Free from tourist traffic, rough Naples is a cultural haven
BAY OF PLENTY Mariano Rubinacci is best known as a tailor of ethereal genius. His father started a tailoring house…
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Future classics
From classics by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to Mark Twain and Ian McEwan, there are certain novels that are…
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Extravagant Easter Cocktail at Shochu Lounge
James Shearer, Group Bar Manager for Zuma, Roka and Oblix, shows us how to make the extravagant (no pun intended)…
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Review of Henri Matisse’s The Cut-Outs at Tate Modern
Henri Matisse’s exhibition has been much touted, highlighted by the iconic falling Icarus amid a starry sky, but are these…
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A Dog’s Life: West London’s Pampered Pooches
Author: Aoife Moriarty Mirroring the lives of their affluent owners, the dogs and cats of West London are beginning to…
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Review of Henri Matisse's The Cut-Outs at Tate Modern
There is much to gain by seeing these pieces in the flesh, as not only are they a whirling carousel…
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London Chocolate Festival
From artisan Easter eggs, to tasty truffles and dozens of styles of fudge, the London Chocolate Festival was a multi-sensory…
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Alexandre Singh on his fantastical, theatrical artwork The Humans
Alexandre Singh (born Bordeaux, 1980) won the Prix Meurice, awarded by Le Meurice hotel in Paris to a French Contemporary…
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How to be charming
The traits that make up charismatic people are positivity, body language and leadership and – more importantly – being able…
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How to have perfect table manners
Napkin etiquette As soon as you are seated, place your napkin on your lap. It is acceptable to tuck your…
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Restaurant Review: Boopshi’s, Goodge Street
Austrian food is having a moment. For far too long German and Austrian food has been put in a box…
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Review: When Mac Met Cheese, Porchester Road
The trend, as I am far from first to point out, for restaurants serving one kind of food done exquisitely…
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3Cs Cider features Spear’s very own William Sitwell
Now before you start chuckling to yourselves, the 3Cs in 3Cs Cider stands for 3 Chaps who are making a…
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Emily Rookwood visits the latest Austrian restaurant to hit London Austrian food is having a moment. For far too long…
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3Cs Cider comes from three counties using more traditional British apple varieties, says Emily Rookwood Now before you start chuckling…
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Best contemporary short story collections
In recent years the short story has experienced something of a ‘boom’, with more collections being published, along with a…
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Food Friday: Angela Hartnett Makes Crab Linguine
Angela Hartnett, celebrity chef and Chef Proprietor of Murano Restaurant shows Spear’s how to make the simple Northern Italian dish;…
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Posher prime ministers, small budget deficits, report says
Do Eton and Oxbridge graduates make better prime ministers? That’s what research seems to suggest, with a new paper arguing…
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Football’s moral bankruptcy shames the globe and irritates fans
Football is in the throes of an identity crisis as big money, unsuitable owners and utterly inappropriate countries use the…
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Worst literary dystopia to live in?
Author: Aoife Moriarty Some of this genre’s most famous works – including Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four –…
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