Slovenia’s children are less likely to know deprivation than any other European nation’s. Is that because of what the country is doing now – or its socialist past? Much of the world doesn’t have a clue what to do about child poverty, or even when to do it. In the […]
Year: 2025
Forget tough scrutiny of small boats or asylum hotels – this home secretary appears to lead a charmed life What goes around doesn’t always come around. When Yvette Cooper was chair of the home affairs select committee between 2016 and 2021, she was a force of nature. Tireless. Persistent. Forensic. […]
Fraudsters use fake artists to juice royalties from streaming services – but real musicians are getting blamed. Might they be better off without Spotify et al? There is a battle gripping the music business today around the manipulation of streaming services – and innocent indie artists are the collateral damage. […]
Febos’s life flourished while taking a year off sex and dating. In a new memoir, The Dry Season, she explores the allure of romance When Melissa Febos decided to be celibate for a year – after what she describes as a “ravaging vortex of a relationship” and “five other brief […]
Soueif is willing to do ‘what it takes’ to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, after a lifetime of speaking up against injustice Laila Soueif, lying shrunken on a hospital bed at St Thomas’ hospital in London on the 247th day of her hunger strike in pursuit of freedom for her son, […]
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Young, beautiful and queer, the first Black man to hold the sonic screwdriver made waves before his shock regeneration – but his time in the Whoniverse was the shortest in 20 years. What next for him … and the show? At the weekend, Doctor Who attempted to pull off the […]
PM’s defence review reveal mixes fighting talk with wide-eyed wonder at promise of a war dividend Keir Starmer vows to make Britain ‘battle-ready’ as he unveils defence spending plans It’s War-War. Keir Starmer had come to the Govan shipyard to get us battle ready. The threat was real. The threat […]
In a spectacular attack planned over 18 months, Ukrainian agents moved drones and explosives deep inside Russia to strike four airbases A Ukrainian drone attack has destroyed billions of dollars worth of Russian aircraft stationed at bases across the country, including at locations as far away as Siberia, in what […]
‘David only had words for one verse. “Just sing it twice,” I said. “We can worry about that later.” But we never got around to it – and people don’t seem to notice’ I’d just left Suede and was living in a basement flat in Highgate, London, making music in […]