Category: 5. Entertainment

The Floor

8pm, ITV1

Rob Brydon hosts a new gameshow that follows the Squid Game trend of mass contestants (see 99 to Beat, Beast Games, The 1% Club). Across the series, 81 contestants stand on a tile that represents a subject in a square floor….

Life’s to short to … use a smartphone

Rutger Bregman, author

For years, I told myself I could manage my smartphone use. I tried the usual tricks: switching off notifications, deleting addictive apps,…

January is filled with optimism for the year that lies ahead with many of us eager to set goals or resolutions. So, what’s in store for your 2026? Ruth Concannon from Children’s Books Ireland has some ideas…

Last year,…

If you find yourself ice-skating at Somerset House in central London over the next week or so (and hurry: you’ve got only until 11 January before it closes), then first please accept my commiserations. Second, please also note that the Chinese…

Keep it on the QT, but those looking for a spot of quiet time will love Celestial All Suites. Whether it’s a do-not-disturbathon honeymoon or dozey afternoons with a book on a daybed you’re after, the peaceful vibe here will put your mind at…

Short but memorable, “Trust in Me (The Python’s Song)” comes at a crucial moment of what is now known as “mild peril” in the animated Disney film The Jungle Book (1967), when Kaa, the comic python villain, attempts to hypnotise Mowgli…