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 […]
Year: 2025
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, […]
This is the day when politicians and amateur commentators talk more doggybollox than on any other day of the year Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Neither actually. It’s a bizarre hybrid, an altered hallucinogenic universe. Where up is down and down is up. Everything always slightly […]
It’s important to express your disagreement: for their sake as much as yours, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But first decide on what you aim to accomplish Read more Leading questions How do I respond to someone who contributes to a conversation with “I’m not racist, but … ” and […]
As L’Atalante is re-released, we count down the best movies set largely on ships, boats, barges, yachts, steamers and trimarans. Submarines banned, as they’re under water Stephen Sommers’ sci-fi horror pulp follows a bunch of scene-stealing character actors playing mercenaries hired to destroy the cruise ship Argonautica for insurance purposes. […]
Cherries fans wait on word of Semenyo, Gueye’s red card could leave Everton blue and Nuno needs new plans With Thomas Frank, Bryan Mbeumo, Yoane Wissa, Christian Nørgaard and Mark Flekken leaving Brentford in the summer, the Bees looked the established club most likely to go down, thereby allowing a […]
Now a hugely popular photographic genre, many women pay thousands to have intimate portraits taken of themselves by a professional. What do they get out of it? A few hours into Brittany Witt’s boudoir shoot, with the mimosas kicking in and the music going strong, the photographer asked: “How do […]