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

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

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

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

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

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