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In the Neighbourhood: Ballydehob, West Cork

Ballydehob in West Cork is a hub for artists, makers, and culinary delights with a vibrant summer festival scene

✍️ Tabitha Joyce
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At Norway’s edge, a hotel built for elemental escape

Ytri, an island hideaway 60km off the mainland, has the natural world at its heart

✍️ Tabitha Joyce
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‘I really love you, mate’: bromance is back

From headlocks and hugs to declarations of undying love, the bromance is definitely back. But if male friendships are so important, so profound, why are they so lightly worn?

✍️ Joel Golby
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Nigel Slater’s summer vegetable green curry

Sweltering hot days call for something spicy, sour, refreshing, with a backnote of citrus and chilli – this coconut-scented green curry hits the spot

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Why we’ve fallen for the quiet luxury of cucumbers

From TikTok tubs to restaurant menus, the green fruit is having a very chic moment

✍️ Helen Graves
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Erica Wagner: ‘I resent how much of my mental real estate the US president occupies’

In her latest book, Wash, Wagner worries about giving in to AI, climate change, Donald Trump – and why Odysseus is feeling so gloomy

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‘You feel part of the fabric of the neighbourhood’: Adejoké Bakare on Marylebone Nail Spa

The chef behind acclaimed London restaurant Chishuru shares her thoughts on self-care and the importance of a good manicure

✍️ Hayley Myers
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My girlfriend, she’s a keeper

Who wants to visit a zoo? Not me. But my animal-loving girlfriend is impossible to buy gifts for…

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‘I wouldn’t mind watching dinosaurs have a scrap’

Best known for his roles in Misfits, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD and Euphoria, Nick Blood recently appeared in Sting at the Young Vic theatre, and stars in crime drama Hit Point

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Things worth wearing... Baseball caps

Ready to throw your hat in the ring? Let your head do the talking with one these stand-out caps

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‘Being surrounded by cloth makes me feel calm’: Oliver Spencer on his studio

The shopkeeper and designer finds an urban desert island in Bloomsbury

✍️ Hayley Myers
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In the Neighbourhood: Attard, Malta

One of the island’s historic Three Villages, Attard is gaining attention with the opening of Casa Bonavita, a boutique hotel by the founders of the Rug Company

✍️ Tabitha Joyce
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The Jersey cottage that sparked a homecoming for a London family

A designer and architect couple have transformed a derelict 17th-century cottage on Jersey into a family home and studio

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In Suffolk, a villa filled with a collector’s treasures

The antique dealer Benjamin Smith has transformed his Victorian home in Lowestoft into a trove of curiosities, where (almost) everything is for sale

✍️ @aimee_farrell
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Is the era of the Clean Girl over?

The hyper-controlled, minimalist look that has dominated beauty for years is fading out. Make way for the Messy Girl

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A floral designer’s Berlin home is an ode to enduring beauty

Lilo Klinkenberg opens up her Berlin apartment, a sanctuary of calm and curated objects that contrasts with her ephemeral, nature-inspired work

✍️ Rosalind Jana
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How tanning culture got complicated

The pursuit of a sun-kissed complexion, once a symbol of leisure and privilege, is now fraught with social and cultural anxieties

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‘I lost 10st. Am I still me?’

Mounjaro helped me lose 44% of my body weight, but it also raised serious questions about who we are, the nature of identity and what makes us human

✍️ James Tapper
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Young people who have grown up under the critical lens of social media are obsessing unhealthily over the way they look. But a team of doctors helping treat them believe they may have found a cure to body dysmorphia

✍️ Eva Wiseman
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In Suffolk, a villa filled with a collector’s treasures

The antique dealer Benjamin Smith has transformed his Victorian home in Lowestoft into a trove of curiosities, where (almost) everything is for sale, writes Aimee Farrell
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