The series has given up trying to squeeze its characters into the modern age and is content to just be. Fans of the original will sink into it as if it is made of marshmallows and air It all fell into place for me around the shoe montage. Roughly halfway […]
Month: May 2025
The shadow justice secretary is eyeing Kemi Badenoch’s job – but he’s released a video that highlights a weakness in our technocratic PM There is no shortage of reasons to dislike and dismiss Robert Jenrick. He is, after all, the former immigration minister who ordered that a centre for unaccompanied […]
Paris Lees has turned her hit memoir of growing up as a working-class trans kid into a vivid, joyful drama. Its team talks teenage sex work, nostalgia for Tony Blair, and why TV drama is so posh it’s like Jane Austen When the BBC was casting its adaptation of Paris […]
After I was turned into a memecoin, I looked into the hype behind the crypto that only a tiny percentage of people profit from In November last year, I was turned into a memecoin. Several, in fact. Someone alerted me that a memecoin called Dork Nerd Geek ($DNG) had been […]
Need a summer style refresh? Our menswear expert’s favourite pieces prove you don’t need to spend big to look sharp • The ultimate men’s capsule wardrobe I’ve found it a delight to write this list of 50 summer wardrobe updates for men, as browsing for menswear is one of my […]
As the pollen count rises, here are the expert-recommended hay fever cures that stopped me sneezing – and the one that made it worse I grew up playing in the woods, sleeping with my dog and dead-heading flowers for my dad. This rampant early exposure should have turned me into […]
The Throbbing Gristle musician and writer answers your questions on everything from squat life to societal outrage and the best music for striptease Your ultra-radical art projects during the COUM Transmissions era [in the 1970s] shattered every conceivable boundary – from the ethical to the bodily. Even now, viewed through […]
Elon Musk is tapping out, and a court has stepped in on tariffs. But the wheels coming off doesn’t mean the bus is stopping Nothing is going according to plan for the Trump administration. The big, beautiful bill, originally vaunted to save the US taxpayer at least $2tn, so far, […]
Conservative party has repeatedly proved able to adapt and reinvent itself – but this time might be different At a carefully staged factory visit rich in pre-written lines, one part of Keir Starmer’s delivery felt entirely unscripted: his insistence that Reform is now his main electoral challenger, rather than a […]
Starmer throws down the speechlet after Farage strays off-piste with ‘Truss-style’ economic plans • Starmer says Tories ‘sliding into abyss’ and Reform is main challenger Even the losers get lucky sometimes. This hasn’t been the best few weeks for the prime minister. Headlines dominated by the winter fuel allowance and […]