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The Man Who Cannot Sit Still Watch what happens when a man has five minutes with nothing to fill them. In a queue. On a train. Waiting for a meeting to begin. The phone comes out within seconds. A podcast, a news feed, a message thread that doesn’t need answering yet. The discomfort of the… — read more

There’s a particular kind of logic that applies to men’s underwear shopping. Buy the multipack. Replace it when it falls apart. Repeat. It’s a category of clothing that most men treat as a consumable rather than an investment, something to be replaced regularly rather than chosen carefully. That logic makes sense if all underwear is… — read more

If you’ve spent any time researching sustainable clothing, you’ve probably come across the letters GOTS. It appears on labels, in brand marketing, and across sustainability guides with enough regularity that it’s easy to assume you already know what it means. Most people don’t, not fully. And understanding it properly changes the way you think about… — read more

I don’t know much about bees. I’ll say that upfront. What I do know is that I once spent ten minutes on my knees in a stable, carefully unpicking cobweb threads from the legs and wings of a bumblebee that had got itself thoroughly tangled. It took patience. The bee, to its credit, took patience… — read more

There’s a fabric that’s been sitting quietly at the heart of the finest men’s shirts for over a century. Tailors know it well. Shirt makers build reputations on it. And yet when it comes to underwear, it’s almost never mentioned, despite being one of the most logical choices for a garment worn closest to the… — read more

Two things happened on the high street this weekend that stuck with me. The first was Swatch. Queues of resellers wrapped around the block, there to buy plastic watches for £300 so they could flip them online for thousands. Stores had to close their doors early just to manage the chaos. Swatch knew this was… — read more

Somewhere on the A3 near Cobham, a toad is about to have options. This month, the UK’s first heathland green bridge opens over one of Surrey’s busiest stretches of road. The Cockrow Bridge costs £3.7 million, spans 68 metres, and is 30 metres wide. It is covered in heather. It smells nothing like a motorway.… — read more

There’s a long tradition in Stoic philosophy of the private reminder. Marcus Aurelius didn’t write Meditations for an audience. He wrote it for himself, a daily practice of reflection and self correction that was never intended to be read by anyone else. The most powerful ideas, the Stoics believed, are the ones you carry quietly,… — read more