Government has officially announced ban on reselling for profit, described by minister as ‘no-brainer’ Last May, in a dimly lit basement beneath London’s South Bank, the UK’s most prolific ticket touts gathered to discuss Labour’s plan to effectively put them out of business. One seasoned ticket “trader” pleaded with colleagues […]
Month: November 2025
Can Ben Stokes really lead England to victory in Australia? Set your alarms and gird your loins, this one’s not just big, it’s positively Brobdingnagian Continue reading…
Usually raucous backbenchers snoozed through the session as Keir and Kemi’s exchanges descended into a slanging match It’s like watching dead men walking. Or, to be accurate, a dead man and a dead woman walking. Ghosts of Christmas parties past, haunting the dispatch box. Cast your mind forward to a […]
He’s been in everything from Love Actually to Shakespeare with Al Pacino – but will he always be thought of as the string-vest-wearing boozy Glaswegian? Ahead of a tour as himself, the actor and Instagram cookery guru looks back Few actors are more indelibly associated with one role than Gregor […]
Caribbean island nation is the smallest to reach the finals tournament after appointing the wily coach and drawing on diaspora The delay in Dick Advocaat becoming Curaçao’s head coach might have been ominous but instead it was the foundation for glory. Frustrated by the national federation’s financial problems, he deferred […]
Back-of-an envelope calculations by Kemi Badenoch, Mel Stride and Nigel Farage are nothing but political fever dreams You would think we were in the final three months of a general election campaign, not three and a half years out. Everywhere you look there’s a party leader giving a press conference. […]
Bringing her black-belt screen presence to the role of Elphaba, Erivo leads a fine cast in a zingily scored conclusion to the hit origin story Director Jon M Chu pulls off quite a trick with this manageably proportioned second half to the epic musical prequel-myth inspired by The Wizard of […]
Australia have big injuries and concerns over their top order: if England start well in Perth they can win back the Ashes It’s the Ashes in Australia and that is a series England have become used to losing, so much so that even Jimmy Anderson, the greatest English Test wicket‑taker […]
It’s not just Melinda French Gates. Many divorcees in their 40s to 60s are glad to be free – their male exes, less so Name: Divorcees. Age: Usually middle-aged, roughly between 45 and 65. Continue reading…
The great potter explains why he turned his decades-long fixation with Axel Salto – maker of unsettling stoneware full of tentacle sproutings and knotty growths – into a new show Potter and writer Edmund de Waal, a dark silhouette of neat workwear against the blinding white of his studio, is […]