Joy Lo Dico
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How 5 Hertford Street became the most influential members' club in London
When the history books on Brexit are written, the index will be bursting with references to Parliament and Downing Street. → Read More
Why is Extinction Rebellion targeting the working class?
After the April protests, memorable for Emma Thompson belching out first-class carbon dioxide to get to the Oxford Street pink boat, Extinction Rebellion (XR) is back on the streets of London. Derided as a bunch of middle-class hippies, look more closely and the group is aiming to go to places other eco-movements can’t reach, including both wealthy professionals and the working class — neither… → Read More
Never mind the Lib-Dem bollocks, now we can all say: ‘#@*% this!’
The Lib-Dems have shown their cojones with a new slogan for their manifesto: Bollocks to Brexit. Who’d have thought old Vince had it in him? Incensed Leavers can hardly jump onto Twitter and condemn his language with such phrases as: “He said bloody wot? The ****ing ****.” → Read More
Plant trees to fight climate change —and enable harmony to blossom
We are going to need three billion trees over the next 30 years, according to the Committee on Climate Change, to put the country back on a carbon-neutral path. → Read More
Extinction Rebellion gave us a taste of how lovely Oxford Street could be
£350 million: that’s how much Westminster council is about to spend on a revamp of Oxford Street. Pedestrianisation — pah! There will be a postage-stamp square of walk-only area around the heaving mess that is Oxford Circus Tube station. → Read More
Joy Lo Dico: Bianca...? Jemima...? Where are you? The great and good desert Assange
After seven years of the Ecuadorian Embassy, Julian Assange emerged, like a mythical hermit, bearded and ranting, to be dragged into a police van, charged and rapidly found guilty of jumping bail. Where are the people who supported him in 2012 and stumped up the bail money for him? → Read More
EU elections are the new Eurovision, but at least we wouldn’t get nul points
To those of you just getting to grips with our parliamentary jargon, wait until we get to the European Parliament elections. A quick guide: Alde is not a keenly priced supermarket (it’s an alliance of liberals and democrats in Europe); terrible things to do not happen to the Spitzenkandidat (a lead party candidate) over a roaring fire. Manfred Weber is not an Eighties German → Read More
Mamma mia! The great British Brexit export is — Brexit itself
Theresa May was definitely wrong when she said this nation was “bored of Brexit”. Quite the opposite. We are obsessed. Diners are checking Twitter all the way through dinner and giving the latest updates to the tables beside them. Pubs are showing the votes live — walking home on Monday night, I heard drinkers shouting “Brexit” and “customs union” with the same fervour that → Read More
What to eat, see and do in Seattle
Where to wander West Point Lighthouse (Getty Images) Although it feels built up, you are never far from the water. → Read More
Join the Great British Protest! Just keep off the grass, please
There’s a fine line between dissent and outright revolt. At the moment that line is a long frayed blue cord that runs the perimeter of the grass in Parliament Square. Signs beside it inform the public that new turf has been laid, so please keep off the grass for now. → Read More
It suits bankers and their ilk to dress down but they are yesterday’s men
I have found myself listening obsessively to one track on Spotify. It is Don’t Stop, a remix of the 1977 Fleetwood Mac number, by a DJ called D-Sol. What you also probably need to know about D-Sol, other than the fact that he was the support act for legendary DJ Paul Oakenfold at the Schimanski Club in Brooklyn last weekend, is that he is the new CEO of Goldman Sachs. → Read More
If only Notting Hill’s influencers could post socially useful media
It was hard not to smirk upon reading news of a battle to end all battles : the Notting Hillers, inordinately proud of their pastel-coloured cottages, grand white villas and local Portobello Market, versus the preening Instagrammers, who’ve decided this is the perfect location for their perfect-life shoots. → Read More
Joy Lo Dico: Independence becomes Soubry, the Boudicca of Remainers
Cor, aren’t you just loving The Soubry unleashed. Eyes flashing, nostrils flared, she’s the Boudicca of our times. If you thought centre-ground politics was all limp-wristed Tony Blair stuff, think again. Listeners to LBC yesterday certainly had to, as she plonked herself down in the seat normally occupied by James O’Brien. Just 24 hours after she’d liberated herself from the → Read More
Joy Lo Dico: It’s (net) curtains for those who seek to rise above the hoi polloi
Public sympathy for the residents of Neo Bankside, the block that has now become the main attraction for visitors to the Tate Modern viewing gallery, has been muted. And now the High Court, asked to rule whether the residents of four flats have had their privacy invaded, has said “live with it”. → Read More
Paris, you’re sexier now — but welcome to our property prices
London and Paris: lovers and rivals. The two capitals have been eyeballing across the Channel for centuries, and the French have just reported gleefully that Paris’s most expensive apartment ever — with 16 bedrooms in an 18th-century villa on the Rive Gauche — has gone for £34 million to an unnamed European leaving London because of “the uncertainty of Brexit”. → Read More
Treasure the independent Tories, and perhaps even snog one — I did
Never kiss a Tory? Reader, I married one — it didn’t last long. I was reminded of my previous life at a recent Spectator summer party. An MP started talking about the Conservative Party association in west London he’d been a member of in the early Noughties. He’d turned up with a home-made lasagne for a meeting and the host’s crazy Italian wife had made it clear his lasagne → Read More
A fly in my soup? With the insect world collapsing, those days are over
“Waiter, waiter, why’s there no fly in my soup?” “Ecological transition, sir.” Not much of a joke, the collapse of the insect population, is it? But it’s struck a nerve. The Guardian article this week, on the scientist who visited Puerto Rico after an interval of 35 years only to find 98 per cent of the insects had gone, was shared massively — look it up if you haven’t read it. → Read More
Women painters have been given the brush-off — now it’s changing
Of the 2,400 paintings hanging in the National Gallery, how many are by women? 20, or 21 if you count the new Artemisia Gentileschi acquisition. Doesn’t look good, does it? It isn’t just the National Gallery that is taking stock of quite how few women artists there are on its walls — Sotheby’s is holding an all-women Old Masters sale in New York this month, spotting that there → Read More
Celebrate The Favourite, a movie that shows women as we truly are
If the Duchess of Sussex was squeamish about Prince Harry’s hunting habits this Christmas, just wait until she sees the Duchess of Marlborough, played by Rachel Weisz in The Favourite , pull the catch, aim and let the rifle kick back: another pheasant plummets from the air. And just for sport, but what a release of rage in cinematic history in that gunshot. → Read More
We were seduced but our love affair with Facebook is over. Now lean out
It has been a bad year for Facebook but that is a good thing for us. The rolling scandals of Cambridge Analytica and data breaches were followed by another nadir, when news broke that it had paid lobbyists to smear George Soros after he criticised the company as “a menace to society”. So much for its love of free speech. → Read More