Old City, New Tricks: Lisbon’s Endless Temptations
Three years on from a six-month stint living in Lisbon, Estella Shardlow returns to find the city blooming — with new…
Oxford, Collected
The Oxford Collection has spent four decades building hotels and restaurants which could belong nowhere else. Douglas Blyde checks into…
Spa of the Month: Low Wood Bay, Windermere
The only Lowood I had previously come across was the terrible school the young Jane Eyre attends as a kind…
Old City, New Tricks: Lisbon’s Endless Temptations
Three years on from a six-month stint living in Lisbon, Estella Shardlow returns to find the city blooming — with new…
Abigail’s Party
Gin, Demis Roussos and simmering marital despair; Mike Leigh’s seminal suburban satire gets a magnetic West End revival, led by…
Swagger and Scandal: Whistler at Tate Britain
Litigious, self-mythologising and never knowingly underdressed, James Abbott McNeill Whistler cuts a singular figure among the Victorian greats. Rosalind Ormiston…
Gauguin and Polynesia
A meticulously researched biography cuts through decades of controversy to ask what Gauguin’s paintings actually show us about the Polynesia…
Northern Ballet: Gentleman Jack
Anne Lister was a bold, ambitious, unapologetic Yorkshire woman outwardly making a place for herself in a man’s world and…
Ariadne auf Naxos at Glyndebourne
Richard Strauss’ ‘opera within an opera’ Ariadne auf Naxos, has at its heart an audacious reconciliation of high art with low…
Abigail’s Party
Gin, Demis Roussos and simmering marital despair; Mike Leigh’s seminal suburban satire gets a magnetic West End revival, led by…
The Bat & Ball, Cuddesdon
In a quiet Oxfordshire village ten minutes from Oxford, The Bat & Ball pairs a beautifully restored 16th-century inn with…
The Bat & Ball, Cuddesdon
In a quiet Oxfordshire village ten minutes from Oxford, The Bat & Ball pairs a beautifully restored 16th-century inn with…
Silva, Revisited
When I first visited Mayfair’s Silva restaurant for the Arbuturian last year, I found it a pleasant but ever so…
Fashion Becomes Tea at The Kensington Town House
As National Afternoon Tea Week gets underway, Rebecca Buchanan pulls up a chair at The Kensington Hotel’s Town House to sample…
Fashion Becomes Tea at The Kensington Town House
As National Afternoon Tea Week gets underway, Rebecca Buchanan pulls up a chair at The Kensington Hotel’s Town House to sample…