‘Trying something out’ with a few scribbled notes, Czech games maestro Vlaada Chvátil conceived a tabletop contest than has since sold more than 15m units. Now it’s coming to take over your phoneMy mum’s given me a clue: “soup: two”. I scan the grid of…
Offline Club’s first global event on Sunday will begin with tips on how to be phone-free for 24 hours every weekHaunted by a pile of unread books? Or taunted by climbing equipment lurking in the cupboard? If you are one of the UK adults who spends on a…
The would-be U.S. president wants the X boss in his team. But who else could get a top job?
Artefacts sent by farmer, who made the ‘absolutely mad’ discovery while cutting silageWhen the national museum of Ireland received two 4,000-year-old axe heads, “thoughtfully” wrapped in foam inside a porridge box, from an anonymous source last month, …
Social media makes professionalising your passions all too easy but this puts the joy of amateurism at stake
Europe’s fringe parties are beating centrists at reaching TikTok users, a data analysis by POLITICO shows.
Learning Arabic | Breadmaking and needlepoint | Pen friends | Idle thoughts | Modelling niksenThe possibility of Geert Wilders’ party heading the new government (Report, 8 February) was sufficient reason for me to take up Arabic. The Duolingo app is of…
Thé dansants in France are mostly attended by older people. The photographer Julie Glassberg documented the social scene as part of her work on later ageOne day when I was an art student in Paris, I was having a coffee with a friend at the brasserie La…
It’s boom time for retailers as commuters ditch office garb for hiking shoes and Gore-TexFour years ago, one man’s cosy puffer jacket sent a tremor through the fashion industry.It was January 2019 and fashion’s glitterati had congregated in Paris’s Tui…
Stand aside, politics wonks. We’ve used astrology to map out the next year of international relations.
From wellbeing allowances to generous parental leave to a bonus in your pay packet when you take a break, the Scandinavian country has a lot to teach the rest of the worldGym classes, massages, mood boosting hobbies; it’s no secret that staying “well” …
A veteran hobbyist explains the allure of searching for treasure in a huge pine forest in the province of ViterboLeonardo Ciocca was a novice detectorist when he thought he’d made the discovery of the century.He had been searching for treasures beneath…
The idea of communing with nature is instilled from birth in Norway. I hiked through a rain-drenched forest to try it myself‘Being outdoors is a natural way of living in Norway,” Bente Lier tells me over the phone. “It’s a very important part of what w…
