Caviar for breakfast, lunch and dinner: On board the world’s only luxury icebreaker with Alain Ducasse Life&Style Caviar on boiled eggs cooked by Alain Ducasse at sea? Anna Moloney jumps on board luxury cruise Le Commandant Charcot for a winter tour.
Is this Europe’s weirdest holiday? Bog swimming in Estonia Life&Style The strange, freeing pursuit of bog swimming in wild Estonia I am a Princess Fiona seeking her Shrek. My best chance of finding my lonely yet loveable ogre and getting our long-overdue Happily Ever After, as every DreamWorks fan knows, is in a swamp. Hackney Marshes and Walthamstow Wetlands have thus far failed to deliver [...]
What drinking alcohol at football could tell us about sporting fandom Sport Business The Prime Minister has flirted with the idea of letting football fans drink alcohol on terraces again and it could have an impact on how we measure fandom, writes Ben McMahon. Settle into your Wembley Stadium seat for today’s NFL game and you can roar on the Jaguars with a cool Coors in hand. Visit [...]
These are the best literary hotels in Europe October 17, 2026 Poet, playwright and screenwriter Alexandra Pereira on her favourite literary hotels. Where will you check in to pen your tome? If you’re looking for inspiration for isolation, here’s where to book a room of one’s own, just a short train or flight from London, as well as the renowned, and sometimes controversial writers from the [...]
Midday Markets: The one tax you could bank on October 16, 2026 The Midday Market report is a new newsletter from City AM, giving you fresh analysis on the biggest stories in the City straight into your inbox every lunchtime. Today, Ali Lyon, chews over the government’s plans for a windfall tax on banks. Sign up to the City AM News Updates newsletter here. It was, in [...]
Laila Cunningham: Sadiq Khan has failed Londoners, I will keep you safe October 15, 2026 Reform will put police officers back on our streets, restore effective stop and search, prioritise the prosecution of violent and sexual offenders, expand prison capacity and deport foreign criminals, says Laila Cunningham I spent years prosecuting criminals. I’ve stood in courtrooms, listened to victims and seen the devastation crime leaves behind. I thought I understood [...]
Ask the expert: Should I retire when I still have a mortgage? October 15, 2026 Mortgage worries overriding retirement excitement? Marianna Hunt is back to take a look over whether retiring while still owing money on your mortgage is a bad idea. I want to retire at 55, which is in five years’ time. However, I still have nine years of repayments on my mortgage. I think I could just [...]
Dispatch from David Cameron’s 60th bash: Party talk turns to politics October 14, 2026 Should Andy Burnham call a snap election? Emily Sheffield reports from the political tittle tattle field of David Cameron's 60th party.
Where to eat Greek food in central London October 10, 2026 If there has been a dominant trend this year with new restaurant openings, it’s the unending rise of the Greek taverna. It feels apt. The same year that pavements cracked with heat and parks turned brittle, a yearning for the Hellenic feels natural. And the Odyssey came out, which felt weirdly foreign in its dark [...]
Is the XPeng G6 a smarter buy than a German SUV? October 9, 2026 The XPeng G6 undercuts BMW’s iX3, Audi’s Q6 e-tron and the electric Mercedes GLC by around £20,000, and charges faster than all of them. So what does the German badge actually buy you? For years, buying a premium SUV meant picking between three German badges. BMW, Audi and Mercedes still own that conversation, but the [...]