The founders, Alicia and Jacques Fontanier, call it “strictly non chichi,” while the New York Times celebrates its “beach bar meets neighborhood café atmosphere”. The restaurant is the first London outpost of the original Parisian culinary destination of the same name. HAVE we found the new It restaurant? This weekend Ferdi, a stylish new brasserie, opens in Mayfair’s Shepherd Market. “Way down, big trouble, dead!” How to respond? This month’s issue prints the tweet on its cover, a treat for thousands who reportedly subscribed after Trump’s anti-endorsement. “Has anyone looked at the poor numbers of Vanity Fair magazine?” he asked. Last year Donald Trump criticised the glossy on Twitter, hitting out at its readership figures. YOU have to hand it to Vanity Fair: it can take an insult. Palmerston might hope for milder language this time, because after all: “A Cat’s entitled to expect / These evidences of respect.” The Foreign Secretary’s last attempt at verse won £1,000 in The Spectator’s Offensive Poetry Competition when he referred to Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan as a “wankera”. Perhaps the time has come for Boris Johnson, the FCO’s outwardly respectable Chief Brexiteer, to enter into the spirit of things. The Londoner chased up the association to ask if they subscribed but sadly it was after 3 o’clock so staff were already on their way home. Briony Bax is poetry editor at The New European, the weekly newspaper for the 48 per cent which is evidently very popular in Whitehall. Given recent moans that the FCO might have an institutional bias against leaving the EU, the choice of the competition’s judge might prove controversial. Members are invited to “write at least three verses about Palmerston the FCO cat and Chief Mouser in the style of TS Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats”. Word reaches The Londoner that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Association, the home for resting diplomats and spooks, is busily engaged in a poetry competition. NOW that Sir Ivan Rogers has exited pursued by a Barrow, it’s good to know that he has a leisurely retirement to look forward to. Perhaps she could give instruction on swordplay to another pal, Prince Harry, to avoid a repeat of Princess Beatrice’s recent slicing of singer Ed Sheeran. Waterhouse, who counts fellow models Cara Delevingne and Georgia May Jagger as friends, looks comfortable with a weapon: she is carving a career in Hollywood and played the tough Marlene in Divergent. Above is her second cake, a mini chocolate number. In one video, she slices a giant sponge covered in rainbow icing with a samurai sword. She turned 25 yesterday and posted celebrations on Instagram. THEY say you can’t have your cake and eat it but model Suki Waterhouse can. Gentleman “walkers” also advertise as “Male courtesan for ladies: presentable discreet intelligent company for dinner, theatre and social occasions”. In a world of digital advertising sales there seems something oddly reassuring about a quiet hour with Mature Lorna or Shereen in Lancaster Gate. Ads ranged from “Understanding Attractive Continental Lady offers a memorable massage to discerning gentlemen in discreet Marylebone surroundings” to a “Petite Oriental Beauty 1 min Sloane Square Tube”. Oldies could choose from a variety of offers in desirable locations around Zone 1. Is THE Oldie sexing up? The Londoner was browsing through the mag for well-connected retirees and amid all the adverts for vinyl records and river cruises our eye was drawn to services of a more horizontal nature. SPONSORED Stepping up to the challenge of decarbonising the Square Mile Diane Abbott loses Labour whip over racism comments.Starmer denies targeting left-wing MPs after Abbott suspension.Scotland could be ‘deciding factor’ in next general election, says Tory chairman.A couple of hours later Radio 4 carried news of the same ’berg, this time rather Pooterishly describing it as “a quarter the size of Wales”. The World Service reported that an iceberg “five times the size of Manhattan” was about to break away from Antarctica. The BBC gave an amusing display of the different points of reference that exist for sister channels this morning. Fingers crossed he’s still in charge by then. The ad on parliamentary jobs website W4MP says pay is dependent on experience and that “this is a fixed-term contract for the period only that Jeremy Corbyn is the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition”. Interestingly, given recent accusations by Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson that no one in his boss’s office tells him anything, the job is a personal appointment to Corbyn’s entourage. There may also be the choppy waters of Labour’s internal management to navigate.
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