Government plans to protect species by increasing woodland and removing greys, but campaigners say it needs to go further When Sam Beaumont sees a flash of red up a tree on his Lake District farm, he feels a swell of pride. He’s one of the few people in England who […]
Among those focusing on what the PM knew about Peter Mandelson are many who themselves knew plenty and chose to ignore it Everything Donald Trump touches dies. He put his name on the Kennedy Center in Washington, prompting artists and performers to flee in such numbers that the venue will […]
From minting coins featuring his own face to covering buildings with gold, the president’s proposals for marking America’s semiquincentennial say a lot about the country’s backwards outlook When the United States celebrated its bicentennial on 4 July 1976, it marked the occasion with the opening of the National Air and […]
After plundering her tearaway teens for the comedy classic, Lisa McGee is back with a Scooby-Doo-style caper. As How to Get to Heaven from Belfast hits our screens, she explains why the craic’s about to get deadly How do you follow up a show about girls in Derry? With one […]
When the likeness of the populist leader as an angel was painted into a cheesy tribute to Italy’s last king, it caused outrage. But far better artists have been similarly profane for centuries It must be the ugliest wall painting in Rome – and that’s even without the bizarre portrait […]
From pirates and skateboarders in Hastings to legends and locks in Devizes, from dolphins in Scarborough to the ‘artists’ town’ of Kirkcudbright, readers put forward their favourite places Culture secretary Lisa Nandy has launched a search for the UK’s first “town of culture”, similar to the city of culture programme, […]
There is a look of despair in Starmer’s eyes – and a feeling in the room that the endgame has begun It’s beginning to feel terminal. Not that there hasn’t been talk of Labour MPs wanting to remove Keir Starmer before. Just that this time there’s the sense of a […]
Bankers and billionaires are flocking to the city where income tax is zero but critics say it ignores money laundering – and pay disparities are huge Business live – latest updates Aidan Doyle was an estate agent in Liverpool before he decamped to Dubai and turned a £30,000 annual income […]
The Swedish band’s frontwoman answers your questions on ‘sweet and curious’ Tom Jones, being changed by cancer and whether the Cardigans will ever make new music Are you a fan of actual cardigans? garythenotrashcougarI can see the genius of them as items of clothing, but I never looked good in […]
More than eight years after the Grenfell Tower fire killed 72 people, the companies, materials and rules that made it possible are still shaping how homes are built, in the UK and around the world. Neelam Tailor looks at how deregulation, industry lobbying and corporate greed allowed a preventable tragedy […]