Ben Hoyle

About six years ago Richard Van Remmen filmed an old friend hosing down his driveway. He put the footage on YouTube, and noticed it was racking up views. “Apparently people were hypnotised by how dirty the driveway looked before and how clean it was looking after getting blasted with 4500psi [pound

More than 300 years before most people had heard of a plant-based diet, one of Restoration England’s brightest minds was singing the praises of meat-free meals.John Evelyn was, alongside Samuel Pepys, a great 17th-century diarist and leading source of information about London. He was a prolific and

One of the things you should know about monks is that they tend to mean what they say.For over an hour I’ve been talking to Jay Shetty, who spent three years living in a Hindu ashram near Mumbai with a shaved head and a wardrobe that consisted of not much more than two matching robes. Today, though,

In what amounts to an act of public penance America’s most celebrated rock music publication has proclaimed that the greatest album ever made was actually a sou

Joe Biden won the White House because he was able to turn out more voters than any presidential candidate in history. He had to because President Trump brought

Quentin Tarantino, the cinema-obsessed former video store clerk who makes films that pulse with references to other films, is stepping away from the director’s

A retired US Army Special Forces soldier battling suicidal thoughts found that scaling skyscrapers, bridges and other tall buildings eased his post-traumatic stress disorder.Not only that, but the

It turns out that Bill Gates was not the only one keeping a close eye on the comings and goings at the office car park.In an appearance on Desert Island Discs five years ago the Microsoft co-founder

People around the world have become nostalgic for in-person meetings since the pandemic began and business was shunted online.At the same time, workers and executives have come to appreciate the

In August 1991 Sarah Hutchings, 35, a vivacious vineyard hostess, was found dead in the bath at her home in Santa Rosa, in California’s wine country. She had been strangled and drowned.Two years later