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Love’s Labour’s Lost, RSC, review: oozing charm from a Bridgerton star, but choreographed silliness steals the show
When inaugurating your tenure running the RSC - as its new joint artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey did on Thursday night - you might as well begin near the beginning, with an early Shakespeare comedy. No one craves Lear as an opening gambit.
3-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
Not all travel insurance is the same – here's what you need to know before buying yours
During a cost of living crisis, it is more important than ever to make sure you are properly insured when you travel. The last thing you want is the expense of a medical claim, the cost of a missed flight, or having to replace lost or stolen baggage. But how do you pick the right policy from the myriad options available?
3-min read - NewsEvening Standard
The most important exhibition you'll see all year: Tim Hetherington at the Imperial War Museum
Tim Hetherington’s photography was a exploration of people caught up in conflicts – and this new exhibition will take his work to a wider audience, and leave them reeling
6-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
Peas in guacamole? The French chef bringing plant-forward cuisine to London
There wasn’t much that President Obama and Texan Republican hopeful Jeb Bush agreed on back in July 2015, the latter having just announced his intention to run against the former in the presidential elections the following year. Except that guacamole should not have peas in it. On this they were united – unlike those who, like me, love that extra sweet little pop-in-the-mouth sensation they give.
13-min read - LifestyleEvening Standard
'I inherited an Italian farmhouse and want everyone to enjoy its beauty'
Oliver Poole was the stunned recipient of Il Bacio, a charming 15th century farmhouse in the rolling vineyards of Chianti. Now you can stay there too...
7-min read - LifestyleEvening Standard
London's best delis and grocers, from Terroni to Panzer's
Need to top up the cupboards? Swerve the supermarket in favour of one of these
11-min read - NewsThe Telegraph
How a brutal, crime-ridden Naples produced Caravaggio’s final masterpiece
“See Naples and die.” So beautiful, in other words, is this great city that the experience of visiting cannot be topped. It’s an old adage, probably coined by the medieval Neapolitan tourist board. But when you stop to catch a view from a terrace or a balcony, you can see their point. The setting is glorious. The great bay glitters in the Mediterranean sun, the long arm of the Sorrento peninsula stretches out towards Capri and, looming to the south, is the shadowy bulk of Vesuvius. Sometimes sno
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