Nearly half our waking life is spent somewhere other than where we are. That is not a scheduling problem. It is the problem. Lifestyle “In a minute.” I have said those two words more times than I would like to count, usually to a small person holding something up for me to look at, while
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Six hundred events in a Welsh market town. What Hay 2026 was really selling was an hour of undivided thought. 21–31 May 2026 · Hay-on-Wye, Powys Hay Festival’s chief executive describes it as “part Glastonbury, part Davos”, which is the best description of anything I have read this year. Eleven days. Six hundred events. A
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A man ran a marathon in under two hours. Meanwhile, 59,830 people finished the same course, and the average one took four and a half hours. 26 April 2026 · Greenwich to The Mall Somewhere around Canary Wharf, an eighty-eight-year-old man called Harry Newton was making his way toward the finish. Thirty-six other people over
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Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and BlackRock have launched a rival stablecoin. The circle fell 17 per cent in a day. The fight is over something called the float. July 2026 · Money & Payments A consortium of more than 140 companies Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, Coinbase, BlackRock, BNY, Standard Chartered, Google and IBM- has launched
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Europe is hot, crowded and quietly rationing itself. The smartest travellers are changing their dates rather than their destination. July 2026 · Lifestyle Somewhere in Europe this week, a woman is standing in a queue that snakes around a piazza in thirty-eight degrees of heat, holding a phone above her head, waiting to photograph a
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The worst month on record for Bitcoin ETFs, a stalled bill, and an industry that has quietly stopped talking about price. July 2026 · Markets & Policy Bitcoin is trading around $62,000 this week. Last October, it touched $126,000. Anyone who bought at the top and a great many people did, because that is what
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Most “how to save money” lists read like they were written by someone who’s never run out of money before the end of the month. Skip the coffee. Sell the car. Photosynthesise. You deserve better than that, so I’ve stripped it down to the ten changes that genuinely shift the needle. The ones you’ll see
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Can I confess something? I once bought the watch. The nice one, the one I was sure would feel like arriving. It looked lovely on my wrist for about a fortnight. Then it quietly became… the watch. Here’s what I’ve learned since. The money I spend on doing makes me far happier than money I
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Let me tell you about the coats. For years, I bought the £40 ones three or four a winter, feeling clever every time I saved a few pounds at the till. Then each one pilled, sagged, or fell apart by spring, and I’d start again. It took me embarrassingly long to notice I was spending
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I’ll be honest with you. For years, I ate lunch standing at my desk, laptop open, fork in one hand, crumbs in the keyboard, and I told myself that was ambition. It wasn’t. It was me letting my inbox decide what my time was worth. And the answer it kept giving me was: not much.
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