Why are these teenagers not smoking weed in the school playground? [December 13, 2012]

Because they are waiting to spend €45 on a t-shirt at the Amsterdam branch of Abercrombie & Fitch.

It was, I think, the grand opening today. When I came to work this morning there were huge crowds all over the tram lines, television crews busy filming the hoards and police and stewards on hand to keep them in order.

What ever you think of the clothes, they've got a brilliant PR team.

And perhaps the arrival of A&F will help herald the end of the stupid fur-collared jackets  that everyone has been wearing for the past five years at least.