This tale of a young female spy in 1980s East Berlin is a visual delight. Around every corner is a fun comic twist Is there any more alluring aesthetic in screen fiction than the iron curtain thriller? Any TV show dealing in 1980s cold war chic – Deutschland 83, Kleo, […]
From diva-like behaviour to freebie requests that never result in a review, ‘entitled’ content creators are a growing blight on small-business owners. Now entrepreneurs are calling them out Nicole Flanagin remembers exactly the moment an influencer came after her business. It was the early hours of a March morning and the […]
Nearly 1,100 years ago, the nation’s first king drove out the ‘heathen’ Vikings, declared war on starvation and made ‘Englalonde’ what it is today On 4 July, the United States celebrated its 250th birthday with all the razzmatazz and dazzle characteristic of an American public occasion. Next summer, on 12 […]
From a bamboo gym in Bali to a house made from earth in Wiltshire, these projects show the beauty in sustainable design With construction accounting for more than a third of global emissions, sustainable architecture is central to the world meeting its climate targets. The following five creations from around […]
When Anthony Ashdown met Jake, their shared love of nerd culture felt revolutionary. Then Jake recited a line from The Golden Girls Find more stories from the moment I knew series Picture it. Sydney. 2015. I had weathered a nasty breakup the previous year. I had often compromised a lot […]
Kurt Gödel left 1,009 pages of densely written text – much of it in an obsolete shorthand – which is now said to contain hundreds of proved theorems The Austrian logician Kurt Gödel was one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century. His two incompleteness theorems, published in […]
It is important to understand just how effectively perpetrators of abuse have used lawyers as their shields. A challenge to that can’t come soon enough There will be empty shelves in many bedrooms this weekend, where the David Walliams books once stood. For parents of a certain era, there was […]
Saintly heir to the throne breaks his hectic schedule for a magazine lowdown on life in the country Country Life: Guest Edited by HRH the Prince of Wales Front Cover: Photo of me outdoors. I love the country, me. Continue reading…
Ministers consider banning under-16s from online marketplaces amid reported misuse of messaging functions and users’ photos In June, Hannah* listed her seven-year-old daughter’s pink swimming costume for sale on Vinted, hoping other parents surfing the reselling site would snap up the £1 offer. Her inbox pinged. “So a little girl […]
Molly Callahan, a gynecological teaching assistant, helps medical students practice pap smears and breast exams On her busiest days, Molly Callahan, has 16 speculums inserted into her vagina. She works full-time as a gynecological teaching assistant (GTA) – a layperson who helps medical students practice pap smears and breast exams […]