The Need For Swede: Charley Speed meets Thom Richard

There’s an air of military behind Thom’s disarming smile. Perhaps it’s the precision with which he goes about his business, or the clean-cut appearance and vice-like hand shake upon introduction. Either way, being surrounded by his extraordinary collection of historic aircraft at Warbird Adventures certainly adds to the sense of combat.
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Karen Krizanovich: The Truth About Altruism

I volunteer at a Positive Health Programme, aimed at improving the wellbeing of HIV patients. I am not HIV+ myself, but I have friends who are. I didn’t ask to serve in this programme. They needed accredited personal trainers and I am one, so I offered. (In the interests of full disclosure, I also get free gym…
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Vertu for Bentley: A £10.7k smartphone to match your car

A phone to accessorise your Bentley? There’s only one contender. Just when you thought you’d got all your car accessories sorted, Bentley goes and releases the Vertu for Bentley phone. The two marques have signed a five-year deal and this is the first that bears both names. Each handmade model has the Bentley badge embossed on…
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Bill Borrows: Rebel Yell(ish)

“Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?” “What have you got?” THE WILD ONE (1953). So then Johnny (a young, magnificent, brooding Marlon Brando) goes to pull the object of his attentions towards him. She walks away but the rebel as an icon in American cinema stays put, staring down the camera in an act of bravura…
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How to Disappear from Big Brother…

Fortunately we’re not talking about anything related to Saul Goodman and Associates. LUSSO has met up with Frank M. Ahearn, bestselling author of How To Disappear From Big Brother. He’s not a criminal lawyer from Albuquerque with a highly stylised office in a cheap strip mall (or a direct phone link to Ed, who can make ‘the necessary arrangements’); Frank…
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Karen Krizanovich: What Dads Are For

‘A father’s love can make or break a girl… He is the hero of her childhood and often a wall she pushes against during her adolescence. He is often both the rule-maker, laying out laws of discipline and competence, and the rule-breaker, helping his daughter take risks… and explore uncharted world. He often exists at…
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Thomas Patterson: First Row Problems

Cannes 2014 was notable for many things – Nicole Kidman’s turn as Princess Grace in the risible ‘Grace of Monaco’; Timothy Spall’s Best Actor win for his role in Mike Leigh’s triumphant biopic ‘Mr Turner’; Abel Ferrara’s upstaging of the whole shebang with ‘Welcome to New York’, his thinly veiled satire about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, which…
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Less Blah, More Balblair: Why keeping it vintage gives this little distillery its edge

Having inhaled the estery fumes of practically every still house for each category of spirit several times over, I was surprised to realise that I had never once passed the threshold of a Scottish distillery, despite their relative proximity to myself in person as well a having somewhat of a soft spot for the spirit in question. As a…
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