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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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The Glovebox: BMW's moving art can't stop being the star of the showThings to look out for at Salon Rétromobile in Paris, a new Bugatti that's like an old Bugatti, The King's Lotus and where food and F1 collide.
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Sophistication on wheels: The most elegant method of train travel is still the sleeperThe appeal of being lulled to sleep as a sleeper train rattles homewards is synonymous with adventure and romance.
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Slipshod no more: The slipper has made its way out of the bedroom and into the world of high fashionVersatile, stylish, comfortable and elegant. What's not to love about footwear that's perfect for almost every occasion?
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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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Zero XE: Zipping around the countryside on a 'mountain bike on steroids'Patrick Galbraith puts the latest electric offering from Zero Motorcycles through its paces.
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The smartest dog breed in the world — loved by Robert Burns and Queen VictoriaFrom the Border hills to Burns Night, the border collie remains what it has always been: an ancient working dog of extraordinary intelligence and loyalty.
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Hello Kitty, the FBI and the exclusive island of Nantucket: Weird and wonderful tartans, and where to find themThis Burns Night, Lotte Brundle offers you a brief history of the internationally celebrated chequered fabric.
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Forget haggis — the humble swede is the real hero of the Burns Night mealDouglas Chalmers makes his case for the underrated root vegetable.
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Come rain or shine: Burberry’s Gabardine Capsule collection celebrates the art of dressing for Britain’s changeable skiesBurberry is celebrating the revolutionary fabric its founder invented with a new collection designed for adventures in Britain's countryside — and its unpredictable weather.
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Tom Parker Bowles talks tartiflette: 'This is not a dish worried about precision, elegance or nuance. It is all about beautiful ballast and you wouldn’t want it any other way'Tartiflette is one of the most gloriously indulgent après-ski centrepieces, but you don’t need to have spent the day bombing down black runs to enjoy it
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Eileen Soper: The 'schoolgirl among the masters' with paintings in millions of homes, even yoursRenowned for illustrating the ‘Famous Five’ series, the mercurial, motorcar-obsessed Eileen Soper lived a bucolic and eccentric life.
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Posh people do well on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! because they survived boarding school: Sophia Money-Coutt's snob's guide to reality television'One of my least favourite forms of snobbery is television snobbery,' says our weekly columnist — who also reveals what her favourite reality television shows are.
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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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The monk strap: Where did the shoe with sole and sophistication come from?Amie Elizabeth White charts the history of the monk strap shoe — beloved by Clark Gable, Cary Grant and James Bond.
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Twenty momentous photographs from the last 100 years that define our historyEvery photograph tells a story and none more so than these 20 unforgettable ones.
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AI is now reaching into every corner of our lives — we can, and must, carefully choose how to engage with itEmma Hughes, a key part of Country Life magazine's features team, is also a novelist. She reflects on the expanding reach of AI after finding out that her work had been 'scraped' in order to train Meta's new AI assistant, Llama 3.
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‘They don’t just fling themselves at you — they choose you’: Everything you need to know about the Scottish terrierFrom Queen Victoria and Franklin D. Roosevelt to Rudyard Kipling and Humphrey Bogart — the Scottish terrier has been winning admirers for centuries, but it is a breed that chooses its people carefully.
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Sin, deceit, art, education: The secret history of playing cards explainedFrom China, through Persia, India, Europe and now in most of our homes. The humble hearts, clubs, spades and jacks have quite the story to tell.
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'I am blessed with many talents, most of which I can’t print, but taking a decent photograph is not one of them': How a camera-challenged Millennial fell in love with a landscapeA recent visit to Kinloch Lodge hotel was accompanied by a lesson in landscape photography.
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For Hairy Biker Si King, the secret ingredients will always be hard work and communitySi King talks to Molly Pepper Steemson about proper pies, the importance of community, and a new whisky collaboration with Cask Trade.
