100 ways to beat the heat

Simple green salads to make the most of summer days

Choose your favourite leaves then select from a range of piquant dressings

Stick with a plan – BBQ skewer recipes

The best thing to grill? Things on sticks – think Indonesian chicken satay, Greek-inspired fish and Nigerian suya beef

Plan a foodie holiday – 22 ideas from around the UK

Pizza on a canoe, seafood with a view, the best ice-cream – from Sussex to Scotland, and East Anglia to Wales

The Sycamore Gap trial ‘was as if someone had been murdered’

I set out to answer the question a whole nation has been asking: what made two men cut down the Sycamore Gap tree?

Andrew Hankinson

Salman Rushdie on free speech, fiction and survival

In his most frank conversation since he was attacked onstage three years ago, Salman Rushdie addresses his recovery, the importance of fiction in an era of fake news and his renewed vigour for the work that nearly cost him his life

Erica Wagner

Munroe Bergdorf meets the moment

Outspoken and highly influential, the model, author and activist is a force for our times

Ellen E Jones

The wild romance of the Scottish Highlands

After 25 years as a travel writer, Annabelle Thorpe falls for the majesty of the Highlands

Annabelle Thorpe

Parli Italiano? Talking like a local on a language holiday in Puglia

Glimpses of the real life of the town remind us why we want to be part of the action, not just watching on

Louise Roddon

Just visiting: Budapest

How to spend 48 memorable hours in Hungary’s grand historic capital

Emma Cook