The professional sceptics debunking conspiracy theories June 27, 2025 Michael Marshall is Britain’s only full-time, paid sceptic. He attends flat earth conferences, distributes flyers outside psychic shows and lurks in anti-vax Telegram groups, all to promote critical thinking over pseudoscience and damaging conspiracy theories. “Any of us could, at our worst, find ourselves in an emotional hole where our reason is compromised,” he says. [...]
Is Atlantis The Royal ‘The most ultra-luxury resort in the world’? June 27, 2025 The phrase “Disneyland for adults” is thrown around to describe everything from Monaco to Miami, to certain Soho House outposts. At Atlantis The Royal, the 795-key mega-resort on Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah, the comparison actually holds up, except this time Mickey is wearing Balenciaga, and demanding tableside caviar bumps. This isn’t so much a hotel as [...]
Driving a Ferrari Purosangue through sleepy St Mawes, Cornwall June 27, 2025 Ah, Cornwall, the second home capital of England. Of course, the locals loathe the incoming hoards from West London and the home counties, breezing in for a few sunny weeks of the year with their 4x4s, yoga mats and Big Green Egg barbecues. Following the G7 summit held in Carbis Bay in 2021, an especially [...]
Dive time: How the diving watch plumbed new depths June 26, 2025 Almost a century ago, one of Switzerland’s historic maisons created the enduring formula for the water-resistant diving watch. With its screwed-down caseback, screwdown winding crown and rubber gaskets, the sub-aquatic world has been Rolex’s ‘Oyster’ ever since. As our timeline below shows, diving-watch casemaking has been a crucible for engineering innovation since 1926. Admittedly some [...]
Casual, stylish, waterproof: What makes the perfect holiday watch June 26, 2025 There are plenty of articles floating around the internet in praise of the “one and done”; the perfect watch that will see you right for the rest of your life, give or take a service or two. This isn’t that column. I’m definitely in the “watch wardrobe” camp and take great delight in switching timepieces [...]
All you need to know about GMT watches – and why Patek is king June 26, 2025 On the website greenwichmeantime.com there is a page dedicated to time apps. Here you can create a list of different cities at the touch of a button, see the time in Chizhou, Sidoarjo or Scaggsville, USA concurrently and compared to your home time. You can check whether meetings in different time zones have been properly [...]
A new Rolex store opens in London and Patek unveils a GMT June 26, 2025 From a sumptuous new Patek to a new London home for Rolex, we bring you the latest from the world of watches. Patek Philippe Calatrava Pilot Travel Time A gorgeous ivory-lacquered dial, seamlessly blending a ‘GMT’ travel feature, driven by a sumptuously hand-finished movement you can admire through the back. So far so Patek Philippe. [...]
Inside the most expensive rehab clinic in the world June 26, 2025 Upon checking in at £10,000-a-night rehab centre Paracelsus Recovery, I find myself transported into a world that revolves entirely around me. Bequeathed with a 15-member entourage of therapists, clinicians, masseuses and personal chefs, I am part of a collective powered by a single goal: my betterment. If you can think of a celebrity who’s been [...]
‘Always say yes to a bag of testicles’: A defence of offal June 26, 2025 Like a character straight out of a Carry On film, the Turkish butcher leaned forward, looked my partner in the eye, and, with a heavy accent and an evil glint, said simply: “Testicles. Testicles.” Then, by way of explanation: “Sheep’s balls.” Though things had taken a surreal and vaguely vulgar turn, his strange sales pitch [...]
Obituaries: A dying Art. Who writes them and why do they matter? June 26, 2025 “To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one’s ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity,” the philosopher Alain de Botton once said. Clearly Mr de Botton didn’t make it to the obituary pages very often. Every day newspapers devote a few pages to covering the lives of interesting [...]