Daniel Garrahan

The coronavirus crisis has left cities around the world in lockdown. With restaurants closed and millions indoors, we are going to have to get back to home-cooking. Food writer Tim Hayward shows the FT's Daniel Garrahan how to bake the perfect loaf

The company has been hand-making soap, bath bombs and body products for almost a quarter of a century but it is only now that ethical brands have become so much a part of the mainstream. The FT's Daniel Thomas profiles the cosmetics company

Mindfulness, feeling present in your own body, has roots in Buddhism but is increasingly popular in the west. Corporate mindfulness is growing and you don’t even have to put down your smartphone to try mindfulness meditation. In the run up to World Mental Health Day, the FT’s Daniel Garrahan tests the Headspace app and tries a mindfulness class, organic dance and a ‘gong bath’

I’ve been commuting to the Financial Times in the City from south London by bus and rail for a decade but trains are overcrowded and unreliable, and the air on a London bus can be terrible. I want to find a greener way to get around town and to have more fun while I’m at it. E-bikes, as well as powered scooters and skateboards, are suddenly everywhere on the streets of big cities. I set out to test-ride them and see if they can improve my commute. Riese & Müller is the Rolls-Royce of electric…

Studies suggest that breaking up a work day with exercise can improve productivity but working out on company time can still be hard to justify. The FT’s Daniel Garrahan looks at the most time-efficient ways to train, from circuits with Olympic champion rower Helen Glover, to running clubs and high intensity interval training.

It's become the most fashionable stunt dish in London restaurants. FT food writer Tim Hayward shows you how to barbecue turbot without a turbot cage. Just make sure you've got a wire cutter to hand.

It might look like the most expensive piece of bloke meat you've ever seen, but FT food writer Tim Hayward turns a family-sized piece of rump steak into BBQ tagliata, a delicate dish marinated with soy, thyme, garlic and balsamic vinegar.

The FT visits the Nottingham headquarters of the Raleigh Bicycle Company, founded in the 1880s and home of iconic bikes like the Chopper, Grifter and Burner. The company enjoyed great success in the 1980s but has since come through turbulent times and is now focusing on eBikes.

After the FT's chief economics commentator Martin Wolf brings her his favourite bottle of wine, wine columnist Jancis Robinson selects three other bottles she thinks he'll like.

The Landmark Trust has completed the restoration of a remote cottage in Wales which can now be rented by holidaymakers. Coed y Bleiddau sleeps four; the name means “wood of the wolves” - the last Welsh wolf was apparently shot close by. The FT's travel editor, Tom Robbins, takes the Ffestiniog Railway to check it out

King's College London showcases the future, from autonomous rovers to synchronised reality, where colonoscopies can be performed remotely. But will shareholders be convinced it's worth the billions upgrading to it? The FT's Daniel Garrahan reports.

The FT visits the heritage shoemaker to see how it carefully assembles its signature City II shoe, from cutting the leather outline to the final polish before sale.

It may look like disorganised chaos, but FT illustrator James Ferguson, who captures public image in the private gestures and expressions of those he caricatures, knows where in his workspace to find his tools, from trusty pencil to hairdryer. For inspiration, he looks skyward.