Staying ahead of the game is essential in the business world, preparation and planning are always your best friend! This also applies those business trips away. Knowing what to pack can be half the struggle, but if you get it right it can be one less thing to stress about - so you can really focus on that important business pitch! When packing for your business trip, the biggest thing you can do is to decide what needs to go with you, and what can stay at home. Bag First and foremost, you need to think about which bag you...

We’ve all been there – December rolls around, shops start playing horrendous covers of classic Christmas songs and you start acceptably having chocolate for breakfast. You know you should start to buy some presents, but you’ve still got time. Then, all of a sudden, it’s the 23rd December and you have absolutely no idea what to buy anyone. Jewellery for your missus? Socks for your dad? What about your brother? Your Mum? Your Secret Santa? Don’t worry – we’ve got you sorted. We’ve picked out presents for your friends and family and put them together in this handy Christmas Gift...

Ah – those eternal questions: what is the meaning of life? Does God exist? Is there an afterlife? What the hell is smart-casual? In the run up to your Christmas party, it can be hard to work out what to wear. Too overdressed and you’ll feel out of place and uncomfortable, leading you to head to the nearest corner and nurse your drink until it’s an acceptable time to leave. And, as Vince Vaughan, will tell you – that’s not a good thing. On the other hand, too underdressed and you feel like you’ve let everybody down. People will look...

Jon Snow is constantly telling us, winter is coming. And this year, it’s shaping up to be a particularly bitter winter – the kind of winter that makes you want to snooze that alarm, sack off the gym and go back to sleep. (If you’re still jumping out of bed at 6am to hit the gym, the chances are you’re not going to need this article.) But if you’re the kind of guy who has tried to trim up over the summer but are now already starting to add some extra insulation for the winter – these home exercises might...

November is the perfect opportunity to experiment with some facial fuzz and learn how to grow a beard. You can either raise money for charity while you are doing so (by taking part in Movember) or just take solace in the fact that – unless you shave, trim and dye it into a complete monstrosity – you’re probably not going to have the worst facial hair around for the next few weeks. In fact, even if you start growing a beard that is really, really patchy, nobody is likely to bat an eyelid. Now, that’s probably not what you wanted...

Surely there’s nothing that evokes a cool, confident masculinity better than drinking whisky - just think of Don Draper, David Beckham, Sean Connery, Humphrey Bogart. However, whisky can be difficult to really get into – especially if you’re new to the drink (or, new to anything beyond Bells or Jack Daniels, at least). That’s why we’ve put together this beginner’s guide to drinking whisky – it’ll give you everything from a brief history of the drink to advice on how to drink it, which whisky (or whiskey) to order and how to find the perfect whisky for you. That way,...

We’ve all been there – you sit down in the barber’s chair, roughly explain what you want and then wince in horror as your barber cuts too much off of the top, or clips in a few grades shorter than you wanted. And – because we’re British – we sit down and watch as they cut away more than we expected, or give us a completely different style to the one we were expecting to leave with. But it’s not your barber’s fault. When it comes to our clothes and suits, men are normally clued up on what they want...