Cheaper beer exists, even in London – if you know where to look – Moment RF There is a moment in every man’s life when he realizes that he has become his father. Mine came last year at the bar of a well-known pub in central London, when a card reader, almost apologetically by the … Read more
Camera Obscura & World of Illusions ensure that the children can have hours of fun in Edinburgh The Easter holidays are approaching across the country and with it the eternal problem of what to do with the children when the weather turns bad. If the weather forecast ruins adventures in the great outdoors, it’s worth … Read more
Holidaymakers heading for the Easter weekend are dealing with 20-mile traffic jams, two-hour delays in Dover and train chaos on Friday afternoon. The holiday traffic caused “pretty terrible” queues of 20 miles at the M4 and M5 junction near Bristol, adding 45 minutes to journey times as around 2.6 million car journeys were expected to … Read more
Roast mutton from Pipers Farm, cooked in hay with roast potatoes, garlic and a green herb sauce – Matt Austin At Durslade Farm in Bruton, Somerset, head farmer Dan George shows me his sheep. Easter is just around the corner, but there is not a lamb to be seen yet. Have they been sent to … Read more
(ES) Slap your fellas and get out the rodeo gear: London is in for a hot cowboy summer. Anyone who’s hesitant should discuss it with Beyoncé, whose country-inspired album Cowboy Carter drops tomorrow. The March 19 release of the album cover cemented her new look: on horseback, wearing a red, white and blue ensemble with … Read more
Dujonna Gift in Two Strangers (carry a cake through New York) – Marc Brenner Withnail and me Bruce Robinson has adapted his own beloved 1987 Brit film, about two squiffy, on-their-upstairs actors from the 1960s. Robert Sheehan plays the acerbic Richard E Grant role of Withnail, Adonis Siddique is his fresh-faced friend Marwood and Malcolm … Read more
Flying police cars in the 1997 film The Fifth Element – Alamy It’s science fiction: a city with shiny skyscrapers, with futuristic planes that glide lightly back and forth across the skyline. However, this isn’t a galaxy far, far away, but London in two years’ time – according to an article published by the Department … Read more
London must ‘wake up’ to the scale and severity of the threat of espionage, intellectual property theft and interference operations by China, a leading parliamentarian has warned. Former minister Theresa Villiers, who sits on Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, stressed that China is “extensively” targeting the capital because it wants to gain economic, political or … Read more
(ES) Exactly four years ago, I was five weeks into my new job as Culture Editor of this newspaper. On March 23 we were in lockdown and I was at home. It didn’t feel like a promising start, although at least I wasn’t the only one who didn’t know what they were doing anymore. I … Read more