Palantir is an American data-analysis outfit named after a magical orb in “The Lord of the Rings”. It is also the most searingly hot stock of 2025. Its revenue growth is certainly impressive, but the company’s market value is more than 600 times annual earnings. That is expensive enough to make even Sauron’s eye water. We ask what would make Palantir worth investing in at such a price. 

And private chefs, paid to rustle up whatever rich tummies rumble for, used to be looked down on by restaurant chefs de cuisine. Now celebrities’ chefs are the new celebrity chefs. As our article reports, they are spilling the beans (or more likely caviar) on the cravings of the elite.