James I'm going to be counter intutitive here and complain about the lack of a paywall on this post

Literally caused my jaw to drop

*gets microscope out to try and see the decline*

The Fence is in Portugal

Remember when Twitter upped the character count to 280 characters?

Thanks @financialtimes.com

Looks like they spent a bill at least on the airbrushing

What the luxury industry is worried about, and what it should be worried about are not necessarily aligned.

That’s what we leaned at this week’s #FTLuxury summit in Barcelona

open.substack.com/pub/darkluxu...

Art dealer and BBC Bargain Hunt expert Oghenochuko Ojiri leaves court after admitting that he failed to report a series of art sales to a man linked to proscribed terror group Hezbollah

He’s one of the subjects of today’s newsletter later today open.substack.com/pub/darkluxury

It's "long been touted as one of the biggest prizes of Brexit", yet it's increasing UK GDP by 0.1% over 15 years... still pretty marginal stuff, right?

Technical note of the preliminary economic impacts of the UK-India Free Trade Agreement

UK and India trade deal obviously a massive deal for the Scotch industry, and a quite nice perk for luxury car makers in the UK like JLR, Rolls-Royce and Bentley

But overall it's expected to have a teeny tiny impact on GDP by 2040: a £4.8 billion increase in GDP, or 0.1%

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Elizabeth Line delays because of “Passengers fighting on the track at Forest Gate”

Not heard that one before!

They fixed it lol

Has anyone investigated the ownership of sperm banks in Texas

Whoever put the Boeing Air Force One model together in the White House Oval Office has put the horizontal stabilizers on the wrong way

They shouldn’t point down like that

Such a delicious read isn’t it

We are currently 5.48% into Trump’s second term, remember to take breaks

I generally turn my thermostat up and down less violently than Trump's tweaked global tariffs this week

Scott Bessent outside the White House: "All this was, again, this was driven by the president's strategy. He and I had a long talk on Sunday, and this was his strategy all along".

The ducks are watching me

Because they will do almost anything to make money even if it means readers have a worse experience?

Fucking knew it

So proud of my country

Should be relevant for the next 30 mins!

Perhaps the most fascinating detail I’ve read today about tariffs: superyacht owners are well insulated from them because they’re already so good at structuring their ownership in clever ways to reduce their tax

‘There is going to be pain’

Dark Luxury spoke to a dozen Lamborghini dealers in the US about the prospect of Trump's 25% tariffs

Here's what they said they said 🧵

UK getting 10% reciprocal tariffs according to Trump’s chart, half the EU rate

Maybe it’s just me but I’m not sure making it harder and more expensive for Americans to buy cars is such a great political idea. They love cars!

‘There is going to be pain’ American Lamborghini sales people react to Trump’s proposed tariffs

"There is going to be pain" - I called about half of the Lamborghini dealers in the United States to ask what they think about Trump's tariff plan www.darkluxury.news/p/lamborghin...

What an ending