Almost three decades after he set off from southern Chile, Karl Bushby is about to make it back to the UK. He’s one of a growing band of extreme travellers

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‘Everyone was being run ragged by his absolutely ludicrous requests and tantrums’

As cycling’s biggest race prepares to return — twice — to Alpe d’Huez, Simon Usborne joins a new trip that pays sweaty homage to its 21 celebrated hairpins

As cycling’s biggest race prepares to return — twice — to Alpe d’Huez, Simon Usborne joins a new trip that pays sweaty homage to its 21 celebrated hairpins

British scientists still legally experiment on rodents, birds, fish, frogs, ferrets, opussums, monkeys, cats, horses — and beagles. Is vivisection a necessary evil or can science learn to live without...

One man was entrusted with some of London’s most beloved leisure centres. How did he burn through so much public money and end up with a £200,000 payout?

An escapist extravaganza featuring princesses, palaces and animatronic snowmen is the centrepiece of a €2bn transformation

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As the Iran conflict throttles global trade via the Strait of Hormuz, five years ago a stranded cargo ship revealed a frail transport system

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Metal barriers, digital locks, facial recognition and hi-tech innovations are being rolled out in an attempt to halt severe losses

Chris King’s Birch brand was hailed as ‘the future of the British hotel’ — then swiftly went bust. As he launches Crafted, a new retreat in East Sussex, he tells Simon Usborne what went wrong

It's one of the biggest events in the capital — but what goes on away from the public's eyes?

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A restaurant in the English county of Cheshire has launched a water menu, as have a number of US establishments. Is it really possible, though, to tell one terroir from another?

“Fuck off, this is my patch": A niche hobby exploded in popularity due to social media. Now the police are involved, as the people searching the Thames mud for historic artefacts battle each other.

At the ‘Wimbledon of jousting’, Simon Usborne finds historical re-enactment is becoming big business — and meets the knights and tourists partying like it’s 1499

The certainties of youth are slipping away and I find myself in something of a clothing identity crisis. It doesn’t help that what’s ‘cool’ is increasingly hard to pin down. So where does that leave a...

The populist narrative of a migrant-driven crimewave is catnip on social media and oil to the wheels of Reform. But it is so far from the truth that we’re in danger of losing sight of the country we l...