From the outset her role has been crucial, and her fall will exacerbate all the doubts about the PM and his ability to keep Labour in power Sign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking […]
Month: September 2025
There’s a real 00s feel to the double act’s hit-and-miss return. But the highs it hits are proof that this neglected form of comedy has plenty of life left in it It has been 15 years since That Mitchell and Webb Look left our screens, but it’s still hanging around […]
Amid pounding music, dry ice and pyrotechnics, the charlatan’s charlatan performed like a TV evangelist “Up for an adventure” a sign declared outside the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre. You certainly need to be. After navigating a half-hour queue to get through security, a group of us were told we needed […]
(BMG)Great 10th albums are rare – but that is exactly what the band’s killer riffs, eerie atmosphere and midlife reflections achieve Suede’s fifth album since their 2013 reformation continues their creative resurgence. Singer Brett Anderson suggests that if 2022’s Autofiction – their best post-reunion album until now – was their […]
After 28 years of scandal, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s eviscerations of Donald Trump are some of their greatest work. We rate their most explosive storylines … from ruining Ed Sheeran’s life to episodes banned to this day It has been hailed as the most important TV show of the […]
The designer reinvented power dressing, redefined what it meant to look modern and was the architect of how we dress now Giorgio Armani dressed all of us. Whether or not you ever had the money for a jacket with an Armani label, you wore a jacket that he invented. He […]
In Ashton-under-Lyne there is little sympathy for the deputy prime minister’s tax troubles “I’ve got to pay my taxes and so has she, it’s as simple as that,” Andrew Davies, 57, said, a common view on the streets of Angela Rayner’s Ashton-under-Lyne constituency. On Wednesday, the deputy prime minister acknowledged […]
Liz’s latest delusional outing was on the Master Investor podcast. Spoiler alert: she was right all along, you know Government debt at record levels. A deputy prime minister under investigation by the standards watchdog. Reform UK 15 points ahead in the opinion polls. A summer in which hatred of migrants […]
The Welshman was a brilliant, original coach who had to fight against a culture that was prejudiced against him By No Helmets Required Hull FC began one of the greatest seasons in their history 70 years ago this week. Roy Francis guided them to their first title in 20 years […]
Venice film festivalIn an audacious move, director Kaouther Ben Hania reconstructs the killing of the five-year-old in Gaza using her real voice as she is bombarded by the Israeli army There can be no doubt about which movie has set the Venice film festival ablaze – it is this one, […]