Could a Spartan lifestyle turn me from zero to hero? I travelled to Greece to find out
She has a point; one Leonidas I would probably agree with. The fabled 5th-century-BC warrior-king – a slayer of Persian invaders famously depicted by Gerard Butler in…
Coast, culture and low prices: Croatia’s most beautiful seaside destinations to visit this summer
Croatia offers more than 1,100 miles of meandering mainland coast backed by rugged limestone mountains, along with hundreds of scattered islands and islets, of which 47 are…
Dubai’s most unusual hotel suites, from alpine chalets to underwater rooms
Moderation doesn’t suit Dubai, where supersized hotels in record-breaking towers, luxury yachts in glittering marinas, huge malls stuffed with designer shops, and mega parks with grand-scale attractions…
Every country in Europe will feel more expensive this summer – except one
Those price differences very roughly echo the Post Office survey, but they don’t single out Turkey as quite the excellent value that you might think it would…
The Essex private island that’s an unlikely A-list bolthole
A helicopter thunders overhead as we wait for our lattes, and I find myself wondering which A-lister is about to be deposited nearby to join us. We’re…
Why I’ve given up on going abroad, and plan to spend my holidays on home soil
Like so many others during the pandemic, we’ve fallen in love with the south west, so decided to spend a week there. We started our trip at…
Flybe flies again – but where to, and will it be another flop?
Rising like a phoenix from the ashes of Covid, Flybe – the British domestic airline – is to start services again next month. It sounds like a…
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, review – the little boy who walked on the Moon
Richard Linklater was one week shy of his ninth birthday when the Apollo 11 Moon landing took place in 1969, but he put himself into orbit well…
The Whitney Biennial shows a tortured America staring itself down
Walking through this year’s Whitney Biennial can feel like entering the set of a high-budget horror film. A hooded figure stands alone, wrapped in a sleeping bag,…
‘It was only after my mother’s death that I discovered she was a Resistance hero’
By April 1943, Sabine was being warned that the boss in the office where she worked could betray her. On 28 April 1943, she saw a military…
Banned from the Academy: what happened to the first actor to suffer Will Smith’s possible fate?
Unfortunately for Caridi, his tendency for screener-sharing resulted in him crossing paths with a piracy legend. For at least three years in the early Noughties, Caridi gave…
BBC radio will be a much less welcoming place without Kermode and Mayo
Such was my initial upset at the announcement that Kermode & Mayo’s Film Review was coming to an end, I actually pretended it wasn’t happening. Given that…
The cult of Jared Leto: is he Hollywood’s oddest, most irritating star?
The cult-like component of 30 Seconds To Mars fandom has actually been acknowledged by the group. Since 2015, Leto has staged 30 Seconds To Mars “Summer Camps”…
Can the Oscars ever recover from the Will Smith scandal?
On the bright side, at least everyone is talking about the Oscars again. Since 2014, the audience for Hollywood’s annual awards show have been steadily dwindling, and…
Bridgerton star Polly Walker interview: ‘There was no sisterhood in Hollywood’
She notes that in “those more treacherous times” she received no support from older actresses. “There was no sisterhood when I was starting out.” In fact, Walker…
What’s on TV tonight: National Treasure, National Disgrace: Savile, Harris & Hall, and more
Slow HorsesApple TV+Based on Mick Herron’s bestselling spy yarns, this six-part adaptation from The Thick of It actor Will Smith has attracted quite the cast. Gary Oldman…
List of CBD products approved for sale, but watchdog remains wary
The first list of approved sweets, oils and drinks containing CBD has been released by the Food Standards Agency in a move to start regulating the industry….
Dam Busters March suspended and air raid sirens silenced in wake of Ukraine conflict
The Dam Busters March has been suspended and air raid sirens silenced by a football club on match days in the wake of the Ukraine conflict. Lincoln…
Is it a monkey? Is it Russell Brand? No, it’s Jared Leto’s ‘living vampire’ in Morbius
In the field of cognitive science, there is a special kind of sound known as a Shepard tone. Invented by the psychologist Roger Shepard, it is constructed…
Thought rock is dead? Royal Blood prove otherwise
At 9pm sharp at a sold-out 02 Arena, Royal Blood embarked on a 90-minute rebuke to the naysayers of British guitar music. Over the years, the cry…
A strange hodge-podge of an evening at the Southbank, plus the best of March’s classical concerts
A performance of one of Bach’s Passions, his dramatic retellings of the Arrest, Trial and Crucifixion of Christ, is not something you stroll along to in a…
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Gondoliers at their most joyously exuberant
Of all the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, The Gondoliers is arguably the most exuberant, the most musically inventive, and even the most topically satirical. Scottish Opera’s new…
Why there is no way back for Prince Andrew now
As far as courtiers are concerned, Andrew is to have “no involvement whatsoever” in the events in May and June. But ultimately it will be for HM…
Sophie Ellis-Bextor delivers an unabashedly feelgood echo of lockdown (yes, really)
There was curiously little difference in energy levels between Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s performances in her kitchen to her phone screen during lockdown, and her performance to a packed-out…
This mad Irish road-trip is one of the best novels of 2022 so far
No-one listens to the radio or goes on a road-trip forever; you escape in the knowledge that the world will recapture you when you’re done. The duo…