The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 27 October 2025, and its first phase of reforms came into force on 1 May 2026. Evictions, rent increases, pets: the Act rewrote the terms of ...

Budapest has some of the best thermal baths in Europe, and a couple of them have doubled as meeting spots for gay and bisexual men for generations. This is not a secret, not a scandal, and it did not ...

Most people never find out how Google Maps offline actually works. They find out at a bus stop in Lisbon, or on a trail above the treeline, when the app says routing is unavailable. Five offline map ...

Somewhere in a convention centre that smells of hairspray and dog, a woman is blow-drying a standard poodle’s hindquarters into the shape of a bison. She has been awake since 4am. She is not doing ...

Kenny Dope and Louie Vega have not shared an Irish stage in over twenty years. They have never played Cork together. When Masters At Work take the floor at Cork Opera House this October, that is not a ...

The figure sounds fine. Ofcom’s Connected Nations Spring 2026 Update puts 4G geographic coverage from at least one mobile network operator at 96% of the UK landmass, and the Shared Rural Network has ...

Every Singapore guidebook eventually marches you to the same spot, and it is usually a queue. In 2020 the country’s hawker culture went onto UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list, a national ...

Most people buy travel insurance the same way they accept cookie consent notices: quickly, without reading, assuming it covers everything. It does not. The gap between what you think you are protected ...

Three days in the Alps sounds either inspired or faintly unhinged. In theory, Britain is close enough: finish work, fly south, wake up under a mountain and be back before your inbox has fully noticed.

Edinburgh in late October has no shortage of ways to spend Halloween. Most of them involve LED pumpkins, ticketed ghost tours and a queue. The Scottish International Storytelling Festival, which ...

Three years ago, synthetic cathinones were a footnote in European drug reporting. By 2024 they were the story. EU seizures went from 4.5 tonnes in 2021 to 37 tonnes in 2023, over eight times in two ...

More than 40 years after a detective in a trench coat first bumbled his way across televisions, Inspector Gadget is heading back to the big screen. In June 2026, Disney’s long-planned live-action ...