No kit, no membership, no lycra. The dullest possible workout may be the one that actually lasts. Health & Fitness I want to make the least fashionable fitness argument available to me, and I want to make it with a straight face. The best exercise for most people, most of the time, is walking. Not […]
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Self-custody sounds noble until you understand what it actually asks of you. Let me be the friend who tells you the truth. Crypto · Explainer Let me tell you the single most frightening sentence in cryptocurrency, and then let me make it useful rather than terrifying. If you truly own crypto, not an entry on
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Rates near 4.7% look generous — until inflation and the taxman have their turn. Here is the sum the adverts never show you. Personal Finance There is a particular feeling I want to describe, because I suspect you have had it. You move your money to a savings account paying a headline rate that looks
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Gen Z is buying flip phones on purpose. Before you laugh, notice who is selling you the alternative — and what it costs. Lifestyle Somewhere in Britain this morning, a twenty-year-old flipped a phone shut to end a call, and felt a small, precise satisfaction that no touchscreen has ever once delivered. She did it
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Nobody tells you that the sensible way to lose fat in your forties is to spend most of your energy trying not to lose muscle. Health & Fitness I would like to begin with an apology to my thirties, during which I ran. Not for pleasure, you understand. I ran the way one serves a
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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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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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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
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