The Faster Lane
from Tyler Brûlé
We took the long way to Lisbon and the wine made it all worthwhile
I’ve been plotting a Zürich to Lisbon road trip for the better part of six months. In its original form, it was going to be something of a delivery mission to transfer fragile objects…

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I went looking for the weekend papers but found a gap in the market instead
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Want to build a European powerhouse? Think more like Zara than Zuckerberg
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Want to unsubscribe from common sense? There’s an email for that
I was about to wish you a “good morning” but stopped for sensitivity reasons. I then decided “happy Sunday” might be better but, for sensitivity reasons, I held back. “Sunny greetings” seemed like a…

Why we should keep looking up
It’s very late on Friday evening, almost midnight, and I’m sitting in the Al Mourjan Business Lounge at Doha’s Hamad International Airport and reflecting on what has been a whirlwind week of flights, meetings, moderating, reunions…

Learn a look, lighten the load
Happy Easter, bunnies, from a breezy terrace above a modernist stretch of Lisbon. A couple of days ago I decided that this column will occasionally be devoted to life in the Portuguese capital as…
