Hedgehog
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Painting)
When he puts down the plectrum, he picks up the paintbrush. Bob Dylan, not known as a visual artist for the greater part of his five-decade-long career, has in the past couple of years revealed his skills as a draughtsman and a painter.
Lips Open, Teeth Bared
Kiss & Tell Cabaret compose satirical songs for private parties on any theme you can imagine: the pomposity of contemporary artists or an heiress who can't get a grip on recycling.
Green and Gold and Green
To the Royal Festival Hall, where art and finance came together in a shower of green and gold. Less cryptically, the Southbank Centre were announcing this summer's Festival Brazil, sponsored by HSBC.
App My Jet
As the presiding wisdom of the age declares, if it can be done, it can be done on with an iPhone app, and now that includes booking your private jet.
Most. Tasteless. Ever.
There are few things which can shock Hedgehog, a hardened habitué of Annabel's dirtiest corners and the spangliest shops of Bond Street. But this - this is something else. Find out what's getting on Hedgehog's pricks here
Schooled at Sea
Perhaps now more than ever the public feels that bankers should be sent to the frontline in Afghanistan for a life without bonuses or bailouts. Hedgehog suggests this would be a luxury compared with the child-sailors of a book by former merchant banker D.A.B. Ronald.
Hedgehog Issue 14
One of the authors of Freakonomics tells us how to get the wealthy to pay more tax, we rumple the bedsheets at the Plaza New York and we prepare our passport for takeoff at the airport in SW1.
Her Imperial Command
Some traits are clearly genetically inherited: dark eyes and male pattern baldness instantly come to mind. But entrepreneurialism? Is there a race of shopkeepers somewhere? (Napoleon certainly thought so, but he got an ‘F’ in his genetics class.)
Snow Time Like the Present
His Excellency confirmed that the Cresta Club was very worried about the effects of global warming on the run. In 25 years' time, Hedgehog suggested, we could be looking at the Cresta log flume.
Frieze Week: Thursday
Why the Trafigura Prize is trying to pour oil on troubled waters (ho-ho) and Alex Dellal tells me what his Embassy project has to do with nationalism (very little, apparently)
Unbillable Hours
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I have been reading in the press recently that if you are not a UK citizen it is going to become more difficult to divorce in the UK. Is this true?
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It is a fact that in recent years there has been an increase in ‘forum shopping’ divorces and London has been described as the divorce capital of the world.
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Spear's Spiky Undercover Agent Dishes the Gossip
