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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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The Issues 53
Arcadia
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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