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This week, I’m writing from a sunny little desk inside the skinny row house I’m staying at in Sydney. I’m in the city for a short trip — just six days — and though I am mainly here to visit friends, ...

My short-term memory is like a sieve. Which means that before I write these newsletters, I often make a brief scroll back through my camera roll to find out where I’ve been, who I’ve seen and what ...

This is a vintage shirt from Bruno’s Originals. They upcycle a lot of old textiles — it reminded me of something my nan would have made. It’s an old tea towel, basically. I’m on the Mindful Fashion ...

When we pull into the driveway, my dad is already there, brush in hand, finishing up a section of powder-blue paint on the side of the house as the radio blares from inside. Flanked by fruit trees, ...

It struck me recently that Taika Waititi has been a major fixture in New Zealand culture for more than 20 years. When I was 13, I watched as Two Cars, One Night, the director’s triumphant short film ...

Bizarrely, watching Ridley Scott’s Napoleon earlier this month, with its haunting opening scene of Marie Antoinette being led to the guillotine, I found I couldn’t stop thinking about Sofia Coppola’s ...

Let it be known I didn’t take sixth-form biology. I don’t know my cytoplasm from my ribosomes, and have no qualifications for reviewing this book besides a cheerful but admittedly shallow interest in ...

The night no one goes home is a cool one with clear skies and quiet roads. It’s a Thursday in June. It gets dark early. Lydia wishes it got colder. She likes the idea of working through the night ...

A buoyant, heaving sea of red and blue may be, on some occasions, unsettling. The red and blue of the Union Jack was eaten alive for the coronation of England’s monarch in May. Bunting, cakes, ...

In collaboration with Hotel Britomart, we are excited to invite you to two events to celebrate the Metro Wine Awards. On the afternoon of 22 May, drop into the hotel for a casual free-flowing tasting, ...