sprIng 2016 BOISDALELIFE.COM Issue no.6 Issue No. 6 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 £4.95 $7.40 JOOLS HOLLAND €6.70 ¥880 BOOGIE WOOGIE NIGHTS 1 sprIng 2016 BOISDALELIFE.COM Issue no.6 EDITOR’S LETTER 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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For your protection calls are usually recorded. 9 A273828_Dec Egg Boisdale_297x210.indd 1 23/03/2016 15:33 sprIng 2016 BOISDALELIFE.COM Issue no.6 CONTENTS MANUFACTURE DE HAUTE HORLOGERIE PEOPLE REFERENDUM 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! 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