A very brief blog in this category this time around, with the emphasis perhaps being on the ‘this time around’. This is what you want to s...
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Britain’s newest star of track and field is on the cover of this week’s Evening Standard magazine. Dina Asher-Smith won three gold medals...
Read MoreFASHION: Cover girls and no more Burberry going up in flames
Goodsway used to be one of the grimmest streets in London. Linking the road between King’s Cross and St Pancras stations to York Way, not a salu...
Read MoreFOOD: KC – in the sunshine, grand
This is a clever book but not to the extent that it’s too clever by half. Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott (the jacket is shown on the ...
Read MoreFICTION: Swanning around to malevolent effect
St Tropez is surely one of the most glamorous places on the French Riviera. A military stronghold and fairly ordinary fishing village until the begin...
Read MoreFOREIGN: A famously stylish site facing north in the South of France
It was reported earlier this week, notably via a front-page story in The Times, that things are warming up when it comes down to sorting out Britain&#...
Read MoreFINANCE: The best of frenemies?
You would be hard pressed to find a more quintessentially English film than this. Based on the Booker-shortlisted novel of the same name by Penelope F...
Read MoreFILM: Not unputdownable but a quite riveting watch
France beat Croatia 4-2 in this year’s World Cup Final in Moscow, the second time they had won football’s grandest prize in the past 20 ye...
Read MoreFOOTBALL: The World Cup Final – France finish with a flourish
In the heart of one of the poshest areas of London, St James’s Street in SW1, about a five-minute walk from Buckingham Palace (and you can’...
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