TV

What we’re watching – December 23

What we’re watching – December 23

The Two Ronnies Night – BBC Two, from 8pm

Being a comedy legend must be sweet. Particularly if you’re Ronnie Corbett and a whole evening of television dedicated to you happens to be airing on Christmas Eve Eve. [Read more...]

Style

On the Blackwatch

On the Blackwatch

It’s certainly not anything new, but designers have fallen for Blackwatch tartan this autumn. [Read more...]

Technology

The shocking truth about DAD – Part three

The shocking truth about DAD – Part three

if you don’t know how to use technology, it will use you argues Douglas Rushkoff. [Read more...]

Christmas,Esquire Wish List

The Esquire Wish-list – Day Twenty Three

The Esquire Wish-list – Day Twenty Three

Dunhill Tradition Hunter’s Flask

You’ll find one on every gift list around, but when – in reality – is one ever in need of a hipflask? We’ll tell you when. When you’re snow bound in a foreign airport, when you’re stuck in a freezing car on the M4 (not in the driver’s seat, we hasten to add) or when you’re on a six-hour delayed train from Oxford – we speak from experience. [Read more...]

Style

Esquire meets Hannah Martin

Esquire meets Hannah Martin

Not for the faint of heart, or those with severe goniophobia (a fear of angles), Jeweler Hannah Martin’s new collection is a geometric tour de force. [Read more...]

Style

App of the week – An Italian Dream

App of the week – An Italian Dream

It’s all too easy to criticise companies for  jumping on the technological “brandwagon”. When it comes to apps, brands such as Muji, Phaidon and Gucci among others, have – on the whole – pushed themselves to produce creative and engaging extensions of their core values. [Read more...]

Drink

Warm Winter Cocktails – Part Two

Warm Winter Cocktails – Part Two

If you fail to indulge at Christmas you’ve failed as a person. With this in mind, we thought we’d pave the way with two spankingly good hot cocktails from Nick Strangeway, chief bartender at Hix, Soho, following on neatly from the first round of drinks, revealed last week. [Read more...]

Gaming

Charlie does surf

Click to playCharlie does surf

It’s been a stellar year for FPS games (yesterday, Call of Duty: Black Ops passed the $1 billion sales mark), so all credit to EA offshoot DICE for serving up an end-of-year slice of online multiplayer excellence in the shape of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam. [Read more...]