Nicked Bags

Burglars steal £500,000 of luxury items from Belgravia boutique in just four minutes

Three masked men stole £500,000 worth of designer clothes and handbags from an upmarket Belgravia store in under four minutes.

CCTV footage shows the trio, who arrived on a motorcycle and e-bike, smashing through the front window of Sellier with concrete, before one enters in a crash helmet.

Sellier said among the haul is six luxury bags worth around £40,000 - four from Chanel, a Hermes Kelly 35 and a Hermes Birkin.


I was thinking about this the other day, how the idea of luxury goods has changed in an age of prosperity and mass production. My slippers are very comfortable and durable, so it isn't easy to see how they could be improved to the dizzy heights of luxury slippers worth stealing.

To take this mystery a little further, Mrs H and I are sitting here in comfort and warmth while I'm typing this before going to make a luxury cup of tea. Maybe I'll even include a luxury biscuit from Tesco which recently delivered our groceries to the door - luxury shopping we might call it.

I don't know what a Hermes Kelly 35 might be but presumably it's a bag which holds a huge amount of stuff - far more than a boring cheap bag from M&S. Possibly not a good guess, but there must be some reason why it's so expensive. 

Maybe that's why the Labour government wants us to be much poorer, so there is a more solid reason for elites not being poor. Does Keir Starmer secretly covet a Hermes Kelly 35? I hope not.