Goodwood Festival of Speed 2026 Preview July 3, 2026 | Sponsored The Goodwood Festival of Speed will return to Goodwood House this month. Here’s everything you need to know. West Sussex in summer is usually a study in tranquillity, defined by the gentle rustle of leaves in the South Downs and the quiet allure of hidden public gardens. It is a landscape designed for long, languid [...]
Harry Styles at Wembley Stadium review: running through the grief July 3, 2026 Harry Styles at Wembley Stadium review and star rating: ★★★★ Harry Styles is running in laps around an elevated rectangular walkway at Wembley Stadium. Barely stopping for sips of water, it’s exhausting to watch, especially in this heat. He’s wearing what looks like a thick cotton shirt and has sweated through most of it – [...]
Ryanair warns of ‘passport queue chaos’ with new EU border system July 3, 2026 Ryanair has warned the EU’s new biometric border system will cause “passport queue chaos” this summer and called on European governments to halt the rollout until after the busy travel season. The budget airline said the new system “is not ready” for the large volume of people travelling to Europe over the summer and urged [...]
Inside the trippy French vineyard owned by ousted Claridge’s billionaire July 3, 2026 Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst have designed pieces for Chateau La Coste, France’s totally surreal vineyard, the vision of the billionaire who formerly owned Claridge’s. Adam Bloodworth on the trippiest Provençal escape Resting on the side of a dirt road at Chateau La Coste, a vineyard and country estate half an hour outside of Marseille, [...]
Pull an all-nighter for the 1AM England World Cup game at these London pubs July 2, 2026 After a nail-biting game last night Londoners are preparing to watch this weekend’s England World Cup fixture, although the kick off is at the rather unconventional time of 1AM on Monday morning. If you’re staying up on Sunday night into Monday morning to watch the game, there are plenty of options for places to book. [...]
Sky Garden is throwing late night parties this summer July 2, 2026 Iconic skyscraper the Sky Garden is throwing a series of summer parties with a Havana theme. With a licence stretching into the early hours, and live DJs throughout the evening from the ALR Music collective, the nights aim to bring “the rhythm, colour and late-night energy of Cuba’s capital” to the 36 floor rooftop. The [...]
‘It’s military precision’: meet the chefs crafting summer’s £6k corporate hospitality dishes July 2, 2026 Inside the race to create summer’s poshest corporate hospitality dishes Later this month, the thrice-Michelin-starred chef Simon Rogan will be serving Cornish lobster with pickled gooseberries, oysters with chicken glaze and Miso-roasted cod with smoked roe. In many ways, it will be the same as any other day for the 57-year-old from Southampton. At his [...]
Why I’ve fallen back in love with the iPod July 1, 2026 In a world where digital ownership is increasingly rare, Simon Hunt returned to technology from 2007 – and hasn’t looked back. Not since childhood had I been this excited to open a parcel. I tore through layers of brown sticky tape, clawed through the cardboard box and unpeeled the bubble wrap. And there it was: [...]
‘Dangling perilously off a horse’: can an ordinary bloke play polo? July 1, 2026 It’s a sport associated with kings and aristocrats. But as Rivals popularises polo, can self-titled ‘normal guy’ Adam Bloodworth get into it? in City AM The Magazine, Summer edition, he saddles up with the England captain to find out With all of my body weight resting on my right foot, to my horror, I appear [...]
I’ve taken the best train trips in the world. Here are my 5 favourites July 1, 2026 From the Highlands to the Andes, Luke Abrahams explores the world’s best train trips and asks why, in an age of speed and screens, slow travel still holds a unique allure Since I was a child, I’ve loved the rhythmic sway of a train. The sedate pace, the repeating wallpaper of landscape rolling past the [...]