To Sofia, then, on a tenseater NetJet Falcon from Farnborough, accompanied by Bryan Ferry and a small coterie of GQ apparatchiks, including the best-dressed man in Shepherd's Bush, Nick Foulkes. Some of my friends are big in Japan, some of them are big in America and some of the larger ones are big all over the world. Me, I ...

It was April 1994, my first proper date with the woman who later would become my wife and, judging by the number of times she tells this story, I'm not sure she has ever really forgiven me. Obviously, seeing that she was several meals above me in the food chain, I wanted to make a good impression. Or, more ...