Starting 2025 with an abundance of substance and style, we bring together five of the most exciting actors of the moment, shining the spotlight on their conversation-starting, zeitgeist-shaping projects. As they unite in an east London restaurant, we sit down with them to hear about their career highs, passion projects and future ambitions.

The benefits of playing sport are well known – from the physical to the psychological and social. But taking up a new pursuit as an adult can be daunting. Below, athletes, coaches and team leaders in football, golf, boxing and running share their advice for picking up a new sport, regardless of your age or ability.

“Why are you single?” So goes the enquiry of the happily partnered-off. A reply might come in any manner of ways: “I can’t seem to find anyone.” Or perhaps, “I just got out of a relationship.” The concerned party, desperate for the single person to find happiness, sympathises in the knowledge that it’s just a temporary state of affairs, extolling the virtues and paramount importance of partnering off with someone if true happiness is to be found. Our society is one which attributes immense value to romantic love. Take Valentine’s Day – just one of many times in the year in which a dictated romanticism states that couples are, categorically, succeeding better in life. “We devalue people that are single and, in doing that, we devalue ourselves if we’re single,” says Raul Aparici, a psychotherapist and head of faculty at The School of Life. “It might be that we’re quite happy being on our own. But then we start to think, what might people think of me?”

In honour of Black History Month, we asked five inspiring Black creatives – spanning fashion, photography, acting, music and poetry – to share the film that has had the biggest impact on their life and why it means so much to them.

Starting 2025 with an abundance of substance and style, we bring together five of the most exciting actors of the moment, shining the spotlight on their conversation-starting, zeitgeist-shaping projects. As they unite in an east London restaurant, we sit down with them to hear about their career highs, passion projects and future ambitions.

The benefits of playing sport are well known – from the physical to the psychological and social. But taking up a new pursuit as an adult can be daunting. Below, athletes, coaches and team leaders in football, golf, boxing and running share their advice for picking up a new sport, regardless of your age or ability.