The pressure to self-optimise at the start of the new school year can lead to disappointment and burnout. Instead, here are seven ways to slow things down and reap the benefits It is a hangover from our school days that September can feel like a time for getting back to […]
Such is the US president’s narcissism that he would see a Democratic victory as proof that he’s indispensable – meanwhile, his every decision spells calamity for voters What is Donald Trump playing at? If it’s true that the best way of understanding the behaviour of an organisation is to assume […]
Spaceship-shaped gallery, featuring works from Banksy, Norman Rockwell and Frida Kahlo, is devoted to ‘visual storytelling’ – and is finally ready to open “I’m used to doing the impossible,” George Lucas said on Wednesday. But “this one almost broke my will”. The film-maker was describing the decades of work that […]
The only thing more dodgy than Reform’s financial dealings is the egregious lunchtime combination of oysters, Guinness and champagne How many sarcastic air quotes is too many for quoting Nigel Farage’s suggestion that Reform have been ““““““““hoaxed”””””””” by some undercover investigators into appearing to seek to get round electoral law […]
In 1989, the Chariots of Fire actor took on the incredible task of playing Shakespeare’s prince while terminally ill from Aids. This weekend sees the world premiere of Elsinore, a new film about the episode, itself heavily-tipped for awards Ian Charleson was one of the finest actors of his generation […]
British Museum, LondonThe greatest battle ever depicted in art is here at last – and it hurtles along, making your heart pound with its sense of doom and destiny, culminating in fires and corpses on a battlefield full of pathos It should not work. It should not even exist. Nothing […]
Tory leader scents Labour weakness on defence spending and declares it’s 2030 or bust UK politics live – latest updates There’s something about Kemi Badenoch making a keynote speech – everything she does comes billed as keynote these days – about defence that makes most normal people a little nervous. […]
Amelia Dimoldenberg’s series helped turn YouTube into a world-beating phenomenon. As it bows out, we remember its best bits – from mocking MC Ghetts to that sizzling tension with Billie Eilish and Andrew Garfield When Amelia Dimoldenberg posted a video to social media this week, telling an unknown companion “we […]
Experts say that the smell comes from a chemical compound called 2-nonenal, and it can show up much earlier than one expects Last week, my mom complained that she’s starting to smell “like an old person”. She had grabbed her favorite sweater and draped it over herself at the movie […]
On the 300th anniversary of Gulliver’s Travels, we celebrate the biggest film stars of them all – from a stone colossus to a metal-munching alien and a 50ft woman on the rampage Not a first-person-shooter BFG, alas, but one of Steven Spielberg’s worst films, reducing Roald Dahl’s story to digital […]