Food & Drink

Man food | The ultimate scotch egg

Man food | The ultimate scotch egg

Cropping up on menus at Michelin-starred restaurants and high-end delis, the Scotch egg is enjoying a renaissance – bouncing back from its position as a last-ditch purchase at service stations. [Read more...]

Style

How to pull off… The Granddad collar

How to pull off… The Granddad collar

A recent episode of Boardwalk Empire got us thinking about the merits of owning a good grandad collar shirt. It’s not as hard to pull of as we’re constantly led to believe. [Read more...]

Style

Mastering the Christmas jumper | with Douglas Booth

Mastering the Christmas jumper | with Douglas Booth

This festive season, the much-maligned Christmas jumper comes in from the cold. Here, Douglas Booth, leading man in the BBC’s new Great Expectations, demonstrates how to wear snow on your chest without looking like a flake.

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Design & Technology

Christmas want list | Victorinox knife

Christmas want list | Victorinox knife

Inspired by a classic Swiss soldier’s knife, the Farmer Alox is a cut above the standard red-cased Swiss army issue, with its durable fluted aluminium handle giving extra purchase. [Read more...]

Smart Buys,Style

Smart buy | ManCans

Smart buy | ManCans

Between maths lessons and baseball, 13-year-old entrepreneur Hart Main of Ohio has developed a range of ManCans, based on unusual but undoubtedly masculine aromas. Housed in used soup tins, scents include Dirt, New York Style Pizza, Bacon and, our favourite, Grandpa’s Pipe. (£5.70, man-cans.com)

Television

Christmas want list – The poor man’s Entourage

Christmas want list – The poor man’s Entourage

Looking for a Christmas box-set to get stuck into? Missing Entourage and looking for something – anything – to fill the void? Look no further than under-the-radar HBO drama How to Make it in America. [Read more...]

Promotion,Style & Grooming

The four requirements of pre-date grooming

The four requirements of pre-date grooming

There’s s lot you can get wrong on the dating front, but grooming is one thing you really can’t afford to overlook. Here are four ways to keep you a step ahead of the competition.  [Read more...]

Design & Technology,Style

Christmas want list | Freecom hard drive

Christmas want list | Freecom hard drive

It looks more like a wallet than an external hard drive. That’s because this streamlined slice of portable storage is one of the smallest drives in the world, not to mention one of the fastest. Fully loaded with lightning-quick USB 3.0 tech and weighing a mere 155g, the Freecom XXS can hold up to 1TB of data (the equivalent of 250,000 songs) and comes in a businesslike, black leather finish. (€129, freecom.com)