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OPINION - I saw behind the curtain at Mohammed Al Fayed's Paris mansion — he always hid in plain sight

There’s a reason why I feel unease about the Mohamed Al Fayed allegations, the ones suggesting that he sexually assaulted umpteen women and regarded Harrods employees as fair game. It’s because I was around during the time he was trying to penetrate the Establishment, a more difficult call in the…

Evening Standard

Out Shopping: The Dresses of Marion and Maud Sambourne at Leighton House review – brilliant social history

The small show follows two women who patronised the most fashionable stores and dressmakers in London at the turn of the 20th century

Evening Standard

‘Prolific, funny and inventive’ Private Eye cartoonist Tony Husband dies

Born in 1950, Mr Husband also made cartoons for Private Eye, The Times, Punch, Playboy, The Sunday Express, The Spectator and The Sun.

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James Leavey obituary

Other Lives: Journalist, writer and computer games developer who wrote the Sharing an Ashtray column for Punch magazine

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How 1920s high society fashion pushed gender boundaries through 'freaking' parties

The 1920s brought about a rise in androgynous fashion among a high society set that broke boundaries and caused controversy. This drew on a subculture that had existed for decades, perhaps centuries, but after the first world war gender-bending fashions became front page news.

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Bill Tidy obituary

Cartoonist and broadcaster with a phenomenal workload, who drew long-running strips in Private Eye and the Daily Mirror

The Guardian - UK

Crossword book club: AP Herbert’s Uncommon Law

An old legal comedy gives the bishop a bad name, in clue form, in our latest reading for puzzlers

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Quentin Blake at 90: celebrating the joy and magic of the illustrator of Matilda, The BFG and beyond

The expression “national treasure” could have been invented for Sir Quentin Blake who celebrates his 90th birthday on December 16 – and we might also celebrate his considerable impact on the status and understanding of the art of illustration.

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Brooks Koepka gave Phil Mickelson a jab at LIV Golf presser, but Lefty responded with a ‘green jacket’ uppercut

LIV Golf arrived Wednesday at Trump National Doral to kick off the week with a team selection event that turned into a roast.

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Solemnity and celebration: how political cartoonists have handled the death of a monarch, from Victoria to Elizabeth II

It sounds very familiar – a well-respected monarch dies, and a radical, left-leaning, Antipodean cartoonist struggles to find the right tone to commemorate the event.

The Conversation

What links Punchdrunk’s Burnt City to Patti Smith and John McEnroe?

As the celebrated theatre group launches a new immersive show, follow it down the rabbit hole via Damon Albarn, Meryl Streep and Glenda Jackson

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