Why The Outer Hebrides is Scotland’s ultimate wellness escape Life&Style Exquisite silence and beautiful beaches in The Outer Hebrides, Scotland’s wildest part I’m floating above luminous purple coral and brilliant white starfish. The water below me is so clear that I can see individual grains of sand and the scales on the fish. One giveaway that I’m not somewhere exotic? I’m wearing a wetsuit and [...]
The way Dolly Parton announced her death is an inspiration to us all Life&Style “Sadness lies with us, not with Dolly,” says Dolly Parton’s nephew Bryan Seaver in an Instagram video to announce the death of the country music star. It’s an obvious thing to say about someone who has passed, but nonetheless, an idea that isn’t often thought about directly. When someone passes we tend to focus on [...]
A love letter to Sweetings, the City’s oldest restaurant Life&Style Ahead of our Toast the City Awards this October, we pay homage to Sweetings, the City’s oldest restaurant Britain is a country steeped in tradition and often too wedded to the past, but it also proved itself capable of great innovation. We should never forget that the Square Mile is a perfect example of world-changing [...]
Beyond your 9-5: things to explore in the Square Mile August 20, 2026 For most, the City of London is defined by the rhythm of the working week. Offices fill from Monday to Friday, and the streets fall quiet at the weekend. But since the pandemic that pace has changed, and incredibly the Square Mile offers so much beyond the traditional 9-5. A weekend in the City of [...]
Boomtown 2026 review: Surely the best party in the world August 17, 2026 Boomtown 2026 review and star rating: ★★★★★ Pirates are squaring up to one another, clenching their jaws as they prepare to strike blows. Hundreds are jeering around the ring, where the crowd have been whipped into a feverish mob. Villagers are peering from the rooftops to get a glimpse of the fight. But before long, [...]
Cats musical review, Regent’s Park: Purrrfectly exquisite nonsense August 7, 2026 Cats review and star rating: ★★★★ The unnervingly bad 2019 movie did nothing to dispel the creeping sense that perhaps Cats is a little too strange. We were willing to suspend our disbelief for all sorts of nonsense in the 1990s, including this, a musical with loose at best narrative direction that spends 80 per [...]
What’s on in London August August 5, 2026 | Sponsored August in London offers countless ways to make the most of the city. It’s a great chance to experience workshops, join in on some sport activations, discover a new cuisine, use exclusive offers, and embrace all London has to offer. This guide highlights some of this month’s top picks, suitable for all ages. Activities and [...]
The forgotten masterpiece that helped shape the modern English language August 5, 2026 As our new Education Secretary rethinks how we learn about language, Eliot Wilson on one of the most forgotten and seminal English texts Five hundred years ago this year, the first copies of an English translation of the New Testament appeared in London. The brilliant young theologian and linguist William Tyndale, then studying in Germany, [...]
Dante Mayfair at Claridge’s review: How about a five-martini dinner? August 5, 2026 How many martinis is too many? Adam Bloodworth works that out over dinner at the new Claridge’s restaurant, Dante Mayfair An obvious question comes to mind when thinking about the new restaurant at Claridge’s: Why? Why has a quintessentially British hotel invited a restaurant from New York to open a permanent venue on their premises? [...]
Luke Combs, Wembley review: as personal as a Texas honky-tonk August 4, 2026 Luke Combs, Wembley review and star rating: ★★★★★ If you noticed an inordinate number of Stetsons, cowboys, and cowgirls heading to Wembley Stadium this weekend, it was for good reason. Luke Combs, one of Country music’s biggest artists, was in town. Country, the quintessential American genre, may feel like an odd match for the Home [...]