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Long life

Compassion is fashionable again. Thank the Pope

(Oh, and the widening wealth gap)

12 April 2014

9:00 AM

12 April 2014

9:00 AM

There was something poignant about the decision of L’Wren Scott, Mick Jagger’s American girlfriend, who committed suicide in New York last month, to leave everything she had to him in her will. Maybe it was out of gratitude for his help in keeping her foundering fashion business afloat; or maybe it was just a mark of her devotion to the man she referred to in the will as ‘my Michael Philip Jagger’.

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