It’s like The Traitors meets Race Across the World, with contestants sent on a deliberately disorientating 175-mile helicopter ride – and then put onto a bus with no windows. And that’s before you consider the challenges … It’s The Traitors on a bus! It’s Race Across the World in blindfolds! […]
Month: July 2025
Amy Odell’s book about the controversial actor and Goop founder is brimming with stories – from Madonna giving her advice as a teenager to her disappointment at boyfriend Brad Pitt’s understanding of caviar When the author Amy Odell approached Gwyneth Paltrow’s publicist about her plans for a biography of the […]
What’s most important about hearing health how it helps people stay engaged, say experts – here’s how to support it A recent study examined the potential link between hearing loss and dementia, suggesting that treating hearing loss can help the brain. Although the possible connection is still being untangled, study […]
PGMO puts its officials through their paces on the Costa Blanca and offers an insight into what goes on off the pitch “Three, two, one,” comes the countdown from Francis Bunce, a senior sports scientist at the referees’ body Professional Game Match Officials (PGMO), before he blows the whistle to […]
Neeson plays the son of Leslie Nielsen’s Lt Frank Drebin, appearing opposite Pamela Anderson in this enjoyable, at times very bizarre, spoof of 80s LA action movies Here is Liam Neeson doing a rumbly-menacing voice even sillier than the one he did in Taken – and he now presumably must […]
The PM is to lead recognition of a Palestinian state – a good day for him, the UK and the starving people of Gaza What a difference a week makes. Last Tuesday, Keir Starmer batted away all invitations to recognise the state of Palestine. It wasn’t happening. Keir was committed […]
Sweeping dramas set in days of yore are everywhere. But which are some of the finest television ever created? And which are little more than an excuse to show naked backsides? Inflate thy balloons and unsheathe thy Party Rings, for here is Chief of War (Apple TV+) to remind us […]
The Epstein files may never be released, but it’s increasingly likely that Epstein’s right-hand woman could be. The groundwork is already being done Roll up! Roll up! The Ghislaine Maxwell Rehabilitation Tour is coming to town. You may think Jeffrey Epstein’s associate and former girlfriend is now behind bars for […]
A Swiss film about a nurse pushed to her limits one night is being praised for the picture it paints of treacherously underfunded healthcare. The director talks about the ‘heart-pounding’ story that inspired her The world could face a shortage of 13 million nurses by the end of this decade. […]
Ashmolean Museum, OxfordThis Is What You Get explores the intense creative partnership behind countless album sleeves from OK Computer to In Rainbows. But is it good art? Absolutely not For decades, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and the artist Stanley Donwood have been locked in an intense creative partnership. They scribble over […]