Ed Warner: How to solve the Hundred and help county cricket with private money September 15, 2022 The Hundred isn’t going away, whatever diehard cricket traditionalists might wish. It’s been cemented into the English calendar until at least 2028 by a television deal finalised just before the arrival of the England and Wales Cricket Board’s new chair. Richard Thompson, erstwhile arch-critic of the controversial competition, now finds his room for manoeuvre severely [...]
World Sight Day September 14, 2022 | City Talk World Sight Day 2022 | #LoveYourEyes This month, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) launched its Love Your Eyes global campaign. The goal of this year’s campaign is to raise awareness of the social and economic impacts of blindness across the world. Across the world, many suffer from poor eye health. As a result [...]
Porsche Macan T review: The SUV sweet-spot? September 14, 2022 Sportier looking and sharper to drive, could the new Macan T be the sweet-spot for Porsche's family SUV? Tim Pitt drives it.
The Score is a strange and unusual musical – but not in a good way September 14, 2022 The Score’s writer-director Malachi Smyth has sketched an idea of what the British Wild West could look like, and it has a stylish twist: singing gangsters. When the central musical segments work, they’re captivating, making The Score’s tone feel daringly out-of-the-box. But the meat of this movie fails to score. Credit to Smyth for pulling [...]
Bodies Bodies Bodies is a slasher satire of gen-Z egoists September 14, 2022 Incorporating elements of slasher horror, whodunnit, and dark comedy, Halina Reijn’s English directorial debut Bodies Bodies Bodies distinguishes itself with a wry smile in a genre often overwrought with cliché and predictable storytelling. The latest offering from A24 — who graced our screens with unexpected gems like Everything Everywhere All At Once and last year’s [...]
Stamp duty cuts and a planning overhaul: Estate agents tell us their housing policy wish list September 14, 2022 With Simon Clarke announced as the new housing minister, we asked top estate agents for their housing policy wish lists Simon Tollit, Partner, Tedworth Property Operating in the luxury residential sector of Prime Central London, the last two years have seen a strong domestic market and more recently London has welcomed back international investors. However, [...]
Handbagged at the Kiln Theatre is a timely new show about the Queen September 14, 2022 This article is the first in a new series called The Lowdown, where we speak to writers, directors and actors to get the lowdown on their latest creative project And they say that life imitates art… Handbagged, a show featuring fictional accounts about the Queen’s weekly meetings with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, had always planned [...]
Does altitude affect vision loss? September 14, 2022 | City Talk Across the developing world, there is a multitude of reasons that many people suffer from blindness. One of the leading causes is that many communities live in isolated communities where they cannot access eye care or any sort of healthcare. So what are the other reasons? There have been a few recent studies regarding the [...]
Marco Pantani story is a modern fable of fragility September 14, 2022 When you’re at the very peak of your sport there will always be questions asked around how you got there, and how you stayed there. But for some of the very best in history, they became victims of high performance; chewed up by their own hype and spat out at the side of the road [...]
Very lively in Venice: Having a ball in the city of water September 13, 2022 Every Italian has their favourite region of their home country they believe to be aesthetically and culturally superior. Part of the reason is the dizzying variety of culture, cuisine and architecture, which differs dramatically from region to region, the result of foreign invasions that chopped up the boot-shaped country a dozen centuries ago. But even [...]