Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days
“It’s a very barren landscape for me,” says Pauline Tomlin, 61. “A lot of men my age are not great at keeping themselves fit and healthy. I don’t know what happens – they seem to be all right in their 40s and 50s, and then they get to their 60s and you’re like: what the hell?”
Donna Ferguson spoke to single women in their 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s who opened up about dating in later life, sharing stories about the perils of online dating and what it’s like starting new relationships after your partner dies.
Oscar Niemeyer changed the face of modern architecture – but who knew his final design was a diner in a space-age bubble on an industrial estate in Leipzig? Marion Lougheed visited the last wonder of the great Brazilian architect, who dreamt it up at the age of 103. And it’s a fine place for a sunset kombucha and gin.
In the darkness of Valentine’s Day, a delivery driver was led by his GPS to the Essex mudflats at the mouth of the Thames estuary, where it meets the North Sea. Tim Burrows took up the tale of how the photo of the van became something of a sensation: “People thought they were looking at an AI image … ”
