Shaking up the mojito
It’s decadent, spicy and boozy as hell; what’s not to love?
Ross Anderson
Ross Anderson is Life editor at The Spectator World
Thursday
Tuesday
Dyson makes headphones again… and they don’t suck
The OnTrac are a major improvement over the company’s comical first outing, but will that be enough to persuade consumers?
Monday
Trying the best coffee in the world
Sometimes we need to remember what coffee can be, how great it can taste, the ritual around it and how much we owe to it
Friday
The Boys is empty shock value
It has just become tiresome
Thursday
Margarita magnificence: a consummately customizable cocktail
Once you have this classic recipe down, it’s easy to modify to make flavored margaritas, and the sky’s the limit
Monday
The Trump movie The Apprentice likely isn’t being censored
No American company has yet signed a deal to pick it up for either a cinema or streaming release
The boozed-up beers of summer
Beer cocktails needn’t be so crass and uninteresting
Thursday
Should you buy a folding phone?
They come at a premium
Wednesday
Loving Las Vegas
Food tastes so much better with jetlag
Loving and tweaking the Long Island Iced Tea
It’s not so much a drink as a chemical formula designed to make an enormous percentage of alcohol consumable in a single glass
Wednesday
The best and worst of the 2024 Met Gala
Most of the fashion was yawn fuel
Tuesday
Civil War is the first success of A24’s new box-office strategy
Even if it fails to meet expectations
The VR and AR arms race
Virtual worlds contain very real gold mines
The espresso martini is the best cocktail template
How to customize a classic
Monday
What next for the world of watches?
From our UK edition
Every year, the world’s greatest watch companies and their biggest fans head to Geneva for an orgy of horological spectacle: Watches & Wonders. Here, companies pull out their latest, newest, most impressive goods, showing off the main products they intend to launch and the fans salivate and loosen their already pummelled wallets. It’s not a cheap
Monday
Monkey Man proves fighting the gods is a bloody affair
The movie is a raw, stylish, aggressive action flick with a pulsing rage beneath it
Saturday
Sugar offers sweet then rotten noir
Apple TV+’s latest is an incredible noir… until it tries to be more than that
Sunday
AI music is here and scarily easy to make
I made a Spectator album in minutes
Friday
Masters of the Air is an old-fashioned TV masterpiece
It’s one of the best shows since Better Call Saul ended
Monday
A Best Stunts Oscar is long overdue
After a century of amazing stunt filmmaking, stunt actors remain unsung
