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‘There are members of the family who have said things like, “Why should we apologise for something we didn’t do?”’

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54 THE FTSE AT 40

Martin Vander Weyer takes the pulse of the FTSE 100 as it turns 40 and asks if the City should take another bold leap

60 AMAN IS KNOWN BY THE

COMPANY IT KEEPS The luxury resort brand Aman is enduring a challenging time, with questions mounting over the activities of its owner and CEO, says John Arlidge

64 NOBLE INTENTIONS

Simon Usborne meets the descendants of slave owners whose mission is to spread the word about reparations

70 TOKENS OF OUR

DEPRECIATION Robert Jackman assesses the future of NFTs now that the initial bubble has seemingly burst

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75 NICK FOULKES

An examination of ‘stealth wealth’, with the visual aid of the threads sported by the characters of Succession

76 DAISY DUNN

How will the history of our times be written, given the unstable nature of computers and the online world?

77 SAM LEITH

Exploring an early version of tax avoidance in deepest Puglia

The Good Life 83 84 ENFANT TERRIBLE

Chef Jean Imbert on taking over from Alain Ducasse at the Plaza Athénée

87 SO SOLID CRU

Jonathan Ray on this year’s Bordeaux en primeurs and the classification debate

89 KINDRED SPIRITS

How a meeting of ‘open’ minds inspired a new brand of vodka

90 THE INDIE SCENE

Independent watchmakers are riding a wave right now, says Timothy Barber

96 NO STONE UNTURNED

Why the provenance of precious stones is now so much more important

100 A CULT CLASSIC IN WAITING

The BMW M3 Touring super-estate is two cars in one, says Mark Walton

78 ALEC MARSH

How up-and-coming Somerset is stealing the Cotswolds’ thunder

79 JOSEPH BULLMORE

The fast-growing sport that’s becoming a popular setting for networking

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104 OUT OF THE MIST

Exploring Rwanda’s work on mountain gorilla conservation and tourism

110 THE DRAGON’S DEN

Exploring the Indonesian islands courtesy of an exclusive motoryacht

114 MIDAS

With golf legend Annika Sörenstam

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