By: Adam Bloodworth

Features Journalist Adam Bloodworth is the Deputy Life&Style Editor at City AM. He has served in the role since 2022, writing and commissioning culture and lifestyle features for the newspaper and website. The Life&Style section covers film, TV, music, theatre, things to do in London and features that examine the ways Londoners live their lives. He also serves as Deputy Editor for City AM The Magazine, writing and commissioning for the quarterly luxury lifestyle product distributed by hand around the capital. He has been interviewed by the BBC News at 10, BBC Scotland, BBC Three Counties Radio and can be found on X and LinkedIn.

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Why the tie is making a comeback

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Once viewed as stuffy and outdated, the tie is staging a comeback. adam bloodworth explores how the corporate staple is being reclaimed by musicians and London’s underground club scene For generations of men, the tie was something you wore without thinking. Slipping one on was simply part of your morning routine, as mundane as shaving [...]
Hay Fever review: Richard E Grant is perfect Coward fodder

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Hay Fever review and star rating: ★★★★ Of course, darling: Richard E Grant simply must play David Bliss, the blinkered, posho patriarch at the centre of Noel Coward’s drawing room comedy, Hay Fever. This is how I imagine the casting conversations went, anyway. Shockingly, E Grant – everyone’s favourite aristo-portrayer – has until now never [...]
Robert De Niro could be doing anything — so why is he spending his eighties promoting Nobu?

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Robert De Niro talks to City AM The Magazine about his enduring love for Nobu, and how aged 83, he is fiercely protective of his businesses In an intimidatingly futuristic building made almost entirely of glass, I pass through a marble-clad lobby, up a flight of stairs and into an expensive-looking hotel suite. Here a [...]

Soho House founder’s new hotel could rebirth central London nightlife

September 29, 2026

St Clement hotel from Soho House founder Nick Jones feels unusually hedonistic for 2026, with dimly lit bars and restaurants, and new sightlines over the Thames Blame Nick Jones if you’re sick of hearing about members’ clubs. He invented the modern iteration of them when he founded Soho House in 1995, now with over 250,000 [...]
First look: Quaglino’s rebirths ‘90s golden era with epic revamp

September 22, 2026

City AM was first to experience the new look Quaglino’s, the legendary St James restaurant where the late Queen celebrated her Coronation, which has been revamped ahead of its hundredth birthday How about a chocolate cigar, or even a chocolate ashtray? These are two of the unusual desserts available at the newly revamped Quaglino’s. They [...]
Apple unveils new 600 capacity music venue in London – see pictures

September 22, 2026

Apple is launching a new music venue in London with space for 600. The venue near Battersea Power Station has not yet revealed an opening date, but promises to connect fans and artists through intimate shows. The venue will have views towards the river and the Battersea Power Station and will cater to seated and [...]
London Tube exhibition celebrates ghosts of the Underground and screeching sound of tracks

September 16, 2026

The ominous presence of a ghost at Bethnal Green Tube station, a melange of colour left behind from torn off posters at Bank and burly rain clouds cloaking Three Colts Lane. These are sights featured in the paintings in Jock McFadyen with Jem Finer’s Underground (and Surface) Exhibition now showing at the Guildhall Art Gallery. [...]
How The Light Gets In founder: Here’s the one exception to our free speech rule

September 16, 2026

How The Light Gets In festival is on Hampstead Heath this Saturday and Sunday What’s the biggest taboo in British society? “Interesting,” says Hilary Lawson, founder of How The Light Gets In philosophy and ideas festival, which takes place in London this weekend. These are the sorts of questions posed at the event, which also [...]
We desperately need more negative hotel reviews

September 8, 2026

When you read a restaurant review, you expect it to be critical. The same is true of theatre reviews, which often reward shows with one star. The same can not be said for the travel industry. In that sphere, journalists are far less likely to say that something is bad. Barring those trashy TV shows [...]
The St Paul’s Cathedral Fabric outrage is a ridiculous moral panic

September 8, 2026

St Paul’s Cathedral has announced a four-year collaboration with Fabric nightclub that will see DJs being brought into the capital’s most lauded pews, designed by Sir Christopher Wren. The four-year project has provoked outrage among groups including traditionalist Christians and historic preservation societies. Descendants of Lord Nelson called the events “an insult” to his memory, [...]

The BBC’s bulletin cuts show how crowded sports broadcasting has become

The BBC’s bulletin cuts show how crowded sports broadcasting has become

Is Soho nightlife really dead? We went partying to find out

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