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    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Achilles, the tortoise and lessons for HS2

      The problem with Britain’s high-speed rail project is that we’re looking at it all wrong

    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      House & Home
      Can a city really ‘die’?

      Amid reports of San Francisco’s demise, the cable cars keep running and the tech industry keeps the money flowing

      wet and  grey streets in San Francisco with cable car
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      House & Home
      Who gets to keep the castle?

      A Scottish redevelopment of a spendthrift’s seat raises the question of what to do with the stranded trappings of privilege

    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      House & Home
      When a neighbours’ spat becomes a human rights dispute

      A recent London High Court ruling supports the view that freedom of expression is to be upheld even in the most mundane matters

    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Don’t annex the X!

      Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter is a linguistic land-grab

      A white ‘X’ on a black background
    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      House & Home
      Does owning a home really make you vote Conservative?

      Received wisdom is that people’s politics drift to the right after buying a property. But that may no longer be true — if it ever was

      An illustration of houses, mostly blue with one or two yellow and red
    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      House & Home
      The tree, today’s most political of plants

      A recent felling in Plymouth resulted in vote losses for the Conservatives in local elections

      A montage showing protesters against tree damage
    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      Gardens
      Keeping up with Kim Kardashian’s forest garden

      This is a challenge to small-time gardeners like me. How can you commune with nature when the queen of artifice has entered the fray?

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    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      Life & Arts
      How far would you go in pursuit of happiness?

      Some people, it seems, would gladly spend three years on a cruise ship

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      House & Home
      Snitching to an empty home hotline won’t help the housing crisis

      ‘The idea that high-end properties in Belgravia are going to be transformed into social housing is for the birds’

      Nosy neighbours peering into windows of a house, 1952
    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      House & Home
      Here’s my Netflix password — but you’ll have to pay for it

      The change of policy signals another shift in how we share our viewing experiences with family and friends

      The glow of a television screen illuminates the faces of the group of children avidly watching it
    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      House & Home
      Omaze reminds us that home ownership is about the luck of the draw

      The company’s brazen adverts for a prize draw for houses reinforce the idea that life is a lottery

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    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
      OutlookRetail & Consumer industry
      Mourn the passing of Soho’s Camisa deli but share the blame

      The closure of the much-loved Italian institution in London tells us about our own choices

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    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
      House & Home
      The real point of digital nomads

      The epithet ‘citizen of nowhere’ was meant to be an insult but they are now increasingly sought after around the world

    • Monday, 31 October, 2022
      House & Home
      The real horror in ‘The Watcher’? The overheated property market

      The Netflix thriller must strike a chord with city dwellers who’ve moved to the ’burbs — only to worry they paid far too much

    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      House & Home
      The lost art of urban apple picking

      ‘So prolific were London apples that there are varieties named after its suburbs: Hounslow Wonder and the Merton Joy’

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    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      Life & Arts
      University is daunting — for a newly liberated parent

      I have to learn how to be an autonomous adult again

    • Tuesday, 6 September, 2022
      House & Home
      Why go to the members’ club when it can come to you?

      ‘Soho House is moving its linens and knick-knacks into our interiors. Where does the boundary lie?’

    • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
      House & Home
      Why do we take so many forgettable holiday snaps?

      Many photographs are doomed to an online memory bank that we rarely look at and increasingly must pay for

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      How I came to loathe my car

      Driving has been sold to us as freedom. It really isn’t

      Backed-up traffic is seen on the left side of a highway as a lone yellow car drives past on the right side
    • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
      House & Home
      Should tenants be able to ask landlords for references?

      Both landlords and tenants take on risk but only one side has to reveal all in the application process

    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
      House & Home
      The awkward silences in our cities’ streets

      ‘There are moments in history when the story changes, caused by war, a pandemic or a deep recession. We are there now’

      Soho, London, in March
    • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
      House & Home
      The price of lighting our homes has always been steep

      As energy costs spiral, history shows how humans and animals paid dearly for electricity — and the progress it allowed

    • Wednesday, 16 March, 2022
      House & Home
      Safe as houses? War rips apart the sanctuary of home

      The barbarity in Ukraine challenges our complacency about the security and permanence of our homes

    • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
      House & Home
      The privilege of passing on the family home

      The ‘boomerang’ generation may have special ties to their parents’ palaces — but unlike the Queen, most will have inheritance tax to consider

      A black and white image of the royal family gathering at Buckingham Palace for the christening of Princess Anne in 1950
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