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What is everyone talking about this week: Everything you wanted to know about Greenland* (*but were afraid to ask)The jewel in the Danish crown has become our latest cause célèbre as the USA muscles its way onto the island. But how much do we really know about it?
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What is everyone talking about this week: Mutton chops are back and everyone's drinking sloe ginIn his latest Country Life column, Will Hosie reveals what everyone's talking about this week (and growing, and drinking).
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What is everyone talking about this week: Winter weddings might just be better than their summer counterpartsAs our winters warm, so have Britons warmed to winter weddings. Just keep the fireplace well stocked.
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What is everyone talking about this week: Rewilding starts in your own back garden — even in the cityIf you were to string all of Britain's gardens together, they would cover a space larger than Devon. That's why we need to rewild them.
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Jazz music has always made a case for revolution, and we're falling back in love againThere’s more than a whiff of swing in the air–and on the airwaves. Will Hosie explores the resurrection of one of music’s most exciting genres
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Tate-à-tête: The National Gallery’s promise to grow its modern-art collection risks reopening old woundsThe National Gallery's announcement of a new wing and more modern art promises to reignite a historic rivalry with Tate.
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What is everyone talking about this week: January is the worst month of the year. Here's 15 ways to make it funP.s if you've made any New Year's resolutions, please don't tell us — or anyone else — about them.
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The 'new Notting Hill': more wine, more cafés, and the same old gardens where Hugh Grant kissed Julia RobertsThe complicated interplay of urban trends, property prices, tax policy and new boutiques have made Notting Hill more popular than ever with first-time buyers. Here are a couple of places currently for sale in one of its prime spots.
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Our favourite Frontispieces of 2025Will Hosie takes a look back at some standout Frontispiece portraits from the previous 12 months.
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For the first time in five centuries, Catholic worshippers in England and Wales may soon outnumber ProtestantsNew figures suggest that Britain’s youth has found God. Catholicism, in particular, is proving popular.
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What is everyone talking about this week: Would you move to Dubai?Dubai has warm weather, low taxes and an entrepreneurial mindset, but is it enough to tempt Will Hosie to move?
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A lifelong Londoner on how to beat the throngs and make the most of the city this ChristmasToo few people know how to do Christmas right, says Will Hosie. Here are his tips and tricks for navigating the capital this festive season.
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When Chelsea was grazing and pasture, not gazing and posture, this house was a Georgian dairy. Now it's a townhouse on SW3's swishest streetWill Hosie takes a look at The Old Dairy, a beautiful old home in SW3 that's seen the entire area grow up around it.
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What is everyone talking about this week: (Whisper it) is smoking back?You’d be forgiven for thinking that young people are a bunch of mopes, who refuse to drink, go dancing or have sex and are ruining British nightlife for all — but you're wrong, says Will Hosie.
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What is everyone talking about this week: Seasonal depression has struck many of us down, but a bigger problem lies in our misunderstanding of happinessAs winter beckons, many of us will lament the halcyon days where the sun shone all day and we weren't glued to our screens to escape. The grass is always greener...
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In search of London’s earliest pintEarly houses — pubs open in the early hours to feed and water the market trade — have been a cornerstone of London for centuries. Yet, as Will Hosie finds, they aren’t stuck in the past.
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What is everyone talking about this week: Is the Golden Age of fine dining over?It currently costs a restaurant around £35 to procure a Dover sole, but they cannot list said fish for anymore than £45. So, does the current financial climate spell an end to fine dining?
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What is everyone talking about this week: More than half the country owns a pet and nearly half our marriages end in divorce — no wonder pet-nups are on the risePet-nups, a formal agreement between couples over what should happen to their pets in the event of a split, are on the rise.
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What is everyone talking about this week: The great generational wealth transfer foretold by the financial press has already begun in the form of given heirloomsIf you're planning to propose to someone forget Graff or Cartier because it's time for tea with Granny.
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A true gent lets his hair down on a Wednesday: Inside our Savile Row party to celebrate the publication of Gentleman's Life'The party marked the ten-year anniversary of Gentleman's Life and it was, fittingly, a party for the ages.'
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What is everyone talking about this week: Why we love period dramaObservers cite a need for escapism, but Will Hosie thinks there's more to our enduring love of a period drama.
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What is everyone talking about this week? How to be a patriotA British 'GQ' cover has sparked questions about how to be a patriot amid today's culture wars.
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What is everyone talking about this week: Does Britain need its own Met Gala?Will Hosie questions what form the British Museum's upcoming fundraising gala should take.
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What is everyone talking about this week? Forget British wine, British olive oil is the next pot of goldWeek in, week out, Will Hosie rounds up the hottest topics on everyone's lips, in London and beyond.
