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he process started, naturally
enough, at Buckingham Palace.
On Friday 24 March, I turned
up at the designated time
at SW1 1AA – invited along
with the former Evening
Standard editor Sarah
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the Today programme),
BBC news supremo James
Harding, and a smattering
of other journalists – to watch
Prince Harry unveil a series of short
films produced for the campaign he
supports with his brother William and sister-in-law Kate, William asked Alastair to help spread the word even further
Heads Together. The films included the likes of Professor in the pages of our magazine. And so a few weeks later, an
Green, Andrew Flintoff, Adwoa Aboah and Alastair Campbell encrypted email appeared in one of my inboxes, containing
discussing their problems with mental health, adding support an extraordinary interview with Prince William, conducted
to a campaign that aims to change the national conversation by Alastair just a few days earlier, the one you can find in this
on mental health and wellbeing, a partnership with various issue. Talk about data capture. Never before has the Prince
independent charities with decades of experience in tackling talked with such honesty about the death of his mother, his
stigma, raising awareness, and providing vital help for people attitudes towards the tabloid press, or indeed his issues with
with challenges in this area. The films were amplified by depression. “Practically everything in my charitable life in the
Prince Harry’s revelations about his own struggles caused by end is to do with mental health, whether it be homelessness,
the death of his mother Diana Princess of Wales, revealing veterans’ welfare, my wife and the work she is doing on
that he saw a counsellor, saying that he shut down his addiction,” says the Prince, “so much of what we do comes
emotions and suffered two years of “total chaos”. back to mental health.”
GQ’s Alastair Campbell used his Heads Together film to He also talked to Alastair about the imminent 20th
describe the psychotic nervous breakdown he suffered in anniversary of Diana’s death, an event that has been almost
the mid-Eighties, his complicated addiction issues and the fetishised by the press. “I am not looking forward to it, no,
chronic depression he has experienced intermittently over the but I am in a better place about it than I have been for a long
years. The searing honesty with which Alastair talked about time,” he says, “where I can talk about her more openly, talk
his problems was heartwarming as well as journalistically about her more honestly, and I can remember her better,
formidable, and I suppose it was no surprise when Prince and publicly talk about her better. It has taken me almost
Never before
has the Prince
talked with
such honesty
about his mother
people in the room as soon as William and Kate walked in. There were no formalities, no briefing Join our GQ.co.uk
games correspondent
on protocol before their arrival, just huge smiles and some quick yet overwhelmingly personable Sam White for live
introductions – “Hello, I’m William,” “Hello, I’m Kate” – before we started chatting. While coverage from Los
Angeles of all the latest
Norman busied himself with making sure that our cover shot was going to be delivered precisely
blockbuster releases at
to our specifications, myself, Paul and Jonathan suggested how we might spend the time most the world’s premier
productively. The results are in this month’s issue, photographs that perfectly complement games trade show.
Alastair’s interview, pictures that reflect the importance of the Heads Together message, but
also pictures that hopefully represent the Duke and Duchess’s passion for transparency and
their engaging determination to spearhead a different kind of sovereignty. I won’t repeat the
details of what we discussed, but in the first ten minutes we had already compared the pictures
with previous agenda-setting GQ covers, most notably our recent Ed Sheeran cover, our David
Cameron cover, and the Damien Hirst/Rihanna cover we produced for our anniversary in 2013.
The family pictures happened by accident, as both Prince George and Princess Charlotte were
more than intrigued by the circus unfolding around their father, a photographic session that looked
for a while as though it was being art directed by the Duchess herself (who had as keen a creative
eye as anyone else on the shoot). We had to pinch ourselves at times, as the day went incredibly
smoothly, a testament to William and Kate’s team, as well as to the Duke and Duchess themselves.
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with Land Rover.
was produced in secret, not because we didn’t trust our
own teams, but because the way in which magazines
are produced meant that a rogue corrupted photograph Alastair Campbell
interviews Miriam
or incomplete transcript of the interview might have González Durántez
found its way into the wrong hands. There was so much See the full hour-long
clandestine behaviour in Vogue House that for a few conversation between
our hard-hitting
weeks I felt as though my conversations were encrypted. interrogator Alastair
We hope you think all the subterfuge has been worth Campbell and expert
it. We are enormously proud of this month’s magazine, EU lawyer (and Nick
Clegg’s wife), Miriam
not least because we’ve been able to bring the issues González Durántez.
supported by Heads Together to a wider public, amplified
by the supporting material on GQ.co.uk, our social feeds Facebook Live with Alastair Humphreys
and an ongoing commitment to spreading these messages Adventurer, author and motivational speaker
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LAMONT JOHNSON
“Stormzy has bossed the Styling Stormzy for this
British music industry,” says month’s feature on the British
Guardian writer Tom Lamont, rapper was GQ Style Fashion
who toured with the grime star Director Elgar Johnson,
for the issue. In 2015, when recently nominated for Best
grime music dented the Stylist at the BSME awards.
mainstream for the second Drawing on London’s growing
Arthur BELEBEAU time, critics were sceptical streetwear trend, Johnson
Who knew a virtual reality headset could look so good with a suit? about the genre’s longevity. dressed Stormzy’s 6ft 5in frame
In this month’s fashion feature, “Amazing Reality”, photographer Two years on, and largely in Adidas and Liam Hodges for
Arthur Belebeau shot models wearing this season’s hottest trend: down to the success of Stormzy a relaxed look. Says Johnson,
monochrome suits, from Hugo Boss to Canali. “My initial inspiration – whose debut album made “It reflects a modern view on
was the video from Norwegian synth-pop band A-ha’s song ‘Take grime history by entering the the way a lot of men are
On Me’,” says Belebeau, “where the real world meets fantasy.” charts at No1 – it’s here to stay. dressing right now.”
Charlie BURTON
Virgin Galactic is the world’s first commercial
spaceline, with plans to fly Richard Branson
to the stars by 2019. “What surprised me
were the customers,” says GQ Senior
Commissioning Editor Charlie Burton, who
has written about it this month. “Tickets Warren
cost $250,000, so you’d assume buyers are ALFIE BAKER
extremely wealthy, but that’s not the case.” Ahead of Tom Holland’s
starring role as the new
boy behind the mask in
Alex HANNAFORD the upcoming Spider-Man:
Tomi Lahren is a young alt-right internet Homecoming, GQ shot the
personality famed for vitriolic rants actor poolside, relaxing in the
against everyone from Barack Obama Hollywood Hills. Styled by
to Black Lives Matter. “Unfortunately, Warren Alfie Baker, Holland
appears in luxury beach gear.
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ETTINGER.CO.UK
Reinvent the wheel:
Mercedes’ ‘Drive Pilot’
gives its E-Class saloon
driverless capabilities
GENERATION #SELF-DRIVE
Carmakers and tech titans are racing for the lead in the market
for autonomous autos. But are we entering a bright future of easy
riding or are criminal hackers about to crash the party?
STORY BY Jason Barlow
W
e have been pursuing the new E-Class also extends Merc’s “car-to-X Yet driverless cars are one of the biggest
vision of accident-free communication” smartphone and Cloud- prizes in global industry and not just because
driving for some time, and based infrastructure, sending information or they offer the tantalising prospect of reduced
we are now making big, big warnings about traffic jams or accidents from emissions and zero fatalities – who could argue
steps towards the realisa- similarly equipped cars further up the road. against that? Tech titans Apple, Google and
tion of that. When it comes to autonomous As someone who can’t abide rain-sensing Uber are all staking out the territory, curi-
cars, we have to be the first, we cannot be wipers – how lazy do you have to be? – the ously eager to annexe a business that offers
a fast follower.” prospect of the self-driving car fills me with meagre margins unless you’re at the very
Daimler AG’s chairman and CEO Dr Dieter existential dread. I’m no Luddite, but I enjoy top of the tree. So why bother? Because as
Zetsche is a busy man, but he made sure he the challenge and responsibility of controlling autonomous cars take hold, they will become
was around to personally talk up the latest a car myself. I also savour the atavistic thrill the new hub: the “third place – to relax, work
Mercedes E-Class, the company’s “upper- of the explosive chemical reaction that sits at and play”, according to Daimler’s Dr Zetsche,
medium” saloon, during its launch. Heading the heart of internal combustion: full electri- between your home and your office. A giant
the list of eye-catching new technologies is fication means its days are likely numbered, smartphone, in effect, and therefore a critical
Drive Pilot, which uses a stereo camera, radar too. The automobile has long been hymned fulcrum for data acquisition.
sensors and a laptop-sized box of tricks hidden as a symbol of freedom, but it’s difficult to Given the stakes, the car industry has no
in the rear wing to drive the car autonomously. conjure Jack Kerouac out of a car that drives intention of letting itself be outflanked the
It can accelerate, brake, change lane and come itself or imagine the late Chuck Berry pushing way the music business was in the early
to a complete halt without any input from a button on his Tesla when there’s no particu- noughties. This is why every major automo-
the wobbly human behind the wheel. The lar place to go. tive OEM has been rebranding itself as a
T
Apple and Google have recently
discovered, which is why they’re
more likely to acquire an established
player than go it alone. The truth is,
no other everyday consumer durable is any-
thing like as complicated as the motor car; your
television or washing machine doesn’t come
‘We could do it
anywhere, over the
internet. Car hacking
got real right then’
boating, but they’re not malicious. “You need
to know what hackers are going to do next,
how to mitigate it and how some mitigations
don’t work, which is what we’ve shown,” Miller
avers. Mercedes’ R&D chief Ola Källenius con-
firmed to me that, “Cybersecurity has a very
high priority and will be even more important
with 16 airbags. as you open up your electronic architecture for
BMW is also leaning hard on the fast- win. Others are very specifically malicious fully downloadable, over-the-air capability.”
forward button. Having spent in excess of and Kaspersky’s map of targeted cyberattacks Meanwhile, Victor Chebyshev, an anti-
£2 billion on its “i” sub-brand, the excellent makes for grimly compelling reading. You malware researcher at Kaspersky, has this
i3 city EV and i8 hybridised supercar have might have heard of Stuxnet, a weaponised observation. “Applications for connected
yet to yield the revenues the Munich-based computer worm allegedly created by a joint cars are not ready to withstand malware
giant was hoping for. BMW can afford to be American-Israeli group in 2010 to disrupt and attacks. We expect that car manufacturers
patient. Both cars come with a suite of apps destroy centrifuges used to enrich uranium at will have to go down the same road that banks
that support and monitor driver behaviour, the Natanz nuclear complex in Iran. It’s widely have already taken with their applications...
usage and efficiency, and exemplify connec- regarded as the first malware to target the After multiple cases of attacks against apps,
tivity, a vital part of the marketing message for military-industrial complex. More recently, many banks have improved the security of
any new car. When a BMW contact confirmed the Carbanak cybergang stole £1bn from 100 their products.
to me that the i cars’ connectivity was under- financial institutions worldwide; there are “Luckily, we have not yet detected any cases
pinned by a new facility in Munich, I asked if hundreds of other hardcore APTs. of attacks against car applications, which
I could visit to check out the server firepower And cars? They’re far from immune. The means that car vendors still have time to do
for myself. BMW declined. highest profile hack so far occurred when things right. How much time they have exactly
Not that you can blame them. As we accel- cybersecurity researchers Charlie Miller and is unknown. Modern Trojans are very flexible –
erate towards this fully connected, electrified Chris Valasek exploited a weakness in the head one day they can act like normal adware, and
and autonomous automotive Nirvana, some big unit of their Jeep Cherokee’s multimedia system the next day they can easily download a new
issues urgently need to be addressed. Data pro- and the cellular network it was hooked up to configuration, making it possible to target new
tection is one, privacy another. Then there is before accessing the car’s CAN (controller area apps. The attack surface is really vast here.”
the not insignificant question of car hacking, network) bus. This is the nervous system that And don’t get us started on aviation...
a growing concern for automotive companies, effectively unites the multitude of ECUs gov-
especially against the rising tide of cyber- erning a modern car’s engine, transmission,
crime. I spoke to David Emm, senior security chassis electronics, air conditioning... the lot. MORE For these related stories,
FROM GQ visit GQ.co.uk/magazine
researcher at Kaspersky Lab, one of the world’s Even with an air gap – which separates the
leading IT security providers and antivirus networked elements from the physical ones, Everyone Carrying A Flat White Is Wearing Flat
specialists. Emm is mild-mannered, engaging supposedly safeguarding them – Miller and Whites (Dylan Jones, June 2017)
and has the priceless ability to guide outsid- Valasek were able to break in and take control. The Food Wars (Jennifer Bradly, May 2017)
ers through what he refers to as the “malware “When I saw we could do it anywhere, over the Me, Myself And iPhone (Wil Harris, April 2017)
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need saving? no
problem. daddario was a
school swim star and is
scuba-qualified, thanks
to her training alongside
the rock for 2015’s
san andreas.
RISING
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Alexandra THIS month’s big-screen Baywatch reboot is a comic reimagining of the series that introduced
a generation to slow-mo. But it shares, well, certain aesthetic qualities with the original. “That’s
part of the humour of Baywatch: everybody’s sort of supernaturally good-looking, and they
Daddario take their jobs very, very seriously,” says Alexandra Daddario, who plays Summer Quinn. “We
Photograph Ralph Mecke
took a lot of comedy from that.” The 31-year-old’s improv impressed so much in auditions that
they wrote her lines into the script. “If you can make people laugh,” she says, “they’ll love you
Meet the True Detective star forever.” This year, prepare to see plenty more of Daddario’s funny side: first with Kate Upton in
diving into comedy with the The Layover, followed by When We First Met this autumn. Oh, and if Baywatch’s #fitspo bodies
(very) beautiful people of the leave you feel feeling a little beach shy, fear not: “The majority of men that I date don’t have
big-screen Baywatch reboot abs, if that makes anybody feel better.” It does. Oliver Franklin-Wallis Baywatch is out now.
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Stanley Tucci Ed Westwick Caludia Winkleman Hannah Bagshawe and Eddie Redmayne
Graham Norton
Giles Coren
Douglas Booth
Jack Guinness
Daisy Lowe
Jason Atherton
Woody Harrelson
Jasmine Hemsley
Cindy Bruna
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Rosanna Falconer
Matthew Freud
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Sarah Ferguson
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THE
ARTIST
T O WAT C H
Tender hip hop: let’s face it, it’s not an idea that’s guaranteed success. But south London’s Loyle Carner
has won over everyone from Nas to Kate Tempest (and us) with his soul-baring tunes
LOYLE Carner (real name: Benjamin Coyle-Larner) isn’t about the women, violence or
money. Instead, the 22-year-old prefers a more introspective mode of hip hop, spinning
slow, confessional narratives over jazzy, boom-bap beats. “I have ADHD,” says Carner,
“so I’m more emotional than most.” It’s found him a niche – and quite an audience. He
has supported Nas and Kate Tempest, won rapturous reviews for his album, Yesterday’s
Gone (left, out now), and is on a seven-month tour of Australia, the US and the UK.
Carner wanted to be an actor, but quit drama school and moved home to Croydon to
support his mother and brother in 2014 after the death of his stepfather. A year later, he
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released his debut EP, Little Late, a record wrought with grief. His voice cracks on “BFG”:
“Everybody says I’m f***ing sad / Of course I’m f***ing sad, I miss my f***ing dad.”
For Yesterday’s Gone, Carner swapped anger for nostalgia. The album is named after
a record made by his stepfather, which Carner only discovered after his death. On “Sun
Of Jean”, Carner’s mother reads a poem layered over her husband’s piano. “I immortalised
them in my music,” says Carner. “They could be together one last time.” Eleanor Halls
Loyle Carner plays the Reading Festival in August. loylecarner.com
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been advertised back stories and board, not according placement and moves.
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detailed battlefields. A snub, a stray bullet, distances by which it’s all green hills and
acceptable date. You join the ranks of
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Revolution, set during Empire in a kind of
at lives with his eschewing the Mitsuda and performed
and one of the best an alt-history industrial weaponised Brexit.
mother while his original’s turn-based by the celebrated
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hit that spawned two their diminutive nation, gameplay for a new tanks and rifles and, Tokyo Symphony
the ground”.
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If looks
could thrill
Don’t be fooled by its striking design, Mercedes-AMG’s new GT C is the super-fast roadster that puts
power and performance front and centre
S TO RY BY JASON BARLOW
A
MG is 50 this year and whereas the latest 4.0-litre unit uses two
GT C Roadster
plans to celebrate by turbos. Theoretically, this forced induc-
ENGINE 557bhp
unleashing the most tion should blunt throttle response,
3,982cc twin
devastating road car ever turbocharged V8 muzzling the GT C’s full potential. Roger,
conceived. No one has TORQUE 501lb ft it doesn’t. Its 557bhp and 501lb ft of
successfully transplanted a current ECONOMY 25.8mpg; torque are summoned with only a trace
Formula One engine into a street-legal 259g/km CO2 of lag, against a soundtrack that makes
car, but that’s exactly what Mercedes’ PERFORMANCE Wagner sound like Westlife. Top speed
high-performance off-shoot says it’s 0-62mph, 3.7 secs; is 196mph and it’ll warp to 62mph in
top speed, 196mph
managed with its “Project One” hyper- 3.7 seconds. Reduced emissions and
WEIGHT 1,735kg
car. It’ll likely have 1,000bhp – that’s fuel consumption are by-products of
PRICE £139,445
more than Lewis Hamilton gets to play turbocharging and AMG claims 259g of
CONTACT
with every other Sunday. mercedes.co.uk
CO2 emissions and 25.8mpg. Amazing
But let’s face it, no AMG has ever numbers given the power output, but
lacked for horsepower. Following the
theatrically gull-winged SLS, the GT
is only the second solo AMG outing, a
The GT C is basically a Teutonic muscle
clean-sheet car conceived independently
of the Stuttgart mother ship. This is a
car with substantial personality
place so in love with internal combustion going soft in the head. The sills are you’ll need monastic levels of self-
that the men and women who make each seriously chunky, while the dashboard control to achieve them.
engine personally autograph the block. gains additional strut braces against The GT C uses AMG’s triple-mode
Mercedes-AMG has waited until part- the windscreen. There’s another tower Ride Control adaptive damping system,
way through the GT’s life span to unveil brace between the soft-top and the fuel allowing you to bounce between
the convertible version, complete with tank and a cross-member behind the Comfort, Sport and Sport Plus for
an eye-popping new 15-louvred grille seats also boosts the rollover protection progressively less compliant behaviour
– inspired by the Merc that conquered system. The GT C Roadster uses magne- depending on your mood. Mostly, it’s
the ferocious Panamericana road race sium in its structure to reduce inertia, uncompromising, especially if the car
– active air management and active and the roof consists of a magnesium, is fitted with the optional dynamic
rear-wheel steering. A skilful peram- steel and aluminium structure support- engine mounts. The C also adds a “race”
bulation of the options list could yield ing an acoustically optimised three-layer mode to the “dynamic select” dual-shift
arguably the coolest looking car of hood, available in black, red or beige. transmission menu. First gear on the
the year, although the business end is This opens or closes in eleven seconds at seven-speed DCT has a higher ratio,
where the drama’s really happening. If speeds up to 30mph, a bulwark against while seventh and the final drive are
you’re aiming to fly under the radar, the fickle British weather. lower for greater urgency. It also has
“designo selenite”, a matte grey colour, AMG’s fondness for brute force bigger front brakes (390mm vs 360mm,
is your best option. However, for the over chassis finesse is sometimes its with ceramics as an option on both).
more proud, our tip would be the strik- undoing, but while the new roadster All in all, this is a bracingly intense
ing “solarbeam yellow”. could have taken some heat out of the Raise your game: experience – even with approximately
The coupé’s lightweight aluminium GT’s sauce, it pointedly chooses not to. The three-layer half the power AMG’s new hypercar will
roof closes in
space frame receives extra reinforce- This is basically a Teutonic muscle car, eleven seconds,
deploy. They sure know how to party,
ment to counter the side effects of a feeling exemplified by the driving even at 30mph these guys. Here’s to the next 50.
New
beating your own path.
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LIKE most seriously lit music/style Been there, got the T-shirt:
crossover trends, the idea of producing Kanye West’s ‘I Feel Like
Pablo’ top and the ‘Give A Damn’
tour merchandise that fans actually want
T-shirt worn by Alex Turner at
to wear (rather than give to their little
Glastonbury 2016 (below) front
brother when sober the next day) all the latest tour-merch trend
began with Kanye West. West’s mini-me
clothing line produced for his Saint
Pablo Tour in 2016 became the most
wanted tour gear since The Strokes wore
their own retro band T-shirts on stage
back in 2002. Irony-loaded bestsellers
such as the “I Love You Like Kanye Loves
Kanye” coral-orange tees and one “in
loving memory” of his mother, Donda
West, were the rapper’s rambling,
surrealist tweets made wearable.
Of course, the West range sold out
faster than a Supreme brick, yet the
knock-on efect was to inspire a whole
caravan of pop stars (not to mention
style biannuals such as hip style zine
032C) to think about their tour merch
a little harder. With record sales
slumping – for everyone other than Ed
Sheeran and Adele – the kit you sell
from the stalls is one of the ways to
strengthen profitability. And remember:
nothing says “fashion” more than irony.
Hence, oicial Justin Bieber merch has
suddenly never looked so trendy. The
best bit? Ecommerce means you don’t is dead*
have to actually sit through the gig.
Punk product imaginable: perfect thing to slip under Lord Sauron what could be
Christmas baubles in the a black leather Saint Laurent more nostalgic than reaching
shape of the robot heads; biker jacket. Being the super out to Obama and Michelle
skateboards with “Daft Punk” capitalist singer-songwriter through your own chest?
neon grip; snow globes; he is, Bieber’s range of Chicago-based designer
candles; beach towels; merch is expansive: Joe Fresh Goods has created
limited-edition portrait baseball caps, backpacks, a line that pays tribute to
paintings; wind breakers; gold socks, skateboards. It might the 44th president and his
rings; caps; polo shirts; tote be too late to say sorry, but family. Chance The Rapper
bags; belt buckles; pens; pins; it’s never too late (for even modelled the range,
and, yes, a Daft Punk yo-yo. fashion) to say “irony”. only adding to how much
Trust us: you’ll be up all night £90. shop.virginemi.com/ you want this gear. JH
to get some. daftpunk.com purposetour £28. thankuobama.us
roles
by the loss of a beard.” with a beard oil and
Taking all this on the always brush in the
chin, so to speak, you direction of your hair
might not be surprised growth. The look you
to learn that the beard want to achieve is less 1. Beard comb by BULY 1803,
comb is said to have been Tom Hanks in Castaway £24. At mrporter.com
invented around the and more Tom Hardy
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there you were thinking then you run the risk of 3. Beard comb by TOM
it was invented by a lone “beardruff” in the long run FORD, £30. At Harrods.
barista in Peckham). – no partner will thank harrods.com
According to The you for that. If good 4. Beard comb by CAPTAIN
Dictionary Of Fashion grooming be the food of FAWCETT LIMITED, £10.
History – ie, Google – love, brush on. captainfawcett.com
By Patrick Grant
I use a paper diary in which, for reasons least good, as was foiling and printing – all
of fastidious neatness, I always write with bar the Staedtler, which had paint spatter-
a pencil. I keep my pencils in a pencil case ing from the print. All except the Blackwing
given to me by a girlfriend at Oxford, a patch- achieved one continuous shaving when sharp-
work leather Moroccan thing that I don’t ened from new to nub, its wood being com-
particularly love (Editor’s note: the girl or the paratively flaky and rough. At the lower end
case?). A decade ago I began using the Berol on lead quality came the Derwent, which had
Mirado pencil for no better reason than that inconsistent line quality and points that dulled
the head cutter at Norton & Sons at the time quickly. On lead quality the Faber-Castell just
used them to draft his patterns and would shades it from the Staedtler.
keep boxes of them in the workshop – and the In fact, in every way, the Faber-Castell
yellow looked quite nice with the tan leather. 9000 is a boss pencil. The lacquer is even and
The Mirado was a thoroughly British pencil, lustrous, the foiling and printing sharp and
made in Norfolk. But the Berol Mirado is no precise (though I wish they didn’t have quite
more, recently erased for good by its American so much text on it). The pencil creates an
T H E N E W WO R KW E A R
Smart
narrow chinos and fresh
masterwork Converse? A killer move.
2. Mr Layered
casual
All the washy hues are
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3. LA producer type
taking
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premium tequilas with pals
followed by dancing at
The Nice Guy with “her”.
It’s sex meets swag.
Think of it as
a toolkit with *J U ST D O N ’ T C A L L I T A VA N I T Y C A S E
which you
can conjure
a little pizzazz
MAN
Where is a peacocking young
rake supposed to keep his style
accoutrement nowadays? You
know, the bits of jewellery, the gold
dress-shirt buttons and the tie slides
CAVE
that clutter your bedside table, sock
drawer or washbag like style lint, the
paraphernalia of a life lived in front
of a mirror. Of course, the old
Your trainers just got
technique was to simply leave the
bow tie/pocket square/shirt stays
murdered out
wherever you wrestled them of All-black is the new black, so join the jet set with the
drunkenly at 1am. Either that or stuf streetwear staple that will take you everywhere
them into the inside pocket of your
dinner jacket until next time. So, it’s Before the slow dawn of
A personal cabinet about time all that twinkly flotsam athleisurewear. Before Supreme
of curiosities that’s and jetsam got organised properly, made a pinkie promise with Louis
part presentation right? Right. This is why you need to Vuitton to be the coolest high-low
case, part workbox, get yourself a mini man cave. Think fashion-collab ever. Before GQ’s
your MMC is the of your MMC as a very small Managing Editor caught the
perfect cache for the wardrobe for the baubles that finish Trainers by NIKE, skateboarding bug. Hard. Aged
paraphernalia of of an outfit, or a toolkit with which £100. nike.com 36. Before every man in your
a life stylishly lived you can conjure a little pizzazz. office starting thinking of tailored
Heading out to dinner but worried tracksuit bottoms, not as clothing
By Jonathan Heaf the restaurant booked is smarter to wear on the sofa with crisps
Photographs by than your usual beer’n’roast bird and The Crown, but as a stylish
Pixeleyes Photography brasserie? Don’t sweat it. Just dive alternative to a tuxedo (circa 2015).
into your manity box and weaponise Trainers by REEBOK, Before all this, trainers were to run
your uniform with a little sparkly £60. reebok.co.uk in. Or to hike in. Or, even, at a
trinket: a vintage lighter that you can finger like a card shark push, to go to the corner shop for
all night, or a pair of shades to hang nonchalantly of your a bag of Haribo at 10pm in. Then, at
breast pocket. Your mini man cave will also make you feel long last, came the fashion trainer.
like Batman before work – snapping on your culinks But whether in brushed grey suede,
and timepiece fresh out of bufed leather will do that to or perforated tan calf leather,
a man’s ego. A designated tidy-away place for all this Trainers by ADIDAS, whether a Lanvin scuba shoe or a
stuf will also ensure you’re not hunting for your favourite £75. adidas.co.uk
Dior slip-on, trainers, even really
statement ring while the Uber driver waits impatiently outside expensive trainers, felt nothing but
with your date. Your stash box just got a serious upgrade. smart/casual. But now – thanks to
trendsetting teenagers who prefer
wearing black trainers to school as
opposed to stiff regulation lace-ups
Colour watch! Hollywood plum
– all black sneakers are pushing a
Call yourself an influencer? Trainers by VANS, smart/smart moment
“Millennial pink” is already so over £60. vans.com in active footwear.
If you didn’t read New York magazine’s “Why Although it all started
Millennial Pink Refuses To Go Away” back in
March, then do so. If you already have, you’ll
realise that there are some colours – such as the
It’s the with the all-black
Reebok Classic, you
precise shade of pink of Acne shopping bags and
the upper half of The Grand Budapest Hotel in Wes Anderson’s film sneakers’ can source triple-black
trainers from any brand
worth their street team.
smart /
– that seem so “of the moment” that they can come to define a
generation. Well, GQ has spotted the next big hue and this time it’s a The best thing? They
shade we’re calling “Hollywood plum”, a rich neon bruise. Palace, make a great alternative
the skate brand favoured by stylists who can’t skate, has been
experimenting with this tone recently, as has Kanye West with his
“Calabasas” Adidas collaboration – hence the “Hollywood”, implying
smart to your office-bound
oxfords. Perfect for
a little extra bounce
a gated exclusivity. And you thought they were just colours, right?
Just never call it burgundy in front of the pack. JH moment during that boardroom
client pitch. JH
Alessandro Squarzi
No colour, still money: You
can’t fault Paul Newman’s White jeans are the red
dressing, shown here on the
trousers of the denim world.
set of Rachel Rachel, 1967
They’re synonymous with
Liz Hurley who, while lovely,
almost ruined white jeans L AWS O F D E N I M
for everyone by wearing
them continuously from
the mid-Nineties onwards.
Somehow, this has seeped
into how we view them on
men: a little bit Eurotrash, make them part of a casual,
Wiz Khalifa
a little bit suburban playboy, all-American beach holiday
and to be especially avoided look. In the Eighties, Peter
if you’re pale, middle-aged Saville, designer of seminal
and overweight. Or are they? artwork for Joy Division
Gentlemen, let us present and Kanye West, made his
the witnesses in the case for Helmut Lang jeans part of
white jeans, because since a minimalist style statement
the Sixties they’ve never when he wore them with a
been far from the legs of the rollneck and Chelsea boots.
world’s most stylish men. White jeans were also a
David Hemmings wore them fixture on Hedi Slimane’s
in Antonioni’s portrait of Dior Homme catwalks in
Swinging London, Blow-Up, the noughties.
ensuring their credibility. In 2017, white jeans
Also in the Sixties, Steve are white-hot once
McQueen showed us how to again, mainly because
of Alessandro Squarzi,
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who the photographer
Tommy Ton once described
as “the master of Italian
sprezz”. Squarzi shows us
how they’re particularly
The Case for useful when worn in
conjunction with an olive
or khaki military jacket.
White jeans have a tarnished The white helps to soften the
reputation but is it time to make militaristic ruggedness of the
a clean break? Take your cues jacket, giving a new lease of
from style icons Steve McQueen life to a look that can seem
and Hedi Slimane, ditch the quite tired when worn with
Justin Theroux
blues and step into the light blue jeans. They also go well
with tailored jackets, suede
By Alfie Tong
blousons, bomber jackets
and camel coats. In fact,
almost any look is lent
a fresher, lighter and more
modern feel when blue jeans
are replaced with white,
especially in the summer.
White-o-meter! Just like your teeth, there’s ‘white’ and then there’s ‘Ed Sheeran’. Match the tone of your Make sure they’re in a fit
strides to your style vibe. Remember: twinning with rosé and a beach isn’t essential, but it helps
that is neither too slim nor
+
Attending Flossing Learning too baggy, sit slightly higher
a TED Owning diligently
Conference a Banksy every
Japanese on the waist, and finish
print single day neatly at the top of your
Moleskine shoes. Almost every denim
Wearing
Ray-Ban notebooks brand of note makes good
Wayfarers while Camping white jeans including Acne,
getting your Mad Men
Steve Bannon lunch from Pret APC and Levi’s, but some of
Where The
Wild Things Are the most coveted are from
cult Japanese labels such as
Way too white Just white enough Orslow and Anatomica.
Welcome For the twentysomethings shaking up the top tier of tech billionaires, traditional
markers of position remain important. Just take a look at Snapchat’s leading man
to the CEO and cofounder of M&A banker. But fashioned status symbols in deal mode. You’ll never
new old Snapchat (now Snap Inc)
Evan Spiegel drives a red
Spiegel, whose net
worth is estimated
haven’t completely
died, and that life these
meet a man more adept
at carrying off an entry-
skool Ferrari. Not a red Prius, a
red Tesla or indeed a red
at a cool $4 billion
(£3.1bn), confounds
days isn’t all about the
experience economy. In
level Boss suit or Philipp
Plein leather. Like every
Ioniq (that new electric that completely. fact, Spiegel epitomises young entrepreneur he
thing from Hyundai), but I met Spiegel once, a brand new archetype, wears Ryan Gosling
a big, throbbing Slim Jim and admittedly he was one who has no truck
shades, a big, fancy
of a car. We are dressed like a child, in with the old-school
Jaeger-LeCoultre-style
constantly being told a loose-fit hoodie and Hollywood dress-down
watch and a shit-eating
that the new generation a pair of what looked tropes of chinos and
grin. He was even once
of digi-entrepreneurs see like Flyknits, but then chambray shirts.
the world differently, nobody had told him it Trust us when we say photographed wearing
that they can’t hug a tree was a black-tie event. he aces airport style – a £5,000 Burberry coat
without first sinking No, you only have to black Rag & Bone jeans, and carrying a puppy.
a dairy-free chai latte, look at his significant Saint Laurent bomber, Seriously, he is only a few
or that they’d never other – Miranda Kerr, the albino sneakers – but he’s tasting menus away from
STAT U S SY M B O L S wear a tie in case they Victoria’s Secret dollface all “boardroom turning into a young
By Dylan Jones were mistaken for an – to realise that old- entourage” when he’s Jack Nicholson.
The You need cofee. (If you merely “wanted” one, you’d have gone downstairs, walked outside and
business hailed a passing Uber-barista or whatever passes for a takeaway these days.) And needing cofee
means you consume enough of it to care what it tastes like, where it came from and who made it:
case which, if you really cared, means you. So you’re going to need some ground cofee (never beans)
for… and a cafetière. (Unless your pseudo-derelict, semi-urban co-working space has a fully functioning
hob – in which case you shouldn’t be going there – a cafetière is the only option). It needs to be
The Soho stainless steel (glass is for service-station sludge) and it needs to serve one cup of strong cofee.
Home That’s it: you’re not going for refills (no one likes an addled, bark-breathed cafeine junkie) and
you’re not making it for anyone else. Because as anyone busy enough to need cofee knows, you
cafetière don’t have the time (or let’s face it, the inclination) to make cofee for anyone else. So buy a Soho
for one Home Audley Silver Cofee Press (£55) for one and tell everyone it belongs – and stays – in the
“wolf’s glen”. They’ll get the message. Bill Prince sohohome.com
Ben Gorham
Pro basketball player turned pro
perfumer: luxury’s chicest lodestar.
MARK
EVAN SPIEGEL BRIAN CHESKY CASEY NEISTAT ELON MUSK Vintage rugby shirts
ZUCKERBERG
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(Facebook) (Snap Inc) (Airbnb) (Tesla, Inc)
who actually played rugby at school.
‘Predatorily camp’
Saint Roger Federer on a fur throw,
Marc Jacobs Louis
Raincloud Laurent Frame in short shorts, manspreading –
UPPER distressed Vuitton
grey checked black
T-shirt flannel
star-intarsia
hoodie
leather the only way to approach summer.
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shirt
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Role model, model on a roll…
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Rag & Bone New dinner party parlour
LOWER Blue Cucinelli cotton-twill cotton-twill
black skinny
dad jeans dark biker trousers game: ‘Sex act or newfangled
BODY jeans
jeans trousers
baked good?’
Ever asked your partner to
Common do the ‘rainbow bagel’?
Projects white
Tods Converse
Adidas blue trainers O’Keefe
and white
rafa-trimmed All Star polished Cafe Milano
SHOES sliders
nubuck high top derby The only place politicians power
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Ferrari They look good. On everyone.
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Eden Rock Hotel is owned by the Matthews family, whose ORooms from £549
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Saint Jean Bay, once belonged to Rémy de Haenen, the
French pilot who, in 1946, masterminded a plane landing on
the nearby airstrip, bringing the first of a stream of A listers in
his wake. Today, the appeal is much the same, underlined by the
arrival next door of an outpost of Saint-Tropez club Nikki Beach.
Le Toiny Le Guanahani
Away from the metropolis of Gustavia Le Guanahani, opened in 1986 and recently
and the hedonist haven of Saint John, refurbished, has got the smart-casual vibe
Coast is clear (above): Le Toiny, on the eastern fringes of the just right. Tucked away on a jungle-lush
The beach at Eden
Rock; (below) ocean
island, promotes a come-and-go-in-peace hillside that swoops down into a perfectly
views at Le Toiny’s bar vibe by offering 14 suites, many with their buffered cyan bay, where the only way
own parking spaces. Since taking over in to wake up is a daily swim with the local
2015 its owners, Charlie and Mandie Vere sea turtles. The hotel is the perfect place
Nicoll, have rejuvenated the rooms and for those who prefer operating on stealth-
public spaces and made good on its Relais & wealth mode. Yes, there are all the trappings
Châteaux ranking with a new contemporary that you would expect from a luxury hotel: ORooms from £549
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grown cocktails. More recently, the Vere
Saint Barths,
Nicolls have added a beach carved out of spa and a fully-loaded bar which, GQ can
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installed a small boutique with its own line No rubbernecking over lunch between
in casual resortwear in what used to be squabbling couples in box-fresh couture;
lepers’ huts. It may sound grim, but the no loudmouth film producers closing deals
setting is anything but... BP on speakerphone from their sun loungers.
ORooms from £550 per night. Anse de Toiny, In essence: a bona fide holiday destination
97133, Saint Barths, French West Indies. rather than an exclusive members’ club
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Burning
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standard of British barbecue he felt duty
bound to do something about it. After buying
a colossal smoker and enjoying huge street-
food success, he opened Smokestak in
Shoreditch, London, and hasn’t looked back
(in anger, or otherwise). But to be on the safe
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Have a
cow man...
David Carter’s
five rules
for brilliant
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Source well. Ensure the meat you buy is substantial in size.
The smaller/thinner the meat is, the greater chance it has
of drying out. Also, the marbling and fat coverage over
brisket is equally important. This renders into the meat
during the cooking process and without it you will end up
with a dry finished product.
THE RECIPE Be patient. Every brisket cooks in its own time. What is
important is the end result. The brisket should be like a wet
In Fitzrovia, Monica and David Galetti are pairing France with the South Pacific
SIX months. That’s how long it took Monica at the “are we heading the right way?” end of
Galetti and her sommelier husband, David, to London’s Charlotte Street, Mere (named after
convince Camden Council to allow them to build Monica’s Samoan mother and pronounced
their double-height basement-to-street-level “Mary”) is fine French dining loosened up with
window for their new restaurant in London’s South Pacific influences, making it perfect for
Fitzrovia. It delayed the opening, but for their either le déjeuner or some enchanted evening.
first venture they wanted to get everything The ground-floor bar is neat and slick (if pretty
right. They didn’t succeed, of course – as Monica unremarkable), but the downstairs dining room
Provender
This reassuringly French brasserie
admits, “I am a perfectionist, so I was never – thanks to that subterranean window – is serves traditional seafood, game and
going to be completely happy” – but the end warm, modern and welcoming. And once you steak (look out for Breton cider).
result is still pretty special. sit down, things get even better. Standout dish: Follow Provençal fish
soup with the magnificent côte de
Then again, how could it be anything else With only six dishes each on the starter and boeuf – if you’re man enough.
for a chef who has spent much of her career main course menu, it is confident as well as 17 High Street, Wanstead E11. 020
at Le Gavroche and a lot of her free time as creative. On GQ’s visit, we tried the umami- 8530 3050. provenderlondon.co.uk
a judge on MasterChef: The Professionals? Set tastic mushroom tortellini in marmite butter and,
purely in the interests of research, we ordered
a second starter. The pork “boil up” is a twist on
a hearty New Zealand staple, Galetti cleverly
retains all the flavour of ham hock, sweet
potato and a dumpling with none of the bulk.
Of the main courses, the rhubarb-glazed breast
of squab was good, but the poached lobster,
potato puree and cabbage in a bisque sauce was
better. Our desserts came in very sweet and pink
(rhubarb) and very sharp and soft (blood orange Hélène Darroze
mousse). Both were very nice, if not quite up to at The Connaught
the savoury stars of the show. The two-Michelin-starred chef once
With MasterChef credentials well and truly again makes Sunday lunch special
with her take on pot-au-feu, a
checked, the future looks bright for Monica deconstructed slow-braised beef
and David Galetti. And it was definitely worth stew served in five courses.
waiting for. PH Standout dish: Opt for le pot-au-feu
du Dimanche for two people.
Carlos Place, London W1. 0203 147
O74 Charlotte Street, London W1. 0207 268 6565. 7200. the-connaught.co.uk
mere-restaurant.com
THE BAR
EVER hungered for a bite of Stradivarius? No, us and vodka) reminds you of catching snow on your
neither. And yet, upon tasting one of the most tongue as a child. The Waif (rhubarb, rose, silver tip
intriguing cocktails, Violin, at Tony Conigliaro’s new and champagne) is beautiful, slight and presented in a
Dalston bar, Untitled, we yearned to sink our teeth into glass so fragile even the most nimble-fingered will feel
the instrument’s resinous gut strings. Conigliaro, the like their wrists are wielding giant rakes. While the
genius behind Islington’s 69 Colebrooke Row and flavours are daring, these cocktails require no bravery
Soho’s Bar Termini, often referred to as the “Heston – they slip down your throat like water. And the fact
Blumenthal of drinks”, has developed a menu that these liquid oeuvres start as low as £6.50 makes them
celebrates the senses over spirit. taste twice as good. EH
Untitled is Conigliaro’s third and largest bar yet.
The minimalist design pays homage to Andy Warhol’s
Gargle factory: Untitled’s
Silver Factory studio in New York – a creative hub of
Warhol-inspired interiors
artists and actors – with tinfoil-papered walls and a
communal concrete table. It’s also by far his most
innovative. Considering the man prepares his cocktails
in a laboratory using scientific molecular mixology
and once made a gelatinous “yolk” of tomato and
vodka served like an oyster, this is saying something.
Each of Untitled’s 12 cocktails is designed to look,
taste and smell just like their names. In Violin, served
in a small, bulbous glass vessel presiding over a long
THE BOTTLE and delicate stem, mirroring the neck and body of a
violin, you discover oak, pine, beeswax and
Collin-Guillaume black pepper, with a hint of whisky. In Snow, served in
Rosé, Brut a tiny, stout and frosty cup that resembles a plump
snowdrop, the cold, tasteless liquid (chalk, clay, enoki
O538 Kingsland Road, London E8. 07841 022924.
untitled-bar.com
Champagne
WHEN chef James
THE ROUNDUP
Knappett and his
sommelier wife, Take outdoor eating to new heights:
Sandia Chang, created
Bubbledogs in 2012, the concept
Three al fresco food terraces
was both laughable and laudable: Bōkan Aviary Proud Camden
hotdogs served with champagne. Camden Market, Chalk Farm
Floors 37-39, Novotel Canary Wharf 22-25 Finsbury Square
It was simple and bonkers and 40 Marsh Wall, London E14. London EC2. Road, London NW1.
brilliant and it is still going strong bokanlondon.co.uk aviarylondon.com proudcamden.com
(helped in part by the Kitchen
Table, tucked away in the back,
that has had a Michelin star
since 2014). For Chang, making
champagne more accessible was a
big part of Bubbledogs’ appeal and
to continue this theme she and
Knappett launched Bubble Shop
late last year. Offering interesting
champagnes – including their own
label Collin-Guillaume, Rosé –
personally selected by Chang, if
The setup: The only thing more The setup: Head up to the tenth The setup: This former horse
you have a taste for “classy and impressive than the views from floor of the Montcalm Royal hospital is famous for its live
flirty” artisanal fizz you will love the Bōkan roof terrace 39 floors London House Hotel for Aviary: music, but this summer it has also
up at Canary Wharf, is the food a smart, sky-high celebration of launched a new £300,000 English
it. “I chose this particular rosé for that comes out of the kitchen all things ornithological. The Country Garden on the roof,
Bubbledogs because of its subtle courtesy of renowned chef Aurélie grand roof terrace – launched this with water features, landscaped
Altemaire and the cocktails by spring – has a marble outdoor rockeries, a Burger Bear pop-up
notes of red berries, much like former Mr Fogg’s mixologist and views of Camden Market.
bar with views of Finsbury
the scent left over on your hands Danilo Tersigni. Square, the Gherkin and beyond. Eat this: Unsurprisingly, it’s
after picking strawberries all day,” Eat this: The European dishes Eat this: Here, you can go going to be a burger. The
says Chang. “Because it is aged for come with a French accent, so unashamedly Seventies: choose double-stacked Greedy Bear is
beef tartare with wasabi mayo a king prawn cocktail (£15) and made from 100 per cent Sussex
three years on the lees, it adds a (£12), lamb cutlets with Longhorn flat-iron steak (£21) beef (£10 for a burger and beer).
great amount of complexity and chimichurri (£24) and then with whipped blue cheese (£5) Drink that: As well as festival
yuzu and lime tart (£7). followed by a minty “After Eight”
earthiness to the wine, almost a favourites such as Camden Hells
Arctic roll (£7). (£5.90) and jugs of Pimms (£20),
Drink that: The terrace has a gin
touch of savouriness.” PH bar, so try the docks’ inspired Drink that: Take in that City view try the Peach Old Fashioned
Royal Captain (Hendrick’s gin, with a Not A Cosmopolitan cocktail (Gosling’s rum with
OCollin-Guillaume,Rosé,£45.AtBubbledogs. passion-fruit syrup and peach
Vermouth, elderflower cordial (Tanqueray gin, St-Germain
bubbledogs.co.uk and cold jasmine tea, £10). puree, £9.50).
elderflower, Mondino amaro and
lime, £12.50) in hand.
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
Ascot
As Royal Ascot (20-24 June) brings the great and good
to this winning Berkshire town, make a weekend of it
Country house hotel Coworth Park
and its superb spa (below) with these grandstanding gourmet experiences.
Train: From London Waterloo to Ascot, from £31 return. southwesttrains.co.uk
Time: Fifty-two minutes
Above: Black Forest
In the last week of restaurant (Shrubbs Hill Cottage, dessert from Royal
June, top hats and London Road, Sunningdale, Ascot’s Parade
Ring Restaurant
floral headpieces Berkshire SL5 0LE. 01344
(with a solid base of 622722. bluebells-restaurant.
four inches only) jostle for space com), which attracts a full
in the first-class compartment of house on Sundays for hearty
the Waterloo to Ascot train, roasts at a reasonable £29 for
snooty brims and paper flowers three courses.
bobbing in unison as the train For fine dining at the races,
huffs and shudders its way to (4) The Royal Ascot Enclosure Above:
attend the summer’s most (Ascot Racecourse, High Street, Chefs Phil
Howard and
prestigious event: Royal Ascot. SL5 7JX. 0844 346 3000. ascot. Raymond
After a long day slurping co.uk) features star chefs such Blanc host
restaurants
jugs of Pimm’s in the Royal as Phil Howard and Raymond at Royal
Below: Try the Enclosure, rest your addled head Blanc. Howard – cited for Best Ascot (right)
braised pig’s trotter at five-star country house hotel Chef in this year’s GQ Food
at The Oxford Blue
(above and below) (1) Coworth Park (Blacknest & Drink Awards – hosts the
Road, Sunningdale, Berkshire flagship On 5 restaurant, while
SL5 7SE. Blanc, whose hotel, Belmond
01344 876600. Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons,
dorchester collection. was also nominated, oversees
com), which sits, the sixth-floor Panoramic
gleaming white, amid Restaurant, which offers the
240 hectares of land. best views of the track from
Choose one of the its private balcony.
Mansion House After a champagne cocktail in
suites overlooking Coworth Park’s Drawing Room
the gardens (the (with live piano music from
four-poster beds are the 7pm) migrate to (5) Restaurant
highlight). Don’t leave without a Coworth Park for a seven-course Above: Visit
trip to the spa – the pool’s tasting menu (£95) by chef Restaurant
Coworth Park
Photographs Alamy; Niall Clutton; Jonathan Thompson Photography; Jhy Turley
underwater music shouldn’t Adam Smith, which is packed for Adam Smith’s
have got us so excited, but it with British ingredients. best of British
menu; or La
did. Highlights included a dainty Sorrentina for
A trot up the road from Ascot chicken leg dusted with black Italian fare (left)
(and a scenic walk from Windsor truffle and an intricate chocolate
Ascot, Berksh
Castle) is new gastro pub (2) cage filled with nutty caramel.
The Oxford Blue (10 Crimp Hill, Don’t miss the simple Italian
Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 2QY. fare at the small but mighty ir
01753 861954. oxfordbluepub. (6) La Sorrentina (72 High Cranbourne 2
e
Park
co.uk), which offers comforting Street, SL5 9QN. 01344
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Inspired by intrepid explorers and conquering warriors, Aventus by The House Of Creed
is a fragrance for the bold
For The House Of Creed, it all scents, both commissioned iconic name is derived from the burst with roses, blooming amid
began when King George III and worn by some of history’s Latin - a (“from”) ventus (“the dense birch. Jasmine blossom
commissioned a bottle of Royal greatest names. Considered the wind”), illustrating the Aventus and patchouli combine to add to
English Leather after becoming most iconic of all is Aventus, man as destined to live a driven this woody but heady centre.
enamoured with a pair of Creed introduced in 2010 and crafted by life, ever galloping with the wind At the base is oak moss and
scented gloves. Passed from sixth-generation Master Perfumer at his back, heading toward ambergris and a light touch of
father to son through seven Olivier Creed in collaboration success. It’s fitting for a fragrance vanilla, the final flourish of a
generations since its London with his son Erwin. A sensual, which seems to sweep across sophisticated and intelligent,
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Whisky by
Haig Club,
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Pyjamas by Ermenegildo
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Book by The Cafetiere by
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Watches,
Assouline, £650.
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Home comforts
Luxury furniture or smart board
games – these thoughtful gifts will
make your father feel right at home
Decanter Set by
LOTTA, £100.
Pencil holder by Louis Vuitton, isa-international.co.uk
£365. louisvuitton.com
Backgammon set
by Dior £6,600.
dior.com
Chair by Louis
Vuitton, Price on
application.
louisvuitton.com
Leather noughts
and crosses set by
Burberry, £350.
burberry.com
G Partnership
Hot shots
The new Fantasia Plus coffee system, brought to us by the coffee experts at Lavazza,
serves up your favourite flat white at the touch of a button
Your barista might know how to prefer cappuccino, latte, hot Italian cappuccino, cappuccino your home, coming in an
make your cofee just the way chocolate or the ever-reliable and latte, or use the cold milk elegant ice white with brushed
you like it when you’re on the espresso. Not only that, but the frothing programme to get a aluminium sides. The perfect
run, but how do you get one at simple interface allows you to thick and velvety milk froth. The gift for any man who relies on
home? The Fantasia Plus cofee customise your drinks to use Fantasia Plus’ in-built memory a cafeine boost during his busy
maker by Lavazza allows you to cold milk or to choose the system means it will remember day but considers himself a
create delicious Italian cofee amount of cofee, froth and milk exactly how to make your cofee cofee connoisseur, you can save
specialities in the comfort of you’d like. Choose between three perfectly. Naturally, it’s also been £50 on a Fantasia Plus ahead of
your own kitchen, whether you diferent milk froth settings: designed as a chic addition to Father’s Day at John Lewis.
*on promotion from £169. PHOTOGRAPH BY JODY TODD
Touch fitness
tracker by
TomTom, £99.99.
johnlewis.co.uk
High tech
Treat your tech-loving father to
all the latest innovative gadgets
he never knew he needed
Google Home
by Google, £129.
Turntable by google.com
Shinola, £2,500.
shinola.com
Electrified S
bicycle by
VanMoof, £2,598.
vanmoof.com
Shore success
The next best thing to an early morning dip in the ocean is Molton Brown’s
new Coastal Cypress & Sea Fennel Collection
Nothing beats a refreshing Fennel Collection. It launched has been sourced from Cape aromas of sea fennel, grown
plunge into the sea first thing in just last month with an Eau de York, Australia – a remote, wild on the shoreline. There
the morning to wake you up, Toilette, Bath & Shower Gel, and largely unexplored and unspoilt are also intriguing traces of
but sadly the Northern Deodorant. The fragrance peninsula. The indigenous cardamom, fresh fig leaves,
Australian coast isn’t always captures a salt-sprayed collision cypress oil known as “blue jasmine and cedarwood.
handy before you start your of the ocean swell against gold” is the world’s only Guaranteed to start your day
day. Luckily, London fragrance rugged outcrops, echoing naturally blue essential oil with a splash, it’s the ideal
expert Molton Brown has now Molton Brown’s own pioneering distilled from a tree, which has Father’s Day gift for any man
come up with the next best and adventurous spirit. The then been unconventionally who’d rather be spending it
thing: its Coastal Cypress & Sea lead ingredient, coastal cypress, mingled with the salty breeze on a yacht.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JODY TODD
From £20 for Bath & Shower Gel, Eau de Toilette or Deodorant. All by Molton Brown. moltonbrown.co.uk #IntoTheUncharted
Phone case by Vianel,
£90. harveynichols.com Camera by
Panasonic Lumix,
£499.95.
johnlewis.com
Pill+ speaker by
Beats by Dr.Dre,
£189. apple.co.uk
On the
move
Get the stylish travel
essentials that will make
your father look the part
Sunglasses by Tom Davies,
on his next adventure
£295. tdtomdavies.com
Cashmere jumper
by Ron Dorf, £245.
rondorf.com
Headphones by
Pryma, £399.99.
selfrdiges.co.uk
G Partnership
Smooth character
This Father’s Day is the perfect opportunity to help your dad keep things trim with the
latest innovations from Braun
Something all fathers have to beard hairs into the cutting enjoys life’s luxuries, the Braun change up his style, the Braun
learn is how to pull of the element of the trimmer, Series 9, is the cutting edge Multi Grooming Kit has
tricky balancing act between reducing skin irritation by in shaving technology. Its everything he’ll need. With
strength and sensitivity. cutting both short and long built in titanium-coated detachable smart clipper
However, if your father’s most hairs with every stroke. It also HyperLift&Cut trimmer makes combs for precision length, as
sensitive area is his skin, he cuts down the time it takes to it the world’s most eicient well as the dedicated ear and
might need the new Braun shave, freeing up valuable and exceptionally gentle nose trimmer, precision
Series 3 ProSkin. It comes with morning bathroom time shaver, capturing more hair in trimmer and body grooming
advanced MicroComb (Amazon, £39.99). On the one stroke than any other heads, he’ll end up looking as
technology, a comb-like other hand, if you’re looking shaver in the world (Boots, sharp as the day you were
structure that guides the for a gift for the man who £329.99). If he’s ready to born (Argos, £44.99).
G Partnership
Summer time
Life is one long holiday in the sun with the eye-catching and elegant new Aqua series from
German watchmakers NOMOS Glashütte
Every so often a new watch sports, professional marine colour palette, the new versions combination of sturdy build and
comes along that really makes activity and skin diving. in siren blue and siren red bring classic design means that no
waves. The new Aqua series by Contained within an extra-robust a fresh splash of colour to the matter how active or varied your
NOMOS Glashütte are variations case of stainless steel and collection. The bright blue lifestyle is, you’ll never need to
on its signature Club and Ahoi sapphire crystal glass, these suggests the sky over the Côte worry about being without your
designs, which earned their watches are unusually tough and d’Azur, while the red conjures a bold timepiece. Like the perfect
sobriquet because they’re hard-wearing yet also have an buoy in the sea. Thanks to gentleman, these watches are
all water resistant to 20 elegant élan. While white silver Super-Luminova, each of these just as at home in the front row
atmospheres (200m), making plating and Atlantic blue are watches remains perfectly of the opera or splashing of a
them suitable for serious water long established in the NOMOS legible even in the dark. The yacht into the Mediterranean.
Tie by Hermès, £105.
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Culinks by
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Umbrella by
London
Briefcase by Undercover, £75.
Paul Smith, £695. selfridges.com
paulsmith.co.uk
Boardroom
ready
Make sure your father
looks the part with these
luxury accessories and
stationery essentials
Notebook by Smythson,
£45. smythson.com
Belt by Salvatore
Ferragamo, £235. Shoes by Bottega
ferragamo.com Veneta, £570.
bottegaveneta.com
Up against Trump?
(clockwise from top left):
Michelle Obama, Joe Biden,
Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton,
Bernie Sanders, Mark Cuban,
Mark Zuckerberg, Cory Booker,
Oprah Winfrey and Bob Iger
DEMOCRATIC
DEFICIT
STORY BY Michael Wolf
ILLUSTRATION BY André Carrilho
wo weeks before Stepping down: bench of policy wonks and Nancy Pelosi, 77, represents that LGBT
US Democratic
the 8 November presidential election, I sat in presidential
social engineers, to those capital, the free state of San Francisco.
Michael’s restaurant in New York with a senior candidate Hillary party pillars having no cur- Between them they had 66 years in
Republican operative who described her belief – Clinton concedes rency at all in modern politics. Congress, one of the most reviled insti-
defeat to Trump
and the reasonable belief of most political pro- in New York, 9 This was not just a sudden tutions in American life.
fessionals – that the Republican Party was dead November 2016 strategic setback, but just Together they represented another
for a generation to come. The effective takeover about as profound a psycho- view of the Democrats’ predicament:
of the party by its white-male populist wing had hopelessly logical upset as has recently happened that nothing was terribly wrong. In this,
tarnished the Republican brand among women and among in political life. There were two clear Trump was just some odd bad weather.
significant parts of its donor class. She described a political effects here: on the part of some In fact, the demographic future was
apocalypse in which real Republicans would, in essence, have Democrats, the existential realisation sure, and this was just, albeit unexpect-
to forsake the Republican Party, leaving it to the rabble, and that neither the liberal imagination edly, a last gasp of the old white man.
build a new political identity. nor analytic powers were capable of The problem was not the Democrats, the
While it is, these days, always safe to predict apocalypse, accurately understanding the current problem was Clinton and her campaign.
it is not necessarily clear whose world is about to end. In political world. This included a blind In April, a new book, Shattered: Inside
this case, it was the Democratic Party – believing itself, days confidence in Hillary Clinton. It included Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign by
before the election, on the verge of a generational victory too the mainstream media’s total acqui- reporters Jonathan Allen and Amie
that would give it control of the White House, Congress, the escence to liberal certainties, such that Parnes, spelled this out: Hillary Clinton,
Supreme Court and reduce to rubble its opponents – which, not one outlet allowed for the possi- reflecting the very flaws of Hillary
in the blink of an eye, blew up. bility of a Donald Trump victory. All Clinton, had, spending vastly more than
The blast heard round the world took with it the central this produced a party in some state of the Trump side, run a campaign ruined
assumption of modern, liberal politics: the demographic deep depression. And then there were by rivalries, indecision and disorgani-
eclipse of older, whiter, less educated ex-urban voters, by the liberals who could not accept that sation. (And yet, of course, all losing
younger, diverse, more aspirational voters, congregating in they were wrong, who, post-election, campaigns look like losing campaigns
global cities. entered a state of rage and denial – after they have lost.) And, if it wasn’t
The other shattered assumption was about the very nature blaming the loss on deep conspiracies Hillary who lost it, it was the Russians
of a political figure. Where liberals had exalted expertise and and on the evil in the hearts of socially who stole it, or the FBI’s James Comey
policy, the country elected a man with a flamboyant disre- retro men – such that they continued with his eleventh hour revival of the
gard of details and abstract reasoning. to be at odds with the reality of this Clinton email scandal who caused the
The Democrats, in the space of a few hours, went from new political order. Here was a mania Democrats’ defeat. There was, anyway,
being able to count on a winning social coalition and a deep of righteousness and virtue. nothing fundamentally wrong with the
Democratic Party.
t would be hard to think of And yet, with the first 100 days of
There’s no Democrat
anywhere who is an
I anyone less prepared for this
moment in political time than
the two Democratic leaders most
prominently left standing. Chuck
Schumer, 66, the minority leader of the
Donald Trump a wholly jaw-dropping
spectacle of chaos, leaving him, at
their end, the most unpopular presi-
dent in modern history, there is still no
Democrat anywhere who seems like an
Photograph Getty Images
Senate, hails from the capital of millen- obvious or even plausible standard-
nial diversity, Brooklyn, New York, at a bearer against him.
obvious or plausible time when the Democrats’ traditional
Midwest working-class coalition has
It was, in its way, a moment of pecu-
liar, or creative, foment outside the
standard-bearer enthusiastically bought into Trumpian main power centres of the party. Part
against Trump
disdain for coastal elites. His counter- of the reflexive Democratic analysis,
part in the House Of Representatives, was to see the election of Trump not
as economic and cultural warning, cornered the market on a much higher though one, for better or worse, with
but as an issue of media and celebrity. In class of celebrities than the Republicans Trumpian-level media cravings.
this, many Democrats saw themselves ever have. (Trump was wounded by the
as needing such a figure. One ad-hoc
Populism failure of truly top-notch celebs to turn nd, because this is the
Democratic group in California set out
to draw up lists of billionaires who were
more liberal than not and begin a cam-
paign of reach-out and flattery.
iticians. Populism is not so much Street left of the Democratic Party, FROM GQ GQ.co.uk/magazine
a cry for economic equality, or even a would be, at 71 in 2020, the youthful
disdain for elites, but a mass revulsion version of Sanders. The Old Empire Strikes Back
(Michael Wolff, June 2017)
against the inauthenticity of politicians. New Jersey’s Cory Booker, one of two
News Is Over... If You Want It
Celebrities are real celebrities, politi- African-American Democrats in the (Michael Wolff, May 2017)
cians are fake ones. In this, Democrats Senate, and at a youthful 48 is often It Came From Manhattan!
figure to have an advantage, having represented as a next Barack Obama, (Michael Wolff, April 2017)
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Having been around since 1955, Dorco has
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way, says our man in Havana. BY Nick Foulkes
Cuban cigars have risen to this new, increasingly scholarly interest with
limited editions, regional editions and, best of all, Reservas. I reckon that
the Reservas, made with tobacco that has been aged in bales for at least
three years, and Gran Reservas, made with tobacco with a minimum of
five years’ bale age, represent the Cuban cigar at its best.
After a trial run of Reserva Cohibas in 2003 came the Partagás Série
D Reserva of 2005. As soon as I tasted it, I knew it was something
special. There was a smooth creaminess to it that really made the most
of the Partagás characteristics, it was like an Olympic athlete clothed in
an impeccably tailored suit. The Gran Reserva is the best, only better, and
the sublime Partagás Lusitanias Gran Reserva is
am old enough to remember the last the paradigm. The Lusitania is Partagás’ double
stylish foul-weather
gear. To help keep you
dry, DSquared2 has
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limited edition T-Shirts,
Orlebar Brown has also
teamed up with GQ to offer
you the chance to appear in
a future issue of the
magazine. If you include
#GQ along with
#OBsAroundTheWorld in
the caption when you
upload your photo to
Instagram, you’ll be in with a
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WHEN Orlebar Brown was founded in London in continent featuring landmarks, lagoons, boats and
March 2007 by Adam Brown, its mission was to beaches. To mark its first decade, Orlebar Brown is
bring a tailored approach to swimming shorts and now launching a competition to encourage you to
help men around the world feel like it is summer send it even more of your snaps. Anyone who
wherever they are. It decided to create something uploads a photo of themselves in their OB’s from
that you can wear on the beach or in the pool, but May through to August 2017 will be able to claim a
that is still smart enough to wear to lunch or for a special limited edition Christopher Slogan T-Shirt*.
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RIVER
ISLAND:
The high-street heroes
have enlisted designer
Matthew Miller to Jumper, £35. Jacket, £70. Both by
Matthew Miller x River Island
create a collection Design Forum. riverisland.com
R
iver Island has become one T-shirt by River Island, Island design team, taking inspira-
£8. riverisland.com
of the greatest supporters tion from museums and rummaging
of young British fashion through vintage showrooms.”
talent thanks to Design The pieces include stonewashed
Forum, a programme of partnerships parkas and combat trousers,
with emerging designers launched in but perhaps the most striking
collaboration with the British Fashion element in the collection is Miller’s
Council in 2012 to create capsule com- reinterpretation of classic camo in
mercial collections. Alongside this, rust and pink. Elsewhere, the palette
River Island runs the Fashion Film mixes muted charcoal and olive
initiative to showcase young talent brown, with pieces such as a utilitarian
during London Fashion Week Men. patch-pocket khaki shirt, alongside
The latest collaboration is with GQ a comfortably oversized hoodie, plus
favourite Matthew Miller and is a Jacket by Matthew Miller heavily laundered T-shirts embla-
ten-piece collection that cleverly x River Island Design Forum, zoned with graphic prints. High-shine
£110. riverisland.com
fuses traditional military tropes with chrome zippers and poppers feature
contemporary streetwear, launched throughout the collection and the
at this month’s London Fashion Week bomber includes functional internal
Men’s shows – where Miller’s name shoulder straps.
also appears on the schedule for his This is a collection we will all want to
eponymous label. “The collection is sign up for, so prepare for an imminent
Styling Jake Pummintr Model Matt Doran at PRM Grooming Charley McEwen at Frank Agency
I am looking to buy a watch but having just taken out an eye-watering mortgage
on a flat, I can’t justify splashing out on the dream timepiece. Rather, I am looking
for something interesting that I will still love even if I upgrade. Tom, via email
Tom’s brief is “something simple, unfussy and starting at £250,000. Now, it may seem
ideally with a stainless steel bracelet”. And he extraordinary to wear something on your
definitely wants to find something under wrist that costs as much as a house, but
£1,000. And why not? I was recently when you get to this level of craftsmanship
discussing how easy it is to lose sight of you are actually talking about a work of
what things actually cost when, like me, art. Still, you can have a lot of watch for
you are lucky enough to spend so much time considerably less. My recommendations
surrounded by luxury goods. Frankly, you include the Oris Classic Date Bracelet (£830.
become blasé – expecting a Laurent-Perrier oris.ch) and the Hamilton Watch Khaki Field
lifestyle on a lager budget. That’s not to say Auto, (£640. hamiltonwatch.com). However, I
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that the items we might desire aren’t worth will also suggest a quartz mode, the Helvetica
it – but in relative rather than real terms. And No1 Regular by Mondaine. It's a classic piece
in real terms, watches can be heart-stoppingly of design that works well on a steel Milanese Helvetica No1 Regular watch by
expensive, with high-complication pieces strap. And it is only £305. Mondaine, £305. mondaine.com
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so finding your friends
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Hopper Two by Yeti – especially without phone most eicient on the market”
The Hopper is a cooler that’s built for signal. With the goTenna, – you snap in your phone and,
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rugged exterior is made from the same network with other goTennas clip on a slim magnetic battery
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ttributes of the traditional “tool” not one but three groundbreaking products, the engineer’s friend, the Railmaster (with its
watch – water resistance, anti- initially aimed at the “professional timer”, shield against all but the strongest magnetic
magnetic qualities, general which gave birth to many of the iconic elements fields), each piece has been re-editioned in
robustness – are common tropes we consider most prized in watches today. To a limited run of 3,557 pieces, which mimic the
in a lot of timepieces these days. celebrate the diamond jubilee of not only the originals right down to their 38-39mm case
But cast a thought back to 1957 – the dawn first real motorsport model, the Speedmaster sizes and “broad arrow” hands. Each can be
of the space age (the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1 (swiftly to find far greater fame as the choice bought separately, or together as a “Trilogy”
lifted off in October) and a period of intense of Nasa for its Gemini and Apollo missions), set (limited to 557), complete with their own
activity for Omega, who brought to market a chunky diver’s piece, the Seamaster, and wooden “ark”. BP
3 Jun Why: Spreading across the Barbican Centre, this festival-style exhibition
borrows work from around the world and includes over 200 books,
myriad artworks, more than 50 film and TV clips, comics, pulp fiction,
adverts, video games and robots. It is all brought to life by an immersive
exhibition designed by Ab Rogers. Sophie Hastings barbican.org.uk
The sky
is not
the limit
Bjarke Ingels is redefining
architecture by bringing Danish
playfulness and light to the
darkness of the urban jungle
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Sport, Politics,
Films, Literature
+ the best opinion
for the month
ahead
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Fahrelnissa Zeid, Tate Modern
Best known for her dazzling, abstract paintings, Zeid was a leading
13 Jun light of the Turkish avant-garde and the École De Paris in the Forties
and Fifties. Her synthesis of Islamic, Byzantine, Arab and Persian
influences with a European approach has made her one of the greatest
female artists of the 20th century. tate.org.uk
ARCHITECTURE
His enthusiasm is infectious and I feel a little GQ: Do you cover the artists’ expenses?
battered by the barrage of good-natured quotes. AC: Yes. We cover everything in their journey,
and make sure the art appeals to Chinese and
So we drift off the subject and talk about film.
western audiences.
Serpentine He’s keen on Inception. In a documentary on
Pavilion Netflix, he proposes the film as a model for GQ: What do you think of artrank.com, which
London, 2016 ranks artists based on market forces?
the architectural imagination, an aspiration to
A stack of boxes in AC: Many artists don’t want to become a
Kensington Gardens,
imagine new worlds into existence. But wasn’t commodity. K11 is the only foundation of its
Ingels compared it that world a nightmare? “You don’t have to flee size that goes contrary to ranking and won’t
to an “unzipped wall”. into an asylum in your imagination,” he replies. participate in market valuations.
It was a luminous “You can make the world what you dream it to GQ: Is your business background primarily
and ingenious space.
be. You need to fall in love with the situation in property?
or at least what it could be, but you also need AC: Property and jewellery. My great-grandfather
to develop some form of actionable dissatisfac- created [the conglomerate] Chow Tai Fook.
tion, an idea that the existing is not enough. NK: Is art the new property?
You could demand more.” AC: Just like with property, many people rent art.
It’s a new trend. Hedge-fund managers let pieces
The sun has disappeared back behind the
all the time. They may not care about art history as
clouds and it’s getting chillier. We button up much as real collectors do. The real ones want to
our jackets and he’s lost the shades, but he’s own a piece of creativity, a piece of process and
still grinning. human anthropology. Nimrod Kamer
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Montreux Jazz Festival
Alt-J and Fleet Foxes descend on the
MUSIC
Indie rock’s
alternative Independence movement (from
By escaping the tyranny of Eight years later, indie’s on the back foot. As Sara Quin of Tegan And Sara told me recently,
The distinction between “real” underground “Indie rock is dead because straight guys aren’t
its ultra-hip fans, the genre musicians and frivolous celebrities was never interested in it any more? Why are they the
is finally going its own way accurate and seems ridiculous now that hip hop, gatekeepers of deciding it’s dead when they used
STORY BY Dorian Lynskey R&B and pop dominate the critical conversation to be the gatekeepers of telling us what’s cool?”
(find me one indie artist who’s as untouchable This month’s releases suggest indie rock is
MONG THEIR many talents, as Beyoncé) and even shape the sound of indie neither dead nor especially cool, but quietly
indie rock musicians are world- itself. The latest, self-titled, Dirty Projectors ploughing its furrow. Fleet Foxes, who have
NEW With Stevie Nicks Lorde was just 16 when she One of the drum’n’bass
RELEASES AWOL, the long- became pop’s most coolly pioneers, and its only real
anticipated return of understated star and she’s celebrity, releases his first
Fleetwood Mac’s classic line-up has taken her time making a follow-up with album under his own name in 19 years. It
mutated into an album of duets by the new collaborator Jack Antonoff. Inspired may be unreasonably long but there’s
band’s fire and air, backed by the rhythm by “being alone”, it’s richer and more plenty to enjoy as it meanders through
section. Nicks’ absence is barely felt. emotional: a coming of age. jazz, soul, breakbeat and techno. DL
Atlantic. Out on 9 June. Virgin EMI. Out on 16 June. Metalheadz. Out on 16 June.
FILM
Prostitution
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08 Jun people call a ‘nontraditional background,’” says Perry. Timed to coincide with the
Serpentine’s busy summer season, this exhibition of new works examines what kind of art people
want to see, why they visit galleries, and the relationship of traditional art to social media. SH
Serpentine Sackler Gallery, 8 June – 10 September. serpentinegalleries.org
the post-truth...
action rather than the traditional media. We
consume what we already like and shy away
from the unfamiliar. This, it should be empha-
sised, is not a design flaw: the algorithms are
With once-trusted institutions failing in a digital age meant to connect us with the things we like, or
indifferent to falsehood, could parliament be an might like. They are fantastically responsive to
personal taste and fantastically blind to fakery.
unlikely source of the fightback against the web of lies? In their preliminary findings, Damian Collins
STORY BY Matthew d’Ancona and his committee have isolated four main
themes. First, responsibility: there is a need
NE OF the quirks of the UK for all in the information supply chain, from
political system is that, while tech giants to parents, to acknowledge
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close to side of your
body, left arm reaches
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Return to start that it challenges the body
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Repeat 5 times. unilaterally, plus adds
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As you pull yourself to TRX exercises, intensity is
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Golf’s world No1 Dustin Johnson on the wellbeing
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life right, steaming up the ranks, never looking
down. After some time away from the sport Mind
in 2014 he returned renewed: in January The brain needs to be as fit as the body. too down. Emotion on the course could get in
2015 he fathered a child with his partner, the “They say golf is 90 per cent mental,” Johnson the way. It doesn’t bother me if I hit badly. I
model/singer Paulina Gretzky; in 2016 he says. “I try to simplify everything, to keep don’t get upset. I might get a little frustrated
won the US Open; then in February he was things fairly straightforward as far as routines once in a while, but that’s golf. I hit bad shots
crowned the world’s No1 golfer. GQ met him on are concerned. In the past I’ve worked with all the time. Why would I get mad for hitting
a course near his home in Palm Beach, Florida, sports psychologists, but I don’t now. It all a bad shot? It’s just a game!”
where he’s just been made an ambassador for depends on you and your personality. For me,
Hublot watches. Throughout our interview, the golf course is my comfort zone.” Spirit
the grin never fades. The secret to the 32- Staying balanced keeps you calm. “I try Family is vital to success. “When Paulina
year-old’s success, he explains, is multifaceted. to stay pretty level. I don’t get too excited or and I had our son, Tatum, that changed the
Here are some of his tips for the top. way I approach everything,” he says. “It gives
you a different perspective on things. Even if
Body Family tee: Dustin
Johnson celebrates I have a bad day on the golf course, when I
Discipline is key, especially in the gym. with (inset) Paulina get off and I see Paulina and Tatum, it doesn’t
Gretzky and their
“I train hard. I’ve always been fairly fit, but son Tatum matter what happened on the course – I’ve
I was sporadic with my workouts,” already forgotten about it.”
says Johnson. “I’d work out for a Taking time out can also be crucial to victory.
couple of months and then I might “Getting away from golf for a few days is impor-
take a month off. All of last year tant,” he says. “Just to reset everything, to let
and this year I’ve focused on your mind recharge, clear your head of every-
training and I’ve been routine about it. thing. I like to fish and I also like to scuba dive:
Rise and shine different people’s demands. But if we start every day knowing
what we need to achieve, we have a better chance of reaching
WELLNESS
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Technology And The Business Of Keeping Us Hooked find a space that is peaceful and connecting, you are good to go.
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Alter tells us that “Seventy per cent of oice emails are that, once achieved, will create a larger impact than anything
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is to stay on top of your inbox then life is peachy. However, thing is, make it the first thing you do. If your diary won’t allow
those of us with a bigger game to play must detach such focus, carve out some time later and protect it above all
ourselves from the addictive technology dopamine hit. else. By making technology our slave, not the other way around,
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IT’S 11AM on a Friday and in a regal interview hurdles, the people Before setting up the company last
room in London’s Theatre Royal, here can help. At one-day group year, Roberts spent two decades at an
Drury Lane, I’m having a fake job workshops, you’ll be given a primer executive search firm, where he was
interview with a fake job interviewer. in the behavioural science that a senior partner. There, he saw many
Again and again. A film director is underlies what they teach, then board candidates “totally screw up
observing me, telling me after each undertake practical rehearsals that their interviews”. Feedback would be
dry run what I’m doing wrong. I’ve deconstruct the interview process and that these candidates were hopeless;
usually made, based on
The number of minutes
been asked to pretend this room is help you to become a shining star. he knew that they were not. Intrigued,
deep-rooted instincts
a lobby where I’ve just met my fake “Our performance is way more he began to research why it was
in which a decision is
interviewer and we’re walking important than the content of what happening, and began thinking
towards a nonexistent interview we’re saying,” says Rehearse It!’s about what he could do to help.
room. I’ve been told to make small erudite founder, Robin Roberts. Back in my fake job interview,
talk and as I ask my fake potential “A powerful actor can say some lame I’ve made it to the fake office. My
employer about the statues in front things and come across as being a interviewer, sitting opposite me, asks
of us she improvises back, reeling off man of great gravitas and insight. about my journey in. I was genuinely
some false history, gesticulating. Another guy can say clever things, late thanks to a slew of delayed
“OK, stop,” says the director. “That but say them in a rubbish way and trains. She tells me she rather likes
was good, but you weren’t mirroring be judged as not knowing much.” train delays as it gives her more time
enough. Let’s try it again and be more He speaks proudly of a 25-year-old to sit and think before getting to
overt with your arm movements.” We client who was failing in his quest to work. I disagree (the delay had
go again and I swing my arms around become an asset manager because made me rather grumpy), but after
in line with my interviewer’s as she he found the interviews too stressful. cutting us off, the director tells me I
Photographs iStock Illustration Magoz
talks. I feel ridiculous, but the director After being put through his paces at shouldn’t have. Negative grumbling
is happy. This, apparently, will help Rehearse It!, he landed a corker. isn’t going to do me any favours, he
me get a job.
This is the mission at Rehearse It!
(their exclamation mark): getting
people hired. Since the company
launched in March 2016, it says it has Sitting in the interview
Don’t: Lean forward.
had 96 per cent success. It won’t get This means you’re nervous.
Joe Schmo into Nasa, but if you’re Do: Sit up straight –
qualified and keep crashing down at relaxed but attentive.
can deploy things and nudge an Standing in attendee, the first as he started the
interviewer in our favour. Say reception day, the second at the end, after his
When shaking there’s a hiring manager – let’s Don’t: Project
training. The former video shows the
hands swagger. Your
Don’t: Dominate call her Sarah – and recognise that masculinity really suited man behaving perfectly
– certainly because Sarah is human, she cannot is not that naturally and normally – no great
don’t press your impressive.
hand flat on
avoid extrapolating a huge amount Do: Project disaster. The second, though, puts it
top of theirs. of information from hands. She positivity and in perspective – now, his confidence
confidence.
Do: Shake firmly is human because of that. For her shines, his small talk is charming,
and friendly.
species, hands are the most important Sitting in his presentation as he reels off his
says – I need to find some positive tool. She’s also a member of the reception achievements clear and digestible.
agreement to start forming that bond. ultimate social species. And so for Don’t: Slouch “The military have done huge
with your legs
We go again. her it is life and death to choose spread. It suggests studies into this,” Roberts explains
“I’m a zoologist by training,” a member of her team who is useful arrogance. to me later. “They use shock of
Do: Sit upright,
explains Roberts of Rehearse It!’s and competent. Hands have nothing with a level gaze.
capture to train airmen how to deal
behavioural science. At the workshop to do with the complex job you’re It shows you’re with being captured. It’s this massive
I attend, there’s much talk of research going for, but it’s well proven that, interested. physiological thing: we go small, blood
gathered from university psychology albeit in a subconscious way, she will Your personal
pressure rises, digestion stops and we
departments. “I’m really interested extrapolate a lot of good things about information begin to lose the ability to think,
in the science in animal behaviour,” you if you show her your hands. So if Don’t: Assume because we are in genuine physical
that they’ve read
continues Roberts. “So I did a you want the job, don’t sit on your all of your CV.
jeopardy. And the same physiological
deep-dive literature review of the hands. Show them to her!” Do: Ofer to effects happen when we’re in a job
research about it, about how people This body language, says Roberts, give a concise interview, but in a milder way. We’re
rundown of your
come to judgements about other is vital. In my fake job interview, CV, presented obviously not in physical jeopardy –
people. Influencing behaviour. And I’m told to relax more into my chair in digestible the jeopardy is that we will get a no
chunks.
then I realised, of course, we are – don’t slouch, but don’t lean forward and that causes us stress because it
homo sapiens, we are animals. We nervously, which I wasn’t aware What to do with will have a negative impact on our
I was doing. The man giving me these your thumbs professional future.”
suggestions is Adam Batchelor, a Don’t: Hide or It can certainly seem like life or
Performance anxiety: young film director hired by Rehearse
clasp your thumbs
in your palms – it death, sometimes. “Exactly. I don’t
Nervous body It! to train enrollees. After collating makes you look
nervous.
claim that a client pitch meeting is
language can reflect his research for Rehearse It!, Roberts Do: Keep your
the equivalent of being kidnapped.
had “a great epiphany” to headhunt But the same physiological effects
badly on you during and form a team of performing arts
thumbs visible –
this denotes are happening and it’s the way we
an interview specialists to work with his science
confidence.
respond that causes our counterpart
and help to polish performances. What to do with to choose someone else.”
are a highly social species and we “I told them, ‘All we’re going to do your hands I began my day at Rehearse It!
Don’t: Rub your
respond in a very predictable way to is teach what the science says works. face during an
feeling relatively confident, perfectly
certain behaviours in front of us.” It’s not a drama class,’” he says. interview. It capable of handling myself in
This information is presented to us “And that was genius, because the shows you’re the right job interview. And while
stressed.
at the workshop, where we’re told combination of the science and the Do: Keep your I did feel like a bit of a donkey
how crucial first impressions are. performing arts has given us such a hands on the with the physical mirroring and the
desk – it helps
Research from Princeton in 2006 high success rate.” Batchelor is one the interviewer sycophantic small talk, I left a few
found that people judge us on our of a handful of teachers, which also to engage. hours later with extra skills and
looks in one tenth of a second. In half includes casting directors Michele reminders of how important it is to
Walking to the
a second, they’ve judged us on our Leach and Janey Fothergill, and interview room
carry yourself; how subtle, seemingly
looks and voice together. After 15 actor Felicity Montagu, aka Alan Don’t: Walk in unimportant demeanours and
minutes in our company, major Partridge’s long-suffering assistant, silence – their gestures can make a world of
judgement has
decisions are made. These are Lynn, who can’t join us today, already begun. difference. Alex Godfrey
deep-rooted instincts, says Roberts. presumably stuck in a traffic jam Do: Make small Rehearse It! workshops take place in
Frankly, it is a bit depressing. You’d on the Chiswick Roundabout. talk – make it Oxfordshire and Manchester and cost
comfortable for
hope powerful people in the position The first thing the Rehearse It! team your interviewer. from £800. For more information,
of hiring potentially powerful people do with recruits is give us our own visit rehearseit.co.uk
would know better than to succumb starring role. Their version of “shock
to such primal reflexes. Surely of capture” has them videoing us
Roberts finds these statistics going through all the motions of a job Ending well: Don’t check your
dispiriting? interview, from sitting in reception, phone when the interview’s
“Well, yes and no,” he laughs. to walking to the room, doing the
“I’m not suggesting for a minute that interview, then leaving. We’re shown
over, keep the bonding
anyone makes a hiring decision in a one they made earlier: before and process going. It’s not over
tenth of a second. But I am saying we after videos of a Rehearse It! until you’re out of sight
JULY 2017 GQ.CO.UK 149
LIFE
COMMENT
which makes you a sleazy bastard. drink, and only then tell your current If it all feels safe, go for it, and if it
Or they might even come away con- partner about it, with your only – albeit doesn’t, don’t. You’ll know. Though
cluding that you actually really, really entirely true – excuse for previous also know, full well, that you still might
do want to sleep with them, but are silence being, “I got the first message get into trouble anyway. Especially
consciously avoiding them because you when I checked my phone in the loo if it’s Adele.
fear this might get you into trouble. that time we went out for dinner last Hugo Rifkind is a writer for the Times.
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Stand up and be counted
Voting is a privilege and must never be taken for granted, even when you have no
love for the names on the ballot. Having a stake in democracy is what makes us free...
D
uring the general election cam- anti-government vote out. But what he truly A large part of the human race dreams of the
paigns of my childhood, my believed in were fair and free elections by com- right to a vote they are denied. To be born in
father would always make me peting political parties. The democratic system a country where you get to vote in free elec-
tramp the streets leafleting on was everything to him. tions is to win the lottery of life. Even if – like
behalf of the Liberals. And so to my father, voting was sacred. my father – you live and die ruled by politi-
They never came close to winning one of cians you despise, just having that stake in the
those general elections but victory, or even There is a more modern school of thought democratic process means you are a free man.
the possibility of victory, was not the point of that will tell you that voting is pointless, and So you should do more than appreciate your
those dreary hours on the stump. And it hardly the system is rigged, and your little vote is right to vote. And you should do more than
mattered that my father was only a Liberal by ultimately meaningless, a drop in an ocean. exercise your right to vote. You should cherish,
default because he so heartily hated the Tories This view does more than take democracy relish, love it – you should see voting as the
and Labour – “The Tories are for big business for granted – it takes democracy as a given, distinguishing characteristic of a free society.
and Labour are for the trade as though elections are as And you should consider voting to be the
unions and neither of them inevitable as the sun coming most important thing that a man can ever do.
are for me,” he would tell me You either have up. And of course that is
the vote, or you
S
as we marched up another not true. ome have seen a refusal to vote as
dismal garden path. Would they fashionably a rejection of a corrupt system.
What counted with my dad have someone’s sneer at voting in nations “No, I don’t vote,” the comedian
was playing his part in the such as Syria, North Korea, Russell Brand told Newsnight’s
democratic process. What jackboot on Sudan, Zimbabwe or the Jeremy Paxman in 2013. “It is not
my father cared about was
having his say in the way his
your throat many other authoritarian
regimes across the planet?
that I am not voting out of apathy. I am not
voting out of absolute indifference and wea-
country was run. What was important to my Probably not. You either have the vote or you riness and exhaustion from the lies, treachery
old man was voting. have someone’s jackboot on your throat. And and deceit of the political class that has been
Democracy was real to my father. Freedom when the voting stops, the slaughter starts. going on for generations. I don’t think it works.”
was not an abstract concept to him. It was why The Democracy Index is compiled by the The trouble with this attitude is that if you
he had once put on a uniform and killed other Economist Intelligence Unit and monitors the abstain from voting, you leave the future to
men, and watched his friends die, and why his state of democracy across the globe. The most other people – the ones who care enough to
entire upper torso was a tangled mess of scar recent figures for 2016, record that just 4.5 vote. Meanwhile, you are destined to become an
Illustration Sam Kerr
tissue from a German grenade. per cent of the world’s population live in full irascible Twitter bore, raving on about “a social-
Nothing in my father’s life encouraged him to democracies. The lack of democracy is worst ist, egalitarian system based on the massive
take voting for granted. Because he despised in the Middle East and Africa, where the situ- redistribution of wealth” before you weary of
the established parties with a passion, he ation is miserably unchanging over the course revolutionary rhetoric and move out to Henley-
was happy to campaign endlessly to get the of the years. On-Thames. You become Russell Brand.
And in the end, even Russell Brand got nihilism that doesn’t believe in voting looked – a blindingly simple process if you go to gov.
tired of being Russell Brand. One look into Ed about as modern as a record store. uk/register-to-vote – and then they find five
Miliband’s big, cow-like eyes, and the come- For the EU referendum was the biggest minutes in their day to go to the polling station
dian was urging all the hip cats to vote Labour. vote in British history, with a massive 72.2 and pick up that stubby little pencil on a little
“You’ve got to vote Labour, you’ve got to get per cent turn-out with 17,410,742 (51.9 per string in a booth with the dimensions and the
the Conservative Party out of government in cent) voting to leave and 16,141,241 (48.1 per still calm of a confessional. And men should
this country so that we can begin community- cent) voting to remain. Even the losing side in vote even when they have no particular affec-
led activism, so that we can be heard the EU referendum got more votes than the tion or expectations for the name next to the
continually on housing, on poverty, inequality, two biggest popular vote election victories of box they mark with an “X”. And they should
on working,” Brand cried. recent history – John Major with 14 million (42 vote even when there is no chance of winning.
It is easy to mock Brand for turning his back per cent) in 1992, and Tony Blair with 13.5m And they should vote because not bothering to
on voter disengagement only to pick a loser, (43 per cent) in 1997. vote reveals a kind of moral lethargy, an unfor-
but he deserves credit for seeing through the Passions ran high and run high still. And givable passivity and an adolescent nihilism.
greatest lie in politics – that they are all the can anyone seriously doubt that every vote These past few years have seen votes of epic
same. They were not the same when Brand cast meant something? Whatever the cost, significance – the Scottish referendum, the 2015
was staring into Miliband’s eyes. And they are chaos and pain, the UK will certainly be general election, last year’s EU referendum and
never the same. leaving the European Union just as a vote now the general election of 8 June. They were
I always liked Ed Miliband and I always to remain would have locked us into the all votes with the power to change the course
thought David Cameron was a second-rate EU for another few generations. The future of nations and to impact on millions of lives.
man with a first-class education. And yet direction of the UK – and How could you not want
I voted for Cameron twice because I believed possibly Europe itself – your say? And wherever you
that Labour would destroy the economy and was decided in the polling Men died so you are on the political spectrum,
ravage my wallet. That general election was
a choice between incompetence (Miliband) and
booths of summer.
I donated money to the could throw out how could you not want
your voice to be heard? Only
mediocrity (Cameron). There is always a choice
to be made. If you do not vote, the choice will
Leave campaign. I wrote,
spoke and fought for it. But
your masters choosing to abstain from
democracy changes nothing.
be made without your participation. by far the most important – not so you Only not voting is a mean-
And it is not a mark of shame to vote without thing I did was vote for it. ingless gesture.
your blood boiling with passion. Enthusiastic More than 17.4m people could whine In this lucky land where
voters – for Tony Blair in 1997, for Nick Clegg
in 2010, for Donald Trump in 2016 – always
ignored the advice of polit-
ical giants like Christine
on Twitter peace and prosperity are all
we have ever known, it is
end up bitterly disappointed in the candidate Lagarde of the IMF and Bob Geldof of The understandable that we take voting for granted.
who was going to change their world. Passion Boomtown Rats mostly because Remain never But democracy is not the natural state of
has its place in the polling booth. But some- really addressed the democracy deficit that is human affairs. Our right to throw out our
times in the grown-up world, you cast your at the heart of the EU project. elected representatives has been hard-earned
vote for the lesser of two evils. This country has not been successfully by the generations who came before us. Men
The case against voting is that it changes invaded for almost 1,000 years. The freedom did not give their lives so we could whine on
nothing. But this makes the infantile assumption to kick out our masters is deep in our DNA. Twitter. They died so that we could throw out
that your vote should have the ability to change That is why the likes of Jean-Claude Juncker, our masters if they displeased us. Voting is
everything. Voting is your personal share of Donald Tusk and all the other Brussels big shots a privilege, blessing, duty and joy. Your right
freedom. Voting is your stake in democracy. are so unloved in this country. That is why they to vote is priceless. You should crawl across
Voting is a mark of maturity and an acceptance had to go. Because we never voted for them. broken glass to cast one.
that this world is unlikely to be remade to your The stakes have never been higher than in this
satisfaction. You have, in the end, just one vote. he rural corner of Essex where my year’s general election. The 17.4m who voted to
But it is not an insignificant thing. Democracy is
not the perfect system, but it is infinitely better
than any other system invented.
Look at Bashar al-Assad’s Syria. Look at
Saddam’s Iraq, Gaddafi’s Libya, look at most
of the nations in the Middle East for most of
their wretched history. History tells us that
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father and I tramped the streets is
a bellwether constituency. Since its
creation, it has always elected an
MP from the party that went on to
win the general election, from that of Margaret
Thatcher’s in the Eighties to Blair’s in the Nineties
to Cameron’s in the new century. It was par-
leave the European Union will see it as the final
push to make Brexit a reality. The 16.1m who
voted Remain have a last chance to turn back
the Brexit tide. The Labour Party is poised on
the edge of oblivion. After the chinless chumoc-
racy of Cameron and George Osborne, Theresa
May has the chance to reshape the Tories as the
countries where the people do not have the ticularly arid ground to campaign on behalf of natural party of government for generations.
power to dissolve the government are always a party with no chance. Yet still my father did How can any sentient human being claim that
run by governments who have the power to it, with me in reluctant tow, because he would their vote does not matter?
dissolve the people. have considered not taking part in the demo- History is in the balance. When you cast
cratic process – and not voting simply because your vote, you place your weight on the scales.
The notion that voting doesn’t matter was he hated the two main parties – to be unmanly. The polling stations open at 7am on Thursday
quietly buried on Thursday 23 June 2016. Real men vote, believed my old man. 8 June. And the future will be determined by
After that date with destiny, the school of cool They make sure they are registered to vote the people who show up.
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Richard Young
S T O R M Z Y
was a boy who had lots of ability and was millions, the majors came courting. Onwuka Inside the venue, later, Stormzy has to dis-
very naughty,” Lord Harris recalls. The Tory took meetings with at least six imprints abuse me of a long-held misunderstanding.
peer has a framed poem by Michael Omari Jr attached to the big three labels, Sony, Universal Since it went online in May 2015, I’ve watched
on the wall of his office, hung there for years and Warner. “From the outside looking in,” the the video for “Shut Up” many dozens of times,
without him knowing what became of the manager says, “labels are these places you go always paying special attention to the opening
boy. “His English was fantastic,” Harris says. to as a musician and they make you. They do moments, when the rapper prepares himself to
“I thought it could have got him to Oxford or something. In these meetings I said, ‘So now perform. It’s a 50-50 trick, MCing – physical as
Cambridge.” Stormzy: “We had that conversa- we’re here in front of you, what is this thing well as mental. However talented a writer you
tion quite young. I don’t think it was naive of that you do?’ And I never heard an answer. are, you have to be able to get the words out,
him [to suggest those universities]. I had the I never got it.” Before long, Onwuka was back audibly, assuredly. At the beginning of the “Shut
grades.” What changed, Stormzy says, “was my on the Companies House website, incorporat- Up” video, Stormzy enacts a sequence of tics
desire for it. I got caught up in other things. ing #Merky Records. “You’ve got a booking that I thought might offer some special insight
I wasn’t feeling the whole education thing.” agent. You’re doing shows. You’ve registered for into his technique. He steps from side to side,
He sacked off his programme of AS-level a PPL licence [to collect royalties],” he recalls. as if hard-wiring the track’s 140bpm rhythm
studies in the middle of “Slowly you realise you’re into his body. “Yeah,” says Stormzy, as we talk
an exam: not feeling it. He
took a job in a Screwfix,
‘Me getting three-quarters of the way to
becoming a label. Why don’t
through this backstage. And while stepping from
side to side, I say, you allow a smile onto your
but that didn’t last beyond stabbed. How you just become a label?” face, as if summoning the necessary cheek to
a probation period. Later, If there were aspects deliver all of those dense, joke-rich bars. “Uh,
he won a place on an engi- big is that now? of the business that were yeah,” Stormzy says – less sure of my thesis now.
neering apprenticeship and
stuck with it, graduating
Not so big. Who beyond #Merky as a start-
up (promotion, plugging,
And then you keep licking your lips, I say, as if
the taxing tongue-work to come will need every
to become a 19-year-old wants to talk the effective distribution drop of saliva you can muster. “Bruv,” Stormzy
employee at an oil refin- of their music) these had says, sleepily. He rubs his jaw. “I was probably
ery on the south coast. about that?’ become services that could just high. I was probably just mad high.”
“Computers, clipboards,” is be bought in, on a pay-
Stormzy’s summary. He wanted to be MCing; as-you-go basis, from the majors. Employees at Stormzy and the ‘paigons’
he’d established a reputation in London clubs, Atlantic Records, a Warner subsidiary, handled This rapper does not like to be paraphrased. He
one that he knew he must now tend. In 2013, Stormzy’s media promotion and his radio plug- feels the precision-wordsmith’s contempt for
he felt sure enough of his greenhorn talent to ging. ADA (Alternative Distribution Alliance), journalists who would take away his great long
boast on a track, “Rapping’s easy, don. I do it also part of Warner, was subcontracted to dis- monologues and compact them into shorter,
in my sleep.” By 2014, he’d quit the refinery. tribute Gang Signs & Prayer. When that record blunter quotes. When I find him in his dress-
On another track that year, Stormzy made sold 100,000 copies in a fortnight, profits would ing room, two hours before the evening show,
a polite enquiry: “I’m good enough to get have been mostly #Merky’s. Brand association Stormzy is in a mood to take someone from
signed, right?” Time to mount a career. deals, by then, had already been inked with the media to task over this, and I’ll do. “I just
One day, in the autumn of 2014, he was Adidas and Pepsi. The rapper is currently in don’t trust a media outlet with my story,” he
driving with Onwuka and asking his old friend, a position, he says, where he doesn’t have to says. I’ve tried to ask him about a specific per-
not for the first time, for managerial advice. It check his bank account. Twice in the last year, sonal matter and it’s annoyed him. “I think
occurred to them both to make the arrange- he guesses. “Money’s there. Money’s being I was silly to ever trust a media outlet with my
ment more permanent. Onwuka was selling made. But I don’t focus on it.” story, because then it’s a piece of press. It’s an
Land Rovers for a London dealership at the angle. It’s bait.”
time. “That same car journey,” he recalls, Zoots and the pregame Some background. In the weeks leading
“I drafted my letter of resignation.” Onwuka On the road to Birmingham, one of the tour up to our meeting, Stormzy has endured a
had been putting aside some of his salary, a DJs in the van – he goes by Jukess – watches grim little saga involving Channel 4, NME
sum that in 2014, he says, was just shy of five episodes of the TV show Scandal. Stormzy and some quotes he gave to the former about
figures. This became the seed money for an prods away the laptop screen so that it faces periods in his life when he has felt depressed.
ambitious enterprise that Onwuka calls “real- towards the unspooling motorway. It’s a Stormzy raps about depression on Gang Signs
ising the superstar that was so obviously there gesture that for a moment I interpret as & Prayer – about “lows” that have induced
in Stormzy”. While seeing out his notice at the disdainful, a small show of who’s boss, until crying jags and flat-bound feelings of aimless-
dealership, Onwuka incorporated Stormzy Ltd Stormzy says something about season five ness. In offering these genre-rare admissions of
with Companies House. He got the pair of them and spoilers. When we pull up outside the frailty, the rapper infused his debut album with
a lawyer and an accountant. “I expressed the venue, the driver, Rimes, parks carefully and much of its originality and strength. Stormzy
need to Stormzy that he not ever worry about turns in his seat. Stormzy and Onwuka are on regrets, however, discussing the matter outside
finances. That had to be my job, while Stormzy their phones. Only the rapper’s sister Rachel the music. A fortnight after he opened up
worked on Stormzy.” gets out of the van and heads towards the to a reporter from Channel 4 News about
This the rapper duly did, writing in quick suc- dressing rooms. Rimes looks to me and the “the whole depression [thing]”, NME took the
cession the vivid, vinegary, slander-rich tracks publicist in the middle row and asks, “Are you quotes and used them as part of a special issue
“Not That Deep”, “Know Me From” and “Shut staying on, or...?” of the magazine about musicians and mental
Up”. A one-take performance of the last – an The publicist says, “Oh!” She gathers up her health. Without Stormzy’s permission or his
epic of insults and retorts – was filmed by one things, urging me to do the same. “Unless you foreknowledge, that week’s NME appeared
of his friends in a carpark and uploaded to want to get high as a kite.” We climb out and with a picture of him looking glum on the
YouTube. To date, it’s been viewed 55 million when the door of the van clicks shut behind cover, under the headline: “Depression, it’s
times. Early in “Shut Up”’s ascent through the us it stays shut for a while. time to talk.” Stormzy tweeted furiously at
BL AST OF F ?
Three years after its spaceship exploded in a tragic accident,
VIRGIN GALACTIC has regrouped. SIR RICHARD BRANSON hopes to start
lying passengers in 2018. GQ went behind the scenes as the
company attempts to fulfil the dreams of a generation of would-be astronauts
STORY BY Charlie Burton
S
omething wasn’t quite right. It was Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin remains unknown, Alsbury had unlocked it
a little after 10am on 31 October Galactic, was at his home in the British too early, before Enterprise was supersonic.
2014 and, in the skies high above Virgin Islands when he learned of the acci- Subjected to aerodynamic overload, the ship’s
the Mojave Desert, David Mackay dent. He took a jet straight to California. “The carbon-composite body simply ripped apart.
had just launched Virgin Galactic’s spaceship few hours that it took me to fly to the Mojave The media trained its guns on Branson. Even
VSS Enterprise from the underside of his Desert – obviously I had a lot of time to think,” Wired magazine, the self-styled champion of
aircraft. Now he was scanning the airspace recalls the 66-year-old. “At that stage we didn’t futuristic endeavours, ran a piece headlined
for the distinctive plume of Enterprise’s know whether the spaceship had let us down “Space Tourism Isn’t Worth Dying For”. Its
rocket motor, which would mark the start or whether it was pilot error. If there was opening salvo: “A brave test pilot is dead and
of the spaceship’s fourth powered test flight. some kind of fundamental flaw with the space- another one critically injured – in the service
“I remember looking down and thinking, ‘Well ship then, I suppose, there would have been a of a millionaire boondoggle thrill ride.” But the
that’s strange, the motor must be burning possibility that we may have called it a day.” entrepreneur was cool-headed. He consulted
really clean,’ because I couldn’t see it at all,” Media speculation was rife about what had staff at Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites,
recalls Mackay, Virgin Galactic’s chief pilot. gone wrong – a popular theory was that the the partner company developing the space-
“Then we immediately started to hear things rocket engine, which was trialling new fuel, ship, who said they wished to carry on. So, too,
[on the radio] that indicated something bad had exploded. Although the official investi- did more than 97 per cent of Virgin Galactic’s
had happened.” Out of Mackay’s line of sight, gation by the National Transportation Safety customers. In an article published on Virgin’s
the spaceship had, in fact, ignited its rocket Board (NTSB) would take almost a year, instru- website the day after the crash, he vowed to
and accelerated into the sound barrier as ment data and cockpit camera feeds allowed the continue. “Space is hard,” wrote Branson, ”but
planned. Four seconds later, however, it had team at the Mojave Air & Space Port, where worth it.”
Photographs Getty Images
exploded at 46,000 feet. Enterprise’s pilot Peter Virgin Galactic develops its technology, to Three years on, Virgin Galactic is testing a
Siebold had been thrown from the spaceship; quickly reach a conclusion: pilot error. The new spaceship, VSS Unity. It looks similar to
despite being injured and starved of oxygen he spaceship’s design includes a hinged twin-boom its predecessor: it’s another reusable suborbital
would remarkably manage to parachute to the tail that’s moved upwards before re-entry from spaceplane of a type called SpaceShipTwo,
ground. His copilot, Michael Alsbury, would space. In that position, it causes drag crucial designed to be launched at high altitude from
later be found dead in the wreckage, his body for controlling orientation and descent speed the same mother ship that Mackay was flying
still strapped into his seat. while heading back to earth. For a reason that the day of the accident. The control system,
4 5 6
Planetary Rovers When VSS Unity is towed to and from its hangar (after all, you can’t exactly use a rocket motor to taxi down a runway),
it is Jaguar Land Rover that provides the horsepower. “It is hard to think of a brand that is more synonymous with exploration and adventure,” said
Richard Branson in April 2014, when he announced news of the oicial vehicle partner. “The safety and engineering excellence of Land Rover’s
vehicles, which have been the stuf of legend for more than 65 years, are attributes that also lie at the heart of Virgin Galactic.” The car manufacturer
won’t just serve the flight system: a fleet of Land Rover Discovery and Range Rover vehicles are already supporting Virgin Galactic’s pilots
and personnel. When the time comes for future astronauts to blast of, Land Rover will be integral to their time in New Mexico, whether it’s bringing
them from their hotels to Spaceport America, or taking them to the spaceship to begin their journey to the stars.
Photographs Getty Images; Mark Greenberg
Blue Origin
Amazon’s Jef Bezos (above) is more of
a direct competitor to Virgin Galactic – he
wants to take tourists beyond the boundary
S on Necker Island, is musing on what it
will be like to go to space. “I’ve been
lucky enough to meet a number of
astronauts who have been there and come back
and I think, without exception, they all feel
the earth from space. “When I think about
[the flight] it gets me so excited, I can hardly
stand myself,” she says. “It makes my current
lifestyle seem boring.” It invites the question:
Krusing will be unlikely to go up a second time,
of space in a capsule, initially for suborbital that they were changed people as a result. The so does she ever think about how she’ll feel
flights. Like SpaceX, Blue Origin employs a
reusable rocket (its current model is called earth is so beautiful and just to be able to see once it’s all over? “I try not to think about it,”
New Shepherd); when it’s time to return to it from space and experience something that she says. “I think I’ll feel let down after I’ve
earth, the capsule will land via parachute.
only 500 people have experienced – it’s going done with it and wonder, ‘What’s next for me?’
to be incredible.” To be precise, 536 people have And I don’t know what that is.” For now, she’d
experienced it. Virgin Galactic has around 700 rather focus on enjoying the months ahead,
customers already, meaning that in the first few living the life of a future astronaut.
years of service, Branson intends to fly more On a wall in Virgin Galactic’s hangar at the
people to space than in all of human history. Mojave Air & Space Port, a photograph of
Before the 2014 accident, Branson planned Krusing hangs among those of the company’s
to take his children, Sam and Holly, with him other customers. It shows her in front of VSS
on the first passenger flight. Today, that has Unity, her hands aloft in double peace signs.
changed. “Both my children have now got Underneath she has written a caption in black
young children, two lots of two-year-olds, so I pen. It reads, simply, “Living my dream.”
think I would most likely choose to do it myself
initially, but we’ll see a bit nearer the time,”
Bigelow Aerospace Branson says. He may even go up during the MORE For these related stories,
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“gin craze”, the city had around 1,500 distillers, which is difficult to imagine as only Infuse 250g of fresh or frozen blackcurrants
five years ago you could count them on one hand. in a bottle of Hepple Gin for 12 hours. Then
It’s impossible to know how many gins are being produced right now in the UK, but strain through a fine-meshed sieve or muslin,
I do know that eight years ago Sam Galsworthy, Fairfax Hall and distiller and historian reserving a few blackcurrants for the garnish.
Jared Brown made a big noise when they were awarded a distilling license to start pro- Method
ducing Sipsmith in their garage in Hammersmith, London. They woke up regular gin Stir the first four ingredients on cubed
drinkers and tempted new ones, making gin-drinking cool again and forcing established ice in a mixing glass for about a minute,
brands such as Beefeater and Plymouth Gin to rethink the market. All of a sudden, dis- and strain into a chilled coupe glass.
tillers such as Sipsmith were winning food awards and scooping accolades alongside Top with the English sparkling wine and
great artisan food producers. When I visited Sam in Hammersmith in the early days, he garnish with some fresh blackcurrants.
proudly showed me his distilling certificate, which was the first to be issued in 200 years.
I suppose they set a precedent and made a pathway for the rest to follow.
Gin starts life as a grain- or molasses-based spirit, much like an unrefined vodka: a
neat industrial spirit that you wouldn’t want to drink until it has been distilled and
flavoured with botanicals. For me, the best test of a gin is in a Martini, as you get the
pure hit of the finished spirit and all the botanicals used in the distilling process will
be apparent in the mouth, rather than hiding among the other ingredients in a longer
cocktail. I quite like the simple rule of using three main ingredients in menu dishes
and mixed drinks.
When I first moved to London 30 years ago, Camden was where we went to see live
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music. I saw The Smiths at Dingwalls there, and we would often go to Camden for vintage
clothes and second-hand vinyl. I used to wonder what went on in the area’s lovely old
warehouses and, had I connected street names such as Juniper Crescent, I may have
2. The FULL ENGLISH
taken a bit more interest in its history. Back then people talked a lot about “gin palaces”, NEGRONI
which were large old Victorian pubs built in the early 18th century, featuring lavish bars “Finally someone is making British vermouth
selling the spirit of London. A few still existed and new ones were copying the look and Campari, the two key ingredients of a Full
(rather like the Irish pubs you find all over the world today), but eventually they all English Negroni. If Sacred’s vermouth is too
spicy, try The Collector, made in Somerset
became big pubs selling an awful lot of lager and not a lot of gin.
by the folk behind The Ethicurian restaurant.”
Pubs designed in the style of the gin palaces
are sadly disappearing and becoming craft beer Ingredients (serves 2)
pubs. I hate that name – why don’t they just Sipsmith’s O 100ml Sacred Gin
call it real ale like they used to? Good brewers
are artisan craftsman, like cheese makers, but
distilling O 100ml Sacred or The Collector vermouth
the latter don’t call themselves “craft cheese certificate, O 100ml Sacred Rose Hip Cup
makers”. I suppose it’s something we picked up
from the United States and it has stuck.
the first O2 twists of orange peel or a slice of apple
3 The MARTINI
No3 London Dry Gin
“With six balanced ingredients, this gin from Berry
Bros & Rudd, the capital’s oldest wine merchant,
makes a perfect Martini. If a bottle could talk, there
would be no end to a long lunch.” £35. no3gin.com
Ingredients (serves 1)
O 70ml No3 London Dry Gin
O 5ml dry vermouth
Method
Pour all of the ingredients into a mixing glass,
add cubed ice and stir for 10-15 seconds.
Strain the contents into a small coupe glass
and a mini carafe.
Cut a 5cm strip of lemon skin, twist it over
the glass, allowing the oil to spray onto the
surface, then drop into the drink as a garnish.
Serve the mini carafe in a small bowl of
crushed ice on the side of the coupe.
Tarquin’s Gin
Tarquin Leadbetter
launched Tarquin’s Gin
in 2013 when he was only
23. His intention was to
use traditional botanicals
and a wheat spirit base.
Production started
small at a distillery at
Higher Trevibban Farm,
in Wadebridge, Cornwall,
with only 300 bottles
made per session in
a copper pot still. This
was named Tamara after
the goddess of the River
Tamar, and is the only
old-school, naked-flame- “I named this cocktail after the food
operated pot still in the writer Rose Prince and her husband,
country. Leadbetter uses Dominic, who brought me some fruit
a paella stove to heat it from Tarquin’s orchard. The infusion
and bread dough to seal keeps well and can be used for all
the top. He keeps a close sorts of drinks.”
eye on the distilling
process and, once the Ingredients (serves 2)
gin is rested, cuts it O 150ml quince-infused Tarquin’s Gin
with local Boscastle (see below)
water. He then bottles,
corks and seals it. O 150ml poached quince
Like most gin distillers, cooking liquor (see below)
Leadbetter likes to add
a little twist in terms O The juice of 1 lemon
of the botanicals, using O The white of 1 egg
local(ish) Devon violet
leaves to add freshness For the quince-infused gin
and individuality. Mix 500g quince, coarsely grated,
Tarquin also makes peel and all, a litre of Tarquin’s Gin
a Navy Strength edition, and 30g sugar; seal in an airtight
which is 57 per cent container. After 3-4 weeks, strain
proof. Commissioned through a fine sieve and store
by the Royal Navy, it in airtight bottles until required.
was so popular that he
continues to produce it For the poached quinces
under the Sea Dog label. Peel 5 quinces and put them in
You may have seen a nonreactive saucepan with a small
Cornish pastis in piece of cinnamon stick, 6 cloves,
specialist shops and 6 juniper berries, 200g sugar and
wondered what it was. 1 lemon, halved. Cover with water,
Well, this is Leadbetter’s bring to the boil and simmer for 45
very own West Country minutes or until tender. Keep the
pastis: a great addition poached quinces in the cooking liquor
to any collection of to use as a dessert or garnish for game.
alternative British spirits.
Gin and pastis, £30.95. Method
Navy Strength, £39.95. Mix all four ingredients in a cocktail
southwestern shaker with ice, shake and pour into
distillery.com suitable serving glasses.
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Ingredients (serves 2)
O 150ml or more Seedlip
out he’d landed the much-coveted in London, flying every third day in between”.
There was a time he was held up in customs,
he says, only getting to his hotel at 4.30am,
role as the new SPIDER-MAN, before being picked up for a 16-hour Avengers
shoot an hour later, then flying directly back to
it wasn’t via an agent’s text, a call London. That, he says, was not fun.
T
alk to most actors slipping on a
from a studio head, or the director cape or into spandex and they will
tell you what a fan they were of
the comics as a child. But Holland’s
leaving a voicemail. Instead, the Spider-Man obsession surely goes
one step beyond.
21-year-old discovered he was Over the years, he says, “as a child, I defi-
nitely went through multiple costumes. I’d go
to bed in my costume, wake up in it, spend
to play the most famous victim of all day in it...” Tom Holland liked Spider-Man.
Just five years ago, he adds, he went to a
S
itting in his childhood bedroom at It may just be the latest Spider-Man reboot Due to a head he describes as “weirdly egg-
home in Kingston Upon Thames (this will be the third series in 15 years), but shaped”, he wore a helmet under the suit.
on a Saturday, having just played what sets this one apart is that he will join Once the eyes were clipped in, he says, “I
(“and been badly beaten by”) his the larger Marvel universe, which meant a could only see about five feet in front of me,
dad at a morning’s round of golf, wise-cracking cameo in last year’s Captain with no peripheral vision.” It led, once, to him
he suddenly came across the Marvel account, America: Civil War and recently saw him shoot- being clobbered by a stuntman. “Yeah, I got
showing a picture of Spider-Man and direct- ing the Marvel royal rumble that is next year’s punched in the face. I was supposed to dodge
ing followers to the website to find out who Avengers: Infinity War, also starring (deep it and I just didn’t see it coming. He cracked
the actor would be. It was him. Holland, pre- breath) Robert Downey Jr (as Iron Man), Brie me in the head. He had this massive gauntlet
dictably, went nuts. The dogs started barking. Larson (as Captain Marvel), Scarlett Johnasson in his hand, a big metal fist type thing, and
His mum rushed upstairs, thinking he’d hurt (as Black Widow), Vin Diesel (as Groot), Chris he punched me in the face so hard, like you
himself. What’s wrong? I’m Spider-Man! Hemsworth (as Thor), Chris Pratt (as Star Lord), wouldn’t believe. But it looks great! I hope
It was his older brother who advised caution. Chris Evans (as Captain America), Elizabeth they use it. It’s one of those things where you
It was just after the Sony hack. Have they Olsen (as Scarlet Witch), Mark Ruffalo (as stand up and you’re angry, like, ‘What the hell,
actually called you? Well, no... The Hulk), Benedict Cumberbatch (as Doctor man? You punched me in the head!’ Then you
Luckily for Holland, it was caused by a leak Strange), Paul Bettany (as Vision), Paul Rudd realise it’s entirely your fault.”
rather than a hack; Marvel rushed out the (as Ant-Man), Jeremy Renner (as Hawkeye) Next up, he says, he’d naturally like to play
news after it was about to spill anyway, hence and Bradley Cooper (voicing a genetically mod- some edgier roles (“I’ve played a lot of wide-
the late phone call, which duly came from the ified racoon called Rocket). eyed kids”), but before then there’s the small
studio half an hour later. It meant, as Holland was also filming a matter of being contracted for three more
“So I think before it looked like a leak, Spider-Man movies. “But on the second film,
Marvel did a big press release to make it look we’re gonna have to sort the suit.”
like they had released it. Though obviously Spider-Man: Homecoming is out on 7 July.
I’ve just kiboshed those plans by telling you!”
Plus, he says, not only was it a relief when
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the proper celebrating out of his system. “I was
lucky to get the huge excitement out of the
Hollywood Now (Stuart McGurk, May 2017)
way, then have a calm, collected conversation
Alfie Allen: A Man Of Many Parts
with my new bosses.” (Boyd Hilton, November 2016)
The role sees Holland – who first came to Josh Whitehouse: Millennial Rising
prominence in tsunami drama The Impossible (Jessica Punter, April 2016)
playing the son of Ewan McGregor and Naomi
Watts – as the second Brit (following Andrew Web master (left): Tom Holland has
Garfield) to slip into the spandex of one of signed to appear as Spider-Man in six
films, more than the previous two
the US’s most iconic superheroes, and also wall-crawlers combined
helped him win the recent Rising Star Bafta.
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TOMI LAHREN
She responded
to Beyoncé’s
perceived
support for
Black Lives
Photographs Instagram/@tomilahren
Matter. And
then aimed her
sights at Jay Z
Arguably, watching entire episodes of publication that was once a “curiosity of the
Lahren’s show on TheBlaze, viewers would fringe right wing, is now an increasingly pow-
also see at least an attempt to look at the erful voice and virtual rallying spot for millions
issues through a more balanced lens. She of disaffected conservatives who propelled
often invited left-leaning guests on. But “Final Trump to the Republican nomination for pres-
Thoughts” – the vehicle through which most ident”. Hillary Clinton called Breitbart “racist,
people became aware of her – offered none of radical and offensive”. Spencer, meanwhile, said
that. The Dallas Morning News said she casts Bannon would “push Trump in the right direc-
herself as a truth-teller “even as she can casu- tion”, which “would be a wonderful thing”.
ally brush aside nuance, context and history”. At the tail end of January, Trump alarmed
Although she denied being controversial many already suspicious of Bannon’s influence
for clicks – an accusation even conservative when he elevated him to full membership of
critics would level at her following her abortion the National Security Council – a decision
comments – I pointed out that Facebook and Trump has since reversed – while simultane-
YouTube rewarded publishers for views. She ously downgrading the director of national
said whether she got five million or 66 million intelligence and the chairman of the Joint
views, it didn’t affect her salary. Either way, it Chiefs Of Staff.
certainly did wonders for her profile. Bannon, meanwhile, claims his definition of
Lahren is part of a wave of Trump champion- the alt-right differs. It is, he insists, “younger
ing commentators which includes CNN pundit people who are anti-globalists, very national-
Scottie Nell Hughes (who American GQ called ist, terribly anti-establishment” – and that the
the “world’s most loyal Trump surrogate”); Breitbart website hosts myriad different views.
Ann Coulter, the right-wing polemicist whose Bannon, Trump and their supporters have
new book is In Trump We Trust; and Milo persistently fomented public mistrust in the
Yiannopoulos, the ultra-conservative British mainstream media (think: the New York Times,
writer and self-publicist who refers to Trump CNN, NBC, CBS etc), with Trump condemn-
as “Daddy” and was banned from Twitter for ing the outlets as “fake news” and saying his
life last summer after reportedly spearhead- Insta gratification: Lahren used social media to perceived “bad treatment” by them is “record
ing a campaign of racial harassment towards build a following for her show on TheBlaze. Both setting”. Bannon referred to the media as
fans and detractors were always quick to respond
the black Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones. “the opposition party” and said it should be
(Yiannopoulos declined an interview with GQ, collectively “embarrassed, humiliated and keep
saying the magazine was “banned”.)
‘LGBT...Q...A...F... its mouth shut”.
This has all left many in the media won-
his chorus of support for Trump coin-
I don’t even know dering whether it’s part of a master plan to
T
cided with a divisive presidential
campaign during which he referred
to Mexican immigrants as rapists,
promised to build a “big, beautiful
wall” on the US border with Mexico, belittled
the Gold Star parents of a Muslim Army captain
who died in a car bombing in Iraq, perpetuated
its name, but
that doesn’t
make me a bigot’
sow seeds of doubt so that Trump can push
through his agenda free from scrutiny – or at
least scrutiny that any of his supporters will
believe. According to an analysis of Trump’s
social media feed, the New York Times claimed
he often backs up dubious claims with links to
Breitbart News or right-wing blogs that often
the racist “birther” conspiracy theory that held promote conspiracy theories, highlighting “the
Obama was born in Kenya and repeatedly bounty of misinformation accessible on the
refused to repudiate the support he’d picked up web and its power in a deeply divided America
from former KKK leader David Duke. (Trump – especially when endorsed by someone of Mr
would blame a “lousy” earpiece for that.) In his first days as president, Trump added Trump’s influence and visibility”.
Worse, perhaps, was the association between two Breitbart staffers to his administration. In a message to his staff at the end of
Trumpism and the so-called alternative right. Julia Hahn, who had covered immigration issues January, the editor-in-chief of the Reuters
The term (“alt-right” for short) was coined for Breitbart through what CNN described as news organisation said that in an era where
eight years ago by Richard B Spencer, the an “aggressively anti-immigration lense”, is the president refers to journalists as “among
38-year-old chairman of white nationalist now special assistant to the president, and the most dishonest human beings on earth” his
think tank the National Policy Institute, and Sebastian Gorka, a British-born defence expert reporters should tackle the administration in
Colin Liddell. According to civil rights organi- who was the site’s national security editor and the same way they would in places like China,
sation Southern Poverty Law Center, the term a huge critic of Obama’s handling of terrorist Zimbabwe and Russia, where “the media is
refers to “a loose set of far-right ideals cen- groups, now serves as deputy assistant. Gorka unwelcome and frequently under attack”.
tered on ‘white identity’ and the preservation pleaded guilty to an attempt last year to carry a But Trump and Bannon’s continual demon-
of ‘western civilisation’”. handgun onto an aeroplane – a federal offence. ising of the mainstream media has also given
Before joining the Trump campaign Yiannopoulos, meanwhile, whose planned supportive commentators such as Lahren
as its CEO, Stephen Bannon, now the talk at the University Of California at the begin- more oxygen, although she too has been
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president’s chief strategist, served as exec- ning of February was cancelled after protesters forced to distance herself from the damag-
utive chairman of the media organisation rioted, also worked as a journalist at Breitbart ing alt-right label, saying she would never be
Breitbart News, identifying it as “the platform News in London (he resigned the same month). “a cheerleader or an apologist for the KKK or
for the alt-right”. The New York Times noted in August that a any other hate group”.
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Rapid City, South Dakota, a city of
about 70,000 in the shadow of the
Black Hills mountains. Her parents,
both from ranching families, are
conservatives – dad, Kevin, works for big box
retail store Target Corporation, handling its
air conditioning repairs in the district; mum,
“Here’s the difference between being polit-
ically incorrect and being an asshole: I don’t
encourage people to be assholes or openly
offend people,” she told me. “There are some
people – LGBT... Q... A... F... NMG – I don’t
even know there are so many. And just because
I don’t know that and I say the wrong thing,
US soldier, Johnson was apparently aveng-
ing the deaths of those black people killed,
but at a press conference, then-Dallas police
chief David Brown made it clear that Johnson
was upset not just at the police shootings,
but also at the Black Lives Matter movement.
For Johnson, Black Lives Matter – which
Trudy, is a loan officer at a bank. it doesn’t mean I’m trying to offend [them] or sprang up in 2013 in the wake of the acquittal
She said her parents are her biggest of George Zimmerman, the neighbour-
supporters and have now become minor hood watch captain who shot to death
celebrities in Rapid City. They didn’t mind unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin
the invective Lahren directed towards in Florida – was toothless.
her perceived enemies on her show, but Despite deleting the tweet shortly
they don’t like to hear her swear. “I said afterwards, Lahren remains unrepent-
‘blow job’ on ‘Final Thoughts’ once and ant. “When you had the Civil Rights
they weren’t happy,” she said. movement you had declared leaders who
After graduating from the University people looked up to – Martin Luther King
Of Nevada in 2014, where she studied and similar – who would denounce vio-
journalism and political science, an lence. So Black Lives Matter needs to
internship at One America News establish some kind of leadership if they
Network led to her own show. Last year, are in fact going to be a legitimate move-
while working at TheBlaze, she became ment and those leaders should come out
an informal advisor to the Trump cam- Show and tell: Mercury Studios in Irving, Texas, and say we don’t want looting, rioting,
where TheBlaze – owned by conservative Glenn
paign on its social media use, and according to Beck – records its shows, December 2016 we don’t believe in vandalising police cars,
the New York Times, did some Facebook Live lighting them on fire, throwing rocks at the
broadcasts in the final weeks before the elec- police, blocking the highway system.”
tion on its behalf. ‘I criticise Black I pointed out that the Civil Rights era did
She compares what happened with the US
election with the UK over Brexit. “I think you Lives Matter and have its share of riots and violent protest – and
that few look back now and say it shouldn’t
can relate to it very well,” she told me. “The
silent majority was tired of being silent; tired
all of a sudden I’m have happened that way. Regardless of the
level of violence or otherwise at any given
of being ignored.”
The mainstream media in the US, she said,
a member of the Black Lives Matter protest though, Lahren
still compared it to the KKK, equating a loose
only caters to people living on the two coasts
– “LA, New York City and the surrounding
new Ku Klux Klan’ movement of people protesting what they see
as racial injustice in the United States with a
areas, because that’s where they’re based. violent, extremist group whose sole aim was to
There’s this giant section in the middle of purify American society to further their white
the country which is largely ignored and supremacist agenda.
they’re the ones losing their jobs; they’re the I wondered whether Lahren’s world view
ones going through the hardest time with the be intolerant or that I’m a bigot. Sometimes came from leading a sheltered existence; that
slowest recovery we’ve seen from a reces- being politically incorrect means I don’t know her lack of compassion comes from not ever
sion, stagnant wages, and those people said what to say in such a way that’s not going to having tried to truly understand the experi-
it’s time for a change. Obama didn’t give them offend anyone. I’m not going to walk up and ence of being a member of a minority in the
the change they were looking for, so they’re throw the “N” word out. No. That’s rude. It’s US. The problem is she had – and will have in
looking for someone outside of the mould, and disrespectful. But it doesn’t mean I can’t speak the future – a stage from which to share that
Trump came in at just the right time.” to a black person and say I believe Black Lives sheltered world view, and loudly.
Lahren said she was just trying to give those Matter is disjointed and has lost its legitimacy. It’s certainly not the only time Lahren’s
Trump voters in middle America a voice. “I’m Let’s have a conversation about it.” tweets or “Final Thoughts” incurred the wrath
not a politician or a president, so I’m not trying Yes, let’s have a conversation about that of her detractors. In January some social media
to unify the country.” But she insisted Trump Black Lives Matter tweet. It came at 3.30am users began retweeting some old tweets she’d
is. “It’s the economy, stupid,” she told me. “You one morning, the day after a man called Micah sent while she was in college. One read:
wouldn’t have had blue-collar workers and Johnson shot and killed five police officers in “Does anybody at this school speak English?
Democrats voting for him in states that had Dallas – the deadliest attack on law enforce- #thisisamerica.” Lahren responded that she
turned blue if he wasn’t unifying. It’s about ment in the US since 9/11. Here’s what Lahren couldn’t understand the scandal seeing as she’s
openly said on her show that she’s frustrated of her dog without attracting messages such as, ahren thinks she speaks for a lot of
“with people who are living in this country
and taking advantage of the greatest nation
on Earth if they don’t feel it necessary to learn
to speak English”.
Of Chelsea Manning, the former soldier con-
victed of espionage after leaking thousands of
classified military documents, who came out as
“You racist bitch. You’re killing black people.”
“I’m like... Really? My dog and me sitting
here on a Sunday and we’re killing black
people? I’m glad you got that from a photo of
my dog and I.”
It came as a surprise to some conservatives
that Lahren is fairly liberal on social issues.
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young people – millennials – who
are more concerned with a pay-
check and a job. On the issue of
immigration, however, she is far
from moderate. “I think we need extreme
vetting,” she said. “If there are people coming,
travelling back and forth to Syria, Turkey etc,
transgender in 2013 and whose sentence was On gay marriage, she told me, “I don’t care if who is keeping an eye on these folks and
commuted by President Obama in January, someone chooses a same-sex partner.” As for knowing what their intentions are?”
Lahren said: “Anyone selfish enough to let their abortion – her stance on which cost her her I watched Lahren as she recorded “Final
emotions or gender dysphoria get in the way job – she said, “The only issue I have is I don’t Thoughts” for the show to be broadcast that
of their service, the safety of their fellow war- believe in funding it through my taxpayer same evening. She was professional, slick and,
riors, or their country, is 100 per cent a traitor dollars, but beyond that I don’t really care.” after running through it quickly, did the entire
and should be treated as such. Not applauded Even guns: she believes in the right to thing in one take. She even took aim at Trump,
for his ‘trans bravery’ – are you kidding me?” bear arms, and she’s a gun owner (for self- although certainly not for my benefit. “Please,
And she called the millions of women who protection, in her home), but she doesn’t shoot for the love of God, learn,” she told him. “Get
in January marched in many cities across off Twitter and learn. Take a break from
the country in protest at the election of your chest-beating victory tour and go
Trump “snowflakes” (a pejorative term to a security briefing.”
used by the right to describe those on But criticising Trump is far from
the left who they see as being overly the norm for Lahren. Even now, post-
sensitive) who were whining about the TheBlaze, she has been reaching out to
results and “playing the victim card”. her considerable number of social media
But perhaps more significant, though, followers, espousing her views and offer-
than the tweets or controversial “Final ing support for his administration; in
Thoughts”, are the responses they elicit between the Bible verses and advertising
from some of her fans and followers. her many public appearances, she
In January, for example, Lahren voiced posts Trump quotes – and gets thousands
her disgust at the story of a woman who of retweets.
broadcast the vicious beating of a man Tomi Lahren plays to her base. She’s
on Facebook. During the attack, the The president’s men: Trump calls Australia’s prime not going to use her Twitter feed (or any
minister in the presence of his advisors Michael
aggressors were heard shouting “F*** Trump” Flynn and Steve Bannon, 28 January 2017 new television show) as a platform for how
and “F*** white people.” she is pro-choice, for gay marriage and thinks
The first response on Lahren’s Twitter feed that there should be a three-day waiting period
from one of her followers was: “Make America To do what Lahren on all gun sales. That wouldn’t go down well
Safe Again!” together with a hand-scrawled
picture of a white person and a black person does when talking at all – as she’s found to her detriment. It’s not
that she doesn’t believe what she says – she
separated by a line, and the words “Bring
Back Segregation”.
about an issue is does. But she knows her core support, picking
and choosing what she is willing to share.
Asked how she felt being grouped together
with white supremacists such as Spencer,
simple: you just She Instagrams pictures of herself holding
her handgun, tweets comments about “illegals
Lahren said nothing angered her more. “Have
they not learned they lost the election because
subtract empathy pouring in”. And that’s what gets clicks, raises
her profile and makes her attractive to a future
they over-labelled people? I’m not a racist. employer. Fox News, perhaps?
I criticise Black Lives Matter and I’m a Trump To do what Lahren does when talking
supporter and all of a sudden I’m a member of about a controversial issue is simple: you just
the alt-right which is the new KKK. I’ve never subtract empathy. And this elicits both cheers
done anything that would exhibit that, that recreationally. “I don’t particularly like guns, of encouragement from her fans and disdain
would exhibit I’m a member of the alt-right but I do believe people have the right to own from her detractors. She can see this, in real
or a white nationalist.” them... I believe background checks are impor- time, when she cycles through her social media
Each night she reads a good deal of the tant and I even believe in the three-day cooling feeds. “I read 100 nasty comments, then the
mentions she gets from people who like what period” (which forces a potential gun buyer to last one I read before I go to bed will be some-
she has to say on Twitter and many from those wait three days before they can take owner- thing nice.”
who don’t. Instagram, the photo-sharing app, ship of their weapon).
lets you block certain people from commenting As for climate change, she said there are
on your pictures by compiling a list of “banned” conservatives who think the “man-made MORE For these related stories,
words. Lahren’s filter, which she describes as “a apocalypse” is over-hyped. “That’s where FROM GQ visit GQ.co.uk/magazine
mile long”, includes the following: racist, slut, I fall. I believe in conservation. I believe in
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bitch, prostitute, mayonnaise, whore, ho. She common sense. But I think there’s a middle Black Cops Matter (Alex Hannaford, December 2016)
inspires support and vitriol in equal measure. ground. I do not believe in regulation that What The US Can Learn From UK Gun Control
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W
seemed such a dirty word.
And by “dirty” I, of course,
mean naff. Almost as naff as
“doing God”. Round my way
– Islington via Surrey, upper-middle-class sub-
urbanite metamorphosed into aspiring hipster
gonzo wannabe – if you happened to be both
two bank accounts. “One used for the running
costs of the charity and one for the donations.”
The running costs would be obtained from
high-income donors; the donations would be
the funds given by the public. “I was adamant
we would never use the donations from the
public for anything other than getting clean
religious and philanthropic, well, good luck, water to those who really need it. No book bal-
buddy. There wasn’t a members’ bar north of ancing, no top-ups, no fudging. Ever.”
Peckham that would let you in. Harrison’s mission for hyper-transparency
During my teenage years, in the Nineties, the seems to be working. So far, the group, which
best thing about charity was watching Philip operates on a $40m annual budget, has funded
Schofield getting gunged for Comic Relief. nearly 23,000 projects affecting seven million
During my twenties, it was the hacked-up people in some of the poorest parts of the
animals I felt sorry for. I wept when I saw wastepaper bins made from world. The work they do isn’t cheap – the average cost of installing
black rhino tusks. I tutted loudly when dinner party hosts brought a clean water pump in an isolated village in Africa, for example, is in
forth soup made from drag-netted bluefin tuna carcasses. Naturally, excess of $10,000 – but the tech used to monitor the engineering helps
I abstained when served silverback steak as a main. (Very sinewy, keep the money and, thus, the clean water flowing. Sensors attached to
apparently.) But issues such as widespread famine? Human suffering on pumps and wells allow the company to track how well they are actually
a global scale? Well, it felt so Eighties, didn’t it? Like sing-along charity working. It’s this tech that endears the charity to a new breed of Silicon
singles. Anyway, didn’t Sting and Midge Ure solve Africa already? Valley angel investor: Jack Dorsey, Daniel Ek, Jonathan Ive and Angela
Of course, you have to remember that most men are utter idiots during Ahrendts have all contributed big sums in the past.
their twenties. (I’m sure my narcissism wasn’t alone, ironically, in its So what about Harrison himself? Has he always wanted to help others?
prevalence at this age.) It wasn’t until my thirties that I took a keener Rather than make me feel guilty about my hedonistic tendencies during
interest in how philanthropy could harness creativ- my twenties, he has sympathy. Turns out he too dug
ity and ingenuity to change – and even save – lives. ‘My life before the fast life, rather than the good life. “My life before
I remember when I first heard about a nonprofit called Charity: Water? I was a nightclub promoter, being
Charity: Water, an American-based fundraising organisa- was wild but paid to ensure splashy clients ordered $500 bottles of
tion that launched last year in the UK. It was five years puddle-deep’ vodka and champagne. It was wild but puddle-deep.”
ago and I was in New York. A grossly famous fashion After waking up one morning with a hangover the
photographer (natch) mentioned he’d met some good- size of his plush Manhattan bachelor pad, he realised
looking chap on Richard Branson’s Necker Island and, he wasn’t the person he wanted to be. After some soul
along with a sizeable number of bitcoins he was planning on spending to searching, he accompanied a charity to Liberia, West Africa, where,
get into space, the man in question was drumming up support for his goal working as a photojournalist, he saw things he couldn’t unsee. “It
to bring clean drinking water to the 663 million people without it. This snapped me out of my slumber. Hey, it’s never too late, man...”
Illustrations Anton Emdin; Zohar Lazar
man, I believe, was Scott Harrison – the very same 41-year-old man that From popping bottles to popping clean water pumps, no doubt there’s
sits before me today looking energised, yet not a little harried. Our loca- a certain flow to Harrison’s story. By the way, lunch for Harrison and
tion? Me, London; him, New York. We’re on a Skype call. Unsurprisingly, myself was a glass of water, fresh from the tap, something that is pre-
considering Charity: Water’s ambition, he’s busy. posterously easy to take for granted. Don’t. I donated the amount we
“I don’t know if that was me,” he ponders about my anecdote. Well, would have spent in a posh London restaurant to Charity: Water instead.
why let truth get in the way of a good story? Turns out this is precisely Next time a client wants to take you to Nobu why don’t you do the
why Harrison’s organisation, started eleven years ago, has been so same? It was easy. It made me feel smug. After all, isn’t empathy what
successful – a lack of transparency was killing good causes. “I came charity is really all about? charitywater.org
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