'Daylesford-branded geranium-scented candles are lit everywhere, giving the vague aroma of a massage parlour.' Claudia Cockerell visited 'Daylesford Country', a slice of the Cotswolds being transformed by the striving imagination of a billionaire's wife. the-fence.com/daylesford-org…

If you've ever gone to the Cotswolds and thought 'this is fucking horrible, but like, one particular flavour of horrible', then this piece should help you understand why.

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Lotte Brundle Deep in the Cotswolds, mutiny brews at the endless expansion of the Daylesford empire. Claudia Cockerell reports: the-fence.com/down-on-the-fa…

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"At first glance, Anthony Scaramucci and Dominic Sandbrook make an unlikely duo. One—‘The Mooch’—is a silver-tongued businessman whose 11-day stint as Trump’s 2017 comms director makes Liz Truss look seasoned. The other’s an Oxford historian with an RP accent." —✍️Claudia Cockerell

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