France: More than 80 MPs are calling for "a ban on Shein in French territory" to "protect workers, public health and the planet", in a text published in La Tribune Dimanche.

Tina Brown on: Zuckerberg; “Meta’s slippery salamander” Prince Harry; “the ginger whinger” Lauren Sanchez; “proof landing the 4th riches man in the world requires the permanent display of breasts like genetically modified grapefruit” Listen to Brown whose observations are in a class of their own

Who knew…your 🇮🇹 ‘Italian’ tomato paste may have its origins in 🇨🇳 China, the fruit routinely harvested by Uyghur people in the Xinjiang region. Via @ftweekend.com #paywall

… @nytimes.com offers up a poem as an anti-dote to doomscrolling. Someone tell them there’s good news to report…

One for all, all for one. Billionaires aside. Illustration by Edel Rodriguez. @newyorker.com

Efforts by Chinese fast fashion retailer #Shein to open in-store across France are met with a giant dose of French froideur. Staff at BHV Paris strike, while French brands pull out of the fabled dept store. French retail revolution 🇫🇷

Australia’s social media ban shows the way writes Rohan Silva in The Times UK. #paywall

1500+ lobbyists in Canberra act - not for you - but corporate interests. If you care for transparency in Fed government sign up. 👇🏻 Let the light in.💡 #auspol cleanuppoliticsact.com.au

You can’t choose your parents #Mountbatten-Windsor

If you love Melbourne you know the heartbeat is the top end of Bourke Street (Hill of Content- books; best shirtmaker - Charles Edward, plus fashion in Blonde Venus plus Florentino) …so here’s a film celebrating the legend at the heart of it all. Yay Pellegrini’s. Love you forever.

Cool! Bill Nighy #podcast …how sweet it is as Nighy embraces your questions on manners sartorial and all else you may pitch him. (PS Bill, add Blue Sky, 🦋over Insta 😉)

Built by King Philip II Augustus in the 12th century as a defensive fortress to protect Paris from invasion…#Louvre

Congrats 👏🏻👏🏻Getty @gettyimages.com #crocodilesmile

Paddy Manning, @paddymanning.bsky.social author of ‘The Successor’ (Lachlan…) illuminating on Media Confidential #podcast #Murdoch media future with @arusbridger.bsky.social @lionelbarber.bsky.social

Cold shoulder from French fashion hierarchy reacting to China’s #Shein announcing plans to “revitalize city centers across France”. Yann Rivoallan says department store BHV; “is associating itself with the devil". Ouch. Since 2023 Shein sales are second only to #1, Zara.

👀 Tech investor James Anderson, who runs the Agnelli family-backed Lingotto Investment, in the @financialtimes.com

Chanel opted to ban crocodile in 2018. Hermès, however, continues to invest in croc, with its secretive Northern Territory Lambells Lagoon Crocodile farm to grow 50,000 animals. The farm’s toxic waste is showing E-coli levels above prescribed safety limits, threatening nearby farmland #luxe

Cute, from Bernard Arnault who sought Belgian citizenship in 2012, to avoid tax. He later withdrew his application…#LVMH

“An incredibly syrupy set of messages from Peter #Mandelson, 10 pages with photographs of Mandelson in his swimming trunks looking longingly out of a window apparently waiting for his beloved Jeffrey to parachute into his life…” - Stephen Sackur & the mooch on #podcast @restispoliticsus.bsky.social

Mandelson’s high praise for convicted sexual abuser and felon. Precedes Trump’s state visit to UK at invitation of #King Charles III, whose brother is on #Epstein list via @patrickwintour.bsky.social

Good luck with that one Rolex👇🏻

Horse racing world wide is on the nose. So why has Fox, owned by the Murdoch family (Lachlan CEO) decided the sport is under appreciated and boosted US broadcasts? Fox has taken a 25% stake in the online betting platform NYRA Bets allowing it to tap the $150 billion US sports betting market.

Bunny Mellon, wife of banking heir Paul Mellon, first discussed the White House Rose Garden renovation during a picnic at her Cape Cod retreat in 1961. Pic of Mellon with President Kennedy at the beach house via @FT where the estate is listed #property for sale at $23mill

Gina Ryan’s $28billion…puts her in top 80 billionaires worldwide in Bloomberg index…#podcast to love

Oh la South Park…the gift that keeps on giving 🙏🏻

Winter bounty. Cumquat jam on the way. David Lebovitz 🇫🇷 recipe - with that dash of Cointreau.

Will Australia finally learn to value-add? “Australian government to lend Iluka A$1.65bn to build a refinery to meet demand for rare earths which Iluka sees growing by 50-170% by the end of the decade.” -BBC

France 🇫🇷 rejects a bee-killing insecticide but it’s OK in Australia🇦🇺. Neonicotinoids are used here on cereal crops, canola, sunflower, some veg and fruit.

Bloodthirsty criminals…“and they’re all in the White House”…says the great @karaswisher.bsky.social

Trump take leaf out of mob rule book - and so takes a slug from Nvidia and AMD. #organisedcrime

Al Jazeera’s courageous & incisive reporting…and Israel’s shameful response. That of cowards. 🙏🏻

Legend. If you’ve sipped coffee in St Sulpice, the cafes of St Germain, you’ve seen Ali.

US$29 billion to get out of bed…#Elon

Promises made, promises broken www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Julian Assange (red tie) among marchers across Sydney Harbour Bridge #marchforhumanity #freepalestine #savegaza @france24.com

Name them: Edelman. An $835,000 contract to spin Brazil’s COP30

Christian Louboutin, designer of the eponymous lacquered red-soled shoe, has bought Kerdalo, an estate in Brittany considered one of the 25 most beautiful gardens in the world - 5,000 different species, both rare and exotic. Designed last century by a White Russian in exile.

Trump chooses war as a profit centre. First by enabling US war profiteers to *sell* armaments to help Ukraine. Then projecting future profits by extracting the country’s mineral wealth. He said it: “To the victor go the spoils.” Via NYT

Loro Piana’s cashmere ‘Pablo’ cardigan will set you back €2,900+. The brand, owned by Bernard Arnaut’s LVMH is placed under judicial admin over labour rights violations. Loved by rich when in the mood for quiet luxury - seems Loro Piana can’t treat its workers fairly. Via @financialtimes.com

TOP DRAWER King whose brother was on #Epstein client list to host convicted sexual abuser and felon at State dinner

They call it ELC but the ‘electronic line calling’ tech that has replaced 300 human line judges - in their natty striped blazers - at Wimbledon, failed yesterday. Of the 4 Grand Slams only the French Open is not using ELC #wimbledon2025

Sublime. After a century-long ban, Paris takes a dip in the Seine 🏊‍♂️🏊‍♀️Pic: Julien De Rosa

While America slept…Trump gave free pass to Russian banks…

The designer knows best Ms Sanchez. Baroque frock by #Schiaparelli dissolves from original #bezoswedding #hautecouture

Parting gift - new Renault 5 with baguette-holder. From Luca de Meo, poached from the automaker by Francois-Henri Pinault to head his Kering Group and brands Gucci, Saint Laurent and Balenciaga. Don’t expect a ‘Baguette Bag’ - that’s long belonged to Fendi, owned by rival LVMH #economist

Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com tells the @financialtimes.com he’s leaving London after 3 years to go home to the US

Pentagon reviews #Aukus via @FT #auspol subscriber

Nine News US correspondent Lauren Tomasi was reporting to camera when shot. Now British photographer Nick Stern becomes the second… #auspol #mediasafety

Officially the longest men’s final in the history of Roland Garros - over 5 hours & 30 mins, #Alcaraz beats #Sinner 5am in 🇦🇺