Contrast the furious reaction to Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ to the response offered to those living with real housing injustice: indifference The new “mansion tax” announced by Rachel Reeves in last week’s budget is estimated to affect around 165,000 property owners, and on current trends the British media is forecast […]
Month: December 2025
Now he’s free of the BBC, he’s gone combative. He drives a horse and cart through a piece of Dominic Grieve sophistry, and tries his best to skewer the institution based around a jewelled velvet hat Settling down in front of David Dimbleby’s new three-parter, and looking at that confrontational […]
Laying a table well is one of the best ways to make guests feel relaxed and cosy. Queen of tablescaping Laura Jackson’s advice? Forget the stiff old rules and have fun with it A feast is not just about food. Just to sit at a table surrounded by the faces […]
Investment was not enough to save the courts, said the justice secretary. At least, not the amounts he was prepared to put in Spare a thought for David Lammy. Not so long ago he was foreign secretary. His dream job. Turning left on boarding planes to go to meet his […]
The rising star has made her debut film, Dreamers, a semi-autobiographical love story set in an immigration detention centre. She talks about fleeing persecution in Nigeria – and what she learned from French new wave Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor had a little wobble when she stepped on to the stage after the […]
The prime minister has been pushed to defend his chancellor after she was accused of lying in the run-up to the autumn budget. Rachel Reeves is alleged to have misled the public by citing bleak economic forecasts from the OBR to justify tax rises, even though the figures were more […]
The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked together Tom was my hero from the night I first saw Travesties in 1979. I was 15. […]
Keir Starmer may be keen to move on from the budget megashambles, but chaos is hardwired into his party Freud has a word for it. Thanatos. Up till now it’s been tempting to give Labour the benefit of the doubt. That being in opposition for 14 years has made them […]
‘I spent the 90s with Pam – clubbing and partying in the way those times demanded. What I saw was a truly groundbreaking artist, and a life marked by independence, courage and kindness’ • Pam Hogg, fashion designer with a rock’n’roll spirit, dies at 66 – news• Pam Hogg – […]
They wrestled steel beams, hung off giant hooks and tossed red hot rivets – all while ‘strolling on the thin edge of nothingness’. Now the 3,000 unsung heroes who raised the famous skyscraper are finally being celebrated Poised on a steel cable a quarter of a mile above Manhattan, a […]