Though born and bred in the city, I did not truly realise I was a Londoner until I left for four years. It took swapping the relentless pulse of the city for the measured elegance of Edinburgh’s ...

After the Evening Standard, the city’s last daily paper, went weekly, a hodgepodge of small news sources sprang up. But the closure of the Standard wasn’t a huge loss, to be honest. In 2009, during ...

The super-rich, who once splashed their cash in all directions, have disappeared — to Milan, Monaco and Dubai — while other wealthy customers are buying their luxury goods on the Continent due to the ...

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