Martyn Lyons News Today

I know what air travel needs to bring back, and it’s not more legroom.

In a brutalist building in central London, the founders of the Frieze contemporary art fair have opened a perfectly curated restaurant

In a brutalist building in central London, the founders of the Frieze contemporary art fair have opened a perfectly curated restaurant

The story of Alphonse Steinès night on the Tourmalet and the telegram he subsequently sent to Henri Desgrange has gone down in legend. Remarkably, there was no telegram, and much of what is said about Steinès’s night on the mountain is a fiction.

Oranges are not only the fruit: citrus zest and skins can be boiled, blended, pickled, marmalised or stuffed …

The #Disrupt Texts website is a pernicious advocate of displacing Shakespeare and other significant figures and works, including F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <em>The Great Gatsby</em>, Harper Lee’s <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em> and Arthur Miller’s <em>The Crucible</em>.