3 h. ago How an American businessman lost his job and found himself in an old French vineyard

One day, life as a finance consultant stopped making sense for Peter Hahn, so he took to organic winegrowing in the Loire insteadOne Friday night 24 years ago, Peter Hahn was sitting in the back of a cab to Heathrow, sleepless after yet another 48-hour work bender.“My computer’s on my lap,” the American-born organic winegrower from France recalls, the spring sun lighting up the deep pink walls of his study in his ancient manor house in the Loire Valley, his beloved vines outside, “and I’m doing a spreadsheet. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'Nobody else was helping, I don't know anyone else like them'

Sam lost her job during the pandemic, and was left with two young children and nowhere to turn. Now, the thing that saved her is at risk of closing

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2 w. ago South Korea’s impeached president sacked over illegal martial law

Hardline Yoon Suk Yeol lost his job over his illegal slapping of martial law on his country to flood the streets with troops and tanks - and tried to bar politicians from objecting to the dramatic move

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2 w. ago Your Friends & Neighbors to Black Mirror: the seven best shows to stream this week

Jon Hamm stars as a gentlemen thief in a very entertaining midlife-crisis satire. Plus: Charlie Brooker’s hit series is back with another sensational castManifesting his signature blend of unshakeable self-confidence and understated self-loathing, Jon Hamm stars in this midlife-crisis satire. Coop (Hamm) is a hedge fund manager who, after years gazing down at the world from an ivory tower, finds his life falling apart. His wife has gone, his kids are expensive, his sister’s mental health problems are getting worse and he’s lost his job. “Your biggest mistake,” his boss tells him, “was thinking any of this was ever yours.” At a barbecue hosted by friends, he has an idea: the people around him are awful and undeservedly rich – so why not rob them? Soon, everything is spiralling out of control in very entertaining fashion. Apple TV+, from Friday 11 April Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Donald Trump had PTSD from assassination attempt when he picked JD Vance as vice president, says former aide Anthony Scaramucci

At first glance, Anthony Scaramucci and Dominic Sandbrook make an unlikely duo. One – known to friends and detractors as ‘The Mooch’ – is a silver-tongued businessman with quiffed hair and an Italian-American twanged voice, whose 11 day stint as Donald Trump’s communications director in 2017 in his first term as President makes Liz Truss look seasoned. The other is an Oxford educated historian with a roster of BBC documentaries under his belt and an RP accent.

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3 w. ago Donald Trump had PTSD when he picked JD Vance as vice president, says former colleague Anthony Scaramucci

At first glance, Anthony Scaramucci and Dominic Sandbrook make an unlikely duo. One – known to friends and detractors as ‘The Mooch’ – is a silver-tongued businessman with quiffed hair and an Italian-American twanged voice, whose 11 day stint as Donald Trump’s communications director in 2017 in his first term as President makes Liz Truss look seasoned. The other is an Oxford educated historian with a roster of BBC documentaries under his belt and an RP accent.

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