Senior Editor @AirMailWeekly / Books: "Strange Angel", "Death: A Life", “The Remarkable Millard Fillmore"/ Writes: @Esquire, @FT, @TheEconomist, etc.

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Joined December 2010
“All thy unnamable imminglings, float beneath me here.”
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I remember the morning I commissioned Barbara Cartland to write a short story, in the days when the London Daily News ran a short story every week. Hers - which was to follow an unpublished story by Borges - was chauffeur-delivered on that same evening, wrapped in a pink ribbon.
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For better or for worse, this may be the Platonic ideal of an Air Mail article: an affair with Eve Babitz as recalled by one of the guys who wrote The Jerk airmail.news/issues/2026-9-5…
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🇩🇪​This is the traditional attire of the Sorbs, a Slavic minority in eastern Germany. The iconic lace face veil is part of their ceremonial dress (Sorbische Tracht) used for solemn events and religious traditions in Lusatia.
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Attempting to deduce subject of biography from this index. Faint hunch it isn't Philip Larkin.
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The great Ashley Baker delves into a tragic expat tale….
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Spring showers bring thoughts of violence.
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"It is one of the last acceptable totems of manhood." Senior Editor @georgependle on James Smith & Sons, London's Victorian umbrella shop—and the case for carrying one. airmail.news/sh/oahgjO?utm_m…
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Without proper training, looking directly at this level of Tatler can cause permanent damage
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In a fascinating piece of buried history, Elaine Sciolino shows how Israel once secretly plotted to arm Iran with nuclear-capable missiles—the very menace Israel and the U.S. now invoke in attacking Tehran’s missile and nuclear programs. airmail.news/issues/2026-4-1…
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Trump on Strait of Hormuz: “At a certain point, it’ll open itself.”
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A great story about screenwriting when your writing partner is James Bond….by the brilliantly funny @MElias52
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My new favourite Winter Olympic sport: synchronized leaf blowers to dry the ice in the seconds between aerial ski jumps.
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QAnon was right! @joliverconroy puts his finger on an inconvenient truth for both sides of the political spectrum: the Epstein files clearly show that there was a vast pedophile conspiracy involving the most powerful members of the business and political elite. Q should win a Pulitzer Prize for Conspiracy…. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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