There is a very particular silence to a market holiday, and I’ll admit it: I’ve come to love it the way some people love a Sunday with the phone in another room. Today is Juneteenth, a US federal holiday marking the day America marks the end of slavery, when word of emancipation finally reached the […]
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Some news stops you mid-scroll, thumb hovering, tea going cold. Sad news reached me from the Dominican Republic: an Italian tourist lost her life in a fire that tore through a beach resort. The kind of story that quietly punctures the illusion every glossy brochure sells us: that a holiday is a place where nothing
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Let me guess what you picture when you hear “heatwave.” Melting pavements. Frazzled commuters draped over train seats. And that gloriously European argument that resurfaces every single summer is: air conditioning a luxury? Or a basic human right? France is living it right now, sweltering through its third heatwave of the year, mercury nudging 40°C.
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The office is pretending to work, group chats have descended into tactical warfare, and somewhere a nation’s entire emotional wellbeing is balanced on a 22-year-old’s left foot. The World Cup has well and truly taken over. And what a tournament it’s turning out to be. We’re into the quarter-finals now, and the graveyard is stacked
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I’ll tell you the moment I knew quiet luxury wasn’t a passing phase. It was when I stopped feeling the tiniest pull toward the shiny, logo-stamped things I once thought I was supposed to want and felt something close to relief instead. The logo, it turns out, stayed dead. And something far more interesting quietly
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Every good story needs a true believer. Crypto’s was Michael Saylor. If conviction had a patron saint, it was him, the executive chairman of Strategy, who hoovered up more than 800,000 bitcoin and built its entire identity around one deceptively simple mantra, repeated like scripture at conference after conference: never sell. Two words. Diamond-handed permanence.
April 20–26, 2026 · Fiera Milano, Rho & citywide · 1,900+ exhibitors, 32 countries Once a year, Milan drops the act and admits what it quietly is the rest of the time: the design capital of the world. I have a real soft spot for this one. The 64th Salone del Mobile anchored a citywide
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March 25, 2026 · Kerry Hotel, Hong Kong · 1,000+ industry gues Can I confess a small bias of mine? I don’t entirely trust people who claim not to care about restaurant rankings. We all care. We pretend we’re above it, right up until someone mentions they’ve eaten somewhere on the list and then, suddenly,
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May 5–7, 2026 · Miami Beach Convention Center · 20,000+ attendees I have a soft spot for the way people describe crypto’s big gatherings. If TOKEN2049 is the festival and the Bitcoin Conference is the revival meeting, all whooping and true belief, then Consensus is unmistakably the boardroom. Fewer laser eyes. Rather more lanyards and
How Shiba Inu Grew Up, Went to Japan, and Got Serious After the meme came a Layer-2 blockchain, a seat on Japan’s most exclusive crypto list, and the longest waiting game in digital finance. Part Two of the SHIB story. If you missed the first instalment, let me catch you up in a breath: an
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