4 h. ago I grew up on London's billionaire row. Now it's a street of decaying mansions and I realise the sad reason why: DAVID PATRIKARAKOS

The plastic water bottle lies in a small patch of grass by the kerb. Next to it, a sodden tissue and stained paper coffee cup surround a pool of dark, unidentifiable liquid.

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4 h. ago I lived on billionaire row. Now it's a street of decay and I know why

I lived on billionaire row. Now it's a street of decay and I know why  Daily Mail

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17 h. ago I grew up on London's billionaires' row. Now it's a street of decaying mansions

The plastic water bottle lies in a small patch of grass by the kerb. Next to it, a sodden tissue and stained paper coffee cup surround a pool of dark, unidentifiable liquid.

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18 h. ago What happened to London's billionaires' row? DAVID PATRIKARIKOS

What happened to London's billionaires' row? DAVID PATRIKARIKOS  Daily Mail

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56 h. ago How boy slaves are being dressed as girls and forced to dance for leering Taliban men... before being raped: DAVID PATRIKARAKOS reveals horrifying tribal custom flourishing in Afghanistan

Young boys gyrate awkwardly to the music. Their faces are impassive, drained of feeling.

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6 d. ago Michael Ball 'felt like a freak' after accident that meant he'd never have kids

Musical theatre legend Michael Ball has been with his partner, Cathy McGowan, for more than 30 years - but the BBC Radio 2 star revealed the sad reason why he's never had children

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6 d. ago Inside the NEW Billionaires Row: How road packed full of mansions lies just 20 yards from 'awful' 'ghost town' street once home to rich and famous

The road is decadent, manicured streets are lined with opulent mansions where ambassadors and the uber-rich can be seen blissfully walking their pampered pooches.

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7 d. ago Writer David Szalay: ‘We live in an era of short attention spans – we have to work with it the best we can’

The Hungarian-English author on addressing what it’s like to be a male body in the world, learning the tricks of literature from Frederick Forsyth, and the feeling of nearly winning the BookerDavid Szalay, 51, grew up in London and now lives in Vienna with his wife, having previously moved in 2009 to Hungary, his father’s birthplace. In 2016 he was shortlisted for the Booker prize with his fourth novel, All That Man Is, nine separate stories “self-assembled in the reader’s mind into a sort of collage-novel” (London Review of Books). His new novel, Flesh, follows the fluctuating fortunes of a young Hungarian ex-convict who makes his life in the UK after serving in Iraq.Tell us how Flesh came to be. I decided to abandon a book I’d started in 2017. It just wasn’t working, so it felt like a weight off my shoulders; nevertheless, I was under contract and had to come up with something. Literally nothing in Flesh is directly autobiographical, but it started with my underlying experience of...

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8 d. ago Elon Musk in row with Danish astronaut over claim Biden abandoned ISS pair

Musk claimed without evidence Nasa’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were left stranded on orbital outpost for ‘political reasons’Elon Musk has become embroiled in a heated row with a Danish astronaut who criticised the tech billionaire’s claim that the former US president Joe Biden abandoned two American astronauts at the International Space Station on purpose.Andreas “Andy” Mogensen accused Musk of lying when he claimed in a Fox News interview alongside Donald Trump that Nasa’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were left stranded for “political reasons” by Biden. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago ‘What a lie’: Danish astronaut responds to Musk claim that Biden abandoned ISS pair on purpose

Musk claimed without evidence that Nasa’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were left stranded on the orbital outpost for ‘political reasons’Elon Musk has got into a heated row with a Danish astronaut who criticised the tech billionaire’s claim that former president Joe Biden intentionally abandoned two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station.Andreas “Andy” Mogensen had on Thursday shared on X a Fox News clip featuring Musk and his boss, US President Donald Trump, in which Musk claimed Nasa’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were left stranded on the orbital outpost for “political reasons” by Biden, and that the new administration was now coming to the rescue. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Inside the human slaughterhouse: I visited the hellhole jail where 13,000 Syrians were tortured to death, and met one prisoner who survived daily beatings for TEN years, writes DAVID PATRIKARAKOS

Pain floods his body. It spits and crackles like electricity. Every day for three months, the guards have hung him by his arms from the ceiling.

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