Times Literary Supplement (May 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The future of sex?’ – Dating apps, virtual encounters and polyamory; An American Life; Ripley’s new game; Gurus and primal screams ….
Country Life Magazine (May 14, 2024): The latest issue features…
This year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show is poised to celebrate the unfolding freshness and energy of deciduous woods in May, as Kathryn Bradley-Hole discovers
Garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith is returning to Chelsea’s Main Avenue for the first time in 14 years for the National Garden Scheme, reveals Joanna Fortnam
It’s raining ancient folklore and proverbs as John Lewis-Stempel relies on jumping trout, croaking frogs and chirping crickets to predict the great British weather
Carla Passino examines how the brushstrokes of Monet, Turner, Klimt and Canaletto are providing colour and inspiration at Chelsea
Cathryn Spence airs the story of how—250 years ago—Joseph Priestley ‘discovered’ oxygen at Bowood House in Wiltshire
The director of London’s Charles Dickens Museum picks a classic snapshot of the capital’s skyline
Bess of Hardwick was the first of many influential Chatsworth women, as Kate Green learns
George Plumptre admires the simple beauty of the gardens at Pusey House in Oxfordshire
What makes a comfortable garden seat, asks Tiffany Daneff
Amelia Thorpe seeks out crafted benches to suit every garden
In the final part of her series, Anna Brown is focused on harvesting
Clive Aslet lauds the enduring influence of the prolific Victorian architect George Edmund Street
Marianne Taylor is captivated by the curious beauty of molluscs
Deborah Nash visits the last British firm creating horsehair fabric
The Royal Countryside Fund reception at Fortnum & Mason
Amelia Thorpe takes a look at six of the best WOW!house creations
Hetty Lintell is wowed by jewels celebrating the National Gallery
The arrival of new-season carrots is applauded by Melanie Johnson
John Wright is playing with fire as he investigates horseradish
Deborah Nicholls-Lee dreams of dainty white flowers and a fragrant lawn that never needs mowing
Sir Ian McKellen lends a ‘silvering dignity’ to Shakespeare’s famed roisterer, finds Michael Billington
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (May 11, 2024): The ‘Retirement Issue’ features…
For many relationships, life after work brings an unexpected set of challenges.
This spring, Barbara and Joe, a retired couple in their 60s, sat down with me at a bistro in suburban Connecticut to talk about their relationship. That they were sitting there together at all was something of a triumph. In the past few days, they had hurled at each other the kinds of accusations that couples make when they are on the brink of mutual destruction. They were bruised from the words that had been exchanged, and although they sat close to each other, their energy was quiet and heavy.
A Times financial columnist and an illustrator share an exercise that can prepare you for life after work.
By Ron Lieb
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – MAY 13, 2024 ISSUE:
Swing states and Republican areas are getting jobs and money from Biden’s economic plan. What’s at stake if Trump takes the presidency.
With more top advisors working in teams, we needed a bigger list to represent the industry’s best.
Financial advisors who bring qualified children on board can set up their practices for long-term success and stability. Here’s what it means for clients.
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In AU$940 million deal, PsiQuantum will build “utility scale” facility
Draft evaluation calls 2016 decision to change oral vaccines a “failure”
Novel effort comes as study finds key receptor for avian flu virus in udders, where the virus flourishes
Its collapse could be sudden and irreversible
At first glance, the world economy looks reassuringly resilient. America has boomed even as its trade war with China has escalated. Germany has withstood the loss of Russian gas supplies without suffering an economic disaster. War in the Middle East has brought no oil shock. Missile-firing Houthi rebels have barely touched the global flow of goods. As a share of global gdp, trade has bounced back from the pandemic and is forecast to grow healthily this year.
The assignment of judges to cases should be random, not political
Under Lawrence Wong, the city-state has a new chance to change
Despite Xi Jinping’s protestations, China does have an overcapacity problem
How to pacify the world’s most violent region
The Guardian Weekly (May 8, 2024) – The new issue features ‘Nowhere to call home’ – Inside Europe’s housing crisis…
Elections for the European parliament are less than a month away and far-right parties are predicted to make significant gains in many of the bloc’s 27 member states. The dire shortage of housing, leading to rising rents and property prices, is becoming a unifying focus for voters’ discontent with their current political leaders.
The issue has sparked protests from Amsterdam to Prague and Milan, as the Guardian’s Europe correspondent, Jon Henley, reports. The data is undeniably worrying as young Europeans spend up to 10 times an average salary on rent and mortgage payments, and big cities from the Baltic states to the Iberian peninsula have registered average property price rises of close to 50%. As a result more EU residents live with their parents for longer and put off life-decisions later into adulthood.
While housing does not fall within MEPs’ remit, it is a visible locus for the sense of social unease that has beset the whole bloc and has become a pivot for the far right to turn on racialised minorities. But as European community affairs correspondent Ashifa Kassam discovers, it is those communities that are doubly penalised through discrimination from landlords who, research has shown, turn away potential renters with “foreign” surnames. The political and social ramifications of the housing crisis in Europe is mirrored elsewhere across the globe and is a subject we will return to in the Guardian Weekly in this year of elections.
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The Chang’e-6 mission aims to land in the Moon’s oldest and largest crater, where it will collect rocks to bring back to Earth.
The tissue developed into functioning kidneys and produced urine
From extreme cold to strong magnets and high pressures, the Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility (SECUF) provides conditions for researching potential wonder materials
Times Literary Supplement (May 8 2024): The latest issue features ‘Reverie and revolution’ – Ian Penman on Surrealism; Crime fiction gets political; Scorsese’s English masters, women pianists and more….
Country Life Magazine (May 7, 2024): The latest issue features…
Mrs Beeton’s recipes are still followed more than a century later. Kate Green raises a spoon to the first domestic goddess
Good coffee, companionship and delectable cakes are on offer in the cafés of the Cots-wolds. Ben Lerwill takes a sip
On the 75th birthday of Badminton Horse Trials, Kate Green salutes seven heroes of eventing’s premier weekend
The names of our butterflies and moths owe their artistic overtones to a golden group, discovers Peter Marren
From Sissinghurst to Charleston, gardens offered the women of the Bloomsbury group refuge, solace and inspiration. Deborah Nicholls-Lee enjoys a stroll
The event director of Badminton Horse Trials chooses a hunting scene with personal resonance
Farmers should be allowed to prioritise producing food, believes Minette Batters
The Anglo-American artistic circle of Russell House in Broadway, Worcestershire, lives on through its current incumbents, John Martin Robinson is pleased to say
Spring has donned its lacy garb as cow parsley flowers. Vicky Liddell walks the umbellifer lanes
The fearsome scorpion fly is straight out of science-fiction central casting, says Ian Morton
Jo Caird marvels at a rare survival in a Cotswold church
Hetty Lintell packs her case and runs away to the airport
Curl up and get cosy with the comfiest bedroom accessories, chosen by Amelia Thorpe
Recently renovated, the gardens of Iford Manor in Wiltshire are as idyllic today as they were when Harold Peto created the Italianate design, marvels Tiffany Daneff
John Wright adds tonic and raises a glass to the juniper
Quivering, crystal-clear savoury jelly is all grown up. Tom Parker Bowles braves the wobble
Michael Sandle is still fighting the good fight through his art as he turns 88, reveals John McEwen
A trick of Cumbrian geology led to worldwide fame for Keswick, scribbles Harry Pearson
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