It’s pointless to envy the super-rich

It's no business of ours what the super-rich get up to, but it's hard not be a little envious.

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John Caudwell, the multi-millionaire who founded Phones4u, is building a narrow-gauge railway round Broughton Hall, his Jacobean house in Staffordshire. It's a "strange thing to do", says Christopher Howse in The Daily Telegraph. "There's something very English about the fantasy of travelling on your own train set."

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