Most LUSSO readers are bon viveurs and sybarites to a man and lady. That much is obvious. You wouldn’t be reading now if you were some undiscerning peasant only interested in Jeremy Kyle reruns and the yellow sticker reduced to clear shelf at Lidl. However, we can’t all be Renaissance Men with total mastery over…
Gordon Bijelonic enters the room impressively, with what appears to be an entourage. Two well-dressed men, one impish and Danish, the other an imposing African-American, shake our hands and admire the Ebony Suite, which will serve as the setting for our interview. Gordon is already staying at the May Fair. LUSSO has just upgraded him…
Shorty suggested Sheekey’s because: a) he thought I’d get a hick-style kick out of them having a doorman; and b) he’s trying to get out of the Square Mile to spend his bonus so as not to draw attention to the latest seven-figure sum in his account. “I could sit in Sheekey’s in a SS…
“I realise that, Shorty, but where are we going?” “Dinner.” “I know what the evening meal’s called, Shorty, I sometimes have three. But where are we going?” I’ll spare y’all the rest of the conversation, just believe me when I say it went on for quite some time with Shorty chuckling like a hick who’s…
The memo from HQ reads as follows: Olive stones. Very dubious involvement of suspect from Morocco. Go to La Bobadilla. Find out all you can. Sorely tempted to try out my new sedative dart gun on the outward flight full of frightful stags and hens, before I arrive in Malaga. The thought of someone with a…
I don’t know why they have bothered building a big bang machine at Cern, a friend of mine remarked shortly after the Large Hadron Collider blew a majorly expensive electrical circuit, if they want to watch things moving at the speed of light, they should come around my house and watch the gas meter. Admittedly,…
On a Monday January 29th 1979, Brenda Spencer, a 16-year-old San Diego high school student, took a rifle and opened fire on the elementary school opposite where she lived. She killed 2 adults (including the principal) and injured 9 kids before going back to her home. Police surrounded her house and before she finally gave…
In John Carpenters 1981 Sci-fi classic, Escape from New York, Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) has to save the US President and then break out of Manhattan which, circa 1997, has been turned into a lawless penitentiary. Anyone who has ever attempted to leave London on a Bank Holiday weekend will know exactly how Snake felt.…
Uncle Bernie would never buy anything German, Japanese or Swiss. The German thing was obvious (under duress, he would get in the Mercedes cabs lined up at Ben Gurion Airport, but not before crying, ‘to the Guilt-mobile, Robin!’). He tried to buy me a non-Japanese walkman for my birthday – the American-built shonky mini reel-to-reel…
You don’t just want a house that will increase in value, you want to beat the market. Phil Spencer tells you how your home is your most valuable asset and should be regarded as a business investment whether you intend to live there for five, 10 or 15 years. The secret to making money is…