The Polari first book prize claims to promote trans rights and trans voices. But when I saw the longlist, I had to act Last week, I withdrew my nomination from the longlist for the Polari first book prize. The awards had become mired in controversy due to the nomination of […]
Year: 2025
More than a million people in the UK left dating apps last year. The Guardian writer Kitty Drake explains why More than a million people in the UK left dating apps last year – a problem so severe, explains the Guardian writer Kitty Drake, that the apps are in “financial […]
Two tennis courts’ worth of wet wipes have accumulated in a rotting pile by Hammersmith Bridge. I went along to witness the horrors – and the cleanup operation Imagine several mounds of congealed grot (consistency akin to the insides of a leisure centre shower drain, or the world’s most disgusting […]
Ustinov Studio, BathAllen is convincing as the bored newlywed but Matthew Dunster’s version gets lost between our time and Ibsen’s It is not through any shortcomings of the cast that Matthew Dunster’s modern-dress reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is so peculiar. Lily Allen is convincingly brittle as the bored […]
Donald Trump is concocting a drama in DC because he would like us to really stop talking about the Epstein files One of most violent days in the history of Washington DC, was 6 January 2021, and the instigator was Donald J Trump, who this week has endeavored to seize […]
Whether team-building or exploring with friends and family, searching for clues and solving puzzles is popular If you spot someone in a busy city centre street with a puzzled, possibly pained look asking their companions whether that’s an elephant at the top of a drainpipe, they are probably not mad […]
As the Downton Abbey finale hits the big screen, the actor looks back on the pitfalls of scoring huge success so young – and the liberation she later found singing in a band and writing a play about Ava Gardner For the maudlin among us, the final Downton Abbey film […]
Who has the time to help underprivileged children when you have a pickleball court and a president to attend to? If you put it in a novel – a ham-fisted satire of tech overlord hypocrisy, say – it would look too contrived to fly. But here we are, absorbing a […]
Young people are drawn in by the promise of a ‘no-distractions’ zone, rereleases of old classics and music documentaries by global artists A new generation of film lovers is helping to drive an increase in cinema attendance across the UK. As the industry slowly recovers from the decline of audiences […]
The German chancellor’s high-wire statesmanship on Ukraine has done little to alleviate his domestic woes Europe live – latest updates Friedrich Merz hosted the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Wednesday as a weakened leader 100 days into his term, with his attempts to rally western support for Kyiv and wrangle […]