Life & Style

Life & Style

Rear view of a woman sitting on a bed and looking out a window at the city lights at night.
Night-time anxiety: what to do if you wake up in a panic

Eight ways to quieten your busy mind and get back to sleep, from setting aside dedicated ‘worry time’ to word games

Health & Fitness
Mark Strong, an English actor, sitting on a pink armchair with a bar in the background.
INTERVIEW
WHAT I’VE LEARNT
Mark Strong: ‘You don’t need to have a father to be a good one’
Salmon en croute with spinach, served on a white plate next to a slice on a smaller plate, with a hand pouring wine into a glass.
Bonne année! Serve a New Year’s Eve dinner — the French way
Food & Drink
Collage of a woman with blond hair in a black top, and several beauty products: Naked Sundays SPF 50 Gel Serum, Calm The Red Down Dual-Chamber Serum, and Beauty of Joseon Revive Under Eye Patch.
Collage of a woman with blond hair in a black top, and several beauty products: Naked Sundays SPF 50 Gel Serum, Calm The Red Down Dual-Chamber Serum, and Beauty of Joseon Revive Under Eye Patch.
The 21 best beauty buys of the year
Beauty
Collage of a protein shake, sliced bread, and yogurt with berries and granola.
Collage of a protein shake, sliced bread, and yogurt with berries and granola.
What is ‘protein-washing’ and are you being fooled by it?
Health & Fitness
Three West Indian women sing and laugh at a piano.
Three West Indian women sing and laugh at a piano.
15 ways to be a better friend in 2026
Sex & Relationships
A living room with a black accent wall decorated with folk art and a red couch with patterned pillows.
A living room with a black accent wall decorated with folk art and a red couch with patterned pillows.
Inside an artist’s colourful Cornish home
Property & Home
Salmon en croute with spinach, served on a white plate next to a slice on a smaller plate, with a hand pouring wine into a glass.
Salmon en croute with spinach, served on a white plate next to a slice on a smaller plate, with a hand pouring wine into a glass.
Bonne année! Serve a New Year’s Eve dinner — the French way
Food & Drink
Salmon en croute with spinach, served on a white plate next to a slice on a smaller plate, with a hand pouring wine into a glass.
Salmon en croute with spinach, served on a white plate next to a slice on a smaller plate, with a hand pouring wine into a glass.
Bonne année! Serve a New Year’s Eve dinner — the French way
Food & Drink
Collage of a woman with blond hair in a black top, and several beauty products: Naked Sundays SPF 50 Gel Serum, Calm The Red Down Dual-Chamber Serum, and Beauty of Joseon Revive Under Eye Patch.
Collage of a woman with blond hair in a black top, and several beauty products: Naked Sundays SPF 50 Gel Serum, Calm The Red Down Dual-Chamber Serum, and Beauty of Joseon Revive Under Eye Patch.
The 21 best beauty buys of the year
Beauty
Collage of a woman with blond hair in a black top, and several beauty products: Naked Sundays SPF 50 Gel Serum, Calm The Red Down Dual-Chamber Serum, and Beauty of Joseon Revive Under Eye Patch.
Collage of a woman with blond hair in a black top, and several beauty products: Naked Sundays SPF 50 Gel Serum, Calm The Red Down Dual-Chamber Serum, and Beauty of Joseon Revive Under Eye Patch.
The 21 best beauty buys of the year
Beauty
Collage of a protein shake, sliced bread, and yogurt with berries and granola.
Collage of a protein shake, sliced bread, and yogurt with berries and granola.
What is ‘protein-washing’ and are you being fooled by it?
Health & Fitness
Collage of a protein shake, sliced bread, and yogurt with berries and granola.
Collage of a protein shake, sliced bread, and yogurt with berries and granola.
What is ‘protein-washing’ and are you being fooled by it?
Health & Fitness
Three West Indian women sing and laugh at a piano.
Three West Indian women sing and laugh at a piano.
15 ways to be a better friend in 2026
Sex & Relationships
Three West Indian women sing and laugh at a piano.
Three West Indian women sing and laugh at a piano.
15 ways to be a better friend in 2026
Sex & Relationships
A living room with a black accent wall decorated with folk art and a red couch with patterned pillows.
A living room with a black accent wall decorated with folk art and a red couch with patterned pillows.
Inside an artist’s colourful Cornish home
Property & Home
A living room with a black accent wall decorated with folk art and a red couch with patterned pillows.
A living room with a black accent wall decorated with folk art and a red couch with patterned pillows.
Inside an artist’s colourful Cornish home
Property & Home
Rear view of a woman sitting on a bed and looking out a window at the city lights at night.
TV Presenter Stuart Douglas leaning on a kitchen counter, holding keys and smiling.
NEW
The £3 raffle where you could design a home — and then win it

A novel twist on the Omaze craze where the design choices are made by draw entrants is being launched by the TV presenter Stuart Douglas

Property & Home
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TV Presenter Stuart Douglas leaning on a kitchen counter, holding keys and smiling.
NEW
The £3 raffle where you could design a home — and then win it
Property & Home
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SARAH JOSSEL
Six achievable beauty resolutions for 2026
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Property & Home

Aerial view of the hilltop village of Deia, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, with the Mediterranean Sea in the background.
‘You’re lucky to get a pool for under €1.5m’: the luxe artists’ enclave

Deia in Mallorca is beloved of writers and painters — most famously Robert Graves. But it’s no bohemian hideaway — to buy here, you have to have deep pockets

North London homes in Muswell Hill overlooking Crouch End and the distant towers of Canary Wharf.
The Covid exodus is over: why Londoners are staying put
Collage of a Venetian canal with a bridge, and a couple in a kitchen with rose gold appliances.
How we restored two historic Venetian palazzos
Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.
INTERVIEW
Andy Burnham: ‘Manchester is 20 years behind London’
End-of-terrace period property in Marshfield, Wiltshire with a green door.
A farmhouse in Northumberland or an equestrian facility for £675,000?
Illustration of apartment buildings, with a downward arrow and half a pound coin on the left, and an upward arrow and half a pound coin on the right.
Rental tracker: have rents gone up or down in your area?
Illustration showing a man on a street of colorful houses with graphs and images of other houses overlaid, representing property.
House price tracker: will property values go up or down in your area?
Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.
INTERVIEW
Andy Burnham: ‘Manchester is 20 years behind London’
End-of-terrace period property in Marshfield, Wiltshire with a green door.
A farmhouse in Northumberland or an equestrian facility for £675,000?
Illustration of apartment buildings, with a downward arrow and half a pound coin on the left, and an upward arrow and half a pound coin on the right.
Rental tracker: have rents gone up or down in your area?
Illustration showing a man on a street of colorful houses with graphs and images of other houses overlaid, representing property.
House price tracker: will property values go up or down in your area?
North London homes in Muswell Hill overlooking Crouch End and the distant towers of Canary Wharf.
The Covid exodus is over: why Londoners are staying put
Collage of a Venetian canal with a bridge, and a couple in a kitchen with rose gold appliances.
How we restored two historic Venetian palazzos

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Sex & Relationships

Food & Drink

Whisky barrels on display at the new Macallan Distillery and Visitor Experience in Speyside.
The Scots are back: thirst for whisky revives Spain’s sherry heartland

Rising demand for seasoned casks is breathing new life into vineyards and cooperages across Jerez

Fried schnitzel with a fried egg, anchovies, potatoes, herbs, and capers.
Where one of London’s hottest chefs eats on his day off
London
Friends celebrating with sparkling wine and string lights at a Christmas or New Year's Eve party.
REVIEW
JANE MACQUITTY
The best wines for a New Year’s Eve party — chosen by our critic
Panettone bread and butter pudding, the ultimate turkey curry and a Christmassy tortilla
Top chefs’ festive leftover recipes, including the ultimate turkey curry
Illustration of a wine bottle reading a menu at a table with a waiter standing nearby.
How to read a wine list — by critic Will Lyons
Image of unanswerable.
What Michelin star chefs do with their Christmas leftovers
Luxury
Hams hung up to dry in a cellar at the Carnicas Joselito SA factory.
COMMENT
THE TIMES VIEW
Some things improve with age as a £50,000 leg of jamon iberico shows
Panettone bread and butter pudding, the ultimate turkey curry and a Christmassy tortilla
Top chefs’ festive leftover recipes, including the ultimate turkey curry
Illustration of a wine bottle reading a menu at a table with a waiter standing nearby.
How to read a wine list — by critic Will Lyons
Image of unanswerable.
What Michelin star chefs do with their Christmas leftovers
Luxury
Hams hung up to dry in a cellar at the Carnicas Joselito SA factory.
COMMENT
THE TIMES VIEW
Some things improve with age as a £50,000 leg of jamon iberico shows
Fried schnitzel with a fried egg, anchovies, potatoes, herbs, and capers.
Where one of London’s hottest chefs eats on his day off
London
Friends celebrating with sparkling wine and string lights at a Christmas or New Year's Eve party.
REVIEW
JANE MACQUITTY
The best wines for a New Year’s Eve party — chosen by our critic

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Beauty

Driving

Pets

Jilly Fretwell with her cat Bindi, who was missing for five years.
Cat missing for five years turns up in ‘Christmas miracle’
CELEBS AND THEIR PETS
Noel Fitzpatrick: Meghan and Harry sat on the floor while I operated on their dog
After 529 days in the wild, Valerie the dog has Christmas at home

Wildlife & Nature

Pollyanna Wilkinson pulling a wagon of winter greenery.
The seven gardening jobs to do over the festive season
Boots on! 20 of the UK’s loveliest winter walks to kick off 2026
How to identify trees — by the ‘natural navigator’

Work

Illustration of a person looking at their reflection in a brain-shaped pond.
How to think — the philosopher’s guide
ROBERT CRAMPTON
Can you earn £80k and be working class?
INTERVIEW
We judges face abuse and long backlogs. Morale is fragile

Luxury

Rock-cut resort in the desert.
Saudi Arabia’s new travel hotspots in a 21st-century oasis
The best luxury TV shows
Meet the bartenders to the stars

Pets

Jilly Fretwell with her cat Bindi, who was missing for five years.
Cat missing for five years turns up in ‘Christmas miracle’
CELEBS AND THEIR PETS
Noel Fitzpatrick: Meghan and Harry sat on the floor while I operated on their dog
After 529 days in the wild, Valerie the dog has Christmas at home

Wildlife & Nature

Pollyanna Wilkinson pulling a wagon of winter greenery.
The seven gardening jobs to do over the festive season
Boots on! 20 of the UK’s loveliest winter walks to kick off 2026
How to identify trees — by the ‘natural navigator’

Work

Illustration of a person looking at their reflection in a brain-shaped pond.
How to think — the philosopher’s guide
ROBERT CRAMPTON
Can you earn £80k and be working class?
INTERVIEW
We judges face abuse and long backlogs. Morale is fragile

Luxury

Rock-cut resort in the desert.
Saudi Arabia’s new travel hotspots in a 21st-century oasis
The best luxury TV shows
Meet the bartenders to the stars
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