For Sami Tamimi, preparing the food of his homeland is an act of resilience and keeping his culture alive Food is both deeply personal and political for Sami Tamimi, the Palestinian chef and food writer, whose first solo cookbook is an emotional culinary ride down memory lane through the bountiful […]
Year: 2025
An intimate account of an unprecedented trial If we believe her parents, Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, a baby girl was born on Christmas Eve, 2022, in the upstairs bedroom of Woodcutters Cottage in Haltwhistle, Northumberland. Her mother knelt against the double bed and gave birth without assistance or complication. […]
Noel Gallagher named a song after it, Marc Almond practically moved in and the Killers had a bathtub reserved for puking in – but was it rock’n’roll, or just a bit tragic? In the early 2000s, a member of the New York dance-punk band Radio 4 was walking upstairs when […]
Commons remain tone deaf as superinjunction lifts lid on data leak and £800m Afghanistan Response Route I suppose we might have guessed something like this. In August 2021, the then foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, had moaned about the “sea being closed” while on holiday in Crete. The fate of thousands […]
It may not be completely anatomically accurate, but the Victorian copy of the Bayeux tapestry is as much an emblem of its time as the 11th-century original ‘We’ve already got one,” sneers a snotty French knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. With that holy grail of British history, […]
While Mstyslav Chernov was on the Oscars circuit with his first Ukraine war film, soldiers in his latest – made using bodycams – were dying. He explains why he needed to join them in the trenches It was in Sloviansk, in the rear of eastern Ukraine’s frontline, that I first […]
Retailer marks 265th anniversary by choosing children’s favourite toys since its founding It’s a list that will take you back to your childhood, whenever that was: train sets, Tonka Trucks, Top Trumps and Tamagotchis have all been named among the top 100 toys of all time. Drawn up by buyers […]
The celebs are all terrified as they’re thrown into the ocean – but as Helen George, who has a lifelong fear of open water, climbs into a shark cage, it becomes absolutely extraordinary television On paper, Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters sounds as if television has evolved into a more extreme, […]
Shadow minister crashes and burns as Yvette Cooper makes statement on new Channel crossing arrangements It was all a bit of a mystery. Just where were the Tories? Had they just got their dates confused? Thought that recess started this week rather than next? Or had they all bunked off […]
Montse Tomé’s side remain the favourites after a superb group-stage showing but Iceland go home with a whimper Spain were favourites coming into the Euros and, based on their form in Group B, they still are. They matched England’s Euro 2022 record of 14 goals in the group stage. Alexia […]