The high-value council tax surcharge may only raise £400m but it’s the best opportunity for a bigger, fairer tax on wealth Rachel Reeves won little credit last week for lifting the lid on one of the most heated tax debates of the past three decades. Who in their right mind […]
Month: November 2025
Democracy, birds and hangover cures – famous fans put their questions to the visionary author After the phenomenal global success, not to mention timeliness, of the TV adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale in 2017, Margaret Atwood has been regarded as “a combination of figurehead, prophet and saint”, the author writes […]
Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer capture the families, farmers and fishers who have been forced to leave their homes by extreme weather – and the landscapes they left behind. Introduction by Dina Nayeri In 2009, Swiss photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer set out to document the people suffering […]
Venues promoting destruction as stress relief are appearing around the UK but experts – and our correspondent – are unsure If you find it hard to count to 10 when anger bubbles up, a new trend offers a more hands-on approach. Rage rooms are cropping up across the UK, allowing […]
The Daily Mail owner has the Telegraph titles in his sights as part of a long-held ambition to create a dominant stable of rightwing newspapers Waiting two decades for another chance to snaffle a prized business acquisition is a luxury not afforded to many executives. The Rothermere family, however, takes […]
Labour can proudly say this was a budget for working people – that is, if your job happens to be prime minister Thanks to Labour’s incredible Black Friday deal, breaking manifesto policies is buy-one-get-one-free. As part of its all-promises-must-go drive, it’s ditching its flagship policy giving the right to claim […]
From Michelangelo and Leonardo to Picasso and Matisse, bitter feuds have defined art. But are contemporary artists more collaborative than their renaissance predecessors? “He has been here and fired a gun,” John Constable said of JMW Turner. A shootout between these two titans would make a good scene for in […]
If ‘naked dressing’ is a stretch too far, sheer fabrics can provide a real-life friendly compromise Fashion loves nothing more than an extreme trend, one difficult to imagine transferring to most people’s everyday lives. See naked dressing, where stars on the red carpet wear transparent and sometimes barely there gowns. […]
Exclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he ‘gets nothing in the way of royalties’, show authors at their most vulnerable Tobacco, swiss roll, Irish whiskey, Guinness and monkey nuts: that’s the diet followed […]
From ICU meet-cutes to holiday sparks, readers share the unexpected moments that brought them lasting love this year Ask someone who is single about their dating life, and the answer might sound like Oliver singing “Where is love?” According to the headlines, nobody knows how to flirt, dating is dead, […]