City restaurants lead remarkable recovery, says D&D boss May 7, 2021 After four long, miserable wintry months of confinement I guess we should have expected it. But the pandemic has turned us all into pessimists. After a year of lockdowns, reopenings, Covid restrictions and more lockdowns, I doubt that there were many hospitality industry CEOs predicting the joyful scenes of packed restaurant and pub terraces of [...]
Regular rapid testing reassures that you aren’t spreading the virus without knowing May 7, 2021 | Sponsored As a country, we’ve certainly put the hard yards in to bring Covid-19 cases down. Lockdowns are tough on everybody, but it’s that discipline that’s meant we can slowly start getting back to the things we love. But to keep on top of Covid-19, we can’t just rely on the rollout of vaccines. One other [...]
Drinking around the world: Take a trip to Lanzarote, wine paradise May 6, 2021 The latest wine region to erupt onto the wine tourism atlas is Lanzarote, with the Canarian island hoping to be among the first destinations to revive European wine tourism. With travel restrictions lifting, a former investment banker and surfing instructor from Guernsey and a former GB Olympic swimming trials finalist from Sunderland want to make [...]
Jenson Button relaunches Radford cars – with help from Lotus May 6, 2021 F1 champion says new sports car will drive “like nothing else” as more details about forthcoming Radford model are released.
Mortal Kombat is the latest video games adaptation to pop May 6, 2021 A few years ago, the accepted wisdom was that video games don’t make good movies. You could point to Street Fighter, Super Movie Bros, Hitman, Need For Speed, Assassin’s Creed, or any number of flops that failed to capture the magic of their pixelated inspiration. In the last few years, however, the code seems to [...]
The United Way is a timely doc on the Manchester football giant May 5, 2021 Depending on your view, this is the best or worst time to release a documentary about Manchester United. It arrives days after fans invaded the Old Trafford pitch, demanding the removal of current owners The Glazer Family as the fallout from the European Super League fiasco continues. With the club in turmoil, it may not [...]
How video games could be the next frontier in the WFH revolution May 5, 2021 By this time last year, most of us were already experiencing Zoom fatigue. A month of working remotely had taken its toll and the endless queue of video meetings seemed to exemplify the creeping malaise of this new way of working. Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s games division Xbox, soon came up with a novel [...]
Drinking around the world: Tasmania is a winemaker to watch May 5, 2021 You have probably never considered stocking up on wine from either Swansea or St Helens. Both are on Tasmania’s Great Eastern Wine Trail, one of four in Australia’s island state. Tassie, the “Apple Isle”, is also home to the Tamar Valley wine road, the East Coast route and the Cradle Coast region, which boasts Ghost [...]
City Spirits: Cinco de Mayo is the perfect chance to look afresh at tequila May 5, 2021 It’s not been a vintage twelve months for travelling, as we all know. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get away, even momentarily, with a taste of further afield. Cinco de Mayo, Mexico’s biggest party day of the year, is upon us – and one of the best ways to raise a glass to Mexico, [...]
Porsche Taycan Turbo S Cross Turismo review: estate of the fast May 5, 2021 The Porsche Taycan Turbo S Cross Turismo takes the firm's all-conquering electric car into the rough stuff. With predictable brilliance.