Nick Pope

The best forms of self-improvement require zero effort. That’s why, at the beginning of lockdown, I set myself one simple challenge: to grow a big, beautiful moustache.This is not my first rodeo. Oooh no. I managed to grow one in my first year of secondary school that was as impressive as it was off-putting. (It made me look like a Michael Cera Funko Pop and lasted a day). Other parallels between Year Seven and self-isolation include an all-consuming Football Manager addiction, a rotating wardro…

It’s time to invest in some chunky knitwear

On Friday night, as part of Esquire Townhouse 2020 with Breitling, legendary Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger sat down with broadcaster Mark Chapman to discuss how he became one of the most respected and influential managers in Premier league history.He was in charge of the Gunners for twenty-two trophy-laden years, which is particularly impressive when you consider that modern managers barely last two years on average. The 70-year-old’s success can be put down to the way that he regularly revitali…

The director was on a mission to save the film industry. It didn’t quite work out that way

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Nobody gave Cassius Clay a hope in hell, but Malcolm X had faith. Why wouldn’t he? Not only had the young upstart been training harder than his rival, World Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston, but he also had Allah in his corner. “This fight is the truth,” Malcolm told his protégé in the days before the 1964 title bout. “It’s the Cross and the Crescent fighting in the prize ring for the first time. It’s a modern Crusades – a Christian and a Muslim facing each other with television to beam it off…

On a cold morning in a quiet trading estate near Accrington, Joseph Lanzante places a bendy ruler on a bald man’s head and, with a white pen, carefully marks where his client’s hairline used to be. It’s two weeks before lockdown, and the only PPE in the room is the bin-liner aprons worn by two watching trainees. “You’ve got to get the lines right,” he warns, dipping his bandage-wrapped tattoo gun in a pot of black ink and poking at the tension in the air, “because the rest is just filling in.”Fo…

It’s sod’s law. You spend half a century building a flawless eco-friendly brand, revered by hypebeasts, vintage collectors and venture capitalists alike. You stay true to a design philosophy that turns dusty old fleeces into grail pieces. You choose to contribute millions of dollars in profit to climate change causes. Then Ted Cruz squeezes into one of your pullovers for a ten-hour round-trip to Cancún and, lo, you become the unofficial sponsor of history’s most pathetic holiday. Bad luck, guys.…

For the 007 obsessive in your life

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Break out that recipe rut, once and for all

Break out that recipe rut, once and for all

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Whether you take holiday recommendations from the Romantic poets or step your mast to TikTok travelogues, everyone agrees that Lake Como, in the northern reaches of Italy, is one of the most breathtaking places on earth. An oasis for the super-rich, super-powerful and super-famous for centuries, it’s almost certainly the most glamorous. Where else, for example, could you reasonably expect to bump into George Clooney doing a big shop? Hollywood, perhaps – but would the LAPD allow you to loiter ou…

Today marks the release of Beckham, Netflix’s four-part documentary chronicling the rise of English football’s most famous son. Directed by Succession and Short Circuit actor Fisher Stevens and assembled by Beckham’s own production company, it promises “never-before-seen” footage of the former England captain’s career and family life. No mean feat for a man who has taken us behind the Brylcreemed curtains from the very beginning.Ours was a full-blown national obsession that transcended sport and…

For Julie O’Keefe, Killers of the Flower Moon was a community project like no other.A member of the Osage Nation with a background in creating traditional, museum-quality regalia in her hometown of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, it’s easy to see why director Martin Scorsese and costume designer, Jacqueline West, asked O’Keefe to advise on the film. Based on David Grann’s nonfiction book, it covers a devastating period in the Native American tribe’s history, calling for a level of authenticity that Hollywoo…