The Hedonist — Thursday, 26 March 2026

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BAREFOOT PRINCE SHAKEN BY FBI BAILOUT PROBE #

Lord Peter Mandelson is finding out that some emails are better left unwritten. The declassification of the Epstein files has dropped a five hundred billion euro bomb on the UK government. A 2010 email shows the Baron giving Jeffrey Epstein advance notice of a massive EU bailout. It is the ultimate insider tip. While the rest of the world was checking their bank balances in a cold sweat, the elite were trading secrets in the shadows of private jets. Nine…

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DEAD ICON VAL KILMER RETURNS TO CINEMA #

Hollywood has finally solved its biggest problem: the pesky mortality of its stars. Val Kilmer is back. A year after his passing, the legendary actor is set to star in the new Southwestern drama 'As Deep as the Grave'. He is not a ghost. He is a digital masterpiece. The…

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VIBE CODERS DITCH SWEATY TECH NERDS FOR MARTINIS #

The tech nerd is dead. Long live the Vibe Coder. A new generation of creators is building software using nothing but 'vibes' and English commands. They do not write code. They prompt destiny. Platforms like Replit and Vibecode are turning every socialite with a smartphone into a software mogul. It…

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CHEAP GENERIC OZEMPIC RUINS MAYFAIR EXCLUSIVITY #

The horror arrived in a fifteen dollar vial. In the backstreets of Mumbai and the glistening labs of Shanghai, the velvet rope of the metabolic elite has been cut. For…

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FIFTEEN GRAND BUYS YOU FAST BORDER ENTRY #

The American border is finally getting a VIP lounge. Forget the dusty queues and the endless questions. The Senate is advancing a plan for fifteen thousand dollar visa bonds. It…

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In Brief #

DISNEY DUMPS OPENAI AS SORA DREAM DIES

The billion-dollar romance is over. Disney has walked away from its deal with OpenAI after the tech firm shuttered its Sora video app. Baby Yoda is safe from the AI slop factory for now.

GLUM SOCCER STARS RETURN TO TEHRAN

The drama in Australia has ended with a whimper. Iranian women’s soccer players have abandoned their asylum bids to return home. They were greeted with wreaths and flowers, but their faces told a very different story.

BELGIAN MILITARY GUARDS ELITE JEWISH SITES

Antwerp is on lockdown. Soldiers are now guarding synagogues and schools after a series of arson attacks by the shadowy group Ashab al-Yamin. Security is the new must-have amenity for the city’s high-flyers.

CHINA APPROVES FIRST BESPOKE BRAIN CHIPS

Forget Botox. The new cosmetic trend is the brain-computer interface. China has approved the first commercial BCI, turning the colonization of neural pathways into the ultimate luxury accessory for the tech-obsessed.