Oli Franklin-Wallis

2 months ago | gq-magazine.co.uk | Oli Franklin-Wallis

Years ago, before he was cast as daredevil, Charlie Cox travelled to the Scottish Highlands to relearn how to be a man. “I had read this book about male archetypes, I think it’s called, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover,” Cox explains. The book, about building a healthier kind of masculinity, affected him so much that the actor signed up for a weekend men’s retreat in Inverness.

Nov 13, 2024 | gq-magazine.co.uk | Oli Franklin-Wallis

Ignore, for now, how it ended. Cast your mind back instead to the 70th minute of this summer’s men’s Euros final – a moment that, for England at least, represented a demarcation, a fulcrum, a… sure, why not, a vibe shift. A moment that at the time seemed so prosaic you probably barely noticed. With 20 minutes left to play, the Three Lions having trailed for most of the second half, Gareth Southgate made an uncharacteristic substitution. He took off Kobbie Mainoo.

Nov 8, 2024 | gq-magazine.co.uk | Oli Franklin-Wallis

All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. Pain. If there’s one thing that truly screws up a night’s sleep — and your mood the next day — it’s pain. Choose your fighter: for me, it’s a combination of chronic ulnar nerve pain and a lingering lower back thing that tends to arrive around 3 am. It's been intermittently ruining my nights for the best part of a decade.

Sep 24, 2024 | gq-magazine.co.uk | Oli Franklin-Wallis

Piers Morgan cares deeply about many things – vegans, men wearing baby-carriers, the word “babe”, plus-sized models, too-skinny models, people who identify as nonbinary, “wokies” in general – but you should know that one thing he definitely doesn't care about is his critics. “Nothing bothers me,” Morgan says. “I don’t care if some spotty little geek in his mum’s dungeon wants to call me a whatever.

Jun 28, 2024 | gq-magazine.co.uk | Oli Franklin-Wallis

Semen is a miraculous fluid. A single teaspoon can contain hundreds of millions of motile sperm, countless vitamins, citric acid, prostaglandins, proteins and yes – for anyone curious – up to 25 calories. But lately, scientists have been finding something troubling: plastics. In recent years, microplastics (defined as plastic particles smaller than 5mm, as opposed to nanoplastics, which can be as small as 1 nanometer) have been found infiltrating our bodies at an alarming rate.