When I recently showed a cassette tape to my 11-year-old daughter, she looked genuinely baffled. ‘What is it?’ she asked. My first thought was that I’d failed as a parent, but then I realised there’s

The gear you need to begin enjoying physical media again

I love playing music on my laptop, but hate paying for streaming subscriptions. I used to solve that dilemma by playing CDs in my laptops, but my past three machines have lacked disc drives. I’m proba

There has been a tectonic fragility to the early weeks of 2026, the uneasy sense of an old world shifting. New horror in Syria, Venezuela, Greenland, Iran; ongoing terror in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan. In t

The great vinyl revival might get all the attention, but CDs continue to outsell LPs. Figures from the BPI (www.snipca. com/57458) show that Brits bought around 10.5 million CDs in 2024, compared with

Somewhere between biometrics tracking and supplement stacking, modern wellness – at least the viral version – turned into a full-time job. But do you really need to put in overtime to feel the best version of yourself?