspaper bill. you again." Before hanging Private Eye magazine as: “The Greatest Robert Sangster and Jimmy Goldsmith took gas and Valium during visits to his After eventually getting his up he threatened to write Living Englishman.” among his wide circle of friends. dentist. Dr Winstock said: "He told me licence back Nigel’s driving to the RSPCA reporting me I nodded. He beckoned to the hovering But throughout his career his drinking he'd had a fear of needles all his life. He became life threatening. But for keeping a wild animal waiter. He lifted the dripping bottle of was heroic. In tandem with his Olympic said it stemmed from the age of 12 or 14, it had nothing to do with indoors. Chablis from the ice bucket nestling style consumption were his epic battles when some blood was taken from him. drink. His friend Michael He did indeed write letters alongside the linen tablecloth. Holding with the police and the courts over He said he tried to avoid films which Corry-Reid recalls, “Nigel of complaint and did cut me the bottle aloft he exclaimed, “Meester drink driving, a habit he simply couldn't showed blood." was telling the same stories at events. I was sad that this Dempster, de bottle, eet is nearly empty.” conquer. Once asked to bare his skin Explaining the alcohol reading on the twice, without noticing. had occurred but thought It was 1.10pm and Nigel had made short for a police doctor's needle in order to breathalyser Nigel said he had not had And his driving was Nigel had over-reacted. work of bottle number one. We had two yield a blood sample, he responded by an alcoholic drink during the previous frightening, he kept scraping Curiously the Express was more. He hardly touched his impeccable removing his socks and instructing the 24 hours but was taking a cough the kerb.” He was ultimately inundated with letters, Dover sole. After lunch we strolled physician to sink his syringe into his medicine for asthma and bronchitis. diagnosed with Progressive telephone calls and e-mails out into the Strand together where the big toe. Another time he insisted that he His most recent meal before his arrest Supranuclear Palsy. In its offering sympathy on the concierge handed Nigel the keys of his had a mortal fear of needles – a phobia had included pears in a red wine sauce later stages, Nigel lost the death of my non-existent pet Honda. With a final wave he clambered less apparent when he had to receive from Marks & Spencer. This led to much power to see, speak, move ferret Nigel. So it wasn't just into the car and drove off at speed back inoculations for a visit to Princess ribaldry in the Daily Mail office about or swallow. Before total the world's greatest gossip to the Daily Mail HQ on Kensington Margaret's holiday villa on Mustique in Nigel getting drunk on pears in red- paralysis Nigel had been columnist, who believed I High Street. We had been discussing the the West Indies. wine-sauce. Nigel also blamed the smell secreting his medication in actually did have a ferret! possibility of my coming to work with In 1998, stopped for speeding through of alcohol on concentrated garlic. The the hope of being able to A few years before his Nigel at the Daily Mail. At the time I was Hammersmith, he claimed he was taking case was adjourned until the following end it all with an overdose death we made it up. We the editor of the William Hickey gossip his sick Pekinese dog Posy for emergency April when Nigel added a new detail. rather than endure the were both invited to one column in the Daily Express. Nothing late-night treatment. His breath smelt He had drunk two pints of orange juice hell on earth of the final of Richard Shepherd's came of the offer but we remained close of alcohol. He made three attempts to – unaware it had been spiked with stages of the disease. At his splendid luncheons friends, until I inadvertently caused him provide a breath specimen at the side vodka during a party the night before at funeral, the priest declared at Langan’s restaurant great offence but more of that later. of the road, but each time the machine his wife Lady Camilla’s house. He was that Dempster might have in Stratton Place, off convicted, banned from driving for a to spend a million years in Piccadilly. Other guests year, suspended pending appeal and purgatory and paused just included the great sports fined £250. Leaving court Nigel declared: long enough to shock the writer Ian Woolridge, Nigel disliked champagne but "Never complain, never explain." congregation, before adding raconteur Ned Sherrin and Dempster had the last laugh on the that, in eternity, a million the up and coming Sam had a camel's thirst for Chablis. police having the conviction quashed years would pass in the Nigel Dempster seen here with Tina Brown and Leith from the Telegraph. on appeal after claiming that a life- snap of a finger. Poignantly Nigel had Vogue Editor Anna Wintour at his own party on Nigel arrived late and spotted me at long fear of needles made it impossible converted to Roman Catholicism and 15 November 1989, at 150 Wooster in New York the table. "What the fuck are you doing City. The Daily Telegraph Obituary published in for him to give a blood sample. But in visited the Marian shrine of Lourdes in 2007 described Dempster, “With his kipper ties, here?" he snapped. "I was invited" I The wine consumption at the Savoy aborted the test. "He wasn't breathing February 2001 Nigel was at it again. the hope of a cure. To no avail and to rakish sideburns and marathon lunches, the effects replied. Nigel then flexed his cuffs Hotel was part of a normal day in the with enough force for the machine to This time he was charged with drink the fury of his family he left a substantial of which would later be burned off in the squash exposing a chunky gold cuff link of a life of Nigel. After he died, aged 65 register," PC Stephen Billington said. driving after crashing into a lamp post sum to the powerless priests. courts, Dempster felt at home in an era when men rampant dog. Pointing to it Nigel said, in July 2007, from the awful effects When he appeared in Hammersmith and overturning his car. It was just Nigel had conducted a long running thought nothing of goosing pretty girls and listening "That's the dog you killed." It was indeed to the share tips of well-placed City friends.” of "Progressive Supranuclear Palsy” Magistrates Court, he claimed he'd told around the corner from his home on feud in print with my Daily Express a gold memorial to Tulip. I protested "I (Dudley Moore was another victim) the a police doctor that he suffered from Ham Common. It was two years before predecessor Ross Benson. Their mutual didn't kill your dog. I mocked its death Daily Telegraph obituary noted: "Nigel blood-injury syndrome and offered to the case came before Richmond Court, friend Peter McKay had dubbed them the same again." The following morning my and for that I am sorry. I under-estimated disliked champagne but had a camel's give a urine sample. But police insisted where it emerged that Dempster had Tonsured Seducer (Dempster) and the rival column included a short paragraph: how upset you would be. Will you thirst for Chablis.” In an age before on a blood test unless he could prove freed himself from the wreckage and Pompadoured Poltroon (Benson). When "The Diary is in mourning. Nigel my pet accept my apology?" He did. Tweets, Instagram and bogus celebrity, that he had a valid medical reason for staggered straight into an off licence. Ross put his house in Pimlico on sale, ferret has passed away after 25 years of We shook hands and the subject was Nigel had chronicled the failings not giving blood. The doctor Grant PC Russell Yardley, who found him Dempster wrote in his column that it faithful service. I shall miss his little nose never mentioned again.

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PEOPLE A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF WILL KING – “THE KING OF SHAVES” One of the country’s best known entrepreneurs, in 1993 Will King founded King of Shaves, the popular men’s shaving brand, having launched the business using £15,000 of seed capital. Will Kings twitter bio @iamwilliamking reads: “I shave lives, join dots and do other stuff too - #equipotency for ALL.”

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’m writing this in Irvine, CA – a to launch crowd-funding campaigns beachside town about an hour’s on Indiegogo! Equipotency means drive from LA, where I’m advising “Equivalent Potential” – and knowledge the founders of a US West Coast start- is the key to ensuring we all live on a up on launching an innovative new level (ish) playing field. technology. Normally, I’d be in London, Of course, I’m still involved with looking forward to attending Vivienne King of Shaves (KoS), although not Westwood’s LFW show with my wife executive day to day. Although KoS Tiger Savage. First time I’ve missed it is primarily a brand based reseller in 3 years. of shaving products, over the years There’s no typical week for me. we’ve developed a nice portfolio of IP Although I’m best known for founding (patents), in fact I’m waiting for one to King of Shaves, the UK men’s grooming brand in the early 1990s, I now have a variety of roles and positions for a wide range of companies. Typically I wake up around 7.30am, take myself off for a coffee at Baker+Spice or Raoul’s in Maida Vale, read the news (Times, Independent, Guardian on my iPhone) and deal with emails that have come in overnight. I’m currently Entrepreneur-in- Residence for Memery Crystal LLP, a leading mid-market London law firm, where I work with their team on ensuring that they’re aware of opportunities with SMEs, especially in the alternative finance sector and go live shortly, which will undoubtedly and how I can join strategic dots working on marketing and strategy. be valuable in the future. up. My business world is all about I’ve also recently taken an advisory I’m married to one of the world’s most relationships – I’ve got a pretty decent role with a company called Feonic, famous female advertising Creative contact list and often match people or which uses a smart material, Terfenol-D Directors, Tiger Savage – she’d worked companies up with opportunity they’d (originally developed for secret military for years at agencies like M&C Saatchi, otherwise miss. applications) to power invisible audio BBH (co-creating The Lynx Effect) and My passion is Sailing. One day I’ll solutions for retailers and marketing Leagas Delaney. Although she’d had get around to building my BatYacht agencies. I studied Mechanical lots of offers to start her own agency, 37.5m wingsail concept yacht, now that Engineering at the University of she never had. But last September, after America’s Cup technology can make it Portsmouth in the 1980s (and was working with digital neobank Ffrees possible. I don’t really view what I do awarded an Honorary Doctorate last (developing their UnBank brand and as work – more “strategic exercise for year), so although I’m regarded as a top proposition) we decided to co-find one, my brain” and blessed with the curiosity marketing / salesman / CMO – I’m a Savage & King. Keep it simple. Right trait, I often get to make the unobvious… product guy at heart and love to scale now, we’re working on some great obvious. And hopefully, some £££’s too! up clever applications. projects (and pitching for some too!) I have a sixteen year old son, Cameron Both my parents were teachers, and unlike most “big agencies” which have from my first marriage and am eternally my “soft” spot is education – giving a multitude of opinion, politics and (sometimes misguidedly) optimistic. talks, or advising schools, business agendas to deal with, it’s just me, her Fierce loyalty is important to me – my schools or universities with my 23 and a small team of people she’s got to best decisions have been made when odd years of learning. So, I might be at know over the years. Exciting. I’ve listened to my gut. My worst – when a school, giving a talk to students via When in London, when not drinking others have opined with what suits Robert Peston’s “Speakers4Schools” or coffee in a coffee shop, club (I’m a them. Hashtag #FAIL. Sherry Coutu’s “Founders4Schools” member of Home House) or more And on that note, I haven’t had programmes. Last week I was at Cass infrequently in client’s offices, I’m breakfast yet. So with my tummy Business School in the City, judging thinking. I play “the long game” – rumbling, I’m off. Eat up life. You only We don’t need advertising trickery, we’ve got treetop resorts and infinity pools. 12 teams of students as they prepared thinking about what I’m doing, why, get one shot at it. Important: Enjoy! Make up your own mind at slh.com

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to take me to meet some of the kids from famous somebody is; it’s just about getting "JUST A GUY FROM SCUNTHORPE" the local school. If I’m being completely that little ball in the hole.” honest, life more or less carried on as I can’t help but mention his short-lived TONY JACKLIN normal. And y’know something… I appearance on Strictly Come Dancing in kinda liked that. I liked the fact that I 2013, which causes a wry smile. “Let’s In 1969, Jacklin became the first British player to win The Open Championship could play my golf, but not have to deal just say that Fred Astaire would have for 18 years, winning by two strokes at Royal Lytham & St Annes. His 1968 PGA with all the brouhaha.” had nothing to worry about,” he laughs. Tour win at the Jacksonville Open Invitational was the first by a European player I wondered if Jacklin could still “Even in the early days, I was never one on the US Tour since the 1920s. Jacklin was inducted into the World Golf Hall remember the first time he picked up for going to clubs and dancing till the of Fame in 2002. He retired from tournament golf in 2004 at the age of sixty, a golf club? Actually, had it not been early hours. I always got my excitement having won a number of events at senior level. Jacklin has developed a golf for Jacklin’s childhood neighbour, Eric out on the course.” course design business since his retirement from competition. Markee, it’s possible that young Tony may With lunch over, we head back upstairs never have picked up a golf club at all. “It for coffee and a glass of Glenmorangie. WORDS BY DANNY SCOTT was 1953, so I’d have been about eight or We’re joined by Jacklin’s UK manager, nine. Eric was talking to my dad in the Benoit Lawrence – known to everyone garden and said, ‘Arthur, have you ever as Benny – from Champions (UK) PLC, been interested in golf? I reckon you’d like who also looks after the likes of Matthew it. Why don’t you come and play a round Hoggard and Coronation Street legend, “Some people cause a fuss if you put ice in single malt, but I live in Florida and I like it on the rocks.” – with me?’ Dad started going to the local Bill ‘Ken Barlow’ Roache. Jacklin admits Tony Jacklin, long-standing Glenmorangie Ambassador club, Ashby Decoy, and like any curious that he is slightly biased when it comes young lad, I wanted to see what all the to his choice of single malts – thanks to fuss was about. After pushing my dad’s its links with the British Open he’s been would be bombed. “For me, sport and Jacklin. “In a team situation – like the trolley around the course a few times, I got a Glenmorangie Global Ambassador for politics don’t mix,” he says with sigh. “I Ryder Cup – Tiger’s ego sometimes used hold of an old set of clubs and cut down five years. just wanted to play golf, but the whole to get in the way, but from what I’ve the handles with a hacksaw so I could use “They let me try all the new stuff, but I thing was taken out of my hands.” heard, he’s learned some very important them. You know when people say, ‘We don’t seem to be able to ween myself off the And in 1988, Jacklin tragically lost lessons over the last few years and is used to make our own entertainment in original,” he explains between sips. “Rarely Vivien. She was just 44. “To say it was out turning into a much better team player. the old days?’ Those clubs and that little a day goes by when I don’t sit down with a of the blue is an understatement. Vivien That’s what you need in the Ryder Cup… ball became more than my entertainment; glass after dinner. Some people cause a fuss was one of those people that never had players who fight for the team.” I fell in love with golf!” The afternoon is shooting by and “I started off winning local though he’s happy to carry on chatting, competitions, then the county Jacklin knows he’s got an early start in Seve Ballesteros and Tony Jacklin celebrate as Europe marched toward its first Ryder Cup win on US soil championship; a teenager beating all the It’s nothing to do with how famous somebody is the morning. He’s off to Dubai for the in 1987 at Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio grown-ups. They didn’t like it! Put a few Titans Cup. As he stands up and slips noses out of joint that did. At 19, I played – it’s just about getting that little ball in the hole. on his jacket, he once again turns into my first British Open and that was it. I that ‘ordinary bloke’. I ask him if ever ony Jacklin is an unlikely could feel this… well, it was like a wave was a proper golfer. It took over my life.” thinks that he’s ‘famous?’, but he just sporting hero. There’s very little of support. People would come up to Its lunchtime and, not wanting to laughs. “Famous? Nah! I’m just a guy glitz ‘n’ glamour, no entourage, me in the street and say, ‘You can win ruin my roast chicken, mushrooms, if you put ice in a single malt, but I live in a poorly day in her life. In fact, I saw her from Scunthorpe who happened to play no look-at-me suits or high-falutin’ in America, Tony. You can win.’ I went chestnuts and smoked shallots with a warm climate (Jacklin’s main home is in that morning and she was fine. I went a decent game of golf.” attitude. As he quietly walks into the over to Minnesota and took the US Open endless questions for Tony, we decide to Florida) and I like it on the rocks.” out to play a round with Sean Connery Boisdale Belgravia restaurant, he’s by seven strokes. A bit of me couldn’t put the interview on hold for an hour or “I’ll be back in the UK with (Jacklin was living in Spain at the time) virtually unnoticed by the rest of the actually believe what had happened. A so. As you’d expect from a man who’s Glenmorangie for the British Open this and when I came back the house was room – just an ordinary bloke enjoying few years before, I’d been playing in the spent most of his life in the spotlight and summer, but it’s a bit too early to speculate surrounded by reporters and cameramen. lunch in London’s early-spring sunshine. Lincolnshire Boys’ Championships and is an experienced regular on the after- on potential winners. On his day, Rory “She died of a brain haemorrhage… it The only difference is that this started working at the local steelworks dinner speaking circuit, Jacklin is never McIlroy can hit the ball as well as anybody, came out of nowhere. In that moment, ordinary bloke happens to have won after I finished school, but there I was short of an anecdote. but there’s a lot of new blood coming into my life fell to pieces.” the British Open in 1969, the US Open making my mark on the US Open. The Like the time he played golf with Sean the British game this year. Young guys like Understandably, Jacklin found those (his 1970 victory made him the first first British winner for almost 50 years! Connery. “I think we first met in the early- Danny Willett, Tommy Fleetwood and first few months a struggle and his son, Brit to win it since 1924) and captained 50-bloody-years! 70s, not long after Diamonds Are Forever. Andy Sullivan – unknown quantities, but Warren – then still a teenager – has Europe’s Ryder Cup team to a couple of bringing some real hunger and excitement spoken about how his dad was close memorable victories in 1985 and 1987. to the world of golf.” to ‘ending it all’. His saviour came in “I’ll never forget that first British Open Jacklin knows that golf has been the form of a lady from Norway, Astrid victory,” says the 71-year-old as we Although I was never a cocky player, very kind to him. Thanks to that little Waagen, whom Jacklin eventually climb the stairs to the cigar terrace for a something told me I was ready for a big win. white ball, he’s landed a CBE, earned a married. “Astrid’s the one who sorted pre-lunch bitter. “I was still a young lad more than a decent wage, travelled the me out… she got my life back together. After moving to London from the – in my mid-20s – but my game had been world countless times, became the most Most blokes are lucky to meet one north as a teenager, Danny worked as a spy, a private investigator and spent steadily improving over the previous successful British golfer of his generation perfect lady in their life, but I met two.” a year installing security equipment Golf is a sport that requires intense couple of years and I knew something “Thankfully, the so-called ‘celebrity’ He was a very keen golfer and started his and later became the most successful in mortuaries. He then became a was going to happen. Although I was world was nothing like it is today. Even own tournament. Sure, you can’t help European Ryder Cup captain. concentration and getting back to your journalist. He once shared a vodka never a cocky player, something told me though my name was in the papers, you smiling to yourself and thinking, ‘Ha ha! But there have also been darker, sadder best after a personal shock like that isn’t cocktail with Mikhail Gorbachev and I was ready for a big win.” didn’t have paparazzi chasing you all I’m standing next to James Bond!’, but, times. In 1971 Jacklin was due to play in easy. Talk, of course, turns to Tiger Woods somehow, managed to get invited to the But even Jacklin was surprised by over the place or people digging into after a while you’re just two guys enjoying the Ulster Open, but reportedly received a and his spectacular fall from grace. “For former Soviet leader’s 80th birthday! what happened the following year. your private life. The only time anyone a round of golf. It was the same with phone call telling him that, if he did play all intents and purposes, Tiger needs to “That first Open win had sparked the made a big fuss over me was when the Bing Crosby, Evel Knievel, Bob Hope and in Ulster, he would be shot and his wife’s forget what’s happened in the past and imagination of the British public and I council in Scunthorpe organised a limo Dean Martin. It’s nothing to do with how family home (Vivien was from Belfast) have a completely fresh start,” reckons

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obsessed-social-media-addict. However, IF I RULED THE WORLD I truly think we should limit social media usage. I've have over 2.2million FERNE MCCANN followers on social media and I just can’t get enough of it. I sometimes lose hours of my day on social media. But there are Ferne McCann is a TV personality and presenter with inevitably times when I look at all the 2.2million social media followers. Currently she can be found beautiful women online and I start to on ITV’s This Morning as the new Showbiz Correspondent. feel insecure about myself. If that’s me as an adult, what does it do to younger WORDS BY FERNE MCCANN people? It has to have a huge impact. In the same way that getting people liking your posts is a buzz, the reverse happens oisdale has granted me the children time to think and explore their when people don’t… or worse. If you narcissistic indulgence to let my own imaginations. are a teenager, it is going to affect you imagination run amok and from I would give everyone an animal to if your peers don't like your posts. Or this moment, I Ferne McCann, Rule rear and look after! Plain and simple! if social media platforms become your The World! It teaches people compassion and biggest reference point, it can very STOP spraying foods with noxious unconditional love. Looking after quickly feel like your life is dull and chemicals and show people how to grow anything other than just yourself teaches boring. Or you're not as exciting, or as their own veg! My Dad lives pretty, as everyone else in the on a farm in Devon and one world – which simply is not of my greatest pleasures is true! When you're on social visiting him, eating freshly media for so long it’s easy to pulled veg and eggs laid by lose perspective and you can his chickens that morning. become very myopic. I love This type of living shouldn't social media, but like most be considered a luxury – things in life… less is more! it should be a way of life. This may be fanciful, but It’s cheaper, sustainable I’d like to gather up all the and would teach younger visionaries and the sharpest generations how to take care minds from every corner of of this world, showing them the globe and create the ‘The that life yields more… when Great Assembly”. Imagine you put in a bit of effort. the modern day Einstein, Next up creativity (in all its Edison, Michael Angelo forms) should be celebrated and Shakespeare – all the in schools and encouraged as great minds, top scientists, much as sports, the sciences engineers and artists under and more academic subjects one roof. Using their colossal on our syllabuses. Accused brains I’m convinced we of being one of the biggest could solve some of the big show-offs in my school, my issues facing us. From climate favourite subjects were art and change, to sustainable energy, drama. Unsurprisingly, these travel and technology… you were the areas I excelled in. I name it. How amazing would prefer to think I was ‘creative’, it be to see the inventions of which is often overlooked their combined intellects! and misinterpreted as being Being a feisty woman, I a ‘show-off’. Well if that’s will of course have to redress the case, I'd like to see a Ferne McCann famously ate a spider on live the female / male balance in world full of show-offs! Free-spirited, TV in I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here – the world. Funnily enough the best men I unadulterated showing off! she also runs a blog called Fashionable Foodie know are the ones who encourage women (www.fernemccann.co.uk) Creativity is the life-force behind and enjoy seeing women empowered, everything. We have to give it free but there are just not enough of them. If reign, feed it and encourage it. The you that we are not the centre of the I ruled the world, I would endeavour to chair you're sitting on now, the car universe. With our egos ballooning out of give more protection to those girls and you drive and your favourite piece of control through every social media post women throughout the world, who are music – it’s all ‘creativity’ – derived and that addictive buzz we feel when powerless to make decisions, subject to from a person exploring the depths of people look at our posts – it all fuels our violent attacks and are forbidden access to their imagination. Think of the specific vanity. We could all do with learning the education. There are so many inequalities, combination of notes that when played art of love beyond ourselves... but I would try to make a start. together evoke the strongest emotions Get Social… offline! I’m probably Finally, I want more music and plenty and feelings, when heard. 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contrast, the six continental members of of belonging to the single market are not is likely to fall a good deal further. The what we now call the EU had enjoyed that great, as witnessed by the fact that EU has already made some appalling a burst of rapid growth. As we know, umpteen countries around the world, economic decisions, including the the British establishment likes clubs. from the mighty United States to tiny Common Agricultural Policy and REFERENDUM SPECIAL It was persuaded that membership Singapore, manage to sell successfully the introduction of the euro. Heaven of this European club was somehow into it without being members. Nor, by knows what further blunders lie ahead. transformatory. the way, do they seem to be troubled by Why should Britain want to keep itself As so often with the British not having a seat at the table when EU shackled to a corpse? establishment’s judgements, this one was regulations and standards are framed. decidedly curious. For hardly anyone Indeed, in many cases the rate of growth MIGRATION MOVES UP THE CASE FOR BREXIT seems to have noticed that just about of their exports into the single market THE AGENDA

The subject of migration is surely On 23 June 2016 the British public will vote on the “once in a generation” question, regarding our going to play a major role in the coming membership of the EU. Boisdale Life believes in opinion and debate, and our restaurant tables have referendum. Yet it played virtually no been abuzz with EU exchanges. In our exclusive look at the arguments both for and against, we asked six role at all in discussions leading up to The signs are that the most porous the UK’s 1973 entry, nor in the debates prominent figures to argue the case – including a Tory MP who wants to remain and a Labour MP keen borders are very porous indeed. surrounding the 1975 referendum. to leave! CEO of Capital Economics, Roger Bootle kicks-off the conversation and argues strongly the It is not difficult to understand why. economic case for leaving the European Union. Although the free movement of people was one of the freedoms laid down by WORDS BY ROGER BOOTLE the Treaty of Rome in 1957, it was not EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, CAPITAL ECONOMICS believed that this would cause the UK every other developed country had grown has been greater than ours. any significant problems. at a faster rate than the UK – indeed, at Furthermore, it seems as though the Indeed, it would be beneficial if people just about the same rate as the Common advantages of the EU’s clout in trade could relocate themselves in different Market countries. The outlier was not the negotiations are pretty minor. Many member countries in order to perform Common Market, but the UK. small countries around the world different jobs, in keeping with their In subsequent decades, this pattern of have concluded more and better free preferences, skills and the distribution relative success changed. The impulses trade agreements than the EU has. For of job vacancies. This was just another which had driven the original six clout isn’t everything. The difficulty of example of the benefits stemming member countries towards higher rates reaching agreement between 28 member from free markets – and the bigger the of economic growth – the recovery from states, each with different interests and market the better. No one imagined that wartime destruction and the movement preferences, coupled with the caution this freedom would lead to the mass of millions of people from agriculture into induced in prospective trade partners by migration of people across borders. more productive industry – were fading. the sheer size of the EU, appear to more It is thoroughly reasonable for countries Then, in the 1980s, the UK embarked on than offset it. and their people to be concerned about a programme of radical reforms which Although different economists judge the level of immigration. Even though greatly improved its relative economic performance. By the time that the euro was formed in 1999, Britain was already slightly outperforming most of the rest of the EU. Subsequently the gap widened significantly as the single currency proved to be just the disaster that some Heaven knows what further blunders lie of us had forecast. ahead. Why should Britain want to keep WEIGHING ECONOMIC itself shackled to a corpse? COSTS AND BENEFITS

So much for the history. From where we stand today, the economic arguments for and against leaving the EU are finely balanced. The main advantages we get from membership are the ability to sell the relative weight of these factors some immigration is probably good for into the “single market” without let or differently, it seems to me that the balance economic dynamism, the numbers are alicemacdonaldillustration.co.uk hindrance, and without facing the EU’s is likely to be quite small, one way or critical. If a country has no effective external tariffs, and the EU’s clout in the other. Nevertheless, there is another control on the number of people coming here are three main categories THE ECONOMIC We joined what was widely referred negotiating international trade deals. economic factor that I think is highly in then, quite apart from social cohesion, of argument supporting the BACKDROP to as the “Common Market” and most Our main losses from EU membership significant. Because the EU’s recent this risks creating chaos and over- case for the UK to leave the people believed that this had very few derive from the costs of EU regulation growth rate has been low compared to crowding in all sorts of public services, EU, relating to economics, migration, Ironically, when we joined the EU implications for sovereignty and the role and the annual membership fee that we almost all developed economies, its including health, as well as placing great and sovereignty / democracy. Each in 1973, and again when we voted of the UK’s political institutions. have to pay to the EU, which amounts share of the world economy has been strain on the housing market. deserves careful consideration but in on continued membership in 1975, it The economic argument was blissfully to about half to three-quarters of a % of falling sharply. Given the combination The early members of the EU were the end the third of them holds the key was widely believed that economic simple: the UK had experienced a long GDP. of continued slow productivity growth all at similar stages of economic to everything. matters were the predominant issue. period of relative economic failure. By Actually, it seems that the advantages and very poor demographics, its share development and therefore with similar

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its approval do resonate with most people – unsurprisingly. They are two fundamental attributes of a free, democratic country. We have lost both. We desperately need to regain them. The majority of legislation now originates in Brussels and EU law is superior to UK law. The European Commission, which is the driving force behind most of what happens in the EU, is unelected. (I might also add that it is unelectable.) True, the European Parliament is a nominally democratic body in that its members are elected by popular franchise. But, partly because of language barriers, there are no genuine EU-wide political movements. Moreover, the electorates of Europe alicemacdonaldillustration.co.uk are left completely unstirred by the Parliament’s deliberations. Indeed, standards of living. By contrast, later enforcement. It is easy to imagine that in European elections voter turnout extension of the Union to the east other EU countries might reasonably is risible. Why should we in the UK, encompassed many former members of take a different attitude to the absorption the originators of the rule of law and the Soviet bloc. Most of these countries of large numbers of refugees. Mrs parliamentary democracy, be ruled by were relatively poor and, once in the EU, Merkel’s apparently generous gesture an unelected bureaucracy, “supervised” their citizens had a clear motive to move of welcoming about 1 million migrants by a tinpot assembly? westwards. Many of them did. into Germany last year was surely I don’t think that we were wrong to The total number of EU citizens informed by both Germany’s continuing join what we now call the EU. Indeed, in having the right to settle in the UK is guilt about the Second World War, the 1975 referendum I voted to stay. But now over 500 million, compared to 280 and a background perception that the since then things have changed radically: million in 1973. What’s more, the EU German economy is due to encounter we’ve changed, the EU’s changed and the has not finished with expansion. Several serious difficulties resulting from the world’s changed. John Maynard Keynes countries in the Balkans, including prospective sharp fall in the German once said: “When the facts change, I Serbia, with a population of 7 million, population. change my mind. What do you do?” It are knocking at the door. Meanwhile, Neither of these points applies to the is a question that everyone intending Turkey, with a population of nearly 80 UK. With the euro we have seen how to vote in this referendum should ask themselves – and those who would like to be regarded as their leaders.

The total number of EU citizens having the right to settle in the UK is now over 500 million, compared to 280 million in 1973.

million, has been in negotiations with disastrous a one-size-fits-all monetary the EU for some time. policy is. Why would we want to subject Furthermore, the migration issue has ourselves to a one-size-fits-all migration acquired added importance through policy? the huge number of refugees fleeing the Jetfly, the smartest way conflict in Syria and Iraq, potentially SOVEREIGNTY Roger Bootle is executive chairman bolstered by umpteen millions more AND DEMOCRACY of Capital Economics. A new from further east, as well as from Africa. Referendum edition of his recent to fly private in Europe For any individual EU member, its It is doubtful whether the man on the best-selling book, “The Trouble with borders are now only as secure as the Clapham omnibus pays “sovereignty” Europe” is about to be published by most porous borders among the other 27 much heed – at least when the issues Nicholas Brealey. Contact: members of the bloc. And the signs are are clothed in that word. But being [email protected] that the most porous borders are very able to frame our own laws as well as porous indeed. the electorate being able to kick out WWW.JETFLY.COM Nor is this just a matter of lax politicians who do not meet with

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firms headquartered in the UK being able It is claimed that we could have an policies mentioned above were devised WHY WE MUST REMAIN IN EUROPE to sell freely across the whole of Europe. equally open immigration policy that and implemented in the 1980s and 1990s Economists often speak of transaction applied the same treatment to EU and under the leadership of the Thatcher costs as a barrier to productive exchange, non-EU nationals. But the reality is that government. It was a Thatcherite EU Diego Zuluaga is Head of Research at the IEA’s (Institute of Economic Affairs) pan-European and uncertainty about rules and there is significant political pressure to commissioner, Leon Brittan, who pushed network Epicentre. Andrew Marr stated that, “ The IEA is undoubtedly the most influential think regulations is one important such cost. curb net migration figures, embodied in through the rules on state aid. And many tank in modern British history". Damien Cahill, a Professor of Political Economy at the University The fact that the single market guarantees the failed Conservative pledge to cut the of the initiatives aimed at promoting of Sydney, has praised the IEA as, "Britain's oldest and leading neoliberal think tank". access to the whole of the Union gives net number of annual migrants to the “tens competition and trade across the EU certainty to foreign and domestic of thousands” and in public support for followed the successful example of the WORDS BY DIEGO ZULUAGA, businesses, thus making transactions parties such as UKIP, which have made UK when it privatized and liberalized INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS more likely. a clampdown on migration one of their sectors that had previously been state- The single market is a particular boon central planks. Brexit is therefore likely owned. Despite the bureaucratic growth for Britain, which due to its favorable to lead to a curb on the number of people and regulatory centralization, the EU is speech. Moreover, for those worried business environment, reliable legal allowed into the country, with important still a force for good, not least thanks to about the ongoing burden of the CAP, system and multiplicity of global consequences for business, tax revenue British influence. there is reason for cautious optimism: its trade connections is one of the biggest and, of course, migrants themselves, who The UK has much to look forward to weight in EU GDP has dropped from 4.5 recipients of foreign direct investment are overwhelmingly productive, well- in the coming decades. It is set to become per cent to 1 per cent in the last 30 years. in the developed world. Global firms meaning and law-abiding people. the largest economy in Europe by 2030, Much of this decrease has come from routinely cite the UK’s role as a gateway Finally, an important but often- replacing Germany as the continent’s the removal of production quotas and to Europe as a major reason for their overlooked benefit of EU membership economic powerhouse. Moreover, its price-distorting policies in favor of direct presence here. supports, which are more economically The second key benefit the UK gains efficient. Not enough to be satisfied, but from the EU is the much-maligned free progress nonetheless. movement of people. The ability for Whenever populist politics threaten the Finally, there are the costs stemming EU citizens to study, work and retire all constitutional and economic stability of a member from the UK’s inability to sign trade deals across the continent without the fear of independently. There is an extended visa and other bureaucratic troubles is country the EU acts as a helpful counterbalance. view that Britain would have freer an important driver of economic activity. trade with more non-EU countries if it Britain is one of the greatest beneficiaries, did not have to negotiate them together both because its dynamic and prosperous is that it makes bad economic policy robust legal system, openness to trade and with the 27 other EU members. This is economy draws the best talent from less likely. EU competition law prevents favorable business environment place it We invite our readers to caption this quote – a magnum of champagne for the most amusing response! probably true, and open trade policies are across the continent, but also because member countries from granting in an enviable position to take advantage [email protected] indeed one of the key drivers of shared free movement means Britons can favourable treatment via regulation of globalization and the rise of new prosperity. However, one should not reside, draw their pensions and use state and the tax system to domestic firms technologies. Brexit offers the prospect overstate the trade gains that are likely healthcare wherever they want in the EU. over competitors from elsewhere in of some marginal, but hardly compelling, urosceptics claim that UK the event of a Brexit. Indeed, the UK to come from Brexit. Half of UK trade is EU immigration – like most Europe. EU rules on state aid strictly improvements in trade and regulation. sovereignty is hopelessly has been at the forefront of the recent with its EU neighbors. Furthermore, EU immigration – is hugely positive for limit subsidies to ailing businesses. But this will likely come at the expense of hampered by EU membership. regulatory drive on financial institutions, membership has not prevented the U.S. Britain. Migrants do not only fill positions Additionally, a series of legislative deep commercial ties to Europe, a highly This is inaccurate. Most key state powers such as the ring-fencing of banks and from becoming Britain’s biggest export for which there are not enough native measures aimed at promoting cross- beneficial open immigration regime, and such as taxation, welfare, healthcare, new requirements on insurers. Similarly, destination. Exports to China and other candidates. They also create demand for border trade have made nationalizations effective constitutional barriers against education, planning and much Britain is if anything, ahead of the pack emerging markets have also boomed in native jobs as consumers, and their net and monopolies virtually impossible. harmful economic policy. When we take employment regulation are firmly in the in the level of state intervention in energy recent years. There is reason to believe contribution to the exchequer has been This may all sound abstract until the latter into account, leaving the EU is hands of the Westminster Parliament. markets for environmental and other these healthy trends will continue with estimated at £20 billion. Moreover, the one realises that senior Government no longer an attractive proposition. The national executive is pre-eminent reasons. Thus a sizable chunk of onerous or without a Brexit. Bank of England has shown that migrants figures were recently calling for state in determining public policies, which regulation is likely to remain in place Let us now turn to the benefits of have higher rates of both employment and support and protection for the UK steel explains why there are such disparities in even if we vote to leave the EU. EU membership. The first is Britain’s self-employment. EU migrants are over- industry, in a bid to get the European economic performance between the EU’s The same is true of the Common involvement in the single market for represented in high-value-added sectors Commission to relax rules about how member countries. Some of the freest and Agricultural Policy. This support goods, services and capital. The key issue such as finance and science. What is taxpayers’ money can be used to bail out most prosperous economies in the world programme for EU farmers raises the cost here, to my mind, is not the tariffs which more, the UK’s comparatively low levels struggling businesses. On the Opposition – Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, of red tape also mean many prospective benches, Jeremy Corbyn has made the and Ireland – are all EU members, as are entrepreneurs from France and southern renationalization of the railways a central some of the laggards such as Spain, Italy Europe have set up shop here. part of his policy programme and other and Greece. An important but often-overlooked Eurosceptics argue that the EU makes figures on the Left have gone further in This is not to say that the EU has no benefit of EU membership is that it it impossible for the UK to have more demanding more state intervention across impact on the UK economy. It does and open immigration policies with the the economy. Indeed, on both the Left there are quite clearly costs and benefits makes bad economic policy less likely. rest of the world. This is, first of all, and the Right there has recently been a to membership. The most apparent cost misleading because the total annual drift towards a more interventionist state, is the UK’s net contribution, which at number of immigrants admitted into with potentially very bad consequences around £8.5 billion is equivalent to 1.1 of food and closes off access for cheaper UK businesses would be subject to if we each EU country is decided by national for the dynamism and flexibility of the Diego Zuluaga is Financial Services per cent of the government budget, or 0.5 producers from developing countries. left the EU. These would generally be low governments, so it is squarely the British UK economy. Research Fellow at the Institute of per cent of national income. However, whilst a post-Brexit UK would even without a formal trade agreement, government’s choice not to let more Whenever populist politics threaten Economic Affairs. He is Head of There are costs associated with no longer be bound by the CAP – there given mandates by the World Trade Commonwealth and other citizens in. the constitutional and economic stability Research at the IEA’s pan-European EU regulations in financial services, is a widespread consensus that a national Organization to which the EU is party. Furthermore, this argument is based on of a member country, the EU acts as a network, EPICENTER. environmental policy, employment and scheme along the same lines would Rather, we should think about the many the notion that immigrants are a net cost helpful counterbalance and in some consumer safety. But it would be foolish replace it. “Brexiteer”, David Davis MP, business and institutional ties that have to the recipient country, which as we instances, as a firm barrier. That is no to assume these costs would vanish in among others made this clear in a recent been built over the years as a result of have seen is not the case. coincidence: many of the pro-market EU

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etween now and June 23rd we will modern and civilising force for good in trading partners. The share of world be bombarded by arguments about the world, and that it counterbalances the output accounted for by the 28 current our EU membership, swamped increased strength of vast multinational members of the EU has fallen from by statistics from both sides. As this businesses. I respect such idealism, 30% to 17% from 1980 to 2015. is the most significant choice that the but this rosy picture is demolished by Whilst continuing to trade with our public have had to make in a generation, the reality of what the EU has done in EU neighbours, we should not fool it would be wrong if the referendum Greece and other countries that have ourselves into thinking that this is a debate was dominated by sideshow found the Euro to be an unsustainable good bet for the long term. As the process issues like levels of child benefit for EU anchor on their economies. With the EU of globalisation raises the appetite and migrants, or the scare stories that have dictating terms on behalf of its central spending power of formerly developing already begun to emerge, claiming that bankers, Greece saw a million people countries, I find it extraordinary that we the UK could not thrive outside the EU. losing access to healthcare, with a focus so much on diminishing markets I reject this and believe that a far massive increase in HIV cases, suicide rather than the economic powerhouses more fundamental question is – are we and the return of malaria. This is not of the 21st century. a sovereign country, able to take our the social Europe of which some people For those who say that we depend own decisions? dream, nor even a supportive body on the EU for our security, I point out In recent decades, political engagement that helps out its weakest members. It that it is NATO that has kept peace in has slumped to alarming levels, and the is an organisation that cares, above all Europe for so many decades, and that lack of trust in our political institutions else, about pressing forward with its our permanent membership of the UN is evident. One reason for this has been project of political and economic union, Security Council and our place as the the realisation that our Parliament is regardless of the impact that this has on fifth largest economy in the world keeps us as a significant player. It is actually depressing to hear vested interests claim that without the EU we would simply be a small island in the North Atlantic. I know that if we do vote for Brexit, those I went into politics to serve my constituents in same voices would have to look to our successful future, as they did when they Vauxhall, not to extend influence over people were wrong about our joining the Euro. living on the other side of the continent. So yes, the next few months will be full of claims and figures, but the underlying principles will not change, CREATE YOUR OBJECT OF DESIRE. and I hope that the public takes the same optimistic view of our country that Leica M à la carte: the made-to-measure camera. I do. no longer the supreme decision maker people’s lives. and that EU regulations override our We are told that rather than losing our Create a camera that’s unique to you with Leica M à la carte. Design your very own object of desire and start your Parliament’s views. sovereignty, we have instead “pooled” creative photographic journey today. Choose from a classic analogue model to the very latest full-frame digital To take an example that has arisen it with the 27 other countries of the EU. Leica M – each and every camera is meticulously hand-crafted by one of our expert technicians in Germany. Complete since the election of Jeremy Corbyn I’m sorry, but I have no interest in the your personal work of art with a selection of premium leather fi nishes, special engravings and a multitude of bespoke as Labour leader. Whether you agree UK having any form of sovereignty over options and accessories, for the ultimate individual touch. Leica M à la carte – it’s made-to-measure just for you. with the policy or not, I think that our Bulgaria or Latvia. I went into politics to Parliament should have the powers serve my constituents in Vauxhall, not to To design and order your object of desire, please go to leica-a-la-carte.com or visit to decide whether or not to pursue extend influence over people living on your local Leica Store or Boutique. the renationalisation of the railways. the other side of the continent. If they And yet EU rules greatly inhibit this, wish to pool their sovereignty, then so by instructing us that we must have be it, but it does not follow that we must a certain railway model, separating follow suit. trains from the infrastructure. Despite Of course, I believe in co-operation the fact that many of our privatised rail with our neighbours, and hope that this franchises are part-owned by foreign will actually be easier if we leave the Kate Hoey is the Labour MP for governments, we do not have the right EU – the resentments that have built Vauxhall and Co-Chair of Labour to insist that our government take over up from our membership of this anti- Leave as well as a founder member of this important asset in the national democratic club could be put aside, and the Grassroots Out movement interest. We cannot even reduce the VAT we could work together in a reasonable @KateHoeyMP on sanitary products to zero. and adult fashion. 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Let’s be clear. Many factors explain these rules or deciding the budgets. Of many more to have the chance to study WHY 9 OUT OF 10 SCIENTISTS this success. Britain will always be course, our scientists would always overseas that I enjoyed in my twenties – a player in science. We have been a be able to call for support from the UK studying in France and in Belgium. PREFER EUROPE science superpower since the dawn of government. Indeed, since 2010 we have The truth is that the modern knowledge the Enlightenment and our scientific protected the science budget at a time of economy is built on collaboration and temper and spirit of discovery will help significant savings elsewhere. partnership. It depends on teams of Jo Johnson has been the Member of Parliament for Orpington since 2010 and became Minister of State for the Cabinet us thrive either way. The issue, though, The recent Spending Review was researchers working together across Office in July 2014. Following the May 2015 general election, he became the Minister for Universities and Science. He is is whether we’d be as strong as we could the clearest signal yet that science and borders. To thrive in the Information the youngest son of Stanley Johnson and sister to Rachel Johnson both previous contributors to Boisdale Life. be, without the funding, the easy access innovation sit at the very heart of this Economy we need to be open to the world, to talent and the partnerships that we government’s economic plan. But we we need to be innovative, and we need to WORDS BY JO JOHNSON, gain through our membership of the EU. should not pretend replacing these rich be building academic partnerships with MP FOR ORPINGTON Let’s start with the funding. European additional European funding streams our close neighbours, not turning our research funding offers an important would be easy when there are so many backs on them. Our competitors in other example of how the EU can get it right – and of how we benefit from having a seat at the table when the rules are framed in Brussels. We in Britain have successfully The UK is one of the most successful players argued for EU research money only to in EU research programmes, benefitting flow to where the best science is done, regardless of geography or pork barrel disproportionately from EU research funds. pressures. And because of the excellence of our research base, it is no surprise that the UK is one of the most successful competing claims on public funds. countries will not hang around during a players in EU research programmes, The arguments go beyond funding, decade of uncertainty that might follow benefitting disproportionately from EU of course. We don’t, we can’t and we a vote for Brexit. They will seize the research funds. shouldn’t operate in isolation. opportunity to win new investment and We put in around 12% of all EU To keep our knowledge factories build new research links. All this: at a funding, but win around 15% of winning Nobel prizes and attracting the time when the world economy remains research money, making us one of the best minds, we need to recognise that extremely fragile. largest beneficiaries of EU science research these days is rarely a solitary In the end, the British people will programmes. That equated to €7 billion undertaking, or even a narrowly decide whether we are safer, stronger under the last framework programme national one. and better off as part of the EU. In this (2007 to 2013), making us one of the Einstein was the sole author of his referendum campaign, it is vital that largest net beneficiaries of EU research papers on relativity. The scientific we have an evidence-based debate and funding. In this funding round, Horizon paper announcing the detection of properly informed choice. The facts matter. And few value evidence more than scientists. The facts matter. And few value evidence more than scientists.

alicemacdonaldillustration.co.uk 2020, we have to date secured 15.4% of gravitational waves – which this year funds, behind only Germany on 16.5%, proved him right, a century later - nyone who wants to know buck for the taxpayer. With more than 1,500 tech companies, and with the second largest number had more than 1000 international why we’d be mad to leave the With just one per cent of the world’s employing nearly 60,000 people, it is of project participations. Our great authors. Around half of all UK research European Union should speak population and three per cent of the the most successful innovation cluster universities flourish under this system. publications now involve collaborations to our vice-chancellors. Some represent world’s research and development in Europe. After MIT and Stanford, it’s Cambridge topped the list of with other countries. Such papers have universities that were hubs of scholarship budget, we account for a thumping 16 third in the world. As one of the most EU universities in the last funding almost twice the citation impact of those long before many of the constituent percent share of high impact research powerful engines of Britain’s knowledge programme. Oxford, Imperial and UCL by a single UK author. And EU countries member states of the European Union took positions 2, 3 and 4. Since 2014, are among our most crucial partners, even came into existence. Monks over 300 European Research Council representing nearly half of all those Jo Johnson is a Conservative Party flocked to our centres of learning from grants have gone to researchers in the overseas academic collaborators. politician. He has been the MP for Paris, Bologna and Salamanca in the We don’t, we can’t UK. Over 100 of these have gone to Our links with Europe are deep and Orpington since the general election Middle Ages, and over the years, our Cambridge University alone: more than longstanding. Free movement of people in May 2010. From April 2013 to May 2015, he was the Head of the own scholars benefited from reciprocal and we shouldn’t operate in isolation. any other university and more than makes it easier for our universities to Number 10 Policy Unit and became hospitality across Europe. many entire countries! attract the best brains, and for British Minister of State for the Cabinet Today these continental networks Some will make the point that non-EU students to spread their wings across Office in July 2014. Following are deeper than ever and help explain countries also benefit from EU science the continent. Over 125,000 EU students the May 2015 general election, he why our universities dominate global articles. Take Cambridge, for example. It economy, our university system is a programmes. That is true. But there is are studying at UK universities, and became the Minister for Universities rankings. We have three out of the world’s now has more Nobel prizes to its name national asset of supreme importance. a fundamental difference. They may be over 200,000 British university students and Science. top 10 and ten of the world’s top 50 - 92 - than any other institution and is The big question, then, for the vice- part of the European Research Area, but have ventured overseas on the Erasmus universities. They produce phenomenal leading the way when it comes to turning chancellors is how much of this success they don’t get a seat at the table when plus exchange programme. These are research that offers tremendous bang per its research networks into good business. is due to our membership of the EU? the Council or Parliament are setting life-changing opportunities and I want

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have never got on with your neighbour, HAVE FAITH IN A GREAT BRITAIN BREXIT IS INSANITY once his house catches fire, you do not warm your hands on the flames. You call the fire brigade. TheEU is our Nigel Paul Farage is one of the most influential and charismatic politicians most important trading partner. Our of his generation and was formerly a commodity broker in the City of London. Bruce Anderson is a brilliant British political columnist and was formerly safety is bound up with its security He has been the leader of the UK Independence Party since November 2010 Political Editor at The Spectator and a regular contributor to the Daily Mail and arrangements. Let us be unflinching and and is usually seen enjoying himself. The Independent. In his youth he was a Marxist. It is often said that Bruce has a realistic. Its problems are our problems. brain the size of a planet. Throughout history, the twenty miles WORDS BY NIGEL FARAGE of Channel have insulated us from LEADER OF THE UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY many dangers. But in the contemporary WORDS BY BRUCE ANDERSON world, twenty miles is not enough. There is a further and obvious - not Union. Our Parliament is no longer to say conclusive - point. If it were in sovereign and a majority of our laws are t is so tempting. In many ways, became increasingly apparent. Britain's interests to leave, it would be made for us by the European Union. Our Britain never really joined the EU. Then came the Single Currency and in other peoples' interests for Britain own Supreme Court can be overruled When we applied and finally signed an accelerated pace towards European to leave. Other financial centres would by a court in Luxembourg, staffed by up in the Sixties and Seventies, the political union. Up to that point, many hope to profit from closer ties with people who aren't even proper judges. politicians who advocated membership Brits had been inclined to dismiss a liberated UK. So where are these Immigration into the UK is now were dismayed by the UK's chronic 'political union' as the kind of high- financial centres? Which of them is running at record levels due to open economic weakness. Europe seemed flown rhetoric which the Europeans calling for Britain to Brexit? There is a borders we now share with the entire much more dynamic and successful. - and especially the French - enjoyed. simple answer: none. On the contrary: European Union. Our political class Our leaders hoped that some of the Although it might sound good over the if we were to leave the EU, most of have talked about controlling migration success would rub off on us. brandy, it had no purchase on reality. the rest of the world would conclude and bringing down numbers, but the They ignored the fundamental It rapidly became clear, however, that that we had lost touch with reality. truth is that they have handed control differences. To us, Europe was about many Europeans meant it, especially the For a nation which depends on trade of our borders to the EU and we now trade. To them, it was an escape route Germans, still oppressed by war guilt, still and which has greatly benefited from cannot control who comes to Britain, from centuries of conflict. In 1945, lacking confidence in German patriotism. inward investment, that would not be a nor how many. amid shattered cities and despairing Confronted by such divergences, it helpful assessment. We also have the ridiculous notion populations, the future leaders of the might seem natural to leave. In reality, This may all sound negative. If from the Remain side that EU membership EU concluded that the only way to that would indeed be imitating nature, so, good. We are living in a world President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker looks on as Nigel Farage, MEP for the is required for trade. Just look around save European civilisation was to move in the sense of the ostrich posture: bury full of negativity and risk. In calmer South-East and Co-Chair of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group, makes his point at the the world. Global trade deals are made, beyond the nation state: to start with your head in the sand and hope that circumstances, there would be a European Parliament co-operation between countries goes on economic integration and then work the world will go away. But the real case for leaving the EU, or at least for all the time, with countries working in towards political union. world is too much with us: complex, renegotiating our membership so that a mutually beneficial way, without the Saved by the Channel from the worst bewildering, threatening. What will it was solely based on free trade and believe in Britain. I believe that The pro-EU campaigns have already need for full political union. The notion horrors of continental wars, most Brits China look like in six months' time? Or political cooperation. These are not we are good enough to be a self- spent a large sum of money delivering that we would need to be in the EU to shared none of the Europeans' emotional Russia? Even if the answer turned out calm circumstances. We are on top of governing, independent nation 10 million leaflets to households across trade with other European countries is urgency. The continentals had lost faith to be 'much the same' would that be a mountain, enveloped in deep fog, outside of the European Union, the country. They too have clearly self-evidently untrue. in their nations' ability to protect them. any reason for longer-term confidence? and surrounded by cliffs. The Brexiters controlling our own borders and caught the pessimistic bug. Their whole All I'm really asking is for the UK The British soldiers who had been What is the next phase in the brutal want us to take a leap in the dark. That negotiating our own trade deals. campaign is based on saying that without once again to become a self-governing, fighting to save Europe could not wait to muddling of the Middle East? If would be insanity. Our pro-EU political class don't think the EU – and of course they always seek independent country. A country that return home, to the country which they Donald Trump became President, what we are good enough to make our own to mislead people by calling it "Europe" makes its own laws, negotiates its still relied on for laws and liberties. effect would that have on American laws, or run our own country. They don't – we would not be able to trade. That we own trade deals, is free to put its own European trading opportunities leadership, or world stability? In believe we should be able to act in our would suffer and we would diminish national interest first and crucially had advantages for the UK. But there Europe, apart from the UK, most own national interest. Rather than the the nation. controls its own borders. If we vote again, cultural differences became economies are sclerotic: most political to remain in this Union we will be helpless to stop the spread of massive new rafts of EU legislation that hold The truth is they have handed control of our back our economic potential and makes Even if you have never got on with your neighbour, borders to the EU and we now cannot control life hard for those in this country who once his house catches fire, you do not warm your who comes to Britain… nor how many. run small businesses. If we remain in this Union we will hands on the flames. You call the fire brigade. be even more vulnerable to terrorism and to the kinds of scenes that we saw UK negotiating our own trade deals with They are using a series of threats to in Cologne on New Year’s Eve. The the interests of this country front and make you think that you're not good logical, practical and safe thing to do apparent. We had always earned much leaderships, weak. High unemployment is to cut our ties with a failing political centre, the pro-EU establishment would enough and we're not good enough to of our living on the high seas, and is a chronic problem: with appalling Bruce Anderson is a political rather that the EU do it on our behalf. survive on our own. They clearly do union and take back control of our lives. were natural free traders. They tended levels of youth unemployment. Where columnist. Formerly a political editor It's a very good thing that in 1940 we not believe in our country's ability to be All it needs to defeat the big banks, the to prefer tightly-regulated economies that is concerned, for 'chronic' read at The Spectator and contributor to had politicians with genuine patriotic an independent, self-governing nation. vested interests of the big businesses and labour markets. Especially after 'dangerous' and there are few signs of the Daily Mail, he also writes for The courage. This time it is not the politicians Well, I jolly well do. and our craven politicians, is for you to Margaret Thatcher liberated Britain's improvement? Independent and Conservative Home. that can save this country but the people, Our campaign to Leave the EU is believe in Britain and vote to leave this economic energies and brought our Tempted to gloat over Europe's if they have the self-confidence and based on fact. It costs £55m every single European Union come the referendum. trade unions within the rule of law, problems, the Brexiters are inclined to belief in Britain. day to be a member of this European Do you think we're good enough? the differences between us and them say 'serve them right'. But even if you

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there are some truly bizarre exceptions. OUR TAX SYSTEM IS APPALLING You will pay the full 20 per cent rate on a delicious ice cream gateau but 0 per cent on WORDS BY JONATHAN ISABY an equally tasty cream gateau. haysmacintyre – your CHIEF EXECUTIVE, TAXPAYERS ALLIANCE But simplification doesn’t seem to be on the Chancellor’s agenda – he is a tinkerer. George Osborne has, in the past six taxation and financial t over 21 thousand pages, literally Corporation Tax can only fall in varying years or so, implemented more than tearing up the tax code would be degrees on customers, employees or 1,000 individual policy measures with quite a physical feat. But even shareholders including pension funds – a comfortable majority concerning tax the man with the metaphorical muscles not on the corporation as some people rather than spending. Introducing a tax planning advisers for the job doesn’t seem keen on the idea. seem to argue. relief for orchestras here, or an increase Despite being ensconced at 11 Downing So the current corporate tax system is in the tax on insurance premiums there, Street for the best part of six years now not just inadequate, it’s misleading. doesn’t give the picture of a man who is and having established the “Office of Tax Thus we at the TaxPayers’ Alliance would particularly concerned about the state of Simplification”, the Chancellor has added argue that there is a strong case for replacing tax code that his successor will inherit. thousands of additional pages to that tax Corporation Tax with something simpler: a The only result is to give lifetime jobs code and yet public confidence in our tax tax on income distributed from capital. We to those working at the Office of Tax system seems to be at an all-time low. The should tax dividends and interest when it is Simplification - a theoretically useful but likes of Google and Facebook are hounded disbursed by a company. This would also largely ignored body whose remit is to As specialists in taxation and financial planning, we’ll give you the most in the press for not paying their “fair share” have the benefit of ending the favourable tax explore ways to stop tax being quite so of Corporation Tax and commentators cry treatment of debt over equity. taxing. But they can hardly be blamed for relevant, up to date advice and always be available to answer your out that “something must be done”. Yet Corporation Tax is just one area that the current mess, given the vast amounts questions through our personal, partner-led service. practical solutions rarely follow. needs reform and the one that often grabs of new legislation constantly being However, the coverage of the tax affairs the headlines for all the wrong reasons. But passed by the politicians. of multinational companies rarely reflects were the Chancellor in the mood, there are The OTS notes that there are now over Whether you are starting out, or settling down, our specialist advisers the reality of the situation with misleading all sorts of other further sensible reforms 1,100 tax reliefs and every Finance Bill reporting and misrepresentation of the that he should consider. seems only to add to that number. The can guide and support you on all your taxation and financial planning facts being all too common. Because of Inheritance Tax receipts take up 0.5 per end result is complexity, opacity and needs, to help you grow and protect your wealth and provide you with this, sensible debate about the future of cent of the tax take, but a tenth of Tolley’s tax distortions that provide the opportunity Corporation Tax is rather rare. guide – the handbook for tax professionals for individuals to use convoluted peace of mind. – so scrapping that bureaucratic, inefficient schemes to reduce their tax liability. TAX RULES and immoral monstrosity would be a very The go-to option for the Chancellor Global corporation tax rules are quite healthy start. A hugely overdue merger of hoping to balance the books is to promise To discuss your situation with one of our advisers please contact: simply inadequate for the modern digital Income Tax and National Insurance could to crack down on aggressive tax avoidance be initiated by aligning thresholds. One and evasion. But this rings hollow when Katharine Arthur economy. The overwhelming majority of companies which pay tax in the UK only can currently earn £10,600 before paying many of the loopholes and reliefs have Head of Tax pay tax in the UK, so calculating their taxable profits is straightforward by comparison 020 7969 5610 to multinationals. Here, the allocation of [email protected] profit (for tax purposes) is determined not So the current corporate tax system is not just by where sales take place or physical assets inadequate, it’s misleading. www.haysmacintyre.com exist, but where value is created. This can become extremely complicated when companies are creating computer code in California and selling advertising in the UK. Income Tax, but only just over £8,000 been created by the man himself. The reason for Google’s recent £130 before paying National Insurance. Now that If the Chancellor is serious about million payment in back taxes and the link between National Insurance and making serious progress in this area, he interest is mostly related to HMRC’s benefits including the state pension is, at cannot continue to ignore the benefits application of transfer pricing rules. most, negligible, this makes next to no sense. that a much simplified tax system would Contrary to what some politicians would offer. The key test is to ask whether, have you believe, HMRC does not “do INCOME TAX assuming we could start again, we would deals” with companies – they try to apply Perhaps the biggest absurdity is the little choose the system that we have now. And the law, which is often far from clear. known “60p rate” of Income Tax. This occurs I would defy anyone with an ounce of That something as fundamental as this because the £10,600 personal allowance is common sense to argue that they would. can be legitimately disputed from both withdrawn by 50p for every £1 earnt over There are many reasons to want to perspectives makes life very difficult for £100,000. This means that income between tear up the tax code, from ending double businesses. Planning future expansion or £100,000 and £121,200 is effectively taxed taxation to removing distortions, but investing in research and development at a rate of 60 per cent. While most of the reform on the requisite level would is a much more daunting prospect when general public will have little sympathy for require significant political capital so the you are at risk of being hit by a large individuals being taxed at that level, there is Chancellor will probably resist any major retrospective tax bill. Some might say no economic rationale for this anomaly. changes this side of the EU referendum. that this provides incentives to “play And consider VAT: while the exemptions But thereafter he should look to make the within the rules” but the key point is that follow the general principle that healthy radical changes that are urgently needed these matters are rarely cut and dried. essentials like fresh vegetables are not to get rid of the crazy system with which Besides, the financial burden of taxed whereas luxuries like chocolate are, we are currently lumbered. @isaby haysmacintyre is proud to provide audit, tax and business advisory services to Boisdale. 43 Spring 2016 BOISDALELIFE.COM Issue no.6 Spring 2016 BOISDALELIFE.COM Issue no.6

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women. A repeat performance was buildings, former concentration camps Red Army were likely to pursue their DON’T LET’S BE BEASTLY TO THE GERMANS staged when they got to Stuttgart. Here, like Dachau, to await their fate. progress to the Atlantic, if nothing they raped three thousand women and The German cake was cut into four were done to stop them in their tracks. Historian, MacDonogh concentrates on central Europe, principally Germany. His book, After the Reich: eight men. slices or “Zones” (with the smallest NATO was the result. The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation was originally published in 2007. 60 years on, he reflects on Until recently, the lion’s share of portion for France), while Berlin, 160 Stalin erected an enormous buffer the aftermath of the war and allied occupation of Germany, which would ultimately lead to a united Europe. rape was blamed on the Red Army, but kilometres inside the Soviet Zone, zone between Germany and the USSR a recent book by Miriam Gebhardt Als was similarly partitioned into Sectors. and set up puppet governments that WORDS BY GILES MACDONOGH die Soldaten kamen (When the Soldiers Germany was going to be put through answered to him. Germany’s eastern AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN Came), has broadened the picture. the washing machine for a thorough borders were recast and some 16 million Professor Gebhardt claims that 190,000 denazification process, which would Germans sent packing. Over two million women were raped by the Americans require 13 million Germans filling in died on their way west. These bedraggled Prussians, Pomeranians, Silesians and Sudetenländer had to be accommodated in the ruins of the Reich. Meanwhile, in the Soviet Zone of Occupation, the A repeat performance was staged when Soviets dismantled everything from factories to railway tracks and shipped they got to Stuttgart. Here they raped three it back to Mother Russia. thousand women and eight men. This was more or less the state of play at the time of Byrnes’ Stuttgart Speech. As the Cold War gathered momentum, two key events led to the division of Germany into the two alone by 1955. She bases this figure a detailed questionnaire about their armed camps that persisted until 1989: not so much on reported incidents, pasts, and if needs be facing courts currency reform and the Berlin Air Lift. but on her reading of the statistics: and tribunals. Successful applicants To some extent the one led directly to 1,900 children were born to unmarried were then given a “Persilschein” the other. German women during in that period, (“Persil Certificate” – because “Persil After the end of the war the who subsequently registered the washes whitest”) which allowed Reichsmark collapsed and a system father of the child as an American them to return to work. The biggest of barter replaced a formal currency. GI. Professor Gebhardt computes that Nazi fish faced the death penalty. The These were the days of the “Cigarette every 100 rapes will produce a baby, celebrated Nuremberg Trials were only Economy” where individual cigarettes and that makes 190,000 rapes. a small fraction of the massive process or whole packets were traded at These figures won’t satisfyof applying justice to the criminals of recognised rates of exchange. Fortunes everybody. Not every act of sex with a the Third Reich. The desire to chastise were made from fags at the time, GI can be classed as rape, particularly quickly ebbed away when it became including those of the Albrecht as the period continues well into the clear that many former Nazis might brothers, the creators of the discount time of Germany’s new autonomy provide useful in re-establishing the shop Aldi. In 1948 the Western (1949) and well beyond the beginning German state. Allies backed the creation of a new of Germany’s economic miracle (1948). But as Byrnes’s speech made clear, Deutschmark that would relaunch 2nd Lt. William Robertson and Lt. Alexander Sylvashko, Red Army, shown in front of sign "East Meets West" symbolizing the historic meeting of the Red Army and German women no longer had to trade the Western Allies were not prepared the German economy by bringing American armies, near Torgau, Germany on Elbe Day sex for sausages or nylon stockings. to go on supporting Germany forever. commodities back into the shops. Still, official figures now give the Feeding the defeated Germans through The circulation of the Deutschmark number of American rapes as 11,000 by the savage winters of 1945-46 and in their sectors in Berlin led directly n 6 September 1946, the Occupation. The Allies – the US in scorched her earth were going to November 1945, and that is shocking American Secretary of State, particular – had come to Germany feel the full weight of their fist. They enough, even if trifling compared to the James Byrnes, made a speech with punishment in mind. During the showed no mercy to men or women number committed by the Red Army. in Stuttgart’s State Theatre, one of war, the Secretary to the Treasury, - raping an estimated two million of The Allies came in hate, and their the few buildings standing upright Henry Morgenthau, had produced the latter - and helped themselves to moods were not improved when they The celebrated Nuremberg Trials were only a among the ruins of the former capital his famous blueprint for a post-War anything that took their fancy. In this, broke open the gates of prisons and of the German motor-industry. Byrnes Germany in which the country would they behaved much as armies have concentration camps to discover the small fraction of the massive process of applying signalled the start of a new attitude be “pastoralised” or debarred from behaved since the dawn of time. carnage within. Such men as they justice to the criminals of the Third Reich. to the defeated enemy. From now industry. When American forces began The US Army came bearing the found between the ages of sixteen on, the United States was going to to control large tracts of Germany in policy JCS1067, which required and forty-five were locked up. The help Germany “…take its honourable the first months of 1945, they came soldiers to avoid all communication Russians packed millions off to Russia place among members of the United equipped with directives that could with the disgraced Germans. Such high- and reopened a few concentration Nations... It is not in the interests of be traced back to the punitive policies mindedness, however, did not prevent camps. Many prisoners died of neglect, 1946-47 and stationing massive to the Soviet decision to interrupt the German people ... that Germany advanced by Morgenthau and to a very them from raping and pillaging their while a smallish number came home armies on German soil was expensive. communication between the Western should become a pawn or a partner large extent, their British and French way across the conquered territory from Russia in dribs and drabs before America’s chief ally, Britain was broke. Zones and the isolated German capital in the military struggle for power allies made common cause. and purloining a few things as well. 1956. The Americans ran a series More important, however, the Allies on 24 June 1948. Berliners, who between the East and the West.” When The Soviet Red Army had also made The British and the French were not of notorious camps in the “Rhine fell out, as many people (including the refused to go over to the Soviet regime the time was ripe, the shattered and their approach to Germany crystal clear without sin, the French in particular, Meadows” in the first months of 1945, leading Nazis) expected they would. were to be starved and frozen out while defeated Germany would be returned from the time they set foot on German who singled out the Black Forest where prisoners were deprived of food Apart from their hatred of the Nazis, attempts were made to eliminate the to the German people. territory in January 1945. The people community of Freudenstadt (“town and shelter. They died in droves there the Soviets and the Western Allies democratic opposition. The Byrnes Speech marked the who had invaded Russia, murdered of joy”) to give the Germans what for. too, but when the fighting ceased, had nothing much in common and The Western Allies responded with end of the first stage of the Allied her people, destroyed her cities and In three nights they raped over 600 prisoners were transferred to pukka many people in the West thought the a determination to keep their little

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sensitive and permanently outraged. This bodies are now banning speakers at a response from a hitherto supine and “STICKS AND STONES…” censorious culture on Britain's campuses such a rate and on such flimsy logic, timid academic fraternity, in the form risks creating a generation of graduates that it would be hilarious were it not so of Oxford Chancellor, Lord Patten, who HOW MUCH OFFENCE SHOULD WE TAKE? ill-equipped to deal with the real world depressing. Cardiff University students' said that if students don't want to engage – illiberal in their outlook and limited in union tried its hardest to ban life-long with difficult ideas they may be better off Both laughable and terrifying, Christian May explores a generation obsessed with taking offence. This new sinister orthodoxy is their ability to debate and develop. feminist Germaine Greer on the basis studying in China. His intervention was a virulent strain of political correctness. Backed by the legislature it is threatening freedom of speech and attempting to rewrite This nightmarish world even comes of her supposedly “misogynistic views too little, too late. history. “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past” George Orwell, 1984. with a new language, designed to sustain towards trans woman”, while veteran For a taste of what's to come, we and legitimise it. Do you know your gay-rights campaigner Peter Tatchell need only look to America. Given our WORDS BY CHRISTIAN MAY, trigger-warnings from your acts of micro- has become the target of radical student enthusiasm for importing cultural EDITOR CITY AM aggression? Are you committing acts activists, who refuse to share a platform trends from the US, it's fair to assume of cultural appropriation without even with him on the grounds that he is, in that we'll soon embrace the form of knowing it? And could you find your way their words, racist and transphobic. This militant, hysterical campus intolerance insist on taking offence. To cut a long to the nearest safe-space? For academics is Peter Tatchell, a man who has been that is currently wreaking havoc across story short, we won. It wasn't easy, but and students who don't instinctively at the front of every anti-racist and pro- US colleges. Academics are losing their pressure from the House of Lords resulted think in terms of victimhood and transgender campaign for nearly 50 years. jobs for failing to warn students that in Theresa May amending the Act to intolerance, these concepts represent His crime was to stand up for the rights a novel contains references to slavery, remove the word “insulting.” Freedom very real obstacles. Student societies of his intellectual opponents to exercise while kangaroo courts pass sentence on of speech campaigners, libertarian MPs, have been shut down, speakers have free-speech. Indeed, he recently came students who wear Mexican sombreros at comedians, atheists and Christians been gagged, staff have lost jobs and down on the side of a Christian baker a party, in an act of unforgivable cultural celebrated together, as a little bit of individuals have been brandished racist, who declined to bake a cake celebrating insensitivity. Words are outlawed and stupidity was removed from the statute “transphobic” or worse. Of course, a same-sex marriage. Tatchell disagrees attempts are made to rewrite history. books. Unfortunately, the celebrations campuses have always been home to with the baker's stance, but defends his Back in the UK, a small but dedicated were short-lived. a particularly enthusiastic brand of right to hold (and act on his) own beliefs. band of liberal and libertarian students It seems it takes more than the removal are trying to fight back. Indeed, students of nine letters from a 30-year-old law to at the London School of Economics unwind a culture (indeed, an industry) recently formed a free-speech society, of taking offence and censoring difficult, This censorious culture on Britain's called Speakeasy, in an effort to uncomfortable or mildly controversial campuses risks creating a generation of graduates counter the censorious and politically thought. Social media has become the correct mantra of its student union. new battleground. The “you can't say ill-equipped to deal with the real world. Unfortunately, they're currently facing a Christian May (centre) campaigning as a pantomine that” brigade, have found a willing campaign to have them banned from the horse outside the Home Office in 2012 of the National Secular Society and the partner in the police, who relish new University for “endorsing hate-speech.” Christian Institute, both of whom had powers enabling them to take action politically correct politics and there's Tatchell was there that day, by the way, This is the state we're in. Student politics, represented people who had fallen foul against people on Twitter and Facebook. nothing new in the latest incarnation of when we marched on the Home Office. left-wing activism, hyper-sensitivity t was a hot and muggy day in the of Section 5. An atheist who put a sign Police Scotland boasts that “we will left-wing authoritarianism finding fertile The certainty with which the new and a puritanical political correctness summer of 2012 when I found myself in his window saying “religion is fairy continue to monitor comments on social ground among the student population. breed of outraged, angry students preach have come together in a perfect storm marching on the Home Office, tales” and a Christian cafe owner who media & any offensive comments will However, what sets the current obsession their illiberalism and intolerance is in of righteous anger and intolerance. dressed up as a pantomime horse. If I showed New Testament DVDs had both be investigated.” So despite our best with thought-crimes and hate-speech direct contrast to the work of the National Universities need to rediscover and restate was uncomfortable, the chap bent over as been deemed “insulting” by the law. efforts – indeed, despite our legislative apart from previous forms of student Secular Society, who campaign for the their commitment to open debate and the back end of this beast probably had it Most alarmingly, Section 5 was so poorly victory – officialdom still has the protest is that the cumulative effect is rights of evangelical street preachers freedom of speech, before it's too late. worse. The stunt was part of a campaign drafted that it didn't even require anyone means and the motive to stop people far-reaching, socially damaging and to be heard, and the Christian Institute, I was running to reform Section 5 of to complain before action could be taken. being offensive. This culture is being intellectually corrosive. who defend the actions of atheist the Public Order Act, which outlawed A copper could decide that an offence aided and abetted by a rise of organised Take, for example, the fashion for protesters. These grown-up, thoughtful “threatening, abusive or insulting words providing safe-spaces on campus. organisations are run by people with or behaviour.” The law also covered “signs Originating in the 1970s, these were scars on their backs from actual battles or visual representations” - just in case often deigned to provide physical safety over civil liberties. Their legacy is being people tried to get around it by writing Student bodies are now banning speakers at to minorities engaged in an actual undermined and eroded by a generation rude words, rather than saying them such a rate and on such flimsy logic, that it would struggle for equality. Today, they're a of student activists, who are teaching out loud. The panto horse represented must-have accessory for any progressive themselves to fear debate, shun dissent a case where a Section 5 “offence” had be hilarious were it not so depressing. student union. Bristol University and avoid confrontation. The recent battle been committed. Sam Brown, a 21 year students' union defines its safe-space over whether a statue of Cecil Rhodes old student at Balliol College, Oxford, as a place where “every member feels should be removed from Oriel College, had got himself nicked after approaching was being committed on the grounds that intolerance among institutions that ought welcome to participate in empowering, Oxford, came to embody much of the a mounted police officer and suggesting words or behaviour could be insulting to be bastions of free expression and non-judgemental and non-threatening problem that's taken hold on university that the PC's steed was a gay horse. to someone, if they saw or heard them. debate: universities. Students should discussions.” In reality, this means campuses. Students claimed the presence The arresting copper explained that the So the Christians and the atheists came be the front line in a fight against petty it's intellectually sanitised. It's also of the statue was in itself “a violent act” Former head of communications at comments had been “deemed offensive together to campaign for a change in the officialdom, identity politics, group- based on an assumption that women or against them. One protest organiser told the Institute or Directors, Christian by people passing by” and the young law. They wanted the word “insulting” think and the heavy-handed application minority groups need additional layers of Sky News, “There’s a violence to having May was appointed Editor of City AM Brown ended up in a magistrates' court. removed from Section 5. We attracted of stupid laws. And yet they embrace protection from the rough and tumble of walk past the statue every day.” in June 2015. City AM is distributed and perpetuate a culture of timidity, That these smart, well-educated people at more than 250 carefully chosen The CPS chose to discontinue the case, vast amounts of media attention and had academic debate. The really frightening commuter hubs across London and the but the police stood by their actions. the backing of everyone from Nick Clegg grievance and victimhood. Perhaps thing is that the principles behind safe- argue with a straight face, that statues Home Counties, with a daily readership The campaign that resulted in my to Rowan Atkinson. The latter gave a bolstered by a police and judiciary, who space policies are being rolled out beyond from the past are capable of inflicting in excess of 399,000 professionals. equine exhibitionism outside the brilliant speech at a campaign event in jump on offensive tweets as if they were the confines of student union meeting physical violence, demonstrates just Home Secretary's office had been Parliament, during which he attacked the gunpowder plot, today's students rooms and are now being applied across how far through the looking glass we've commissioned by an unlikely partnership “the new intolerance” of those who seem increasingly spineless, overly universities. The result is that student fallen. This particular row finally elicited

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second is to 31.7 million years. Anyway, THE DEMANDS OF DEBT had this vast, arguably wanton, largesse generated very high inflation and thus A FLIM-FLAM’S FLYNN… very high nominal growth in GDP, the latter might well be absorbing the great WORDS BY ROSS LECKIE growth in debt. But it isn’t. Such ‘easy’ money is meant to be Exceptional Insurance inflationary. It is proving the opposite. rrol Flynn’s the man. His life was than it was before the financial crisis, It seems to be allowing, for example, blighted, he explained, by never and our budget deficit is the second ‘zombie’ companies to stay in business, quite managing to reconcile his widest in the G10 (the group of 11 so boosting supply, even though such net income and gross habits. Sooner or nations actually), that cooperate on companies are losing money. later, miracles excepted, we fear that the international economic matters. Or take And what if the (central) bankers are developed world will know exactly how Chinese bank loans. They have gone beaten? Central banks have already cut Mr Flynn felt – and how he failed and fell. up by $9.3 trillion, or 211%, since the rates 637 times since March 2008. Interest The reason is that portentous noun, end of 2008 to a record $13.7 trillion. rates in the Eurozone, as in Japan, are debt. The financial crisis of 2008/9 was They first exceeded US bank loans in now negative. This astonishing stimulus caused by excessive debt, both private September 2010, and now dwarf them by and ‘financial repression’ may have kept and public. Since then, though, matters $5.7 trillion. In South Korea, household the world from extended recession – have got worse, not better, as global debt has just reached a record of 1,089 but that’s about it. Now, with interest growth has proved anaemic on a good trillion Won ($992 billion.) Spending rates around the world very low or day. A report in 2014 by the consultancy over three Yen for every one of revenue, even negative and yet with very sub-par firm McKinsey showed a rise of $57 Japan’s position is barking and baneful. economic growth, many are saying that trillion in global debt to $199 trillion Meanwhile, since December 2008 the central bankers are ‘out of ammo’. from the end of 2007 to the second and largely through the money-printing An Oxford history paper once asked: quarter of 2014. With growth in nominal known as ‘quantitative easing’ (QE), the “Was King John a good king? Be brief.” ‘gross domestic product’ (GDP) low, and sum of the assets held by the world’s One candidate wrote: “Yes.” The falling throughout that period, the ratio main central banks has gone up by $5.8 examiner wrote in the margin: “A good, of global debt to GDP has risen from trillion or 72% to $13.9 trillion. That brief answer. But a better, and briefer, 269% at the end of 2007 to 286% in number would be even bigger were one would have been ‘No’.” Is QE a good 2014 – and more since then. it not reduced by the strength of the king? The central bankers answer with China’s total public and private credit dollar (which lowers the dollar value an unequivocal, upper case ‘Yes’, as they outstanding has gone from $2 trillion of the assets held by the European and do to low or negative interest rates. at the turn of the millennium to $28 Japanese central banks.) Even the quadratic equation x² - 7x trillion today. Total public and private The mediaevals would have called + 12 = 0 has two solutions: x = 3 and debt has reached a record 275% of GDP this terra incognita at best. It is almost x = 4. But to the demands of debt and in developed countries and 175% in beyond comprehension – and is certainly demographics there is only, according to emerging markets. As the table below a problem beyond the diurnalities of the central bankers, that one easy answer. shows, global growth has run at around democracy. To us the sheer scale of this What will its consequences be? It might 5% compound each year since 1994. But money-printing/QE is as arcane as a all end in a full-blown ‘sovereign debt the rate at which debt has been growing femtosecond, which is one quadrillionth, crisis’ with Japan, perhaps, the first to go. is almost double that. in other words one millionth of one Or, somehow, the world might muddle In so-called ‘austerity Britain’, our billionth, of a second. To put that in through. As WH Auden has it, “If I could government’s spending is higher today context, a femtosecond is to a second, as a tell you, I would let you know.” In the meantime, we have net income and gross habits. These remain the rub, and Errol GLOBAL DEBT AND GDP: Flynn’s is a profound memorial. 1994 TO 2014 240 +9.0% CAGR 180

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phrase, is just one such example. Which is all very well – but men and THE CONCIERGE women like Luca come for free when you’re billeted in a smart hotel, save for This month Boisdale Life, in partnership with Small Luxury Hotels of a generous tip at the end of your stay. the World, introduces a new travel section focussed on concierges. We And if you make a point of befriending a For50 years, concierge there’s no reason why you can’t begin by asking the Daily Mails Travel Editor, Mark Palmer to explain what he values in a good concierge. use his services at any other time. Many years ago (more than two WORDS BY MARK PALMER decades in fact), I was asked by the DAILY MAIL TRAVEL EDITOR Sunday Telegraph to write a feature about we’ve measured success London’s concierges. That was when I got to know Simon Thomas, who was a relatively junior member of the concierge team at the Royal Garden Hotel near Kensington Palace Gardens. He was a just one way: fresh-faced 29 year-old and had just been appointed the youngest Vice President of the Society of the Gold Keys – “Clef D’Or”. I remember Simon telling me that the words he liked to say best were “leave it We only win when with me” and “yes, all taken care of.” But clearly some tasks are easier than others. Once, Simon was approached by a music promoter, who was looking for a birthday present for Eric Clapton. He wanted to present him with a golden our clients win. pheasant. Simon rang London Zoo and was given the number of a breeder in Scotland. Within hours, the pheasant was View from the Hotel Splendido, Portofino strutting around Clapton's country Estate. “Sir, this will be no problem” came Then there was the Kuwaiti the reply. businessman who asked Simon to get he things we do for love. When “Luca, on our first night can you make hold of the best possible industrial I was courting my (second) wife sure our table is outside on the terrace machinery for slicing bread, which he There was a time when investment bankers were trusted partners and some 15 years ago I thought it a and not indoors?” wanted to take back to his factory in the good idea to whisk her off to Portofino. “Sir, I have booked the terrace – and a Middle East. No problem. advisors to their clients. The goal was simple: relentlessly commit to It was important that things should go table nearest the sea.“ I’ve followed Simon’s career ever since. right. I daresay I hoped to impress her a And so on. He started as a page boy at the Grosvenor your clients; be hardworking and humble; stay unconflicted in your work little – not about my wealth (derisory at The day before we walked through the House, complete with pillbox hat and the best of times) or my chiselled abs (non- doors of the hotel – with Rex Harrison’s white gloves. After the Royal Garden and uncompromising in your values. The rest will take care of itself. existent) but by my ability to get things former villa round the corner and Dolce Hotel he moved to Chancery Court Hotel sorted. I was never going to have a double- Gabbana’s summer residence perched on now the Rosewood in Holborn, then barrelled surname such as “Mr Good- the headland (all tasty morsels of local to Brown’s in Albemarle St and is now Our success proves there’s still room in the world for a firm that embraces Looking,” but I knew I stood a chance knowledge that I tossed like confetti over Head Concierge at the recently revamped

SM of being “Mr Reliably-Reliable” and “Mr my future wife) I had dropped Luca a Lanesborough. an approach that has stood the test of time: Clients First–Always. How-Did-He-Pull-That-One-Off.” note, telling him of our estimated time of A concierge knows the hotel where And so the Hotel Splendido beckoned. arrival and hoping he would be there to you are staying far better than you do. He Crucially, long before arrival I reminded welcome us. also knows the city far better than you – myself that the one man (or woman) who He was, replete with a greeting so tap into that knowledge. would make or break the trip would be that would have made the Duchess of Recently, my wife and I made our the smart-looking fellow standing behind Cambridge blush. The future Mrs P first trip to Prague, where we stayed at a polished mahogany desk near reception looked at me with the sort of admiration the Four Seasons. The concierge was with a couple of gold keys attached to his that I had assumed was long out of my brilliant. He procured us tickets to La lapel: the concierge. grasp. Boheme at the State Opera House and In this case, his name was Luca. First, And when Luca presented her with his recommendations for lunches and I introduced myself via email and said the bouquet of flowers that I had arranged dinners were spot-on. how much I was looking forward to our 48 hours earlier, I knew I could do no Google is terrific, but type in something visit. He replied, stressing that if there wrong. Well, for a day or so, anyway. like “romantic restaurant where few was anything he could do to make our Some of us have long understood tourists go in Prague” and you’ll be none stay more enjoyable I should just ask – the value of a good concierge. the wiser. Whereas the concierge will which I did. Indeed, whole businesses have been not only put you right, but also make the “Luca, would you be able to have a launched to do what people like Luca reservation, order the taxi and be ready word with reservations to see if we can did for me in Portofino. Ben Elliot’s and waiting for further instructions in the be upgraded to a suite overlooking the Quintessentially, “accessing the morning. bay?“ I wrote. inaccessible” was its original catch- That’s real service.

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The best experience close to the hotel is: Shopping in Portobello Road Market, the world’s largest antiques market. Our hidden gem is: Golborne Road with its fantastic niche shops full of curiosities. Our favourite local restaurant is: Granger & Co for brunch and Clarke’s for dinner. Boisdale Life has teamed up with Small Luxury Hotels of the World to offer an insight into five different cities The best selfie spot nearby is: That Blue Door! (from the – from the people that know them best – the concierges! For more information on these and other hotels in the movie Notting Hill) portfolio visit www.slh.com The ideal night here would be to: Start with a Henderson's Rum Punch, stroll down the road for some Italian tapas at Polpo followed by a show at the Print Room. Or for a THE INN AT IRVING PLACE – MADUZI HOTEL – special occasion, enjoy dinner at the Michelin-starred The NEW YORK, USA Ledbury, followed by the Holland Park Opera. SUKHUMVIT, BANGKOK Guests can live like a local by: Visiting the Cow Pub on www.slh.com www.slh.com Westbourne Park Road, specialising in Oysters & Guinness. Or booking the fine vintage experience with Sidestory, for a tour of the best local vintage fashion shops.

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The best experience close to the hotel is: Trying out the local food The best experience close to the hotel is: A stroll through Kings The best experience close to the hotel is: Visiting the Imperial The best experience close to the hotel is: Visiting the National - Sukhumvit and the adjoining ‘sois’ offer a taste of everything. Park, one of the largest inner city parks in the world at over 4km². Palace just minutes from the hotel and home to Japan’s Arts Club which promotes public interest in the Arts as well as Our hidden gem is: Benjakiti Park, a peaceful oasis that is Our hidden gem is: Our emerging small bar scene – dedicate Imperial family. educating people in the fine arts. off the usual tourist trail. Or the Thursday Market at the end of a night to discovery and start at our favorite, the Halford, in Our hidden gem is: TORAYA TOKYO a Japanese confectionary Our hidden gem is: Kalustyan's Specialty Food Store located at Sukhumvit soi 23 at Srinakarinwirot University is one of the best. the old safe room of the State Buildings. store that has been open since 1501. 123 Lexington Avenue in the heart of little India. Locals refer to Our favourite local restaurant is: Guaythiew Pik Gai Sai Our favourite local restaurant is: Lalla Rookh, right next Our favourite local restaurant is: Marunouchi House on the it as the Museum of Spices. Also the Strand Bookstore located at Nampung (‘Nampung’), famous for its Braised Chicken Wing door to the hotel, where fabulous chef Joel cooks up a 7th floor in the Shin-Marunouchi Building, just in front of the the corner of 12th and Broadway is a book lover’s treasure trove, Soup (Gow Low Pik Gai) but Yen Ta Fo, red seafood noodle sensational meal. hotel. There are nine distinctive eating spots including Chinese, home to more than 18 miles of books. soup, is the dish to try. The best selfie spot nearby is: In front of the artwork down Japanese and Italian restaurants and bars are open until 4am. Our favourite local restaurant is: Lady Mendl's Tea Salon in the The best selfie spot nearby is: The BTS overpass at Asoke at Long Chim or on the terrace up at Wildflower with the The best selfie spot nearby is: The “KITTE” building. It has a grand parlor of the Inn at Irving Place, where you are transported Intersection at rush hour - Bangkok is notorious for its traffic! sweeping views of the Swan River in the background. rooftop garden which has a great view of the architecture of the to a time of leisure and beauty in old New York. The ideal night here would be to: Walk along Chao Phraya A dream day here would consist of: Not moving! The hotel Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building. The best selfie spot nearby is: Union Square River, at night when the temples are lit up and a drink at has an incredible pool overlooking the roof of the historic The ideal night here would be to: Visiting the ‘Oak’ bar in the The ideal night here would be to: Begin the evening with a a rooftop bar in Sukhumvit such as Town Hall as well as a COMO hotel to try the original cocktail ‘Tokyo masterful cocktail selection from Cibar located at 56 Irving Place Above Eleven for a sundowner. Shambhala Urban Escape where the Station’, created by the legendary before taking a short walk south to enjoy a delicious meal at Guests can live like a local by: signature massage is unforgettable! bartender Ms. Sugimoto who has Mario Batali's Michelin-starred Spanish restaurant Casa Mono. Eating at ‘The Tent’, a collection of Guests can live like a local by: worked here for over 50 years. After dinner, head north to stroll the gates of Gramercy Park or food stands that is very popular at Collecting a gourmet picnic hamper Guests can live like a local by: Jogging take in a show at the Players Club. lunch time. from the hotel and taking it to around the Imperial Palace in the early Guests can live like a local by: Perusing the NYC Green Market Kings Park to relax in the gardens morning. It’s the most popular jogging in Union Square every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and overlooking the city. route in Tokyo. Saturday when small family farmers bring the freshest locally Juthaporn “Mai” Buppha, Head Concierge Pierre-Olivier Lange, Head Concierge Tomonori Otsuka, Head Concierge grown products from the Hudson Valley.

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REF. 5204 CHRONOGRAPH NEXT GENERATION WATCHES The ref. 5170 chronograph (£53,320), a hand-winding number with a WORDS BY TIMOTHY BARBER sublime, sinuous movement, takes its EDITOR OF QP MAGAZINE, THE UK’S LEADING WATCH TITLE look from the great Patek examples of the 1940s and is among the most desirable chronographs in the world. The 5204 (£186,430), which converts that chronograph movement into an haute horlogerie split seconds version and combines it with a perpetual calendar, is an altogether more glorious thing. It is the modern example of a watch style – the perpetual calendar chronograph – that has for decades held a magical grip on the minds of collectors, with mid-century examples fetching astronomical sums at auction. In split seconds form, in a design style that is pure classical elegance, it is frankly untouchable. There are even more complex and perhaps more refined Patek Philippe watches out there – understated minute repeaters, celestial watches, mega complications like the Sky Moon Tourbillon. But for there’s a purity of purpose and execution to the 5204, not to mention a historical lineage, that make it the true collector’s choice, and Patek Philippe - Ref. 5204 Chronograph (£186,430) the holy grail choice of those in the know. It’s the one you should really want to look after, at the very least. embodiment of Swiss classicism, the construction – was inspired by a diving watch was rather progressive at the time. helmet, and it redefined the idea of Its stark style, with minimalist markers what a luxury watch should look like. for the hours and sharp, sword-like Ostensibly a sports watch – hands, derived directly from the stripped- waterproof, robust, available in steel back, au courant aesthetic of the Bauhaus – it was really a “lifestyle” watch and movement, in contrast to the era’s more suggested a very modern, globetrotting Patek Philippe - Calatrava (£22,750) Patek Philippe - Nautilus (£33,560) exuberant Art Deco watch designs. version of luxury living. Though it It is the classic every-watch: turns 40 this year, it remains as fresh dressy but adaptable, elegant but not and luxurious as ever, particularly in hey teach it in business schools Philippe, as it happens. It was the year for those wanting in on such a mythos, effeminate, archetypal but understated. its recent rose gold form (reference you know – Patek Philippe’s the firm invented the last significant where to begin? Of the current versions, my pick is the 5711/1r – £33,560). mantra – that rather than complication to have been added to the 5153G (£22,750), a relatively high-gloss I’d expect any collector of Patek owning one of its watches, you merely horological canon, the annual calendar CALATRAVA version which has a hunter case-back: a Philippe to have one of each of the “look after it for the next generation.” (it can also claim responsibility for the polished, hinged lid on the back of the above at the very least, though there It’s a message that has crossed over first perpetual calendar wristwatch, the Well, at the beginning of course, watch (as on an old hunter pocket watch, are other, more recherché alternatives: into wider consciousness. It helped first split-seconds chronograph, even which is to say with Patek Philippe’s and ripe for engraving) that lifts to reveal instead of a Calatrava you could pick bring 42,000 people to the Saatchi the winding crown itself and much longest-lived, entry-level watch (these the beautiful movement beneath. the Golden Elipse, the delicately Gallery last year for Patek’s two-week more besides). It also marked the 20th things are relative: the Calatrava, marvelous ovoid dress watch; while exhibition, many of whom knew little birthday of Patek’s fascinating sports- named after the chivalric cross that NAUTILUS the Nautilus has its sportier, more more about the brand than that. And it’s luxe watch, the Nautilus, just as it was gave Patek its logo. Can any brand streamlined cousin, the Aquawnaut, a phrase that’s as true of the company, becoming elevated from the status of claim to produce the definitive round If the Calatrava is Patek Philippe’s which comes on a rubber strap. as it is of its watches: Patek Philippe 1970s curio, to modern luxury classic. watch? Perhaps not, but the Calatrava stalwart, the Nautilus is its modernist But to become truly immersed in Timothy is a journalist and Editor has itself been handed on through And thereby hang the combined probably comes nearest having classic. The brainchild of the great watch Patek Philippe at its most magnificent, specializing in fine watches, currently generations of family ownership, pillars of Patek Philippe’s appeal changed little since its first appearance designer Gerald Genta, it appeared you need to step up into the world of The Daily Telegraph’s Watch Editor. current president and CEO Thierry – namely, preeminence in the field in 1932. The year incidentally, when in 1976, four years after Genta’s other complications – and here, of course, He regularly contributes to the Stern, having inherited the mantle from of complicated watchmaking, a a struggling Patek was bought by the famous creation, Audemars Piguet’s things get very expensive indeed. There Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, City AM, Wired and Esquire. his father four years ago. Arguably, the propensity for subtly glorious design Stern family hitherto owners of a Royal Oak, and it was Patek Philippe’s are essentially four Patek Philippe haute @TimTomato “Generations” slogan is the most pithy and (thanks to those factors and sure business that supplied its dials. answer to that groundbreaking watch. horlogerie specialisms: world timers, and eloquent explanation of luxury and steady guidance from its family The Calatrava would become the Its unlikely shape – almost a square, chronographs, calendars, and chiming there is, and it’s 20 years old this year. owners) a history of desirability that stalwart product of a company that almost an octagon, with flanking watches, though the true pinnacle is in 1996 was quite a moment for Patek has come down the generations. But has thrived ever since. Now the very “ears” that house a hinged waterproof combinations of these.

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also punch above their weight, a fact that should once and for all put to the SERIOUS WRIST AUCTION sword the notion that they are the poor man’s Rolex. At the moment they are WORDS BY MICHAEL KARAM very hot! Panerai, the oversized watches whose heritage is rooted in the Italian Navy, do well among their fanatical following and if your budget can stretch another £10,000, you can play the Patek F. P. Journe and A. Lange & Söhne market, as well as take a sniff at some of the more sought after Rolexes such as Vintage Daytonas and EXCLUSIVE INVITATION TO A UNIQUE EVENT Submariners. After that you’re playing with the big boys. THE PATEK PHILIPPE Before buying do your homework. If it’s your first serious watch, get your BASELWORLD COLLECTION eye in. Don’t assume big is sexy and that small isn’t. Look at proportion, WEDNESDAY 15TH JUNE 2016 look at design look at heritage and On Wednesday the 15th of June, The Boisdale Watch Club is proud to host this rare opportunity to if you are looking to trade in in a view the Patek Philippe 2016 collection – one of the first times this collection has been shown in the UK few years, look at demand and how following Baselworld. This Boisdale Watch Club brings together like-minded enthusiasts to hear from easy it is to service. Go online, join luxury watch brands, watch journalists, watchmakers and collectors. the forums; immerse yourself in the world of geeks and anoraks. It’s great From 1.00pm until 5.00pm the entire Patek Phillipe collection will be available to view in the Boisdale fun. Also check provenance and buy Canary Wharf Gallery room. Throughout the afternoon, guests are also invited to bring along their own from an established dealer. Don’t go watches and experts from Assetsure will be on hand, to offer free valuations of watches old and new. near quartz watches; manual wind or automatic is the only way to go and Later that evening an exclusive Champagne reception will be hosted by David M Robinson and Patek avoid anything that has been polished Philippe UK Managing Director, Mark Hearn will be showcasing the new timepieces. The evening will March 15 Antiquorum auction in Geneva, a 1951 Rolex Padellone in Rose Gold (ref. 8171), an extremely or had the dials or hands replaced. The be a unique insight into the world's leading prestige watch brand and high horology, with over 100 rare chronograph with triple date and moon phase function dial is everything, as we saw in Geneva. Patek Philippe timepieces on display from both the new and existing collections. But ultimately, like art, buy what you love. In this price range, there’s n November 8 of last year, at Time will tell, as it were. white gold Patek Philippe Calatrava no point in in buying something that’s HOW TO ATTEND the Antiquorum auction in The good news is that back on earth at an estate sale for a fraction of their going to sit in its box and worn only on Geneva, a 1951 Rolex ref 6062 we mortals can still enjoy owning market value are virtually gone. special occasions. Wear it and enjoy it If you would like to view the Patek Philippe The exclusive champagne & canapes reception in pink gold with the much-coveted and, if we feel like it, trading, highly The most popular luxury watches and every bump and scratch will tell Collection or receive a free watch valuation will be hosted from 6pm until 8pm. Attendance “Stelline” dial, was sold SF 315,750. desirable and relatively affordable tend to be the iconic models that we all a story. from Assetsure at any point on the afternoon of at this event is strictly limited to 50 people – to The sale would have gone unnoticed, (£2,500 to £6,000) watches that, if we know and love because of their place in Wednesday the 15th of June from 1pm until 5pm register to attend the Champagne reception were it not for the fact that later that buy smart, will at the very least hold watch history, ease of recognition and Please email quoting “COLLECTION” to: Please email quoting “RECEPTION” to: day, across town at the Phillips auction, their value. Unless you get a good deal, what we like to think they say about [email protected] [email protected] an identical 6062, also made in 1951 new watches lose between and 20% us. This is why Rolex does so well and only 17 serial numbers apart from and 30% the moment you walk out in the secondary market. The classic the watch sold hours earlier, went for a of the showroom. Buying pre-owned sports models – the Submariners, the whopping SF 1,265,000. models in mint (or many cases unworn) Daytona’s, the GMTs and the Explorers The difference between the two…? condition can spare you the pain of – haven’t changed much in the last The Antiquorum watch had gaps in depreciation. Chrono24.com can give 55 years and they are bulletproof. its service history and ownership and, you a good idea of prices, while eBay One only has to window shop in the more importantly, at some point in its is now recognized among even serious Burlington Arcade to see that there are David M Robinson is the name to trust when life, its dial had been “re-lumed”. Those collectors as the place to pick up deals collectable Rolexes and then there’s it comes to impartial, expert and honest two factors – too little provenance and from private sellers who want cut out the rest. advice about watches and jewellery. Their too much intervention – were enough the dealer’s fee which can be as much The only sports watch to compare flagship Canary Wharf boutique has just to shave SF 949,250 off the price. as 100%. Meanwhile, Hodinkee.com is with the Rolex range in terms of undergone a significant refurbishment, with The high-end watch vintage and an excellent resource for keeping track heritage and reputation, not to mention the Jubilee Place showroom reopening to luxury watch market is a big, but fickle on what’s on sale from international downright sex appeal, is the Omega feature enlarged Patek Philippe and Rolex business. Who got the better price on world’s auctions to individual online Speedmaster Professional. Other Michael Karam is one of Lebanon’s spaces, as well as new areas dedicated to the 6062? It’s hard to tell. Can a market listings. They will even spot fakes that safe bets for the modern watch lover most respected English language Panerai and IWC. in which a handful of collectors fooled in-house experts! include Jaeger LeCoultre’s Reversos journalists. He has written on Lebanese can drive trends and ultimately do The only downside to all this is that in all their incarnations (especially and Syrian affairs for The Times, The www.davidmrobinson.co.uk values really sustain such bubble-like with all these online resources, even the retro limited editions if you can Spectator, Esquire, Monocle and the Beirut Daily Star. growth? Or does the nature of this the most uninterested sellers tend to get hold of them) Heuer (pre Tag) If you cannot attend either event but you would like a free watch valuation, please call 0208 0033 190 level of niche collecting mean that if know what they have and the days of chronographs and certain IWCs such or go to www.assetsure.com and quote “WATCHCLUB” – you will also be entered into a prize draw for a watch doesn’t demonstrate absolute picking up a rare Omega Speedmaster; as the Big Pilot as well as the more dinner for two and a box of Cuban cigars courtesy of insurance partner Assetsure. purity, it will be rejected out of hand? a 1680 “red” Rolex Submariner or a older aviator watches. Vintage Tudors

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A Victor-chartered Pilatus PC-12 on the apron at Gustaf III Airport on the ultra-chic Caribbean it was business as usual outside at Le private jet market was flat. island of St Barths. Image courtesy of Victor Bourget. In the dark, manoeuvring Can Lang Lang create a bit of lift? He aeroplanes provided a steady obbligato comes from the right part of the world. of shrieking turbines, to Lang Lang’s The men in epaulettes see China and n aircraft hangar at Le Bourget, sublime renditions of Mozart, Chopin, Asia as their future. “Europe is a mature Paris’s private jet airport, is an Tchaikovsky and Bach. and fragmented market,” says Patrick unlikely setting for Lang Lang, The evening was full of surprises. Hansen, CEO of Luxaviation. “Asia has the world’s most famous pianist, to give During Chopin’s Waltz No 1 in E flat, fewer aircraft compared to the size of a recital. The customary jets had been the podium on which Lang Lang was population than Europe. That continent replaced by what looked like a giant playing sprang into life and began to is bound to grow. When you ask how drum around whose interior two tiers of revolve like a holding pattern above to build a bridge between Europe and tables and chairs ran. In the centre of the Heathrow. “How appropriate to play a China, you look to Lang Lang. No other drum, a Steinway grand stood on a small waltz and find yourself going around Chinese person has such a fantastic podium, looking like the prototype for a in circles,” quipped Lang Lang. He talent that can impress people from new-fangled personal flying device. seemed as intrigued as the audience by every culture.” Thanks to his mass following, this memorable evening. Times may be tough, but never has Aged for 3 years, hence 36, it is made using the classic champagne method blending Chardonnay and Pinot Noir especially in China, Lang Lang is Welcome to the world of private flying privately been so accessible and produced in the identical traditional method, but with the advantage of enjoying Piedmonte sunshine. This wine will give many reckoned to have inspired 50 million aviation, which now sells itself with such good value. This is because the of the Grand marque Champagne Houses serious competition. Intense hints of yeast and vanilla on the nose, refreshing people to take up the ivories, more exclusive concerts, private views, trips supply-side is being hammered. There is a complex palate with a long, rich finish. than anyone in the history of the piano. to the Monaco Grand Prix and sports “significant supply of pre-owned aircraft However, this evening’s recital was clinics with professional stars. Yet on the market,” says Clive Jackson, CEO for a rarefied bejewelled clientele of private aviation has been under – rather / founder of Victor, disruptive champion 200 guests of Luxaviation, the world’s than in or above – a cloud these last of private aviation’s millennial rebrand. second largest operator of private jets. four years. Business has faced a number “This has put downward pressure on While the hangar’s traditional of headwinds, notably a depressed oil manufacturers. You can get fantastic function of receiving and storing sector and a banking sector in retreat. deals if you know where and how to aircraft was suspended for the evening, Last year, broadly speaking, the overall look.” Toss in a low oil price, and you’ll The first Italian spumante

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see that the economics of flying privately now stack up like EasyJets above the Home Counties. But what the macro- economy giveth, the government taketh away: on the negative side, regulatory and compliance costs have been soaring. Fortunately, new constituencies of customer are having a look at private aviation and not all of them are from Asia. The financial sector and the oil and gas sectors, which provided a lot of business pre-2008, have given way to a younger demographic, says Patrick Margetson-Rushmore, CEO of London Executive Aviation. “We see more customers in their late 20s and 30s whereas before 2008 most of our customers were in their mid-50s and older. We do a lot of band tours and are looking forward to the European Football Championships. The stadia in France are relatively close to airports.” It seems that Europeans, who have never really bought into the American Lang Lang, the world renowned Chinese concert pianist, outside the Luxaviation jet (www.luxaviation.com) shtick about private aviation being a ‘business tool’, are now heading in the opposite direction and seeing it as has cut out the broker, the middle man Last year, the overall private aviation a lifestyle enhancer. “Roughly 25 per whose business model relies on opacity market grew by just under 1% whilst cent of our clients are corporates,” says and keeping both sides of the bargain Victor has seen three-year average sales Tom Ville of NetJets, “Another 25 per apart. Victor brings supply and demand growth of more than 142%. Its symbolic cent are individuals who fly purely for almost frictionlessly together. edge over the fractional ownership leisure. The remaining 50 per cent are Jetfly’s Pilatus PC12 aircraft at the world famous Courchevel 1850 Altiport(www.jetfly.com) “Fundamentally, we make the providers is neatly illustrated by the entrepreneurs who use NetJets for both Image courtesy of coutureeditions.com Another growth area is the Milestone charter market transparent,” says fact that Victor recently moved into the business and leisure purposes.” Celebration Party. It is no longer Jackson, speaking from the seafront in former offices of Netjets European HQ At Victor, Clive Jackson sees private acceptable to throw a 40th or celebrate Palma where he has a house. “We can in Sloane Avenue, Chelsea. air travel not only as a time-saving 15 years ago when a small group out at the end of next year. I dare say an anniversary under a marquee in the show you the identity of the operator, “People see Victor as having a great device for work, but also as a time- of European business men clubbed that somewhere in between the skiing, rain on a sloping lawn in the Home the tail number of the aircraft, what brand with a great app,” says Jackson. creating device for play. He reckons the together to share the cost of a sole turbo- shooting, fishing, vineyard tending and Counties. These days, a bucket-list other customers think of that operator, “But underpinning Victor is a multi- door-to-door travel time when flying prop, in which to hop between chalets sunbathing, a spot of work gets done, but YOLO party has to be held abroad, and comparable pricing. You can make channel platform that allows all the privately within Europe is “2.75 hours in the alps, villas in the south of France that’s not the point of Jetfly. The fleet of preferably reached by private jet. an informed decision. This is only information to be connected in real against 6 to 7 hours flying scheduled. and their homes near Geneva. Pilatus jets, with big wheels, short take- Fashionable ‘at homes’ are in the South possible by smart technology.” time. It allows a CEO like me not just to That is significant in terms of percentage Today, Jetfly operates 20 aircraft off and landing capabilities, means you of France, southern Spain, Venice and St of time saved.” So on a two-way trip, owned by 150 owners flown by 70 can put her down almost anywhere you Petersburg. Dreamsmith, the high-end not only do you save yourself two full time pilots. The entry-level cost fancy. No French chateau or Tuscan villa international events company owned is safe! by Cazenove & Loyd, specialises in Some private jet companies are organising parties in India, Marrakech, You can put her down almost anywhere you fancy – taking the leisure theme still further Brazil and Cuba, bookended with I dare say that somewhere in between the and collaborating with luxury goods private air travel. “This sort of thing no French Chateaux or Tuscan villa is safe! purveyors to combine the benefits of goes on a lot more than one realises,” skiing, shooting, fishing, vineyard tending and private jet travel with a more ‘extreme’ says Henrietta Loyd, co-owner. “We sunbathing, a spot of work gets done. style of holiday. Victor, for example, has sign confidentiality agreements. It is all teamed up with Lamborghini, Belmond done subtly and discreetly.” hotels and Burgess Yachts. At least in Flying privately is not only more Victor has furthermore positioned flip open a laptop and see what is going Europe if not the USA, private aviation accessible than ever before, it is also itself on the right side of the economic on, but also to see what is happening existential meltdowns at the back of an of joining is $335,000 for 1/16 share has successfully extricated itself from easier and faster. Take Victor aviation. forces that are buffeting the private jet in real time on both the consumer side EasyJet queue, but you also, “Harvest in a new Pilatus PC12 that you can the dead hand of the-senior-executive- Clive Jackson, a digital marketeer, set market, notably the oversupply of jets. and the supply side, from my car here back 7 waking hours.” use for 10 years without any further on-the-move (most of whom these days up Victor in 2011 in frustration at the This glut has hit the dicers and slicers on the waterfront at Palma.” Jetfly operate a fractional ownership investment. This share gives you access can’t be seen to be flying privately scheduled service from Mallorca where of pre-paid aviation, the card-operators “One year ago,” he adds, “Victor went programme of Pilatus PC12 aeroplanes, to 31.25hours’ flying time per year, with because it ‘doesn’t look good’), and he has a house. Drawing on technological and the fractional ownership providers into the USA. Later this year, we will a Swiss-built turboprop that can land on a management fee of 4,210 Euros/month reinvented itself in the more glamorous and business savvy that Jackson had (although NetJets say they increased cover the Asia Pacific and Middle Eastern much shorter runways than an equivalent and a fee of 1,800 Euros per occupied realms of luxury goods and services. gleaned from creating digital platforms their market share in Europe in 2015). markets. By the end of the year, we will jet. This allows the Pilatus to drop hour flight. “Now we are moving into the This reflects the millennial zeitgeisty for luxury goods’ companies, Victor “There is so much on-demand supply circle the globe. We are British and we’re in on the Altiport at Courchevel and jet market, we have been appointed as way in which, for some of us, work has ‘Uberised’ private aviation. It offers today that there is no need to pre-pay in great and we dare to compete on the global at the Goodwood airstrip. Born of the the launch customer of the Pilatus PC24 and play now overlap and meld into an on-demand worldwide service that return for guaranteed availability,” says stage. I’m proud of that.” Who knows, desire to make life more agreeable for jet for Europe,” says Jonathan Clough, one seamless dynamic international caters to the iPhone generation who Jackson. “You can literally get whatever perhaps one day Victor will be called the its well-heeled members, Jetfly began UK Director. Pilatus’s first jet comes lifestyle. want to fly now! In so doing, Victor you want whenever you want it.” Lang Lang of private aviation?

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LIFESTYLE THE LIFE OF A SEX JOURNALIST WORDS BY GARETH MAY

t is often said that the most exciting turns in our lives are the ones we can’t see coming; the twists on the road ahead nestled in the blind spots of our predicted illustrious futures; the bends, the curves and the kinks. The latter of those three is the best way to describe the change that occurred in my life some years ago – the one that led to me writing about sex for a living. It will come as no surprise to learn that sex journalism isn’t something you stumble into. It was a perfect storm of right time, right place and soon enough, as with any journalist’s specialism, you end up with a contact book as thick as the bible, a trusted reputation and just like that you become “the go-to guy C on sex.” And I haven’t looked back, M despite making my mother choke on a Yorkshire pudding when I first told Y my folks, I’ve now embraced the “sex CM journalist” moniker and there is no

MY doubt that every day is different! I’ll spend a morning speaking CY with an academic about the ethics of CMY chemical castration and the afternoon

K researching virtual reality pornography. It’s a job that’s taken me to places I never thought I’d go. I’ve “frosted breasts” at an Erotic Cake Decorating workshop and joined a new age “cuddle class” to meet men seeking out physical contact without being accused of coping’ a surreptitious feel. And it’s surprisingly seasonal. Last Christmas I explored fetish of Santaphillia – men and women who are aroused by Saint Nick. It has nothing to do with the hat. After four years, nothing surprises me any more. It’s just a job and one that I’m very fortunate to have. And yet, of course, sex is sex and although it’s day-to-day for me, for everyone else I Marilyn Monroe graced the very first issue of Playboy magazine back in December 1953. The issue understand that it can be taboo to meet featured a centrefold spread with a nude Monroe and sold back then for 50 cents someone who writes about it for a living. As a result, the questions are often aimed at my motivation – “Why would the cultural relevance. They’ll just see review. And trust me, once you’ve seen you write about that?” As we all know, the dick. yourself wearing nothing but a pair of the British can be a prudish bunch and Of course, there are moments when boxer briefs and a ball-gag, wearing that when someone mentions “Sex!” we I see the funny side too. Like the time Christmas jumper you’re Auntie Mavis always think of the act itself, not the I was sent a $1,000 vibrating pair of bought you, it really isn’t the crime sexology, the science, the psychology, silicon buttocks from the US and I had against fashion you might have once or anthropological elements. Show a to speak to an official from Her Majesty's thought it to be. Brit a Greco-Roman winged phallus Customs and Excise, to explain how But the real stories of sex in the fertility symbol and more often than the package was for “personal use” not 21st century aren’t found in bondage not they’ll giggle. They’ll struggle to see “commercial gain.” It was actually for a paraphernalia or synthetic gluteus

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‘the helicopter’.” It’s a job that’s full of giggles and goodwill but it’s the people I’ve met OU’R along the way that make me happiest AT Y E DR of all. Such as Dr Tuppy Owens, I WH IN a stalwart of the sexual freedom T’S NOT KING TO movement and author of the Sex Maniac’s Diary – this septuagenarian has been championing the sexual rights of the disabled for the best part of 50 years. Or the 87-year-old ‘Jim’ who IT’S WHO YOU’RE DRINKING WITH. I spoke to for an article challenging the stigmatism surrounding sex and the elderly who told me, “Ballroom dancing was the key.” The penoplasty surgeon who listens to opera, whilst performing the most delicate of cuts. The numerous dominatrixes I’ve met for coffee with a sexual and emotional intellect, the likes of us could only fathom for a heartbeat or perhaps more appropriately, the swish of a cane. The evolutionary psychologists, the feminist pornographers and the sex education experts. All sex positive people who rally against the nonsensical shame surrounding sex In ancient Rome when a General celebrated a triumph the Vestals hung an effigy of the winged phallus (above) every single day of their lives. on the underside of his chariot to invoke divine protection. Generally stone carved phalluses adorned Roman The truth is, we are all a little kinky, households for good luck, but the winged phallus indicated a house where sexual services were for sale. even if we don’t think we are. I like celebrating that kink in my writing, shining a light on the finer and at maximus. They’re found in the protect male sex workers. Then there times, more disturbing elements of our fascinating and sometimes frayed are small forays into anatomy, an sexuality. It always amazes me how worlds at its edges: in the adult industry, interview with Sigurður Hjartarson, shocked people are, that I write about in fertility societies, bioethical bodies founder of The Icelandic Phallological sex. But as I often say to them, it’s why and academic institutions. I’ve explored Museum, which houses nearly 300 we’re all here. Isn’t it? women wearing hijabs in adult content mammal penis specimens including to reclaim their cultural identity and human. As well as articles on penile investigated men donating sperm via fractures and – take a deep breath – Facebook because the UK’s National even transplants.

It’s surprisingly seasonal – last Christmas I explored fetish of Santaphillia.

Sperm Bank is wrapped up in red tape Yes I have fun and a lot of it, (the latter achieving five donations in a although trying to squeeze into a pair baffling eight months, the same amount of latex pants for a party at 1am in the achieved by the “Sperm Donors” group morning isn’t exactly the definition in just three weeks). I’d use (tip: talcum powder). There When the Bill and Melinda Gates was the time I trialled natural Viagra Gareth May is a freelance journalist ©2016 Kendall-Jackson Winery, Santa Rosa, CA #KJ16_35498 ©2016 Kendall-Jackson Winery, foundation issued eleven $100,000 for a week and genuinely feared I may and author. His latest book Man of grants to condom designers and have suffered from priapism, or when the World was published by Random manufacturers, I profiled condoms my father insisted upon spending the House in 2012 and his journalism made from cow tendons and the entirety of my mother’s 60th birthday has appeared in The Telegraph, The No matter who’s on your guest list, WE’VE GOT A WINE THEY’LL LOVE. Independent, VICE and Marie Claire. atom-thick graphene. I’ve written garden party, going up to all his female KJ.COM @KJWINES about Japanese twenty-something friends and saying, “Go and ask Gareth males losing their sexual appetite and about the male stripper he interviewed questioned whether we do enough to last week and make sure he mentions

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LIFESTYLE SMOKIN’ HOT! WORDS BY NICK HAMMOND CELEBRATED BON VIVEUR AND SPECTATOR CIGAR WRITER OF THE YEAR 2013

While thoughts of an al fresco smoke may still be the stuff of dreams for cigar lovers, Organic Vodka Boisdale Life’s expert Nick Hammond lets Rosalones NB - 4 3/4 ins x 48 Ring Gauge TOTAL PTS 88 us in on his recent tasting notes. Enjoy a delicious Snow Queen Vodka RRP £10 A bargain smoke this one; rich, Nicaragua It’s been a great Cigar year so far, for flavours from a blend that’s as old as the Cocktail me. Trips overseas have taken me to South hills. Produced by the lovely folks at Joya de Africa and Dominican Republic and I’ve had Nicaragua, it’s a Nicaraguan puro – meaning at all Boisdale Venues the chance to meet and enjoy smokes with all its tobacco is grown there. Expect a full a host of cigar loving friends from around bodied smoke with earthy, spicy flavours the world. On my travels, I’ve enjoyed a selection of Cuban and New World sticks Available at Harrods or online at that would enliven any humidor. I hope you get the chance to pick up a few. My Father Flor www.snowqueenvodka.com de Las Antillas Belicoso TOTAL PTS 91 NB - 5 ½ ins x 52 Ring Gauge Cohiba Siglo VI RRP £14 NB - 5 7/8ins x 52 Ring Gauge TOTAL PTS 92 I love this vitola from My Father cigars. I RRP around £30 smoked it, believe it or not, in the Limpopo. My first smoke as I arrived in Cape Town There was bushveld as far as the eye could and settled down in the shadows of Table see, and I think I could have been forgiven Mountain. Rich, creamy coffee, a hint of for not giving the cigar my full attention. But grassiness and lots of smooth smoke, this the cigar simply grabbed it with its medium burned like a dream and I didn’t want it to full body and multi-layered flavours, to end. Lovely cigar for a special occasion. blending sweetness and spice.

Bolivar Super Coronas LE 2014 TOTAL PTS 89 Alec Bradley Coyol Lancero NB - 5 ½ ins x 52 Ring Gauge TOTAL PTS 89 NB - 6 ½ ins by 41 Ring Gauge RRP TBC RRP £13 Limited Edition releases from Havana are I love a lancero. These pencil thin, elegant made with specially selected Cuban leaf and urbane cigars are hard to roll and pretty aged for a minimum of two years. This hard to smoke – if you want to do the stick release – from back in 2014 – is smoking justice. You need to sip as opposed to puff, beautifully at the moment, although it had with just a gentle intermittent draw needed its detractors on release. The other Limited to bring out the best of the format. This Alec Edition releases that year stole the limelight Bradley stick does just that – bold flavours so there are plenty of these left – so far. Get and a surprising strength have been expertly ‘em while you can. blended down here.

Diplomaticos No.2 NB - 6 1/8 ins x 52 Ring Gauge TOTAL PTS 90 Davidoff Perfecto, RRP £18 Limited Art Edition 2014 TOTAL PTS 94 I always seemed to have draw issues with NB - 6 ins x 54 these in the past, so they were never a staple RRP £40 in the Hammond repertoire. I’m pleased Sensational stick this after it’s had a chance to say that my hazy memories have been to mellow and rest for a couple of years. shoved clean out of mind with this excellent Beautifully blended, with smooth, sweet, example of Cuban artisanship at its best. ethereal flavours mingling on a white, The cigar accompanied a boat ride along the perfumed smoke. Superb development Loire River and as water slipped languidly throughout the cigar too. Will be tough to by, it issued mellow notes of spicy, full- beat this in 2016 flavored delight.

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A Carnivore's BCW has become London’s THE AMBASSADOR Dream No.1 jazz venue. Very cool for cats. Deutz was founded by Deutz and Gelderman, two immigrants from Napoleonic Prussia, in 1838 and is one of the oldest evening members of the prestigious association of Grands Marques Champagne houses. The vineyards around the village of Ay are standard tatler amongst the finest in the region and have always produced Champagne of undisputed excellence and universal critical acclaim. Queen Victoria chose Champagne Deutz to celebrate both her Golden Jubilee in 1887 and her Diamond Jubilee in 1897.

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here is home and work? turn learnt I was a descendant – she has Champagne. I think that Champagne Champagne Deutz is based been my wife for over 10 years! is aspirational, the broader the base of in Ay, one of the oldest of the What’s your most extravagant sparkling wine consumers the better. “Grand Cru” villages in the Champagne purchase? Describe a perfect champagne region. I drive here from Reims all year I am not such an extravagant person. experience? round, through the beautiful vineyards On wines and art, I am more attracted A perfect champagne experience is around Hautvillers, Dizy and Ay. These by elegance, finesse and delicacy! I can one of those rare moments when you villages and vineyards have recently been spend a long time contemplating “La join together the right people, at the granted UNESCO world heritage status, so Vénus de Botticelli”, but I am afraid it right moment, in the right place, to share I am very fond of my morning commute! is not for sale! the right cuvee. A few years ago at Le Where did the love of champagne What advice would you give your 20 Millénaire, a nice restaurant in Reims, I come from? year old self? enjoyed a fascinating conversation with JOOLS HOLLAND It comes from home and family My 20’s were a time when I wanted to Paul Edmund Davies, solo flutist from the WHISKY BAR, CANARY WHARF BOISDALE PATRON OF MUSIC TERRACE, CANARY WHARF probably. I was born precisely London Symphony Orchestra. nine months after the superb He was trying to demonstrate the 1966 harvest! I grew-up a few possible association of specific yards from the winery and my melodies to our different cuvees, life followed the rhythm of the bottle we had was Deutz Brut I am honoured to be Champagne production, the Vintage 2002 – it got us to agree Patron of Music for most exciting time of year was immediately! Boisdale of Canary Wharf, always the harvest. As a child, What other luxury brands do which features world class jazz, spending time in the cellars was you admire? blues and soul every night. a true delight – tasting the wines When time allows, I love and looking at the “dégorgement sailing. Wauquiez produce some Jools Holland, à la volée” was probably the luxurious, but demanding and Boisdale Patron of Music most exciting. stylish sailing boats. I love their Where do you like to eat and marriage of traditional style with MACDONALD RESTAURANT, BELGRAVIA drink? modern technical innovations. BACK BAR, BELGRAVIA One of the important aspects What does the future hold for of my work at Deutz is welcoming Deutz? our importers, restaurateurs, The philosophy hasn’t partners and VIP’s. We greet our changed and can be summarised friends in the Deutz Maison, as an “uncompromising which was my ancestors’ family quality policy”. It is important home. In fact it was decorated to safeguard the Deutz style by my Great-Great Grandmother! of elegance, distinction and The portraits of my ancestors are delicacy. Since 1997 our still there. The “l’Amour” (Little strategy has been twofold: Cupid) standing in the “Cour to be constantly moving up d’honneur” is watching us in the the ladder in terms of quality same manner as before. It is a fantastic visit all the great cities of the world and and recognition, but also business source of inspiration thinking of the a taste for the exotic probably led to my development. It is a great point of pride numerous conversations which have decision to work as an Export Director. for us that production is now more RESTAURANT, CANARY WHARF CHAMPAGNE & OYSTER BAR, BISHOPSGATE RESTAURANT, BISHOPSGATE been shared through the generations. Now I regret I did not spend more time than three times what it was 20 years Tell us about your most memorable talking with my Grand-Father who ago, while our reputation for quality is wine moment? pursued two careers, first in the French maintained. The UK in particular shows I crashed a party in Paris, not invited Army as an Officer and the second a great potential and is of course of great Boisdale of Canary Wharf Boisdale of Belgravia Boisdale of Bishopsgate I am afraid. Arriving with a bottle of for Champagne Deutz. Also, I would importance. The UK was the world’s Cabot Place, Canary Wharf 15 Eccleston Street Swedeland Court Champagne to show I was a civilized probably advise myself to focus more on first export market, with the English E14 4QT SW1W 9LX 202 Bishopsgate, EC2M 4NR person, a beautiful girl opened the door Oenology and many other things! merchants playing a major role in the 020 7715 5818 020 7730 6922 020 7283 1763 and said to me “From AY? You could Is Prosecco a threat to the champagne worldwide reputation of Champagne, have chosen something better”. We market? boosting demand and quality. If there began to talk and I learnt that she was “To be or not to be?” Every sparkling is any market in which to sell your www.boisdale.co.uk thinking of Champagne Deutz. She in wine experience brings us closer to Champagne overseas, the UK is it.

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here can be few birds quite as at one of those legendary locations. I not as we know it anyway. But to be dumb as the male pheasant. Its crave the stillness at the start of the first able to justify the killing of birds, there plumage might be handsome drive, heavy with excited anticipation. must be no waste. Not a single body. A enough (certainly more so than the And the inevitable first bang, as some few years back, there were appalling drably feathered female), but this impatient type (usually me) takes aim at stories of appalling corporate shoots, preening popinjay is as thick as a pigeon at least two miles out of range. where the skies turned black with molasses, with all the cunning of a brick. I adore the smell of spent cartridges, the unsportingly low birds, and the surfeit Even their gait, as they strut and cluck first taste of bullshot (never Champagne. of sorry carcasses were buried, rather through the game crops and copses, is Who the hell started this awful trend than sold to the dealer. This, of course, tempered with arrogant indignation, of serving fizz at Elevenses? Get thee is disgusting. Because if you’re going to like a film star forced to turn right on the away, bubbles), the warm fug of a proper shoot game, be it pheasant, partridge, plane. Yet once they launch into the air, lunch and that last drive, just before woodcock, duck or pigeon, you better sailing across some deep jagged valley, with a strong wind at their tail, all the laughter ceases. Because now, little more than a sleek speck in sky, they take on Man up, you lily livered flibbertigibbets, an elegance denied them on terra firma. Now, the fool becomes the high flying throw off the shackles of drab meat ace, one of the great quarries of them all. oppression and give game a chance! That’s not to say that my pellets often connect. Far from it. My shotgun skills are modest, to say the least, and the high birds of Devon, Northumberland dusk, where a few glasses of good claret make sure that beast is not going to go and Yorkshire are rather wasted on me. courses through one’s veins. But most of to waste. Give me an average Home Counties fatty all, it’s about that base, ancient instinct The irony is that Britain has some any day, and I’m a happy man. Because of hunting one’s own dinner. of the greatest game in the world, from for me, shooting is as much about a day Because without organised shooting, English partridge to Scottish grouse. Yet spent in the glorious (or inglorious) with all the care and management and the vast majority of the country refuses outdoors, with good friends, grog and money and hard work that this entails, to touch the stuff. ‘Too visceral,’ they grub, as it is about a gallery left and right there would be no countryside. Well, simper, ‘too fierce, pongy and uncouth.’

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No, they want the bland, insipid embrace covers them in spiced salt and leaves and steeped in the dark arts. Tosh of of an industrialised chicken breast, a for 36 hours, before rinsing and slicing course – although their flesh can be very shrink wrapped piece of protein that thinly. Voila! Pheasant ham, and bloody strong indeed. And tend towards the dry. I DEMAND TO HAVE SOME BOOZE! purposely blurs the link between death good it is too. Ok, so I’m not going to All that leaping, boxing and gambolling and dinner. I blame the Victorians (as I do pretend pheasant is the king of all game tends to cut down the flab. Lievre a la Are we being unnecessarily scared into a life of sobriety? How much fun can we have with fourteen units of alcohol a week? for introducing that dreary arriviste, the birds, but its ridiculous cheap, plentiful Royale is the classic French dish, with Our Government, from the moral high ground of health and social responsibility, is attempting, through a combination of turkey, to our Christmas table. But that’s and makes a deeply respectable dinner. litres of wine, and jugged hare is another punitive taxes and authoritative sermons, to change how we live our lives. Some of it is sensible. Excess of pretty much anything a whole different tale), who liked their Talking of the true kings of game, I’ve classic, although fresh hare blood is not is not good for you, but how much science is there behind these bold authoritative statements and how much should be left to game so well hung and ‘high’ that they banged on about grouse. But then there’s so easily found in the local Co-op. common sense? For many people it is fast evolving into a “state” orthodoxy. Is this the state in which we wish to exist? had to scrape the maggots from the flesh. woodcock, that doe-eyed, rapier beaked Then Venison, cooked so splendidly And because of this taste, the fetid, game beauty of the woods. Its gamey tang is at Boisdale. Red, master of the moors. WORDS BY WILLIAM SITWELL became a food to fear, along with tripe, perhaps a little more pronounced than Roe and fallow have their own charms, FOOD WRITER AND BROADCASTER kidneys and the service station sausage. its other winged cousins. Plus when while muntjac and water deer are Yet to miss out on game is to miss out cooked in the traditional manner, with its delicate creatures with flesh to match. I on some of the most thrilling food to ever beak tucked neatly beneath its wing, and once ate all four, chopped into tartare, pass one’s lips. That first young grouse, head sliced open to expose the brains, and the differences in flavour were eaten a few days after the Glorious 12th, with guts spread thick on a burnished remarkable. But this is a lean meat every simply roasted, sweet and seductive, its crouton. You suck out the grey matter, bit as fine as beef. So why don’t we eat flesh just pink and scented with heather. then attack the main body. A knife will it more? I don’t think I look forward to any offer some initial help but like all these As I’ve said again and again, game seasonal feast more (with the possible small birds, the true joy lies in tearing off suffers from a problem of PR, and still exception of gull’s eggs), especially every last scrap of bone from the carcass. preaches very much to the converted. If when it comes swimming in a lake of Fingers are not just recommended, but only it were as popular as those cheap, clear gravy, with a great blob of bread essential. The same goes for snipe, as joyless, intensively farmed beasts that sauce at its right hand. The true taste of tiny as it is terrific. And with a similar suffer short, cruel and ignominious the wild, but so subtle and understated flavour to woodcock, you’ll need at least lives. But faced with one of the great that the taste buds lie prostrate with joy. two per person. Again, Mark Hix has natural larders of the world, what does Partridge, too, is the most gentle of a great recipe, where the bird is baked the vast majority of the country do? Turn up their nose and return to the dull and tasteless, the safe and uninspired. Idiots, I say, idiots and fools. Forget the much vaunted food revolution. Scene from “Withnail and I" the 1987 cult British film written and directed by Bruce Robinson. The plot follows two chronically unemployed young actors, Pheasant is ridiculously cheap, plentiful Here we have an affordable (save early portrayed by Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann, on a tragic and hilarious drug and drink fuelled odyssey in 1969. Withnail (Grant) famously says “I demand to and makes a deeply respectable dinner. grouse), sustainable and magnificent have some booze” before drinking the contents of a bottle of lighter fluid source of tucker, one to get the palate grinning with greedy glee. And most of Britain couldn’t care less. So man up, ou’ll recall it being on the news. week, one on Sunday), where booze was desperately hailing a cab. you lily livered flibbertigibbets, throw Some bossy woman, apparently in consumed in measured amounts (let’s say Anyway, since the Dame of Gloom and mouthfuls, but very far from insipid. whole in a potato. Sure beats baked off the shackles of drab meat oppression charge of our wellbeing, told most three glasses of wine per lunch – that’s her cohorts won’t offer advice on this I There’s the mildest whisper of the wild, beans. When you find a pair, snap ‘em and give game a chance. of us that we were drinking too much right, modest) and half a bottle of wine on can only suggest that I reckon my running more so in the ever-rarer English grey up sharpish. and were going to die. I’ll be precise and just two other nights and, well, as Dame helps offset quite a lot of the booze – and leg. But even the Frenchie red leg is a Pigeon, not that skanky urban wretch, remind you of the details. As a reader of Thingy wouldn’t say, “You’re fucked.” my cycling does too – of which there is fine bird. Roasted when young, but also rather the gently cooing plump wood this magazine I am persuaded to make But what The Most Tedious and much as I wend my way around London wonderful chopped up and thrown pigeons, is altogether more common, a particular judgement about you and Hectoring Woman on the Planet (I’ve (between lunches and dinners). into an Indian pepper fry. In fact, one with dark flesh, but a surprisingly assume you were quick to forget it. So improved her title here and widened her But how exactly did the Dame mouthful of the Gymkhana version elegant taste. Again, nothing to scare the let me tell you that it was Dame Sally remit) didn’t mention, was something and her colleagues come up with the will convert you to the partridge cause horses – or even the children. Like all Davies, the chief medical officer for called exercise. Because I want to see recommendations – and the new – and forever. I recently went to a cracking game, it has charm, character and depth, England (perhaps there’s a Scottish one how that chart works. But the problem is seemingly frightfully unfair advice that good shoot down in Dorset, where a a mighty mouthful to relish rather who takes a more promising line) and the authorities won’t give us one. the male unit number has gone down tractor trailer has been converted into than revile. Just like the grass feeding she announced new guidelines which My question is: how far must I run to from 21 to 14 and is now the same as a small mobile pub, complete with widgeon, dainty teal or no-nonsense stated that both men and women should ameliorate a bottle of wine. For example, for women. wood burning stove and, wait for it, mallard, ducks all, and birds who have no more than 14 units each week on a recent Saturday night I sipped The official Department of Health a gas cooker than pops out of the side. inclusion on the menu (or at the table) I and that those units should be spread merrily for some considerable time and document that summarised the new Partridge breasts are cooked up, fresh, at never cease to cheer. over a few days. it’s not completely impossible that I might guidelines claimed that: “The experts elevenses alongside the sausages. Magic When it comes to all things furred, Oh whoops, many of us went. Because have got through two bottles of wine (no considered the evidence from all over stuff indeed. I do prefer the lean, more pronounced a brief calculation revealed that as a spirits, mind – my body is a temple). the world on the effects of alcohol on Then pheasant, a bird so bereft of taste of wild rabbit, although farmed bottle of wine has about ten units and a The next day I ran for an hour (albeit health and length of life. This evidence Tom Parker Bowles is a Restaurant fat that it doesn’t really suit roasting, will do. Especially when bathed in a Critic for the Mail on Sunday, as well 35ml measure of spirits has 1.4, after a by mistake) and I reckon I did about included a large number of studies and however young. Mark Hix does all deeply creamy, and properly punchy as Food Editor of Esquire. He is also a sprightly couple of gins (large, of course) seven miles. I know this because the covered a wide range of aspects of health sorts of wonderful things with the mustard stew. Hare, long-limbed and food writer, broadcaster and author of and tonics, a few bottles of wine between day before I ran five and a half miles (on (accidents, injuries, cancer, heart disease, breasts and thighs, removing them, graceful, were light bearers of Oestre, 5 books on food. The latest, Let’s Eat friends and a dash of peaty stuff to round purpose) and did it in 50 minutes (not so life expectancy, etc).” and wrapping ‘em in caul fat. A couple Celtic goddess of dawn. Those meddling Meat, was published last year. off the night, you went over the weekly quick, but it wasn’t a race). The mistake It also claimed that previous evidence @tomparkerbowles of days hanging does bring out that medieval monks, brutal in their efforts limit in just one evening. And you don’t by the way occurred because intending that some alcohol intake was good for flavour, and it makes a sturdy stew. to force their faith upon the pagan even feel too bad on it. to run for 20 minutes on the outskirts you was cack, or in their words: “benefits But my favourite recipe comes from population, endlessly spun against the So let’s gather further evidence. Throw of Northampton – while my son played for heart health of drinking alcohol are Matthew Fort. He removes the breasts, poor beasts, claiming they were sinister in a couple of lunches (just two – one mid tennis – I got lost and ran for 60 before less and apply to a smaller group of the

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FOOD AND DRINK population than previously thought.” Whole university experiences would be Few writers have been as able to describe It’s interesting that they use the rendered void. For me there were days the beautiful moment when a person in word ‘thought’. The previous evidence, when the mission was 14 units an hour… need of a good drink finds the perfect A SHORT HISTORY OF presented as meticulously researched But had they known of the 14 units per spot for one as well as PG Wodehouse. and peer-reviewed, is now dissed as week deal, however, I have no doubt that Take this example from a short story: ITALIAN FOOD IN BRITAIN simply ‘thought’. Someone or a whole these great artists they would still have “The Story of William” in which our gang of people just ‘thought’ this stuff. suffered for their art. hero, William, spots a bar called Mike’s Bill Knott started his career as a chef. He has since written for a host of the best magazines and newspapers Well of course they didn’t, they ploughed And then there is the fact that we are all Place and enters. worldwide, including stints as a restaurant critic. He never skips lunch. oodles of money – raised from taxes on so gloriously different. Some fatter, some He approaches the bar where a man drinking – into research which was then thinner, some with speedy metabolisms, in a white coat eyes William “with a WORDS BY BILL KNOTT presented as fact; just like this latest some drawn to the grain, others the reverent joy.” tranche of evidence; or thought. So prepare yourself for future evidence that warns that even a sniff of booze will kill you and this previous ‘thought’ was Would Winston Churchill have kept the Nazis at wide of the mark. But while I do do a little running and bay if he’d only been on mint tea and tap water? cycling, where does that leave you? You, who refuses to raise a sweat even to catch a bus. Are you despondent? If so, fear not. What the Dame, with this catch-all grape, some who make yogic postures “‘Is this Mike’s Place?” asked William edict of doom, fails to point out is that while other might rugby tackle, some “Yes, sir,” replied the white-coated actually some of us can take it. We can whose only exercise is the act of drinking man. cane it with tremendous vigour for itself, but who stay resolutely slim. Some “Are you Mike?” decades, enjoy every minute of it – all hill walk, some run, some swim, some do “No sir. But I am his representative, the hangovers – although they too can none. Yet we are all expected to swallow and have full authority to act on his be enjoyable (think of all the Breaking the catch-all recommendations. behalf. What can I have the pleasure of Bads you watched while recovering, or There is also the kind of drink you doing for you.” the boozy lunch that was somehow more take. For really – and I speak from The mutual understand about the wildly wonderful coming straight after a experience – a tenderly grown grape, necessity for a drink and the reverential long and mad night). I say we, but what I squished by soft human toes, left to way in which the bar man offers his mean is Winston Churchill, for example. ferment in oak barrels before being services is wonderful. William, you and Would he have kept the Nazis at bay if given a pretty label and a good period other beloved readers approach the bar he’d only been on mint tea and tap water? of rest somewhere dark, is infinitely with similar joyful optimism. Dame It was his steely resolve, made more better for you than a pesticide-hosed, Sally, revealed that when she reaches steely by copious amounts of alcohol, that mechanically harvested, metal-crushed, for, or considers ordering, a drink she helped him win the war. If he’d followed steel-stored, wood-staved flavoured, six thinks to herself: “Do I want my glass the Dame’s advice this magazine might week bottle of naff-labelled plonk. And of wine or do I want to raise my risk of breast cancer.” My advice is do both if you must, then So prepare yourself for future evidence that order another glass and hope for the best. warns that even a sniff of booze will kill you.

“What have the Romans ever done for us? Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public be called Regierungsbezirk, an organ where is Dame Whojamaflick’s advice on health, what have the Romans ever done for us?” (Monty Pythons, Life of Brian, 1979) Bill Knott, also argues the case for food! that celebrated regional Bavarian food, that? It is a fact that a bottle of Lafite ‘61 its music and drinking traditions (mind will enhance your life – a whole bottle, you, that sounds quite fun – how about a indeed – while three glasses of Ghanaian here is a common misconception and drink goes back much further than Celtic culture and a population theme night, Ranald, to give us a taste of gin will see you in the grave before you - not least among chefs and that. scraping an existence from hunting what might have been?) cry, “Must I drink another?” food writers - that the British What, enquires Reg of the People's and basic agriculture. In fact, the Celtic And what of other great drinkers whose So discard these foul statistics. Stand were only introduced to Italian food in Front of Judea - John Cleese's character Britons could boast, for the most part, a sobriety would have robbed us of their tall, they are for other people. The sort of 1954, when Elizabeth David published in Monty Python's Life of Brian - well-ordered society in which the elite glorious output. Would Bruce Robinson people who wouldn’t gain the pleasure her book on the subject. Before then, have the Romans ever done for us? already traded heavily with Rome, have made Withnail and I if he’d stuck one has at arriving at a place like Boisdale so the story goes, olive oil was Sanitation, medicine, education, wine, so much so that Greek geographer to the recommended drink dose, would before lunch one late morning. The whole available only in chemists' shops, and public order, irrigation, roads, the and philosopher Strabo questioned Jeffrey Bernard have spawned a play place is gearing up to dish out food and William Sitwell is a writer, presenter, Parmesan was a dubious powder in a fresh water system and public health, whether an invasion could ever raise giving Peter O’Toole the role of his life, drink with earnest enterprise. Boisdale Masterchef judge and editor of mean little tub. his audience tells him. more in taxes than the Britons already Waitrose Food magazine. His first would Hunter S Thompson have given has bars like the finest where the men book, “A History of Food in 100 In fact, the wit and clergyman paid in customs and duties. us Fear and Loathing, Dylan Thomas and women who run them take their Recipes” was published by Harper Sydney Smith was praising the "oil THE ROMANS The Celtic British aristocracy had Under milk Wood, Dorothy Parker jobs – that of pouring you a drink – with Collins in 2012. of Lucca" in 1839, and - exactly 350 acquired a taste for wine (and even those withering quotes, Oliver Reed deeply serious endeavour. @WilliamSitwell years ago - one famous diarist was When Claudius and his 20 000 olive oil) from Italy or Greece, and and every other so-called hell-raiser, The greatest bars on the planet clothe taking extraordinary precautions to Roman troops landed on the south hunted for sport. They feasted on especially Richard Burton such intense their staff in smart uniforms as a reflection keep his wheel of Parmesan safe. And coast of Britain in AD 43, you might oysters and roast pork or boar, gathered performances…the list is never-ending. of the importance of what they are doing. our national penchant for Italian food have expected them to find a primitive wild mushrooms, and cultivated the

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up the story in medieval Whatever the truth, there is an laying all the papers of my office that plaster statuettes (a trade at the centre land (the Celtic British ploughshare, England, by which time enduring love affair between Italy and I could not otherwise dispose of. And of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure made of iron, was actually far superior pasta, especially ravioli, Shakespeare: operas (Verdi's Otello in the evening Sir W. Pen and I did dig of the Six Napoleons, which features a to the wooden Roman version from had become a highly and Falstaff), films (Zeffirelli's Taming another, and put our wine in it; and couple of dastardly Italian villains), the same period). Animals had been fashionable dish amongst of the Shrew and Romeo and Juliet, as I my Parmazan cheese, as well as my the women worked in cafés, as lace domesticated, cheese and butter were the English upper classes. well as Otello and Hamlet) and even wine and some other things." workers, or as domestic servants. Street made from the spring milk of goats, In 1390, one of the first a comic opera written by Andrea Pepys's house survived the fire; so, entertainment - singing, dancing, sheep and cattle, and their food English cookery books, Camillieri (author of the food-obsessed presumably, did his cheese, although fortune telling - was another popular was flavoured with herbs and salad The Forme of Cury, was Inspector Montalbano stories) called he makes no further reference to it. way of earning a shilling. leaves: juniper, bay, caraway, chervil, published, written by the This was also the heyday of the dandelions and sorrel among them. "chef Maister Cokes of kyng "hokey-pokey men": Italian ice cream While the Roman invasion was Richard the Secunde kyng sellers, so named because of their cry initially resisted, the elite in southern of Englond" and containing "ecce un poco!", "here's a little taste!" Britain soon came not just to accept recipes for losyns, rauioles According to the Italian Consul, there Romanisation, but welcome it. The and makerouns (lasagna, were 12,000 Italians in London by 1895 Romans built a network of roads, as well ravioli and macaroni). The Romans introduced garlic, onions, shallots, and 900 of them were ice cream sellers. as water supply, sanitation and sewage Other medieval recipes It was the first time that ice cream, systems. They also improved agriculture, also have a distinctly leeks, cabbages, peas, celery, turnips, radishes and once the preserve of the rich, was introducing many vegetables that are Southern European air asparagus, to name but a few. available at a sensible price to ordinary now part of our national diet: garlic, when compared with people, and the rapidly burgeoning onions, shallots, leeks, cabbages, peas, recipes in French cookery Italian communities in London, celery, turnips, radishes and asparagus, books (Le Viandier de Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool to name but a few. Taillevent, for example), made the most of it. There were cherries, mulberries and especially in the relative Nowadays, with a Carluccio's on apples, too, and grapes, effectively prominence given to every high street and a jar of pesto founding the English wine industry vegetables, the typically Troppu trafficu ppi nienti ("Much Parmesan cheese (what would these in every fridge, Italian food is an that has been so successfully revived Italian agrodolce (sweet- Ado About Nothing" in Sicilian days be called Parmigiano-Reggiano) inextricable part of our daily life: but in the last couple of decades. Peacocks, sour) flavouring, and their dialect) which revisits the idea that had been a great luxury throughout then again - apart from a rationing- guineafowl and pheasant were also liberal use of almonds, Shakespeare was actually Sicilian. Europe for centuries - in 1511, Pope induced blip in the 1940s and 1950s - introduced and reared for the table, almond oil and saffron. This References to food and drink are Julius II had given Henry VIII a hundred it always was. as well as bigger and better breeds of Italian influence on British peppered throughout Shakespeare's wheels of parmesan, presumably as an domesticated animals. The Romano- cooking may be because, as plays, especially exotica that would inducement to join the anti-French British aristocracy even developed a well as conquering Britain, have been imported either from Italy Holy League - and was a favourite gift taste for garum, the ubiquitous Roman the Normans also ruled All Boisdale Restaurants serve the very first Italian itself, or via her ports: oranges, lemons for foreign dignitaries: it was of an condiment made from fermented fish: Sicily from the 11th century to the end sparkling wine, produced by Carlo Gancia in 1865. and pomegranates; nutmeg, ginger and impressive size - as much as 200 lbs - it survives to this day as an ingredient of the 12th century, and it is likely that Aged for three years (hence Gancia 36) it is a classic peppercorns; dates, figs, almonds and travelled well, and improved with age. Champagne blend of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in Worcestershire sauce. both foodstuffs and recipes made their produced in the identical traditional method, but walnuts. By AD 410, with rebellion brewing way from Sicily to Britain. with the advantage of enjoying Piedmonte sunshine. On to the 17th century: to be precise, THE GEORGIANS both within and outside the Roman the 4th of September, 1666. Samuel Empire, the Romans had left Britain, SHAKESPEARE Pepys, worried about the fire raging During the Georgian period, the leaving the Romano-Britons to fight Catholicism was restored under Mary through the City of London, describes number of Italians, mostly merchants, the Saxons. What then, had the By the time Elizabeth I ascended I, returned to Britain with a mission the precautions he took against the in London grew steadily, many of them Romans done for us? At least from the to the throne, religious persecution to teach the uncouth Protestant elite seemingly unstoppable conflagration: settling in what came to be known as European manners and languages. He "Up by break of day to get away the Little Italy, in Clerkenwell. The early compiled an Italian-English dictionary, remainder of my things; which I did by emigrés were often highly skilled was an expert in calligraphy and - a lighter at the Iron gate and my hands - some were makers of scientific along with other Italian men of letters so few, that it was the afternoon before instruments, including thermometers, - helped establish the Italian banquet we could get them all away. Sir W. Pen barometers and telescopes, some as the height of good taste amongst the (Sir William Penn: a "mean fellow" and expert in mosaic and terrazzo tiling - There were 12,000 Italians in London by 1895 upper echelons of English society. a "false knave", according to Pepys, who but those that followed were escaping Which brings us to William claims Penn once served him a venison appalling conditions in Italy following and 900 of them were ice cream sellers. Shakespeare, in all probability a friend pie "that stunk like a devil") and I to the Napoleonic Wars. Bill has featured frequently on of Fulvio's and himself a confirmed Tower streete, and there met the fire These new refugees, who often television and radio, appearing as Italophile: many of his plays are set burning three or four doors beyond Mr. arrived on foot, more or less penniless, a judge on The Great British Menu as well as on Radio 4's The Food in Italy - Verona and Venice were Howell's, whose goods, poor man, his turned their hands to however they Programme and Today. He still cooks particular favourites - and, for a trayes, dishes and shovells, were flung could scrape a living: by 1850, 1000 or from time to time at Black's Club in commoner from Stratford-upon-Avon, all along Tower-street in the kennels, more Italians, mostly from the south, Soho, and compiles the wine list for he displays a remarkable knowledge of and people working therewith from were crammed into the streets around The Modern Pantry in Clerkenwell. perspective of food and drink… rather had led many eminent and scholarly Italian geography. Was Fulvio helping one end to the other; the fire coming on Leather Lane and Hatton Garden, When not travelling in pursuit of a lot. Italian Protestants to seek sanctuary in him? Or, as has been suggested, was in that narrow streete, on both sides, in Clerkenwell - in Dickens's Oliver stories for his Gannet column, he England, escaping the Inquisition. In Shakespeare really a Sicilian (called with infinite fury. Sir W. Batten (Sir Twist, The Artful Dodger takes Oliver lives in west London, surrounded by THE DARK AGES the early 1570s, John Fulvio, who had Crollanza: "shake spear") who had fled William Batten, about whom Pepys to Fagin's house in Saffron Hill - while cookbooks. He never skips lunch. been born in London and whose father, to England via northern Italy because was scarcely more charitable) not those from Northern Italy started to @KnottHungry We can blithely skip through the Michelangelo, had been a Protestant of his Protestant faith? Or - another knowing how to remove his wine, did establish themselves in Soho. next millennium or so, the Dark Ages pastor and tutor to Lady Jane Grey outlandish suggestion - did Fulvio dig a pit in the garden, and laid it in The men found work as knife and the Norman Conquest, and pick before fleeing with his family when actually write Shakespeare's plays? there; and I took the opportunity of grinders, as organ grinders, or making

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and Rome. Which is very simple food, where everything is LAWRENCE'S MAIN COURSE organic. It’s exactly the food I like to eat, vegetables and fresh fish. I enjoy meat too – I’ve chosen the liver today. Traditionally 10-12OZ FILLET ON THE BONE this comes from the north-east of Italy. I famously love champagne, I sponsor it all the time! I 28 DAY DRY AGED ABERDEENSHIRE STEAK prefer Dom Perignon, but I don’t dislike Krug. I also enjoy Ruinhart and Tattinger. When it comes to wine, I now prefer At Boisdale we pride ourselves on sourcing Pre-heat a griddle or heavy based frying pan. Italian wines. But I enjoy French red’s, it depends on what you the best Scottish beef available; we believe Brush the surface of a 12oz dry aged bone in eat. These are both great countries for wine and today I am it to be the best in the world! The cattle are fillet with rapeseed oil on both sides. Season drinking the Brunello from Frescobaldi. left to graze upon the mineral rich lush grass well with salt & pepper. Place the steak on My passion now is Limonbello. I’ve been working for two pastures of Aberdeenshire, before selection the griddle and leave for 2 minutes before years on this project and now the work is really ready to start, & dry aging. Our dry-aged fillet on the bone turning a ¼ turn and leaving for another 2 I’m at the beginning. I’m pleased with the design and more gives you the best of both worlds in terms of minutes. Turnover the meat and repeat the importantly the taste. I’m confident about the quality of the the tenderness you would expect with great steps. This will be a good medium-rare, product. For me I want to conquer the world! I am creating beef fillet but also the delicate and distinctive leave to rest in warm place for another 5 a completely new drink, but one that’s contemporary and flavour of meat cooked on the bone. minutes. Eat. modern. Something that is part of my tradition and part of my story, but that has existed for centuries in Italy. Of course this is a well-known brand, but we are launching a completely new Every two years Lawrence is joined by 250 riders to raise money for the foundations’ RugbyWorks drink. A lot of research went into the drink, it’s one of the few programme, on the Dallaglio Cycle Slam. This June, the Cycle Slam will be riding 1,861km from For an Italian food is everything. It’s a part of our alkaline drinks, after Tequila. It uses Gavi, it’s lemon based San Sebastian in Northern Spain, across the Pyrenees to Andorra, Barcelona, Majorca and then lifestyle, culture and background. It’s essential, and it is also an anti-oxidant – nutritionists will tell you how Ibiza. “We’re aiming to raise £1,000,000 for the Dallaglio Foundation in the process, which will you cannot survive without great experiences! In important alkaline is. I believe it is a very positive drink. You have a profoundly positive impact on the young people who take part in the programme.” To Italy you never close any deals without sitting at a table and can create a lot of cocktails too, a splash of Limobello with a dry raise money for the Lawrence Dallaglio Foundations, Rugby Works and change the lives of the enjoying good food and wine. Not even a romance can be champagne, a Martini, or a Negroni – these are all delicious. hardest to reach young people, please visit: www.dallagliofoundation.com started without sharing food together. The X-factor is no sugar – organic lemons, organic alcohol – we I had the privilege of growing up in Puglia – between Puglia will send one to George Osborne and David Cameron!" NANCY'S MAIN COURSE NANCY'S FIRST COURSE CHARGRILLED CALVES LIVER, INGREDIENTS SEARED FOIE GRAS, SEARED SCOTTISH SCALLOPS WITH LANCASHIRE QUAIL 4 x Diver caught Scottish scallops CARAMELISED CAULIFLOWER & CRISPY MAPLE WALNUTS 1x Lancashire quail, CRISPY SHALLOTS, SAGE & with both breasts removed LEMON BUTTER NB. Leg meat to be used in the Scotch egg mixture Green grape seed finishing oil INGREDIENTS 20ml of peanut oil 4 x 140g slices of calves’ liver 20g of butter 4 x 50g slices of fresh foie gras Salt & pepper to season 2 x shallots, peeled & sliced into rings ¼ bunch of sage, leaves picked free Pre-heat a frying pan. Season both the quail Salt & pepper breasts & the scallops. Drizzle in the peanut Plain flour oil followed with the butter. Once the butter Olive oil starts to bubble, lay the quail breasts skin side down into the pan. Followed by the If you’re slicing the calves liver yourself, scallops. After 1 minute, when the quail ensure you remove the fine skin like breast and the scallops have taken on a membrane of the outside. You could ask your golden brown colour, turn them over and butcher to do this for you. Carefully heat a continue cooking the scallops for another small amount of olive oil in a sauce-pan. and fish before cooking, offal especially liver the grill and leave to rest in a warm space or 30 seconds and then the quail for a further Flour the shallot rings, then deep fry until & kidney should only be seasoned after the under a sheet of tin foil. Pre-heat a frying pan. 3 minutes. Basting both with pan juices crisp and golden. Drain onto some absorbent cooking process. Otherwise the liver will dry Once hot, add the foie gras (no oil or butter regularly. Remove and leave in a warm kitchen roll. Drop the sage leaves into the hot out and become chewy. is required in the pan first) and caramelize place or cover with some tin foil. Place oil, remove once crisp and drain the same for about 20 seconds on each side. Heat the some hot cauliflower puree on the plate way as the shallot rings. Pre-heat a heavy Lay the slices of liver over the hot pan, leave butter in a sauce pan. Plate the slices of liver (recipe: www.boisdalelife.com) followed by based griddle pan (you may use a frying for 30 seconds and then quarter turn them and in the centre of warm plates, followed by the the quail and scallops. Garnish with maple pan instead if you don’t have one of these). leave for another 30 seconds and flip them foie gras and lashings the lemon & sage butter syrup walnuts, scotch quails egg cut in half Brush the slices of liver with a little olive over. Repeat this for a second time on this side. (recipe: www.boisdalelife.com) Scatter over and drizzle the dish with the grape seed oil. oil. Contrary to the rule of seasoning meat Season well will salt & pepper. Remove from the crisp sage & shallot rings & serve.

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Spain, France, Sweden and Scotland. It has educated me as I've grown and been beside me, as I've stood in front of a room of 90 people, nervously speaking about its beauty. It has taken me around the world and given me freedom to find something I love to do as my job. When the opportunity came about to go full-time in the whisky industry, to shrug off the journalist cape that I'd worn for 14 years, it was a thrilling prospect. Suddenly, all those footsteps that first took me to Milroy's, added up. The company felt a natural fit – William Grant & Sons is not only a family company with huge respect in the whisky industry, but it was where some of my earliest key whisky memories were formed. The first time I really “got” production, was while wandering around the Balvenie distillery – one of my most cherished moments is sitting on a cask in the Glenfiddich warehouse drinking a dram from a “hoggie” filled in my birth year. One of my most terrifying moments was climbing up to the top of our Girvan grain distillery! here is a moment when you now, eight years later I am working as It was the variety that also got me realise you've fallen in love with a Whisky Specialist for William Grant tingling. From the new Ailsa Bay, the whisky. & Sons. first peated whisky in the company's As a spirit its qualities are far- In the years that followed that history – to the fascinating Girvan ranging: exotic scents, enticing moment, I went on to create my website, single grain, and reclusive, seductive mouthfeel, enervating effects. It may Miss Whisky – bringing a new voice to single malt Kininvie. The Ancient take months, maybe it takes years, but the world of whisky that can often be Reserves portfolio I now look after when her charms are discovered there ever so slightly (ahem) masculine. What has something for everyone. It is that is no going back. And that is when you I noticed most, as I wrote tale upon tale variety that makes whisky so incredibly fall in love with whisky. of my experiences, was the fact that special, whatever company it's from – My own story begins on a cold in a world in which Scotch, Irish and every one of us has a different palate, February eve in 2008. It's a crisp, air- puffing, ears numbing, kind of night as I exit Milroy's of Soho. I'm warm, safely tucked up in whisky's soft blanket. I'm wearing tall heels that at one point catch One of my most cherished moments is sitting on a a dip in the pavement. In that moment, cask in the Glenfiddich warehouse drinking a dram I pause, look up to the sky and can just make out the faint hint of stars, a rare from a “hoggie” filled in my birth year. sight in central London. What I note most at that moment is the thought that I might be falling in love with whisky. AN INTERVIEW WITH Like an over-eager lover embraced in American whisky (those stalwarts for but whisky's diversity means we can all the first throws of ecstasy. The signs the past century) was shifting. It was find something to love. are all there – I can't wait to see whisky opening up – new distilleries were And I don't mind that whisky has so again, I can't wait to learn more, I can't emerging and the demographics of many lovers. I am happy to share. So wait to have just one more taste. drinkers were changing. next time you see me, come and share I believe it was so transcendental Whisky has been a great partner. Our your own story – I'm sure a dram or two, that I went from working as a financial relationship has seen me sit on casks will see our tales through. LISA SIMONE journalist, adamant that whisky was in warehouses, sipping strong drams not for me, to a thrilling journey where in the fresh air of Kentucky, Ireland, www.williamgrant.com LIVE MUSIC PROGRAMME: MAY – AUGUST IN ASSOCIATION WITH

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MUSIC IN ASSOCIATION WITH BOOGIE WOOGIE NIGHTS WORDS BY JOOLS HOLLAND BOISDALE PATRON OF MUSIC

join them. The third person we are getting plays Stride piano and that’s the trickiest of all the Jazz piano styling to achieve and play successfully – it’s quite dangerous as well. We have the old British master playing, Neville Dickie. He is probably the greatest Stride pianist that Britain has. Each of them will do a number, they will do duets and at some point it will culminate on three pianos and have all of us Boogie’ing together. There is Blues, New Orleans Style, Stride and Boogie Woogie, all originating from the great pianists of the 30s and 40s. It’s the music I would play if I was at home. This will be as special as Mozart and more fun than an ice cream! It’s great to see the music alive and I can’t wait to get into Boisdale and do this. The atmosphere in every Boisdale is pretty wonderful – partly due to the genius of its founder – which comes out of every pore of the building, it’s basically cheerfulness and bonhomie. When I go into Boisdale it’s like going ’m really delighted that we are constantly playing in festivals all over into a club you dreamed of going into going to have this Boogie Woogie the world. He’s the only living man I in the 1940s, with music, lovely food, and Stride evening at Boisdale know, who like Fats Domino, can push people drinking and being cheerful, of Canary Wharf. I think this is some the piano across the stage with his it’s got the atmosphere of a lost magic of the most important music ever knees! He’s constantly in demand, not age. It’s a fairyland of delights. For me invented and a key part of the history just for his piano knee pushing, but personally it’s one of the greatest treats of music. This particular music, Boogie also his pianist skills. Axel is a giant and an evening I’m looking forward to Woogie and Stride, brings the most joy of the piano and without question more than anything! to me personally and I’m very pleased Germany’s greatest Boogie Woogie to say we have got some of the greatest pianist – he studied and played with THE JOOLS HOLLAND BOOGIE WOOGIE DINNER

In association with the Small Luxury Hotels of the World, 11th May 2016 at This will be as special as Mozart Boisdale of Canary Wharf and more fun than an ice cream! For more information and to book tickets visit: boisdale.co.uk/music

players in the world to come and some of the greats and went to America play. We’ve got the A, the B and the and made a record with Big Joe Turner C of Boogie Woogie which is of course and Lionel Hampton. What’s great is he Axel Zwingenberger, Ben Waters and plays differently to Ben and differently Charlie Watts. A world renowned to me. He treats this music in the same Boogie Woogie group and I’m delighted way a concert pianist might study that we have the A and B coming. Ben Beethoven or Bach, he studied Boogie Waters is probably Britian’s biggest Woogie in the same way. Having those export of Boogie Woogie and he is two alone is wonderful and I will also

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York’s prestigious Julliard School of years. There were a lot of goodbyes. spot where she passed away, so I had to Music, but by the time she was in her My mother was a prodigy and she was face my own demons, but I find that a FIRE IN THE BLOOD early 20s, she had discovered just how a public figure, and although she was lot of creativity comes from that place. hard it was for a black performer to also bi-polar and a manic-depressive, It’s magical. Her piano is still there, but When you are the daughter of one of the most iconic singers of all time and you have inherited their musical genes, you make headway in the classical world. she was still my mom. It’s the rest of the there were squatters in the house, so a can either go and do something else – or you can step up to the microphone and try your best to make your name in She started working as a singer-pianist world who have a hard time imagining lot of her stuff had been stolen or broken your own right. Lisa Simone chose the latter, although it took her half a lifetime to escape from Nina Simone’s shadow at the Midtown Bar & Grill in Atlantic Nina Simone as a mother.” As she puts when we moved in. and finally face up to the fact that music was her destiny. City to earn money for further tuition. it in the recent documentary film, What “The first time I ever sat in her house was In an attempt to hide the fact that she Happened, Miss Simone?: “My mother when I came over for her funeral, and WORDS BY JONATHAN WINGATE was playing in a bar for money from was Nina Simone 24/7, and that’s where strangely, the place that represented so MUSIC JOURNALIST AND BROADCASTER her devout parents, she adopted a stage it became a problem.” much pain is now the place from which name, Nina Simone (Nina from a pet Was she cruel to her as a child? “There I can fly. My mother was heavy and name her boyfriend called her, which is were times when she was very cruel,” troubled, but she was the product of her housemaid, and her father, John, was Spanish for ‘little girl’, and Simone from Simone replies, wiping a tear from own life. Because of the contributions a handyman and part-time preacher. the French film star Simone Signoret, Eunice started playing the piano before who she greatly admired). her feet could reach the pedals and was With her beguiling blend of blues, jazz, soon performing at her mother’s Sunday soul and gospel and a unique, visceral church services. voice which she said ranged between Music was like eating and breathing for me when I was Mary Kate dreamed of Eunice “gravel” and “coffee and cream,” Nina growing up... My father played trumpet, and mom was becoming the first prominent African- Simone soon signed her first record American classical pianist, although the deal, although she immediately found always immersed in music in one form or another. backwater of Tryon was hardly the ideal herself butting heads with label bosses birthplace for a black classical prodigy after she insisted on choosing her own during the Great Depression. With material. She won the fight, and in eight children to support, the Waymons 1958, she enjoyed her first hit with her eye. “I certainly thought seriously and sacrifices she made, I stand upon never had much money, so her mother’s her interpretation of George and Ira about committing suicide when I was her shoulders, but I have found my own employers agreed to pay for piano Gershwin’s I Loves You Porgy. She a teenager. I always felt like I was path. I can be lighter and I can carry lessons in return for recitals given in her regarded the music industry as “the persecuted for growing up. God forbid if this legacy on from a place of my own local library. dirtiest and most immoral business in I had an opinion. She used to sometimes choosing, as opposed to drowning in the During one of her first performances, the world,” and although fans flocked to say to me – ‘What do you know about quagmire that she left.” her parents were forced to move to the her concerts, she enjoyed only a handful anything, child?’ I’ve had a lot of time Is it important to confound people’s back to make way for a white couple. of hit records in her 45-year career. to think about this. You have to ask how expectations of the kind of music Eleven-year-old Eunice stood up and Both on and offstage, Nina Simone was was she raised and what kind of love was that Nina Simone’s daughter should announced that she would not play until often combative and moody, a mercurial she given? It’s all connected. It’s not like be making? “It’s not really important, her parents were allowed to return to the talent who was both feared and revered she work up in the morning and said – I because I make music for nobody else but front-row. It was incidents such as this in equal measure, but nobody who heard want to fuck up my daughter today. That me. It’s taken a long time to get people that planted a seed of resentment that her music could ever forget her. Despite wasn’t the plan. to listen to me in my own right, but the would remain with her for the rest of her imperious public persona, Simone’s “Music was like eating and breathing prospect of following in my mother’s her life. “It was my first feeling of being success seemed to amplify rather than for me when I was growing up,” she footsteps was never intimidating for discriminated against, and I recoil in alleviate a deep-rooted self-doubt and continues. “Mom was always immersed me, because it’s who I am, and it’s in If it was up to me, I wouldn’t Simone, who spent years working as a horror at it,” she once said. “I never got emotional instability that she was in music in one form or another, whether my blood. I’ve got the music in me,” she be starting my music career backing singer and starring in Broadway over that jolt of racism.” unable to rid herself of. she was writing, rehearsing or singing sings. “The legacy continues, so I’m the in my 50s,” Simone explains, musicals such as The Lion King, Aida A local fund was set up to help with After a short-lived first marriage, in 1961 it around the house, so I just started second chapter of the same book.” “but I didn’t realise that this is what I and Rent before finally deciding to step her education, enabling her to attend she wed Lisa’s father, former New York playing music instinctively. I wish she wanted to do for a living until I was in into the spotlight under her own name. Allen High School, an exclusive private City police sergeant turned musician, had pushed me harder, but she was My World by Lisa Simone is out now. my late 20s. Although I had decided to “When I told my mother I was boarding school for the musically gifted: Andrew Stroud, who also became her pushed so hard, she didn’t make music before my mother passed going to be a singer, there was silence. “My mother would be practicing at 4am manager. In one particularly disturbing want music to become a away, it’s almost like I could feel a storm interview excerpt, she recalled: “I chore for me.” coming, and after she died, my life was always tired. I worked like a dog. With her career taking off completely changed. I ended up going Andrew protected me from everyone in Europe, Lisa Simone into the US Air Force and becoming a My mother was Nina Simone 24/7, except himself. He wrapped himself now divides her time civil engineer, but it wasn’t really me. around me like a snake. I was scared of between her family home I don’t remember how that became an and that’s where it became a problem. him.” Once at a nightclub, Stroud saw in Pennsylvania (where her option. I was trying to find my own way, her put a fan’s note in her pocket. “When husband and children live) but I suppose I was running away from I got out on the street, he started beating and her mother’s house what is in my bloodline.” me, reigning bloody blows. He beat me in Carry-le-Rouet, a small Lisa Simone may have just released She was just like – Oh, no. She was before doing her chores and going to all the way home, up the stairs, in the seaside resort just outside the best album of her career and is definitely conflicted about me going into school. She wasn’t really asked to play elevator, in my room. He placed a gun to Marseille. performing to packed houses all over music, but when she came to see me on games with the other children, because my head, tied me up and raped me. He “I’ve waited so long to get to Europe, yet from the moment we meet Broadway, she was riveted and she was they just wanted her to play bebop actually thinks I want to be hit. He told this point, but oftentimes we backstage at Boisdale before the first of very proud.” or boogie-woogie on the piano. She me so.” don’t think of the sacrifices three sell-out shows, there is absolutely Nina Simone was born Eunice couldn’t just do normal things that other “Her biggest regret was not feeling like we have to make to follow no escaping the elephant in the room, Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North girls do, because her life was purely she had provided me with the stability our dreams. When I get back which is the subject of her mother. It has Carolina in 1933. Her mother, Mary geared towards the piano.” that she really wanted me to have in home, there’s nobody there been a circuitous route to stardom for Kate, was a Methodist minister and She received a grant to study at New my life. I had 13 governesses in seven but me. I sleep in the very

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TUESDAY - THURSDAY MAY 3-5 AT 21:15 TUESDAY MAY 10 AT 21:15 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 THE ESSENTIAL NINA SIMONE STARRING THE CHET BAKER SONGBOOK: THE JONNY LIZ FLETCHER & HER BAND BOSTON QUINTET Starring one of the UK’s greatest female Since winning ITV Jazz Performer of the jazz vocalists the show features all the Year, singer and saxophonist Jonny Boston great hits from Feeling Good through to My Baby Just Cares For has played with many of the UK jazz greats including Jamie Me. “Fletcher has heart, sensitivity and subtle control - she’s Cullum, Chris Barber and John Dankworth. Jonny perfectly the real deal.” John Fordham, The Guardian captures Chet Baker’s glorious singing voice whilst trumpeter Steve Fishwick recreates the beautiful sound and sinuous lines of this legendary performer. Featuring The Way You Look Tonight, FRIDAY MAY 6 AT 21:45 Let’s Get Lost, My Funny Valentine, Time After Time and more. COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £35.00 JORDAN & THE GIGOLOS Think Louis Jordan, Frankie Ford, Ray WEDNESDAY MAY 11 AT 21:15 Charles, Chuck Berry and more. Expect COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £60.00 soulful horns, piano pounding left hand, THREE COURSE GOURMET DINNER + SHOW FROM £95.00 filthy Hammond Organ licks and serious back beat grooves. Be sure to wear your dancing shoes! “I have been watching this artist for THE JOOLS HOLLAND quite some time and I really admire his style.” Jools Holland BOOGIE-WOOGIE DINNER Jools hosts and performs alongside some of his favourite musicians in a night of piano SATURDAY MAY 7 AT 21:45 pounding excitement with piano wizard Axel Zwingenberger, COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £25.00 Ladyva, the glamorous queen of the keys, master pianist Neville TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £57.50 Dickie and Ben Waters, pianist of choice for The Rolling Stones, the Kinks, Chuck Berry and many others. The evening will also GWEN DICKEY’S ROSE ROYCE feature a few surprise guests. “This will be as special as Mozart Gwen Dickey is the voice of the L.A. based and more fun than ice cream!” Jools Holland ‘80s soul/funk group Rose Royce and has been a revered solo artist since the ‘90s. She famously collaborated with Jay-Z for a brand new version of the Rose Royce hit Wishing on a Star which became a UK Top Ten hit. Classic hits include Carwash, Is It Love You’re After, Love Don’t THUR MAY 12 AT 21:15 Live Here Anymore, I Wanna Get Next To You and Ain’t Nobody. COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £35.00

MONDAY MAY 9 AT 20:00 JEREMY SASSOON TRIO: SOUL MASTERS COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 AND JAZZ GIANTS TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 Jeremy Sassoon’s regular tributes to Ray Charles at Boisdale have proved LEE GOLD – THE GREAT AMERICAN tremendously popular. Tonight he performs a wide repertoire SONGBOOK of some of his favourite classics from artists as diverse as Accompanied by her double bass player, Sam Cooke and Steely Dan. “The sold-out crowd applauded Lee Gold performs exquisite renditions wildly for each tune and soaked up the infectious feel-good of the best loved tunes from the riches of the Great American vibe.” London Jazz News. Songbook like Cheek To Cheek, Have You Met Miss Jones, Fly Me To The Moon and Night And Day.

EVERY SUNDAY AT BOISDALE SUNDAY JAZZ LUNCH FRIDAY MAY 13 AT 21:45 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 An 18-hour slow roast rib of Aberdeenshire beef is the SOUL NIGHT: THE BLACK HAT BAND mouthwatering centrepiece One of the most entertaining acts we’ve of Boisdale’s famous Sunday seen in a long time. The ultimate good Jazz Lunch. Complementing time band playing everything from James the magnificent menu is the Brown to Beyoncé. Featuring London’s answer to Chaka Khan best in swinging classic jazz. - the amazing Jaelee singing hits such as We Are Family, Lost in Music, Love Train and Disco Inferno. Spring 2016 BOISDALELIFE.COM Issue no.6

BOISDALE OF CANARY WHARF – LONDON’S GREATEST LIVE MUSIC RESTAURANT BOISDALE CANARY WHARF LIVE MUSIC PROGRAMME: MAY – AUGUST SATURDAY MAY 14 AT 21:45 MONDAY, MAY 23 AT 20:00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 DINNER & SHOW FROM £30.00 | COCKTAIL & SHOW FROM £15.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £45.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 See videos of all artists at boisdale.co.uk RAY GELATO GIANTS LEE GOLD – THE GREAT AMERICAN A regular favourite at Boisdale, Ray SONGBOOK and the boys are back again with their Accompanied by her double bass player, SATURDAY MAY 28 AT 21:45 MONDAY JUNE 6 AT 20:00 infectious good time swing and jive Lee Gold performs exquisite renditions COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 recalling the glory days of Louis Prima in 1950s Las Vegas. of the best loved tunes from the riches of the Great American TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £45.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 “Awesome, just awesome.” Van Morrison Songbook. Perfect mellow music for a Monday night, with songs like Cheek To Cheek, Have You Met Miss Jones, Fly Me To The BE BOP A LULA: EDDIE COCHRAN, THE BEST OF THE BLUES WITH ERIC Moon and Night And Day. GENE VINCENT, BILLY FURY & ROY RANZONI MONDAY MAY 16 AT 20:00 ORBISON A mellow blend of blues, boogie-woogie COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 Celebrating the music of four rock ’n’ roll and jukebox classics by the likes of B.B. TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 TUESDAY MAY 24 AT 21:15 legends, this show is guaranteed to get you bopping in your seats King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino and Ray Charles. He’s COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 and dancing in the aisles with hits including Summertime Blues, accompanied by Jools Holland’s great bass player Dave Swift. “I THE BEST OF THE BLUES WITH ERIC TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 Be Bop A Lula and Three Steps To Heaven. “Does it tick my box loved playing with Eric Ranzoni. He’s a blues brother.” Mud RANZONI for being a great night out? Yes!” London Theatre Morganfield (son of the late, great Muddy Waters) A mellow blend of blues, boogie-woogie and PURE BRUBECK: DAVE BRUBECK’S jukebox classics by the likes of B.B. King, GREATEST HITS MONDAY, MAY 30 Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino and Ray Charles. “I loved playing Led by saxophone colossus Simon Bates, CLOSED TUESDAY - THURSDAY JUNE 7-9 AT 21:15 with Eric Ranzoni. He’s a blues brother.” Mud Morganfield (son with the astonishing Harry The Piano in COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 of the late, great Muddy Waters) the role of Brubeck the evening will include hits like Take Five, a TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 global number 1 in 1959. “Keyboard genius, a legendary figure TUESDAY - THURSDAY MAY 31 - JUNE 2 AT 21:15 in the music world.” BBC Radio 3 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 ERROL LINTON. BLUES FROM DEEPEST TUESDAY - THURSDAY MAY 17-19 AT 21:15 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 BRIXTON COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 One of Boisdale’s favourite blues men TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 WEDNESDAY MAY 25 AT 21:15 THE SOUNDS OF BURT BACHARACH: A returns with his band for three days of COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 MUSICAL SPECTACULAR BY CHRIS DEAN great songs, killer grooves and wailing harmonica. Errol and Co. THE MISSISSIPPI SWAMP DOGS: A NIGHT TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £35.00 Chris Dean leads his superb band and play with a ragged, fluid grace creating an urban sound with IN NEW ORLEANS singers through 75 minutes of non-stop rural roots. “One of London’s greatest undiscovered talents.” A celebration of the rich musical heritage HOT JAZZ JAM hits from one of the greatest songwriters in pop history – I Say The Independent of New Orleans performed by this Boisdale brings together some of the best a Little Prayer, Do You Know The Way To San Jose? Raindrops exceptional band with musical styles from Cajun to Blues, musicians in London to pay homage to the Keep Fallin’ On My Head, Close To You, I’ll Never Fall In Love Southern Rock to Funk, Soul to Jazz and New Orleans Rumba legends of jazz so ease yourself into the Again, Walk On By, What the World Needs Now Is Love and FRIDAY JUNE 10 AT 21:45 to Gospel. Featuring classics such as Tipitina, Memphis Soul middle of the week with a cool cocktail of timeless music. many more. COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 Stew and Going Back to New Orleans. TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 THURSDAY MAY 26 AT 21:15 FRIDAY JUNE 3 AT 21:45 SOUL FRIDAY FEATURING THE SOUL FRIDAY MAY 20 AT 21:15 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 IMMIGRANTS TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £35.00 The Soul Immigrants present original and TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 AL ROSS AND THE PLANETS THE CONGO FAITH HEALERS jazzy deep funk grooves so be prepared to dance and join the party when they’re onstage. “The Soul THE IMPOSSIBLE GROOVERS Down and dirty swamp infested gypsy Cult rhythm and blues band Al Ross And Immigrants are one of the best Funk & Soul Jazz out fits in blues with wild, savage guitar playing, The Impossible Groovers play an infectious The Planets are back recreating the exciting, the UK!” Healer Selecta. “This is retro feel-good music - voodoo vocals, Latin American grooves mix of 60s soul and 70s disco anthems. Feel- wild nights of raw rhythm and blues, soul unashamedly yesterday’s sounds for today!” Blues & Soul and rockabilly swing double bass. “Magic and epic stuff!” Blues good hits including I Heard It Through The and classic pop. “Seeing The Planets is one of the best nights Magazine Grapevine and The Midnight Hour. out in London.” Time Out and Soul Magazine “Amazing music, great and sultry vocals and brilliant entertainment!” Edinburgh Festival SATURDAY JUNE 11 AT 21:45 SATURDAY MAY 21 AT 21:15 FRIDAY MAY 27 AT 21:45 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 SATURDAY JUNE 4 AT 21:45 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £45.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £20.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £45.00 A TRIBUTE TO THE BUENA VISTA JIVE ACES THE GENIUS OF RAY CHARLES: JEREMY SOCIAL CLUB SASSOON & HIS BAND THE 4TUNES Together for over a decade, this extremely Nearly 90 years after the legendary Buena Experience one unforgettable, fun-packed popular six-piece group is renowned for Jeremy Sassoon is amazing - he has the Vista Social Club were performing the night with four of the West End theatre’s its spectacular stage show and irresistible voice, the piano chops and the drive and lovelorn ballads and son-based dance numbers in Havana greatest leading men (Les Miserables, high energy jump jive music, where swing meets rock ‘n roll. excitement of the great Brother Ray. The hits include I Got A lounges, their music is now more popular than ever. Tonight the Phantom of the Opera, Jersey Boys). “WOW.” Sky TV. “You’ll “Absolutely Brilliant!” Simon Cowell / “A Ray of Sunshine! I Woman, Hit The Road Jack, Hallelujah, I Love Her So, Georgia crème de la crème of Cuba’s ex-pat musicians pay homage this be singing, dancing and tingling all over.” Sarah Harding, loved The Jive Aces.” Alesha Dixon On My Mind, In The Heat Of The Night and many more. great institution. Girls Aloud

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TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 THE MOTOWN SOUL EXPERIENCE: SOUL NIGHT: THE BLACK HAT BAND TUESDAY - THURSDAY JUNE 14-16 AT 21:15 FRIDAY JUNE 24 AT 21:45 FEATURING ZALON One of the most entertaining acts we’ve COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 A night of Motown classics performed seen in a long time. The ultimate good TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £35.00 by one of the hottest up-and-coming soul time band playing everything from James voices on the UK scene. Zalon was Amy Winehouse’s backing Brown to Beyoncé. Featuring London’s answer to Chaka Khan BOOGIE WOOGIE WONDERLAND: SOUL NIGHT: REUBEN RICHARDS singer but now he takes centre stage in this classic soul spectacular. - the amazing Jaelee singing hits such as We Are Family, Lost in FEATURING THE BOOGIE WOOGIE BRAVES With a sublime voice that immediately “Things look good for this aspiring singer… he could be onto Music, Love Train and Disco Inferno The Boogie-Woogie Braves led by piano brings Sam Cooke and Otis Redding to something really big!” Blues and Soul magazine maestro James Compton perform that very mind, Reuben Richards mixes up a jukebox special brand of authentic and universally adored music known full of Motown, Atlantic and Stax classics that’s got so much SATURDAY JULY 9 AT 21:45 as boogie-woogie. “An awfully big sound, most of it down to foot-stomping soul you could quite easily be back in the Apollo, SATURDAY JULY 2 AT 21:45 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 ivory tinkler James Compton.” Bristol Post Harlem, in its 60s heyday. “An exercise in classy retro-soul.” COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 The Guardian. “We’re loving this so much we’re dancing in the SI CRANSTOUN studio – superb.” BBC Radio 2 Steve Wright FRIDAY JUNE 17 AT 21:45 ONE NIGHT IN VEGAS FEATURING Si Cranstoun has a wonderful voice that COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 ‘SUSPICIOUSLY ELVIS’ & HIS reminds you of Jackie Wilson one moment TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 SATURDAY JUNE 25 AT 21:45 EIGHT-PIECE ORCHESTRA and Sam Cooke the next. Together with COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 An astonishingly accurate homage to a brilliant band that can turn on a dime as they swing, groove CHRISTOPHER HOLLAND & HIS BAND TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 Elvis’s iconic Las Vegas period, ‘Suspiciously Elvis’ features an and shuffle. “A sound that beautifully blends Northern Soul, Christopher is the younger sibling of awesome band, a troupe of dancers and a brilliant performance Motown & Vintage Pop & We discovered him first!” Terry Boisdale’s Patron of Music Jools Holland VIVA SANTANA from the UK’s premier Elvis impersonator. “Sheer Brilliance.” Wogan, Radio 2 and for many years they have been This phenomenal seven-piece Latin The Sun “Whether you are an Elvis fan or not, this show is appearing on stage together in big brother’s Rhythm & Blues rock explosion continues to amaze fans great entertainment.” The Scotsman Orchestra. A hugely entertaining evening. “A masterclass in with their celebration of the music of the MONDAY JULY 11 AT 20:00 pastoral power pop.” Uncut Magazine. legendary Carlos Santana. “One Of The Top Must See Tributes COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 In The UK.” Classic Rock Magazine MONDAY JULY 4 AT 20:00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 SATURDAY, JUNE 18 AT 21:45 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 LEE GOLD – THE GREAT AMERICAN COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £20.00 MONDAY, JUNE 27 AT 20:00 SONGBOOK TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £45.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 THE BEST OF THE BLUES WITH ERIC Accompanied by her double bass player, TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 RANZONI Lee Gold performs exquisite renditions SINATRA BIG BAND NIGHT WITH A mellow blend of blues, boogie-woogie and of the best loved tunes from the riches of the Great American STEPHEN TRIFFITT LEE GOLD – THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK jukebox classics by the likes of B.B. King, Songbook. Perfect mellow music for a Monday night with songs Considered by many to be the best Sinatra Accompanied by her double bass player, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino and Ray Charles. “I loved playing like Cheek To Cheek, Have You Met Miss Jones, Fly Me To The tribute act in the world today, Stephen Lee Gold performs her exquisite renditions with Eric Ranzoni. He’s a blues brother.” Mud Morganfield (son Moon and Night And Day. sounds uncannily like ‘Ol’ Blue Eyes’. “Stephen Triffitt embodies of the best loved tunes from the riches of the of the late, great Muddy Waters) Sinatra’s assurance of craft and style and his resemblance is Great American Songbook with songs like Cheek To Cheek, Have uncanny…. Triffitt nails the phrasing, timing and tone with You Met Miss Jones, Fly Me To The Moon and Night And Day. TUESDAY - THURSDAY JULY 12-14 AT 21:15 utter confidence.” Frank Rizzo, Variety Magazine TUESDAY - THUR JULY 5-7 AT 21:15 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 TUESDAY - THURSDAY JUNE 28-30 AT 21:15 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 MONDAY, JUNE 20 AT 20:00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 STEVE PERT: A SWINGIN’ AFFAIR COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 SINATRA AND FRIENDS: STARRING SHANE For the last five years Steve has been one TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 HAMPSHEIR of the featured singers in Boisdale’s hugely BILLIE HOLIDAY & LOUIS ARMSTRONG: Shane Hampsheir brings you the ultimate successful “Frank and Dean’s Christmas THE BEST OF THE BLUES WITH ERIC RANZONI LADY JAY AND ENRICO TOMASSO hits from the world of swing, big band jazz Party”. Now he’s back for a solo spot backed by his quartet. “A A mellow blend of blues, boogie-woogie Two of the greatest names in jazz history live and popular music including classics from the likes of Frank highly professional performance - top class entertainment and jukebox classics by the likes of B.B. again in this tribute featuring the plaintive Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr, Dean Martin, Michael Bublé, Bobby not to be missed.” Evening Standard “His Sammy Davis Jnr is King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino and Ray vocals of Lady Jay whose voice is startlingly evocative of the great Darin, Tony Bennett, Robbie Williams and Andy Williams to uncanny – and even Tina Turner, as well as singing very well Charles. He’s accompanied by Jools Holland’s great bass player Billie Holiday. She’s joined by trumpet maestro Enrico Tomasso and name a few. “Vibrant, charismatic and instantly likeable, in his own voice and cracking jokes in between.” Edinburgh Dave Swift. “I loved playing with Eric Ranzoni. He’s a blues the ever swinging Boisdale Blue Rhythm Band. performing God Hampsheir is a natural performer.” The Upcoming Evening News brother.” Mud Morganfield (son of the late, great Muddy Waters) Bless the Child, Lover Man, Every Time We Say Goodbye and more.

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FRIDAY JULY 15 AT 21:45 SATURDAY JULY 23 AT 21:15 SATURDAY JULY 30 AT 21:15 MONDAY AUGUST 8 AT 20:00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £20.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £20.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 THE GUITAR HERO WEEKEND PART 1: JOHNNY CASH ROAD SHOW TINA TURNER SINGS THE BLUES: BOB HADDRELL AND GEOFF HAVES ROBBIE MCINTOSH This show has been a sell-out sensation STARRING ACANTHA LANG A mellow mix of blues and jazz classics to The first night in our guitar hero double in venues throughout the UK with Clive Acantha hails from New Orleans and for her kick off the week. These two veterans of the bill features the magnificent guitar chops John as “The Man in Black” and featuring debut at Boisdale she’ll be featuring the early UK blues scene both sing and play piano of Robbie McIntosh. Known for his lengthy stints with Sir Paul a great band with a brass section as well as backing vocals from work of Tina Turner when the great soul legend was performing the and guitar superbly well. McCartney, The Pretenders, Roger Daltrey and Norah Jones. The Carter Sisters. Singing hits like Fulsom Prison Blues, Ring blues with an electrical charge that could leave you in shock and awe. of Fire, A Boy Named Sue, Jackson and many more. “You have one of the best voices I’ve ever heard.” Simon Cowell “…. Her voice blew me away… She is truly unforgettable.” Jude TUESDAY AUGUST 9 AT 21:15 SATURDAY JULY 16 AT 21:45 Law. “She has a soulful voice reminiscent of Tina Turner, Chaka COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 MONDAY JULY 25 AT 20:00 Khan and other legends of Blues and Soul Music. She’s the real TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 deal.” Mo Pleasure (Michael Jackson’s Keyboard Player) TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 HOT CLUB OF JUPITER THE GUITAR HERO WEEKEND PART 2: A fine bunch of young virtuosi performing CREGAN AND CO BOB HADDRELL AND GEOFF HAVES MONDAY AUGUST 1 AT 20:00 a unique mix of gypsy swing, hot jazz Best known for his work with Rod Stewart, A mellow mix of blues and jazz classics COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 and songs of middle-class angst and whose many hits the band features tonight, to kick off the week. These two veterans TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 caddish behaviour. Jim Cregan co-produced, co-wrote and was Rod’s musical director of the UK blues scene both sing and play for nearly 2 decades. Jim has received over 40 gold & platinum piano and guitar superbly well. LEE GOLD – THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK records to date. “If you can’t afford my ticket, go see these guys Accompanied by her double bass player, WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY AUG 10-12 AT 21:15 - they’re just as good and half the price!” Rod Stewart Lee Gold performs exquisite renditions of COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 TUESDAY - THURSDAY JULY 26-28 AT 21:15 the best loved tunes from the riches of the TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 Great American Songbook with songs like Cheek To Cheek, Have CASEY MACGILL MONDAY JULY 18 AT 20:00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 You Met Miss Jones, Fly Me To The Moon and Night And Day. COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 We love Casey! He performs music that TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 GEORGINA JACKSON swings – it’s like the Nat “King” Cole Trio Smoky voiced Georgina has a sound and TUESDAY - THURSDAY AUG 2-4 AT 21:15 meets the Mills Brothers, Fats Waller meets THE BEST OF THE BLUES WITH ERIC RANZONI style reminiscent of two of her vocal COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 Fats Domino. Slim Galliard meets Fred Astaire. “Casey MacGill, A mellow blend of blues, boogie-woogie heroines Peggy Lee and Doris Day. “What TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 the ukulele-strumming band leader, has the kind of shrugged- and jukebox classics by the likes of B.B. a joyous evening! It was just one gem after another and off charm one associates with being cool in the swing era.” King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino and tremendous fun from the word go.” Berkhamsted Jazz Club THE TJ JOHNSON BAND: FROM NEW New York Times review of the musical Swing! Ray Charles. “I loved playing with Eric Ranzoni. He’s a blues ORLEANS TO NEW YORK brother.” Mud Morganfield (son of the late, great Muddy Waters) TJ Johnson and his brilliant band play an FRIDAY JULY 29 AT 21:15 electrifying cocktail of cool jazz and rolling SATURDAY AUGUST 13 AT 21:15 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £20.00 blues that blends the R&B of Ray Charles with the swagger of Dr John. COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £20.00 TUESDAY - THURSDAY JULY 19-21 AT 21:15 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 SUMMER SOUL PARTY FRIDAY AUGUST 5 AT 21:15 THE LAMOURS: 13 GREAT MUSICIANS WITH ANDY MITCHELL AND COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £20.00 PLAY SWING, SOUL, TANGO, RAY CHARLES & BEYOND: JEREMY SASSOON THE BIG FUNK CORPORATION TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 ROCKABILLY & FEATURING A REDHEAD Jeremy’s voice and piano playing are steeped Classic soul with this dynamic 10-piece TO DIE FOR in the sound and style of Brother Ray. He’ll ensemble featuring the excellent vocal talents of Andy Mitchell. FRANK AND DEAN’S SUMMER PARTY Fronted by flame-haired singer, Lola Lamour, this brilliant be mixing a selection of Ray Charles classics The songs include Superstition, Boogie Nights, Love Will Bring Two of the UK’s classiest crooners, Iain 13-piece band kick up a storm playing a vintage-style cocktail alongside a choice selection of soul and swing standards. “Such an Us Together, Stomp Crazy in Love, Dance with You. “Big Funk Mackenzie and Steve Pert, will be joined by of rockabilly, swing and tango. Whether they’re performing atmosphere made the sold-out crowd applaud wildly for each tune Corporation just play good songs you can dance to, and do it Pete Long’s fantastic band in a wonderfully Minnie The Moocher or Tainted Love, The Lamours’ good-time and soak up the infectious feel-good vibe.” London Jazz Review so damn well you can’t see the joins between pop, disco and entertaining and authentic homage. The boys will also pay tribute music will have you jumping and jiving long into the night. funk from any era.” Soul Review to Andy Williams, Tom Jones and Elvis Presley. “Terrific entertainment.” Daily Mail

FRIDAY JULY 22 AT 21:15 MONDAY AUGUST 15 AT 20:00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £20.00 SUNDAY BOTTOMLESS SATURDAY AUGUST 6 AT 21:15 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 PROSECCO & WINE BRUNCH COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £20.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 £24.50 PER PERSON! TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 MARVIN GAYE AND MORE: WAYNE Available on the Boisdale of LEE GOLD – THE GREAT AMERICAN HERNANDEZ AND HIS NINE-PIECE BAND Canary Wharf’s Terrace (also 1st CREAM 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION SONGBOOK Wayne Hernandez has a truly sublime voice, floor Bar & Grill) 11am - 2pm. Featuring vocalist Pete Brown, who is the Accompanied by her double bass player, perfect for paying tribute to “The Prince of fourth member of Cream and composer Please note that selected drinks for the Lee Gold performs exquisite renditions Motown” Marvin Gaye. The show features such hits like How Bottomless Brunch will be available for of some of their biggest hits including 2 hours from your booking time. Any of the best loved tunes from the riches of the Great American Sweet It Is, Ain’t That Peculiar, I Heard It Through the Grapevine Sunshine Of Your Love, White Room, and I Feel Free. A fantastic additional pre and post drinks will be Songbook. Perfect mellow music for a Monday night with songs and Let’s Get It On. “…it was clear that Wayne has a very special added to your final bill. Please specify tribute to Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, members of “Brunch” when making your reservation like Cheek To Cheek, Have You Met Miss Jones, Fly Me To The talent, his voice was simply breath-taking.” Livemusic.fm the first great supergroup of the 60s. Moon and Night And Day.

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TUESDAY - THURSDAY AUGUST 16-18 AT 21:15 TUESDAY - THURSDAY AUG 23-25 AT 21:15 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 THE CORNBURY WHISKY INTERVIEW TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 Boisdale invited three different acts playing at this year’s Cornbury Festival for a whisky tasting in Belgravia. Plenty of whisky THE ELLA FITZGERALD SONGBOOK: CHRIS DEAN: SINGS AND SWINGS was consumed and in the end it felt easier to ask everyone the same questions! Colin Blunstone, lead singer of iconic 60s FEATURING NICOLA EMMANUELLE AND Chris Dean can usually be found fronting band The Zombies. Comedian Dane Baptiste who has his own sitcom on BBC3 and is currently appearing in the ITV2 series HER BAND the most successful big band in the UK – Elevenish. Ryan Lewis, bassist from Liverpool band The Hummingbirds, whose album Pieces of You is out now. With a deliciously expressive, soulful the Syd Lawrence Orchestra. He’s one of voice Nicola has both the charm and the chops to tackle the best trombonists you’ll ever hear and a few years back he Ella’s timeless songbook, taking in classic numbers by Duke decided to be a singer too. “What a wonderful voice! What took Ellington, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter et al. Heartbreakingly him so long?” The Jazz Repertory Company. beautiful and highly recommended. “...Nicola has star quality. She is an excellent singer with a strong, well- modulated voice, easy swing and a charming and natural FRIDAY AUGUST 26 AT 21:15 stage presence.” Evening Standard COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £20.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19 AT 21:15 GREG COULSON COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £20.00 Greg has his own special, fiery, TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 impassioned brand of Rhythm & Blues, putting his own stamp on the music of the SOUL NIGHT: GARY POOLE AND HIS BAND: greats who inspire him - Jerry Lee Lewis, Booker T, Taj Mahal SOUL SERENADE and more. “His style is rhythmic, fluid and above all, very Colin Blunstone, The Zombies (CB) Ryan Lewis, The Hummingbirds (RL) Dane Baptiste, comedian (DB) With a soulful style reminiscent of Al exciting.” Blues Magazine Chosen whisky: Balvenie 12 Single Cas Chosen whisky: Auchentoshan 3 Wood Chosen whisky: Arran Machrie Moor 6th Edition Green and Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, it’s no surprise that Gary Poole became a household name when he SATURDAY AUGUST 27 AT 21:15 recently appeared on BBC1’s The Voice. “Gary Poole is ultra- o you like whisky? What’s the BIG project you are working McCartney – but I’d like to also include soulful, he has real grit and emotion with a proper, honest-to- COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £20.00 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 (RL) I don’t really mind what I on right now? Pino Palladino, I think he’s fantastic and goodness delivery that is so, so lacking in today’s staid and drink really, but I like bourbon, a (RL) Promoting the album Pieces of You also Motown’s bassist, James Jameson. lacklustre market.” The Vibe Scribe ATILA SINGS SINATRA Jack Daniels on the rocks. – it’s a really big thing for us, we are five (DB) Initially it was George Carling, Atila’s incredible ability to tap deep into (CB) I do like whisky – I’ve got a years old now and it’s a really proud Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Russ SATURDAY AUGUST 20 AT 21:15 the spirit of seemingly inimitable singers wonderful memory of recording a song thing to be releasing our first album. Abbot, Hale & Pace, French and COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £20.00 like Sinatra and Nat ‘King’ Cole has won called Say You don’t Mind, I drank the (CB) A short solo tour that I do at least Saunders… TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £40.00 him a raft of rave reviews and prestigious guest spots with the best part of a bottle before I sang it in once a year. Then Belfast with the What are you currently listening too? BBC Concert Orchestra and Buddy Greco. “I was knocked out by Abbey Road, Studio 3. Zombies and then America, we go (RL) Paulo Nuntini… but I do listen to a PURDY: DIAMOND IN THE DUST Atila,” explains Greco. “He has the voice and the class to show (DB) I do, my historic experience has three times a year. We seem to have lot of old music actually! Rising star Purdy is a musical and visual the world what great music is all about.” been with bourbon’s, Jack Daniels, Jim established a much larger fan-base there, (CB) Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, London delight and tonight she’ll be performing Beam, Makers Mark – they I graduated than we have in the UK – we were part Grammer… songs from her debut smash album MONDAY, AUG 29TH to Cognac. of the first wave of the British Invasion, (DB) Rihanna Diamond in the Dust supported by her sensational four-piece CLOSED What’s the first drink you would order? just after the Beatles. What is your greatest fear? band. Purdy’s captivating voice conjures up memories of divas (RL) What’s my Poison you mean – it’s a (DB) A sitcom I just finished called (RL) Falling such as Nina Simone, Nancy Sinatra and Peggy Lee. Recently rum and coke, dark rum and coke. Sunny D, commissioned by the BBC last (CB) I don’t really have many – when she toured as the support act for Jools Holland and garnered TUESDAY - THURSDAY AUG 30 - SEPT 1 AT 21:15 (CB) Really I drink beer – you always year, that I’m writing and performing in. I was younger I struggled with stage rave reviews. “So slinky it shouldn’t be allowed!” Craig COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 know where you are with a beer. Do you Tweet? fright. Charles BBC6 TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 (DB) Cognac, or the occasional Vodka. (RL) Preferably not, no – I prefer to sit (DB) Failure – not succeeding through a Who else are you looking forward to and speak to someone, rather than talk lack of effort! JEFF HOOPER: SINATRA AND COMPANY seeing play at Cornbury this year? via a text or social media. Dream dinner party guests? MONDAY AUGUST 22 AT 20:00 Jeff Hooper is one of the most talented and (RL) I’d have to say the Zombies! (Editors (CB) No, I’m a technophobe. (RL) McCartney is there, Lennon, I COCKTAIL + SHOW FROM £15.00 best-liked singers on the European music- Note… this was some sort of deal) Or (DB) I do tweet, some would say not as really want to meet George Harrison… TWO COURSE DINNER + SHOW FROM £30.00 scene who will be performing a mix of Seal, that’s amazing, I’m looking forward much as I should… but I only think it’s the Beatles really! Sinatra classics as well as his own exciting versions of some to seeing him and trying to find some important to say something when you (CB) Winston Churchill, Jesus, I’d like BOB HADDRELL AND GEOFF HAVES of the greatest standards from the last 60 years. “Jeff Hooper is new bands. have something to say, rather than just to get into what he was thinking… A mellow mix of blues and jazz classics one of my favourite singers.” Hal David. (Bacharach & David) (CB) I’m intrigued to see the saying something! Marilyn Monroe for a bit of glamour to kick off the week. These two veterans “Jeff, sings with depth and passion throughout. His vocal Hummingbirds having just met Ryan. What’s your favorite song? (DB) Bruce Lee, George Carling, of the UK blues scene both sing and play range is stunning, and he swings too! A real treat.” Claire (DB) I’m looking forward to seeing (RL) God Only Knows by the Beach Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Paul piano and guitar superbly well. Martin BBC Radio Lemar. Boys. We always get this question, I used Robeson and my grandad What is the best party you went to last to change it every week, but recently I year? thought, no… I just like that one. DINNER & SHOW FROM £30.00 | COCKTAIL & SHOW FROM £15.00 (RL) I cant remember, it was that good. (CB) Fragile by Sting Cornbury Festival this year also includes: (CB) I’m on the road for about 10 months (DB) Take it in Blood by NAS, which Bryan Ferry, All Saints, Seal, Jamie See videos of all artists at boisdale.co.uk of the year – we work the whole time! I think is one of the best examples of Cullum, Corinne Bailey Rae, Gabrielle (DB) A friend’s birthday - tables were poetry in hip-hop. Aplin, Soul II Soul, Turin Breaks and danced upon, mothers regressed, people Who inspired you? Booker T. were embarrassed, memories were had (RL) The obvious answer is true, as FOR FULL LISTINGS AND VIDEOS OF ARTISTS, VISIT BOISDALE.CO.UK OR CALL 020 7715 5818 and antics were filmed! a bassist from Liverpool, its Paul www.cornburyfestival.com

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