Can I confess something? I once bought the watch. The nice one — the one I was sure would feel like arriving. It looked lovely on my wrist for about a fortnight. Then it quietly became… the watch. Here’s what I’ve learned since. The money I spend on doing makes me far happier than money […]
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Let me tell you about the coats. For years, I bought the £40 ones — three, four a winter — feeling clever every time I saved a few pounds at the till. Then each one pilled, sagged, or fell apart by spring, and I’d start again. It took me embarrassingly long to notice I was
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I’ll be honest with you. For years, I ate lunch standing at my desk — laptop open, fork in one hand, crumbs in the keyboard — and I told myself that was ambition. It wasn’t. It was me letting my inbox decide what my time was worth. And the answer it kept giving me was:
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June 4 – 7, 2026 · Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo · 78 laps · The crown jewel of Formula One I’ll be honest with you — I love watching Monaco. Every year, it’s less a motor race and more an annual referendum on how much wealth you can physically squeeze into two square kilometres.
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June 29 – July 12, 2026 · All England Club, London · Est. 1877 · The oldest tennis tournament on earth There are a handful of things that, for me, are summer — and the hush of Centre Court is one of them. Wimbledon came back to London this summer, as it has every year
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May 12–23, 2026 · Cannes, France · Cinema’s most glamorous gamble Can I confess something? I love a bit of glamour that actually means something. And once a year, a small strip of French coastline delivers exactly that — where a twelve-minute standing ovation counts as restrained, and everyone dresses as though the cameras might
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May 4, 2026 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · Theme: “Costume Art” Every year on the first Monday in May, the most famous people alive climb a flight of stairs in New York while the rest of us judge their outfits with the seriousness usually reserved for elections. This is the Met Gala
April 10–19, 2026 · Empire Polo Club, Indio · 200,000+ attendees · 25th anniversary Coachella turned twenty-five this year — which, in festival terms, is roughly the age at which one stops being a wild night out and becomes a fully-fledged cultural institution with strong opinions about hydration. And yet the desert still delivered. Sabrina
April 2026 · Bangkok, Thailand · The deal-making heart of APAC The last time I moved money the old way, there was a paper slip, a rubber stamp, and a teller who held all the power. That queue doesn’t really exist anymore. So when I stand in a hall like this one, watching money cross
The season has arrived — and this one is packed with reasons to be somewhere extraordinary. After a year that has thrown us geopolitical drama, market volatility, and more political plot twists than a prime-time boxset, I’ll admit summer 2026 arrives feeling like genuine relief. The world isn’t fixed — it rarely is — but
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