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Amazon Echo, Google Home or Sonos One: which smart speaker should I buy?
Voice-control devices that can play music, answer questions and buy goods are one of the hottest gifts this Christmas. Here’s what they can do – and our pick of the best buys
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Fortnum & Mason struggling to recruit staff after Brexit vote
Boss of luxury store blames fall in pound and rising anti-migrant rhetoric, saying staff shortage is most acute in restaurants
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Still modern after all these years … Marlene Dietrich’s ageless charisma
In a 1960 interview with the Observer, the German star dismissed fashion as ‘a bore’. Yet she remains a style icon, as borne out by two new exhibitions
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Taste for champagne falls flat as half of Britons put £10 cap on fizz
Prosecco and cava popularity still bubbling up as austerity leaves buyers unwilling to splash out on luxury French product
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Spaniards face ham shortage as Chinese market gets taste for jamón ibérico
Iberian ham has become the latest sought-after luxury from the west in China, but demand is outstripping supply
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Monaco builds into the Med to house new throng of super-rich
The tax haven has a luxury housing crisis – it doesn’t have enough land for the 2,700 multimillionaires forecast to settle there over the next decade