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Viva Italia! Inside the health retreat in the Dolomites that doesn’t skimp on carbsWellness need not be the monastic pursuit its champions say it should be. At LEFAY Resort & Spa, Will Hosie discovers a more humane (and human) approach to living well.
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What is everyone talking about this week: We know how to fix Britain's trainsOne-time symbols of industrial advance have become a laughing stock, plagued by cancellations and unable to withstand any weather that deviates from the norm. Plus, a parliamentary heist and chiropteran ironies.
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Down with the breakfast meetingWill Hosie has been a breakfast refusenik since he first learnt the joy of lying in. As Londoners flock to breakfast meetings, can he bring himself to join in the fun?
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What is everyone talking about this week: The Government is coming for Britain's cigar merchantsA provision in the Tobacco and Vapes Act, currently in consultation, could force the UK cigar trade to adopt the same packaging as for cigarettes.
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The service station is a symbol of civilisational decline, but it doesn't have to beBritain's service stations have lagged behind the Continent's for too long. Will Hosie finds a few outliers worth rerouting your journey for.
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What is everyone talking about this week: Is this to be the worst apple harvest in history?Record heat and next to no rainfall all summer means Britain's orchards are set to suffer devastating losses.
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What is everyone talking about this week: Are we all just running out of time?Received wisdom contends that we experience time faster with each passing year. Yet the bells and whistles of modern life, which leave us less spare time than before, could also be to blame.
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'We have concession rates for students and those who wear tartan': Meet the reel housewives of ChelseaThe lively Scottish folk dance seems odd and complicated to the uninitiated but is great fun, Will Hosie finds on a London dancefloor.
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A rare double-fronted home that's fit for a film star — on the street made famous by 'The Parent Trap'Numbers 39 and 41, Egerton Terrace is a standout on the London property market.
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What is everyone talking about this week: 'Tis the summer of the rural romp-fest. Meet the new Jilly Coopers responsibleA new generation of writers are paying tribute to the author whose stories, they say, 'allowed the countryside to be sexy'.
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Country Life's heatwave winners and losers. Spoiler alert: it's good news for tomatoesAs we struggle through another heatwave, we list our winners and losers of the sweltering season.
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What is everyone talking about this week: Is octopus on the menu in Britain? And more to the point, should it be?Will Hosie questions claims that octopus are too smart to be eaten.
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Will Hosie: Are the blockbusters of Christopher Nolan the greatest artworks of our time?With 'The Odyssey', the director has not only made the film of the summer but perhaps that which best captures the anxieties of the 2020s.
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What is everyone talking about this week: Yikes! It's school-reunion season...For some, an opportunity to reconnect with old chums, is a fearful occasion during which old-school hierarchies rear their ugly heads. May the odds be in your favour.
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What is everyone talking about this week: From ecology to football, why does France beat us at our own games?The French have started winding down for summer: a concept alien to our Protestant work ethic. Yet they always seem to outperform us in the disciplines that we helped to create. Could the two things be linked?
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Darkness, meet light: A striking Victorian home for sale in London's most charmingly-named suburbThe gentle charm of Strawberry Vale is the setting for this house full of 'gloomth', where you can wander down your garden and straight on to the banks of the Thames.
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What everyone is talking about this week: MAGA (Make Airports Great Again)Once proud institutions have fallen into disrepute.
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'I know that Serena Williams doesn’t like him': Meet the people, dogs and harris hawk that really rule WimbledonWill Hosie meets the unsung heroes of SW19, whose work behind the scenes helps to make the Wimbledon Championships one of the greatest events in sport.
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What if we could all grow our own produce from the comfort of our living roomsHome Harvest’s founders want us all to farm from our own kitchens. Is this the future of agriculture, asks Will Hosie.
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What is everyone talking about this week: What does snobbery look like now?If the snobs of yore saw popularity as inimical to artistic merit, today's snobs tend to take more readily to success.
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Drink responsibly, drink English: Rhubarb, gorse, thyme and corn are the new secret ingredients to a successful cocktailWhen it comes to cocktails, offbeat British ingredients are having a moment
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A £16 million 'miniature Kensington Palace' on the Thames in central London that was (probably) designed by Christopher WrenOnce part of a 200-acre estate, this seven-bedroom manor house overlooking Chelsea Embankment has hosted royalty and A-listers.
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Exams in November, summer in May: a new calendar for our modern climate?Wetter, stormier summers are no time for a two-month break just as marvellous May is entirely wasted on revision. A few calendrical changes would not go amiss.
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What is everyone talking about this week: Why Britain's county shows are thrivingAs Labour continues to sideline those in the countryside, seven million people are flocking to county shows this summer to sample rural life at its most tangible.
