San Sebastian: The Michelin capital of the world July 26, 2022 Throughout the confinement of the pandemic we dreamed of the day travel restrictions would finally ease. This year that wish came true – but the monkey’s paw twitched. While we are allowed to fly almost anywhere – even Japan and Korea, some of the strictest countries for Covid restrictions, have welcomed tourists back – but [...]
Great Britain and Northern Ireland in strong showing but no gold rush July 25, 2022 If the Great Britain and Northern Ireland performance at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was turned into a secondary school attendance report, the team would have received a C plus. On one hand, the seven medals the team captured in Oregon, United States were the most by a contingent of athletes since 2015 – when [...]
Sir Craig Reedie interview: Inside London 2012 and why Olympics was value for money July 25, 2022 If you lived through the London 2012 Olympics then you will probably remember where you were for its most spectacular or poignant moments – Super Saturday, Danny Boyle’s vivid opening ceremony, Andy Murray winning tennis gold – and Sir Craig Reedie is no different. But while the former chairman of the British Olympic Association, one [...]
Stirling Moss’s favourite car: racing legend’s Mercedes SL heads to auction July 25, 2022 A unique car built to the exacting specifications of Sir Stirling Moss, this 1966 Mercedes-Benz 230 SL will be auctioned next month.
Mazda MX-5 review: Five comes alive July 25, 2022 The MX-5 offers a single-minded purity and sense of connection that the majority of cars lack. We drive the latest version, updated for 2022.
Verstappen pounces on Leclerc and Ferrari’s errors July 24, 2022 Yesterday’s French Grand Prix result saw a top three that could have been from so many races last season: two Mercedes drivers and one from Red Bull. Because at Circuit Paul Ricard the Silver Arrows of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell achieved their team’s first double podium of the season, flanking Drivers’ Championship leader and [...]
Women’s Euro 2022: England aiming to exorcise semi-final ghosts against Sweden July 24, 2022 England won’t just be facing Sweden when they take to a sold-out Bramall Lane in Sheffield for their Women’s Euro 2022 semi-final on Tuesday night. The Lionesses will also have to confront some ghosts of major tournaments past, having suffered a sequence of painful defeats in the last four. At the 2015 World Cup in [...]
The Commonwealths are the ‘Local Global Games’ July 24, 2022 The Commonwealth Games begin in Birmingham this week. It’s the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, so where better than England’s second city? They should, however, be taking place in Durban, which would have become the first African city to host the Games. The opening day would have been last week – on 18 July, Nelson Mandela’s birthday [...]
101 Dalmatians musical at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre review July 24, 2022 One of the last-remaining Covid-hit productions, new musical 101 Dalmatians has finally opened, two years late, at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. So was it worth the wait? Well… Let’s start with the good bits. The dalmatians themselves – or at least the two main ones, the rest are bodiless heads – are brought to [...]
Patriots at the Almeida is a gripping drama about the rise of Putin July 22, 2022 The story of the rise of Putin and the oligarchs has been told through various lenses in recent years. Author Peter Pomerantsev places shadowy “Kremlin demiurge” Vladislav Surkov at the heart of his gripping memoir-cum-investigation Nothing is True and Everything is Possible. Lucy Prebble’s all-singing, all-dancing play A Very Expensive Poison put Alexander Litvenenko front [...]