When I found out my father had been adopted, I was curious to know more about his side of the family. Nothing could have prepared me for what I would discover … Above my grandma’s bed hung a framed black‑and-white photograph of my dad. As a small child I quietly admired […]
Year: 2026
Clwb Ifor Bach, CardiffHis music is still all over the place, lurching from landfill indie to solipsistic ballads, but the youngest Beckham son can certainly play guitar “Memorabilia,” the person on the door says, passing out a commemorative ticket welcoming fans to Cruz Beckham’s show in “Cardiff, England”. It’s an […]
Forget snake yoga. All it takes to increase your life expectancy is factoring a set of simple exercises into your weekly routine Are you still keeping up with your 2026 resolution to exercise more? Or perhaps you’re just trying to survive the winter doldrums, with exercise the last thing on […]
Ever since Netflix dropped its documentary series, Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, the supermodel has been under fire. But is there another motive behind all the controversy? “I was rooting for you,” Tyra Banks famously berated a contestant on America’s Next Top Model some 20 years ago. But […]
Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot On 7 August, Kate Fox received a phone call that upended her life. A medical examiner said that her husband, Joe Ceccanti – who had been missing for several […]
Got battered at the polls? No problem. Just act like voters want more of what you’re selling – not considerably less As David Lammy put it on Thursday in a dispatch from Gorton and Denton: “Only Labour can stop Reform.” And listen, stopping them by taking third place and haemorrhaging […]
Arsenal and Liverpool will fancy their chance of making the quarter-finals, while Manchester City and Newcastle face tougher routes The Club World Cup final victory over Paris Saint-Germain last summer was probably Enzo Maresca’s finest hour as Chelsea manager. He devised a gameplan, pinging balls over Nuno Mendes for Cole […]
A growing number of parents are letting their young children train with weights. But is it a good – or safe – idea? We ask the experts to weigh in Most parents remember the first time their baby smiled or when they took their first steps. Eve Stevenson recalls different […]
With most Scots supportive of reintroducing the wild cat, charities are focusing on those whose jobs could be affected Could lynx, the elusive wild cat driven to extinction in Britain more than 1,000 years ago, become the new Loch Ness monster? “Whether Nessie’s there or not, she draws tourists,” said […]
The Emmy-winning singer and actor was so struck by the standup’s autobiographical one-man show Sugar Daddy that he signed on as producer. The pair discuss ‘bears’, blood sugar and bridging the divides between generations of gay men Sugar Daddy is a one-man show about “love, grief and insulin” by the […]