The Independent - 06.08.2019

Iain Morris, screenwriter, 46; Stuart O’Grady, former road bicycle racer, 46; Richard Prince, painter and photographer, 70; John ...

TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019 WORTH A TRY After completing his first London Triathlon with only two weeks’ training, Andrew Griffin may ...

utterly hooked. The journey between that chilly start line and the thrilling finish was among the most testing and rewarding of ...

triathlete, but familiar and important enough that it is constantly on their mind: bricks. Bricks refers to the practice of tran ...

out into the cold air of the Royal Docks. Climbing down off a pontoon and into the water, you bob around waiting for the beginni ...

‘I did it!’ Andrew strikes the ‘traditional’ finisher’s pose, medal in mouth As I arrive at the finish line – past the announcer ...

TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019 Humans aren’t supposed to be eternally happy, so why do we continue to force it? Pretending pain is abnorm ...

refuses to deliver. Because even when all our material and biological needs are satisfied, a state of sustained happiness will s ...

drug that keeps them docile but content. In his novel, Huxley implies that a free human being must inevitably be tormented by di ...

TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019 A SEA CHANGE Sam Haddad reviews the best wetsuits for all watersports, whether you’re surfing, swimming or ...

Triathlon and open-water swimming wetsuits are more buoyant than surfing wetsuits, and the fabric can be thinner and less durabl ...

We really rate Alder wetsuits, as they’re great value relative to the rest of the market and they perform well. The Impact suit ...

We loved the style of this Long Jane wetsuit. The lack of arm fabric made for easy paddling while surfing and swimming, but we d ...

This is a high-performance wetsuit at a really decent price. It keeps you toasty all over, but the fabric is soft and lightweigh ...

This brand has a great reputation for making triathlon wetsuits and the Sonar is no exception, especially for more serious tri r ...

TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019 ‘Manhattan was the Wild West of #MeToo behaviour’ ‘Sex and the City’ author Candace Bushnell opens up to O ...

which were also adapted for TV, but Sex and the City remains Bushnell’s most feted accomplishment. The last offering, Sex and th ...

swearing, laughing and thinking aloud; she’s unfiltered (“Sex and the City was bigger than Girls”, she tells me, breezily, and s ...

Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker, who played Samantha Jones and Carrie Bradshaw, respectively, is to blame. “I don’t know why p ...

TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019 A SHARP FRINGE From the wickedly funny ‘Crododile Fever’ to the poetic staccato of ‘Enough’, Holly William ...