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Adventures of Joe Aston

February

Joe Aston’s guide to surviving LA

Rear Window’s incomparable former editor shares his guide to surviving the long haul to LAX – and where to hang out while you’re in the City of Angels.

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September 2023

Recycling billionaire Anthony Pratt and US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy at the opening of Pratt Industries’ new paper mill in Henderson, Kentucky on September 14, 2023.

Oh brother, I’m back in the American heartland

Billionaire Anthony Pratt takes the Rear Window columnist to Kentucky, where he finds a Democrat governor campaigning in Republican territory.

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September 2020

Political sentiment in LA does not reflect the reality of middle America.

A world away on Planet California

Immersing myself in the US presidential election campaign from West Hollywood is a treacherous experience in a land dominated by Trump derangement syndrome, writes Joe Aston.

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March 2020

The Runyon Canyon hike above Hollywood.

Removing my defects, just as Jack Welch intended it

In the week of the High Priest of Efficiency's passing, our correspondent discovers he needs to Six Sigma himself.

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January 2020

Our columnist finally gave up "the absurd chase" after tearfully depleting umpteen Moscow mules, rosés and G&Ts in a New York bar.

Sobering thoughts from Rehab Riviera

My trajectory was unmistakable and well-worn: cerebrally maimed by 40, dead by 50, like my lost heroes.

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September 2019

Many millions of customers with ingrained affection for Apple products are exhausted by the company’s prolonged inertia, its myopic engrossment with tinkering.

iPhone 11? I'd rather reinstall Windows XP

This week,a new iPhone entered the world – in the words of T S Eliot – not with a bang, but with a whimper.

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August 2019

England's Ben Stokes celebrates winning the third Test.

Lord's to Lario, Ashes to dust

I was there at Trent Bridge four years ago, so I gravely attest: the Ashes are ours at Headingley!

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April 2019

Checking in to the Winter White House, Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, is like breaking into Fort Leavenworth.

Traversing Trump's America

From Mar-a-Lago to Cincinnati, Joe Aston travels through Trump heartland and returns with a bumper sticker.

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