When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price? On a spring morning in 1987, a 30-year-old man named Robert Kilgour pulled up beside a row of foamy cherry trees in the town of Kirkcaldy, on Scotland’s east coast, to visit an old […]
It’s unclear what happened in São Paulo. But our obsessive culture has created a fraught dance between stars and their fans Last week, the former Chelsea footballer Jorginho made a post on social media claiming that, after his daughter walked past the singer Chappell Roan’s table at a restaurant and […]
With an egg-cellent roster on offer, which chocolate treats are the most moreish and which aren’t worth shelling out on? • The best novelty hot cross buns At the age of 45, my Easter egg hunt is about seeking out quality, transparency and flavour, rather than just finding the most […]
ChatGPT allegedly mangled some quotes in Matt Goodwin’s book, but which of these are correct or correctly attributed? Poor old Matt Goodwin. No sooner had he lost the Gorton and Denton byelection for Reform UK while seemingly having some very sour grapes about the outcome, but his new book – […]
As a player, Mauricio Pochettino suffered under World Cup pressure. As a manager, he hopes to help the USMNT’s belief in the face of it US men’s national team head coach Mauricio Pochettino probably understands the pressure of playing for your national team in a way few of his players […]
Analysts fear Iran has played a weak hand well and the US has blundered into a defining strategic failure Middle East crisis – live updates Four weeks into a war that was going to take four days, and that has so far cost the US about $30-40bn and Israel $300m […]
England were disjointed against Uruguay but no wonder – the head coach’s team selection was an act of self sabotage Before this game Thomas Tuchel had said he would base his starting XI on what he saw on the training ground. Halfway through an evening at Wembley Stadium that felt […]
The US court verdicts declaring Meta liable for getting people addicted and ruining lives must be just the start of a global fightback Good news is so rare these days, you don’t quite know how to take it. You want to celebrate, but a rival instinct tells you it’ll be […]
Prepare for bouclé jackets, quilted chain-link bags galore and an outfit formula that is proving to be consumer catnip Just six months after Matthieu Blazy unveiled his debut collection for Chanel, and a week after it landed in stores, excitement over the new designer has reached fever pitch. There have […]
Before he was Paddington’s dignified dad, the star nailed British awkwardness in Bafta-winning satire Twenty Twelve. Now he’s back as long-suffering manager Ian Fletcher, taking on Trump, the World Cup – and his foolish old intern When Hugh Bonneville was first asked to reprise the role of Ian Fletcher – […]