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Details • This month: Could Anna Karenina unlock your firm’s first billion? p.35 Anchorman ÷ Scotch x moustache = Ted Lasso p.37 Keir Starmer: not the hero Labour needs, the one it deserves p.38

YOU GOT TO BAG IT UP! • Travel! It’s (almost) back on the itinerary so it’s time to get packing. Here’s where to start…

Internet porn has created toxic youth • Just look at the horrifying stories on the website Everyone’s Invited…

Sorry, Nike. THESE are the best running shoes money can buy • Don’t be fooled by the Next%’s hype. Cash in instead on the more wallet-friendly wonders overtaking the Swoosh with ease

Ah, holidays. Remember them? • These pages have been light on travel stories lately. Can’t think why. But as the world reopens, here’s a shrink-wrapped Philippines itinerary to sate your wanderlust…

Seize this! • Louis Vuitton’s new Tambour Carpe Diem, features the kind of striking automata usually found only in one-of-a-kind timepieces

Every GQ party has atmosphere…

In a while, crooked smile • Forget fake, fluorescent tombstones for teeth: it’s possible to flash a winning grin by enhancing what God gave you

The SECRETS of MY SUCCESS • Bruce Smith, founder and CEO of Hydrow

Meet the new watch… • Same as the old watch? Not quite. But the 50th anniversary Rolex Explorer II finds radicalism in what it preserves

How Ted Lasso brought back the American idiot • And cured us with kindness…

Where is the Labour messiah? • Only a charismatic leader can unite the left’s warring tribes and lead them out of the wilderness

Bouclé, all day • It’s not just for wealthy French women: the fabric is the surprise new star of the menswear firmament. Really!

You’ve been to Little Venice. Now try Little Turin… • Pizza, pasta, wine and much, much more. Inside London supremo-mart Eataly

The Black Bull, Sedbergh • Straddling the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District with a local-Asian menu, behold the perfect pit stop for those looking to add a little wear to their walking boots

Check out where to check in • Three new London hotels ready to welcome visitors to the capital

Thirsty for a kick-ass Kiwi blend? Here’s one out of Leftfield • This New Zealand rosé will bring a ray of pink sunshine to your summer

Who needs a Eurostar? Left Bank dining has come to the West End • French chef Cyril Lignac has brought his Parisian Bar Des Prés concept to London’s Mayfair to stunning effect. Believe le hype!

It’s summer and the heavens have opened! • Sabine is the spectacular new cocktail bar overlooking St Paul’s Cathedral and giving Soho House a run for its money. Are you ready to be converted?

Style Shrink

Sunscreen is for life, not just for summer • Of course, it’s vital when the rays beat down. But did you know it’s actually essential every day? Yes, even in Britain

Is JD Vance about to make Trumpism acceptable? • Stranger things have happened in America…

Vince Staples’ real debut • Sure, it’s his fourth record, but having climbed down from commercial tracks and major-name collabs, the Long Beach rapper is finally ready to present himself: his story, in his words

Watch this space! • Wristwear collection getting out of hand? Behold Globe-Trotter’s new home for haute horology

Steinbeck’s werewolf novel should not be kept secret • Get over yourselves, Steinbeck estate!

What do you mean you haven’t got a superyacht? • Sales have skyrocketed during the...