Weekly recap: extravagant hen parties, costly extravagances, and some risqué history

Monday Yet another dream comes crashing down. I wasn’t on the guest list for Lauren Sanchez’s hen party. Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, along with her close-knit group of brown-haired friends, is currently recovering from a lavish £500,000 bash. They took a private champagne boat down the Seine (or was it up? I suppose I shouldn’t pretend […]
How ‘stroke’ politics saddled Ireland’s new government with a fox in the hen house | Justine McCarthy

tThe art of art was once a sacred custom in Irish politics. Drawing a stroke means wiping the eyes of other friends through fair means or fouls. In this art, from the “Brown Ermberope” BES and the sneaky transactions of “NOD-N-Wink” to the sophisticated and sophisticated chicanery by an unprecedented politician known as “cute Foulism”. […]