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A Savile Row suit. Never again. Although I love it, I still feel guilty about what it cost.
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A poster for The Godfather, my favourite film, signed by Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and everyone. I got drunk at a children’s charity auction and started buying everything!
Antiques and art – I collect 17th‑century portraits.
A pair of Back to the Future shoes. They were auctioned off for Michael J Fox’s Parkinson’s charity, so I bid and I won. I am a huge fan of the films and if there was ever a pair of shoes I should own, it was those.
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View profile →With my late wife, Siân Busby, and our boys, Max and Simon, on assorted Welsh and English beaches, in sunshine and rain – especially when there was a Punch and Judy show on the prom.
I am rarely disappointed. I try to make the best of things.
Prime minister and brain surgeon.
Cleaning the freezer room at Bejam as a Saturday job, aged 13.
Being driven across the Atlas Mountains in a snowstorm 25 years ago, by a local taxi driver who plainly put a lower premium on the advantages of living than me.
Being completely still.
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