Tom Insurance Review (UK): My Honest Take

Last updated: 14 June 2026

By Stiv · Design, technology and personal finance

This is an opinion piece. Views expressed are the author's own and do not constitute professional or financial advice.

Cool Factor: 3/5

Tom insurance review2026 Edit

Fixed-for-life cover, a handy virtual GP, and a lot of phone calls.

This is my honest Tom insurance review, written as an actual customer rather than someone skimming the marketing. I took out a lifetime serious illness cover policy with Tom, so this Tom insurance review is based on living with the application, the price and the perks, not on a press release.

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Published by Stiv in Finance, Personal finance, Reviews

Tags: life insurance, life insurance review uk, serious illness cover, tom life insurance

June 7, 2026 — No Comments

Huel Bars Review UK 2026: Handy But Not Filling

An honest Huel Bars review after two months: handy, vegan and nutrient-dense, but dense, dry and not quite a meal.

Published by Stiv in Fitness, Foodie, Reviews, Self-care Champion

Tags: complete nutrition, Huel, Huel Bars, meal replacement, protein bars, reviews, vegan

June 6, 2026 — No Comments

Best Audiobooks June 2026: 15 Listens You Can’t Miss

The best audiobooks June 2026 has to offer, from Maggie O'Farrell's Land to Obama and Gladwell's Reconstruction. Fifteen picks, one month.

Published by Stiv in Arts & Culture, Audiobooks, Audiophiles, Bookworms, Reviews

Tags: Ann Patchett, Audible UK, audiobook reviews, audiobooks June 2026, Barack Obama, best audiobooks, Caroline Kepnes, Kate McKinnon, maggie o'farrell, Malcolm Gladwell, new audiobooks

June 4, 2026 — No Comments

Tuner Film Review 2026: Woodall and Hoffman Are a Joy

Last updated: 4 June 2026

By Tristan · Arts, exhibitions and creative culture

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★★★★☆

4 out of 5

Welcome to our Tuner film review, where a piano tuner with painfully sensitive ears discovers his gift works just as well on safes as it does on Steinways. On paper it sounds like a gimmick. In practice, Tuner is one of the warmest, most likeable crime dramas to reach UK cinemas this year, and it confirms what a lot of us suspected after The White Lotus: Leo Woodall is a proper film star.

The short version of this Tuner film review is simple. The performances are lovely, the New York setting glows, and the script has real wit. After a patient opening, the film also winds the tension surprisingly tight. So read on for the full verdict, and why it lands at a confident four out of five rather than the very top of our scale.

Published by Stiv in Arts & Culture, Film, Reviews

Tags: cinema, crime drama, Daniel Roher, Dustin Hoffman, film review, Leo Woodall, piano tuner film, reviews, Tuner, Tuner film

May 31, 2026 — Comments are off for this post.

Flare-Up Goldsmiths CCA Review: London’s First Crip Art Survey

Last updated: 31 May 2026

By Tristan · Arts, exhibitions and creative culture

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Cool Factor: 5/5

I went to Flare-Up at Goldsmiths CCA on a hot day in late May, and I left certain it is one of the shows everyone should see this year. This Flare-Up Goldsmiths CCA review is my first-hand account of the most ambitious group show on illness, disability, neurodivergence and Deafness that a London institution has yet staged. Nineteen artists. One former Victorian bathhouse, its galleries carved out of the old water tanks and plant rooms. A premise built on the flare itself: the symptom that intensifies, the burst of light, the surge of sound.

Curated by Natasha Hoare and Mariana Lemos, Flare-Up runs from 21 May to 16 August 2026 at Goldsmiths CCA in New Cross, and entry is free throughout. What follows is what I actually saw and felt walking the galleries, a short explainer on crip art for anyone new to the term, the works that floored me, an honest account of what did not quite land, and why it still earns a full Ice cold score from me.

Published by Stiv in Art Lovers, Arts & Culture, Reviews

Tags: angela de la cruz, art, Contemporary art, crip aesthetics, crip art, derek jarman, disability art, Exhibitions, freestylers, goldsmiths cca, group exhibition, jesse darling, london, mariana lemos, reviews

May 24, 2026 — Comments are off for this post.

HP Colour Laser 150nw Review UK 2026: Do Not Buy

Last updated: 24 May 2026

By Stiv · Design, technology and personal finance

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Tech / PrintersDo Not Buy

HP Colour Laser 150nw review: the printer that died at eleven months

We bought an HP Colour Laser 150nw for about £130 thirteen months ago. It is now sitting in a recycling pile. This HP Colour Laser 150nw review explains exactly why, because the power button broke, HP's support website was impenetrable, and returning it to Currys was not worth the trip.

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★☆☆☆☆

1 out of 5 — Do Not Buy

So here is the short version. The print quality was genuinely fine. Everything else was not. We are writing this review so that you do not waste your money the way we wasted ours. Below, we walk through everything that went wrong, why the fault is baked into the design, and exactly what to buy instead.

The HP Colour Laser 150nw. Compact, tidy, and now destined for the recycling centre.

Published by Stiv in Buying Guides, Consumer Tech, Reviews, Tech News

Tags: Brother, home office, HP, laser printer, printers, reviews, Tech reviews

May 24, 2026 — Comments are off for this post.

Christo Air Review: Gagosian’s Lost Cloud Lands in London

Last updated: 23 May 2026

By Tristan · Arts, exhibitions and creative culture

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Cool Factor: 4/5

Some shows you walk through. This one you stand inside. Our Christo Air review covers the moment a lost 1968 idea finally turns real, suspended just above your head in a Mayfair gallery. Christo: Air opened at Gagosian on Grosvenor Hill on 21 May 2026, and it centres on a single, glowing cloud that the artist never lived to see built. Below, we unpack what genuinely works, what falls a little short, and whether this Christo Air review lands the show among the capital's must-see exhibitions this summer.

Published by Stiv in Arts & Culture, Exhibitions, Reviews

Tags: Air Package on a Ceiling, art review, Christo, Christo Air, Exhibition review, Gagosian, London exhibitions

May 23, 2026 — Comments are off for this post.

Stubbs: Portrait of a Horse Review – National Gallery 2026

Last updated: 23 May 2026

By Tristan · Arts, exhibitions and creative culture

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This Stubbs Portrait of a Horse review follows a slow afternoon spent in Room 1 of the National Gallery, where one of British painting's rarest masterpieces is on free display until 31 May 2026. Indeed, this is a small show with a huge centrepiece. Above all, it offers a once-in-a-generation chance to see Scrub, a bay horse belonging to the Marquess of Rockingham, a 1762 portrait that has only ever appeared in public once before. So if British painting, animal art, or sheer ambition on canvas interests you in any way, do not skip this one.

Cool Factor: 4/5

Published by Stiv in Arts & Culture, Exhibitions, Reviews

Tags: anatomy of the horse, art review, eighteenth century painting, equine art, Exhibition review, free exhibition, George Stubbs, London exhibition, National Gallery, Scrub, Stubbs, Whistlejacket

May 20, 2026 — Comments are off for this post.

Henry Moore Kew Gardens: Monumental Nature Review (2026)

Last updated: 10 May 2026

By Tristan · Arts, exhibitions and creative culture

The Henry Moore Kew Gardens exhibition has finally arrived properly, and it is the show his work has always deserved. From 9 May 2026, thirty of Moore's monumental bronzes sit across Kew's 320 acres. This is the largest open-air Moore exhibition ever staged. Honestly, the sculptures look as though they grew there. So the gardens feel different because of them.

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Cool Factor: 5/5

Published by Stiv in Art Lovers, Arts & Culture, Exhibitions, Reviews

May 19, 2026 — Comments are off for this post.

Olivia Guillot In between blinks at Glasshouse Review: 2026

Last updated: 19 May 2026

By Tristan · Arts, exhibitions and creative culture

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This Olivia Guillot Glasshouse review covers in between blinks, the debut London solo show from a French-British painter who has spent the last year on the Tracey Emin Artist Residency in Margate. The work is loud, confident and unmistakably alive. It is also, quite plainly, the start of something rather than the finished thing. So if you want to back a young painter early, this small Soho room is a good place to begin.

Cool Factor: 4/5

Published by Stiv in Art Lovers, Arts & Culture, Exhibitions, Reviews

Tags: contemporary painting, emerging artists, exhibition reviews, Gathering, Glasshouse Projects, in between blinks, London exhibitions, Margate, Olivia Guillot, Soho galleries, TEAR, Tracey Emin Artist Residency