Sam Torrance: USA’s record Ryder Cup win was the best I’ve seen September 27, 2021 This turned out to be a tough Ryder Cup for Europe, who were outplayed, out-thought and out-fought by the USA. The Americans were simply magnificent, sublime from Friday morning all the way through to Sunday evening. It was the best Ryder Cup performance I’ve seen in my career. Dustin Johnson led the way for the [...]
Five things we’ve learned from the USA’s Ryder Cup landslide September 26, 2021 The USA reclaimed the Ryder Cup in record breaking fashion on Sunday night, completing a landslide 19-9 victory over Europe that had looked in prospect from the first morning. Open champion Collin Morikawa clinched the half point needed to ensure victory by finishing all-square in his match with Viktor Hovland, before the Americans won Sunday’s [...]
No time to delay: New James Bond film premieres tomorrow September 26, 2021 The new James Bond film, ‘No Time to Die’, is set to premiere in London tomorrow, almost a year and a half after its original planned release. The hotly anticipated film, first meant to premiere in April 2020, has been delayed three times due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite speculation that the film would be [...]
Arsenal 3, Tottenham 1: Gunners find feet as Spurs slip September 26, 2021 Form is supposed to go out of the window when it comes to a derby, but apparently no one told Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur. Both teams came into this match on very different trajectories – Arsenal improving after a woeful start to the Premier League, Spurs regressing after a good one – and their paths [...]
Exeter Chiefs reveal new sponsor, West Exe Business Park, owned by Tony Rowe September 26, 2021 Exeter Chiefs revealed their new front of shirt sponsor at the weekend: another company owned by outspoken chief executive Tony Rowe. West Exe Business Park appeared on the Chiefs’ home shirt for their home defeat by Northampton Saints, after the club started their Premiership campaign without a main shirt sponsor. The business park has not [...]
Defeated but not deflated: Anthony Joshua thanks London after stunning loss to Oleksandr Usyk September 26, 2021 Anthony Joshua took to social media hours after his reign as world heavyweight champion was ended and a ‘Battle of Britain’ against Tyson Fury is in tatters following Oleksandr Usyk’s stunning win at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Joshua said his world “is crumbling in front you” but he urged fans to be positive and thanked them [...]
This is what it’s like to party on the new Virgin cruise ship Scarlet Lady September 25, 2021 At the London launch of Richard Branson’s new cruise line, Virgin Voyages, the British DJ and producer Mark Ronson played a raucous set. It was all very cool and glamorous, and promised a new hip addition to this most buoyant travel sector, with more than 100 cruise ships on the order books. So when the [...]
Exeter’s chief problem: Why did they start Premiership Rugby season without a main sponsor? September 25, 2021 Last weekend, Exeter Chiefs’ Premiership campaign began with a 34-19 loss at Leicester Tigers. Remove the result, the return of the roaring terraces and professional rugby’s big kick-off, and you may have noticed a commercial anomaly in the away side’s kit: Exeter’s shirt was missing a main sponsor. Little more than a year ago, Chiefs [...]
New-build barns: the property trend for 2022? September 24, 2021 There are old houses, and there are new houses – and then there are new houses built to look old, which is what The Maltings project is all about. Designed after traditional country barns, the development, situated on the outskirts of Biddenden, a picturesque village in the Kent countryside, could be cut straight from a [...]
London sees the return of the pied-à-terre September 24, 2021 Demand for second homes came to a grinding halt in the spring of 2020 when Covid changed the world as we knew it. As stock markets began to fall and Boris announced that we could no longer leave the house for anything more than the essentials and a quick walk around the block, most pied-à-terre [...]