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It's not all doom and gloom for British farmers — just ask the winemakersThe long, hot summer has yielded a bountiful and uncommonly sweet supply of wine — better even than last year's. England's vintners are rejoicing.
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Frieze! Is counterculture back just in time for London's most prestigious art fair?Will Hosie argues that ongoing instability in London might be a good thing for artists — and therefore buyers; while Charlotte Mullins reveals what to look out for at Frieze.
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Cultural fandom is the ultimate members' club, and J.D. Vance wants inAs party conference season rages on, our columnist finds politicians on both sides of the Atlantic unable to resist the lure of culture club.
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'Ideally, you want to have someone there who has been recently cancelled, as everyone wants to speak to them': How to throw London's best partyLooking back on the greatest parties in London’s history, Will Hosie realises it’s a thin line between hit and miss.
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The oxymoron of luxury tinned tunaYou might think of tinned fish as a European invention. You would be wrong.
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Sheep are getting bad press. Is any of it fair?Some blame the beasts for desiccating already arid land, while others want to ban wool. When, and how, did sheep become such scapegoats?
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What is everyone talking about this week: Have we reached peak 90s nostalgia?With an exhibition of the decade's most famous images opening at Tate Britain (and Oasis returning to Knebworth), could it be that 90s nostalgia is becoming a little cringe?
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What is everyone talking about this week: Why do art's insiders skip Frieze — and where do they go instead?The late David Hockney is among the artists exhibited as part of this year's show — a favourite for connoisseurs eager to skip the madness of crowds.
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Do we dress better when the economy is tanking?The seventies, the nineties and now the twenty-twenties are proving ripe for fashions that stand the test of time. Yet they also proved economically trying. Are the two things linked?
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Stop trying to make a pub something it isn'tIt doesn't need to be a restaurant. It needs to have a soul.
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A new exhibition in the Hampshire forest is setting tongues wagging — and wooing young collectorsArina Izmestieva's gallery, Funny Weather, has launched an outdoor exhibition that celebrates the materials found in our national landscapes.
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What is everyone talking about this week: How Yotam Ottolenghi inspired a vogue for harvest partiesThe chef who taught Britain how to love vegetables is now celebrating them with an annual back-to-school party. Others are following suit.
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'Alexander McQueen is coming home the way football never could': This season’s ‘it’ item is the runway itselfLondon Fashion Week is finally back in vogue.
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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.
