Lifestyle - Friday, March 20, 2026

During a six-decade career at the New Yorker, Mr. Tomkins profiled scores of artists, including Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Georgia O’Keeffe.

Wellness enthusiasts on TikTok and Instagram claim the combination bestows glowing skin and better digestion A shot of lemon juice and olive oil might be delicious on a salad – but would you drink it straight up? That’s what wellness enthusiasts on TikTok and Instagram are doing, claiming it bestows glowing skin and better digestion, and supports the dubious process of “ detoxing ”. Continue reading...

One in three UK postcodes now has more dogs than children. Meet the Dinkwads (dual income, no kids, with a dog). Plus Tim Dowling’s guide to the best breeds for Dinkwads Bryan Bell was at home when his one-year-old Patti collapsed, shaking like a leaf in a gale-force tornado. She was having a fit. Bell’s husband, John, was out of the house and he didn’t know what to do. “It was quite a traumatic experience because I didn’t know what was happening,” the 40-year-old PR recalls. Eventually, Patti’s fit subsided and the couple soon found a diagnosis from her doctor: their miniature dachshund had epilepsy. “She’s all medicated now, so it’s under control. But when it happens, you feel like: ‘Is this going to be the fit that’s too much for her little head?’” Medical scares, behaviour issues and a tendency to eat you out of house and home – many dog owners will tell you that getting a four-legged friend bears more than a few similarities to having a young child. But as birthrates plummet across the world, a curious inverse trend has emerged: couples are getting dogs. Lots and lots of couples, in fact. They’re called Dinkwads (dual income, no kids, with a dog) and their numbers are growing. With one in three postcodes in England home to more dogs than children, you are now more likely to hear the howl of a basset hound than the sound of kids playing. If you counted up all the estimated 13 million dogs in the UK, from pint-sized chihuahuas to lolloping great danes, you’d only be two million short of the total number of children. And unlike the human birthrate – which in Britain hit a record low in 2024 – the number of dogs only looks set to increase. Continue reading...

The partial government shutdown is creating chaos in TSA security lines. People are missing their flights, but follow these tips to avoid getting left behind.

From budget to Japanese-style models, here are chef Ben Lippett’s sharpest picks for comfort, cut and cost after weeks of chopping. Plus, what to know before you buy • The kitchen gadgets top chefs can’t live without A great chef’s knife is less a tool and more an extension of the person holding it. In the kitchen, your knife effectively becomes your right (or left) hand. Balance equals control; good steel spells confidence and longevity; a sharp edge means ease. I’ve put a handful of knives through the only trials that matter: shallots diced to translucence, tomatoes sliced gossamer thin, herbs chiffonaded to perfume. I’m looking past marketing into geometry, materials, grind and ultimately how each knife feels – at minute one and hour 10. Does it bite eagerly, or wedge and bruise? How does it feel in your hand – is it perfectly balanced or too blade-heavy? Does it sing on the board, or thud? Will this knife need lots of TLC, or will it look after itself? Best chef’s knife overall: Wüsthof classic chef knife, 20cm Best budget knife: Victorinox Fibrox chef’s knife, 20cm Continue reading...

A garden of earthly delights. The post A Nutritionist’s Guide to Spring Produce (Plus the Easiest Ways to Cook It) appeared first on Camille Styles .

Often derided by the wine establishment, natural, organic and biodynamic wines are now part of the conversation.

‘These AI agents have been really, really helpful,’ says a former Sydney employee. ‘But you couldn’t use something like that to replace an actual human worker’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Sacked from his “dream job” at software giant Atlassian, Rubio* wants just one thing – closure. “We were probably exceeding expectations and there’s no explanation from the company as a whole as to why any of this happened,” he says. Continue reading...

The cookbook legend on food anxiety, the joy of family dinners and why she has ‘absolutely no time for’ protein shakes Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email “The single biggest problem with food, for people who don’t love good food, is anxiety,” says Stephanie Alexander as she nestles in a comfortable wicker armchair in the dappled light of her riverside garden. “They’re anxious about what’s good for them. They’re anxious about how much of it to eat or how not to eat it. They’re anxious about everything about it. They don’t feel comfortable handling it, they don’t feel comfortable starting to prepare it because they don’t know what to do with it … And that’s where The Cook’s Companion comes in, of course.” Continue reading...

George Strausman said his sudden stardom has been a shock, and he doesn’t quite understand why millions of people are interested in watching him shape clay.