Bar owners say they struggle to dissuade people from forming a line as behavioural experts point to post-pandemic ‘new norms’ “I’m not sure what else we can do to be honest,” Paul Loebenberg said, of the people lined up at his bar. “Maybe there’s something I’ve missed, but we’ve tried […]
Year: 2026
Sabrina Carpenter fangirling Miss Piggy, Beaker losing his eyes … yes, Kermit and co are back for a trip down memory lane – and it’s a perfect, saucy joy The Muppet Show is back! We need this, don’t we? We need them. The TV show ended in 1981, yet decades […]
Every year in Turkey, hundreds of women are recorded as having taken their lives by ‘throwing themselves from a high place’. But many grieving families maintain that investigators are missing the full story Almost nothing seemed to scare Şebnem Köker. With her hair dyed fire-engine red, the 29-year-old nurse lived […]
In the second part of our series on digital politics, we look at how online provocateurs have advanced extreme political ideas – and watched them seep into the mainstream Robert Topinka is a reader in digital media and rhetoric at Birkbeck, University of London Part one: How liberals lost the […]
Nato chief has glibly dismissed prospect of coping without US support, but in the age of Trump the case for autonomy is growing The Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, was typically blunt when he met members of the European parliament this week. From the dais of the blond-wood committee room […]
This carefully plotted tale of the investigation into a small boy’s death is a compelling, psychologically astute watch – which constantly pulls the rug out from under you By ’eck – it’s grim out west. Such is the overriding impression wrought by Under Salt Marsh, a six-part crime drama set […]
Whether it’s Minneapolis or Greenland, the US president will do just enough to get through a damaging news cycle, then carry on as before Don’t be fooled. When it comes to Donald Trump, what might look like a full retreat is almost always a mere tactical withdrawal, designed to buy […]
Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable • One adult for the 9.40am in Sittingbourne: a front row seat for Melania’s ominous UK opening• Eggs, hats and unfettered ambition: what we learned about […]
A clinical psychologist on why men still don’t seek help for their mental health When Jake, a businessman in his 50s, first arrives at my therapy practice, it’s obvious that he has some misgivings. Jake’s marriage to Louise is in trouble, and she has insisted he come and see me. “If […]
Harry Wilson, Igor Thiago, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Jack Grealish and Antoine Semenyo have shone for their clubs By WhoScored Harry Wilson was often a spectator rather than a player in his first three seasons at Fulham. He made 89 appearances in the league, but 48 of them were from the bench […]