A new app is helping corporates this World Mental Health day October 9, 2025 Ahead of World Mental Health Day this Friday 10 October, a new health and wellbeing service is aiming to help British workers stay healthier in the office. Brits take around 150 million sick days per year, costing the economy over £100 billion. The Looking After Me app offers workers a 15 minute counselling session every [...]
We saw the new Kate Moss movie first – here’s our honest review October 9, 2025 Kate Moss movie Moss & Freud at the London Film Festival review: ★★★ It’s often a red flag when stars executive produce their own biopics. Elton John’s Rocketman was viewed as too sympathetic to its subject, and Kate Moss has certainly been too close to this saccharine but not meritless Kate Moss film premiering at [...]
The former London PT using his brawn to make it in Hollywood October 9, 2025 This former PT puts his strength to good use on the big screen. Adam Bloodworth meets Moe Bar-El Moe Bar-El used to be a personal trainer in London, but gave up the job four years ago when acting started to properly pay off. “Those days are gone,” he says. “I do miss it sometimes but [...]
How I learned to perform parenie at Banya No.1 October 9, 2025 For a decade I have attended London’s Banya No.1, a spa like no other, where you’re steamed in a sauna, whipped by leaves, dunked in freezing water and then served ice cold beer and dumplings. If you think that sounds like a form of torture (the beer and dumplings notwithstanding), you’re not alone. The apostle [...]
Why the iPhone 17 Pro is the best iPhone Apple’s made in years October 8, 2025 This review of the new iPhone 17 Pro should probably start with some gushing words about the cameras, which are now capable of “optical-quality” 8x zoom, or the A19 processor that’s so powerful it requires a tiny “vapor chamber” to cool it down, or the screen that’s now so bright you could use it on [...]
South American wine is booming – try these bottles for the best experience October 7, 2025 South American wine is booming for us Brits. An Argentinian Malbec has long been a gateway, converting consumers with broodingly smooth glasses of dark fruits and spice at a good price. Last year the UK overtook China as the largest importer (by value) of Chilean wine with their lithe Sauvignon Blancs and traditional Carmère. Even [...]
Horology and horse power: Car firms are getting in bed with watch brands October 7, 2025 Cars and watches are the ultimate partnership – and one that’s only getting stronger in the digital age, says Adam Hay-Nicholls Revolutions per minute. We could be talking about pistons punching inside a V8 engine, causing 30,000 explosions every sixty seconds. Or we could be discussing a hand on a chronograph sweeping the watch face [...]
Partnerships that pop: Why watch brands are turning to the booze October 7, 2025 From City AM The Magazine, Autumn edition, why are watch brands so drawn to drinks companies? Adam Hay-Nicholls quenches his thirst with the latest drinks collabs There’s that old saying ‘you are what you eat’ but I reckon what you drink says a lot more about a person. I can tell by the liquid in [...]
This Kate Moss movie at London Film Festival 2025 will be a massive talking point October 7, 2025 When you think of Kate Moss and men, the mind goes to Pete Doherty, or perhaps the Dazed Media editor Jefferson Hack, but there was another creative mind before them: Lucian Freud. The two shared an intense personal relationship in the early noughties when Freud, then in his eighties, painted Moss, then in her late [...]
The Weir review: Unmissable play returns after three decades October 6, 2025 The Weir | ★★★★★ | Harold Pinter Theatre Conor McPherson’s 1997 play The Weir has taken on an almost mythical status in the years since it was first staged. It’s now spoken of alongside Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem and Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, a seminal moment in modern British and Irish theatre and a formative work [...]