French president more interested in meeting the king and the sound of his own voice than joining PM in celebrating agreement on migration Nigel Farage couldn’t believe his luck. Another cloudless sunny day. The water mill-pond flat. What better way to pass the time than to take to sea and […]
Month: July 2025
Agents, employers, board members all have a moral and legal duty to make people behave decently. If not now, when? It was only a handful of “middle-class women of a certain age”. That’s how the MasterChef host Gregg Wallace originally dismissed his accusers, when allegations of sexually inappropriate behaviour first […]
I was shocked to learn just how many pieces of art sold around the world are forgeries. But should finding out something is a cheap dupe really make us enjoy it less? Many years ago, I met a man in a pub in Bloomsbury who said he worked at the […]
Raynor Winn’s bestselling book is far from the first time a true story has been called into question after publication. But how does it happen? And should readers really feel betrayed? “The Salt Path is an unflinchingly honest, inspiring and life-affirming true story,” reads the description of Raynor Winn’s bestselling […]
Aperitivo hour just got an update. From floral to fruity to alcohol-free, these expert-picked spritzes are made for summer • I tried 40 tinned drinks: here are my favourite canned cocktails, wines and seltzers for sunny days Sundowners, aperitivo, golden hour: whatever your preferred term, using early summer evenings to […]
Kemi thinks the Tories left the country in fine shape and Labour have ruined it. Keir thinks the opposite. Yawn Spare a thought for Rachel Reeves. After last week’s mini-meltdown during prime minister’s questions, the chancellor is now condemned to spend the next year grinning manically every time she’s out […]
This meticulous tale of an investigation into a Canadian chef accused of supplying deadly toxins on a suicide forum makes you despair. It’s yet more evidence that we live in a terrible world What – and I ask myself this question with increasing frequency and seriousness – are we going […]
Departure now leaves a question mark about the next chapter of one of the sport’s extraordinary success stories The removal of Christian Horner from his post as team principal at Red Bull represents both the end of an era in Formula One and, in the short term, the most turbulent […]
US president appears to have run out of patience with his Russian counterpart – but how that transmits into practical support for Kyiv remains to be seen Europe live – latest updates “I’m not happy with Putin. I can tell you that much right now,” Trump said, expressing his frustration […]
Michael Briggs was a well-known scientist – and a fantasist. When his daughter Joanne began digging into his past for a memoir, new lies kept emerging … Growing up in the 1960s, Joanne Briggs knew her father, Michael, wasn’t like other dads. Once a Nasa scientist, now a big pharma […]