Too hot to sleep? From temperature-regulating mattress toppers to a fan quiet enough for the bedroom, here are our best buys for sweaty nights – and what to avoid • The best fans, tested If there’s anything more uncomfortable than enduring a heatwave in Britain, it’s sleeping through one. But […]
The Reform leader was determined to fight for the right to receive gifts from Thai crypto billionaires and convicted fraudsters It’s the heavyweight contest of the year. The Establishment v the Establishment. Or as the former City worker who is given £5m trifles would like you to see it, Nigel […]
The author of Orangeboy, Indigo Donut and Is That Your Mama? plans to use her two-year term to ensure children isolated from reading get involved When Patrice Lawrence got the call asking her to become the UK’s next children’s laureate, her first response was disbelief. “I was in absolute shock,” […]
Joy is unbounded and when it dies down perhaps the guilty will be held to account for cheating and facilitation: perhaps they won’t. Still, enjoy the moment Oh dear. Such a shame to see the US lose at football after their insanely embarrassing president cheated for them. Still, it really […]
Following the film’s premiere, critics are already calling the historical epic a best picture Oscar contender. Here’s what they had to say The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s three-hour version of Homer’s epic poem, world premiered in London on Monday night, and critics who saw the film there and at early screenings […]
We try to teach our children to follow the rules. Now an American president has chosen the opposite tack I’m rooting for the US as we take on Belgium today in Seattle for a place in the World Cup quarterfinals. But the game isn’t what it was – before Trump […]
After five goals, two penalties and a 4am finish, it was a bleary-eyed start to Monday for pupils and workers So we survived. We made it out the other side. After all the strategising about where, when, if and how we would watch England take their World Cup fight to […]
Britain’s religious right is fuming over a document suggesting the monarch wants to be defender of all faiths. I’m with Charles: what does that make me? We need to talk about King Charles and specifically this: is the British monarch basically a traitor? Dr Gavin Ashenden is a former chaplain […]
The Reform funding scandals could yet bring down its leader – and give Andy Burnham a head start. The biggest pitfall would be complacency No politician is greater than their party. However bright you shine, you’re never so indispensable that you couldn’t be replaced tomorrow – or so, at least, […]
Between enemies-to-lovers and ‘shadow daddies’, BookTok has fallen in love with the spicy stories combining romance and fantasy. But there is more to the subgenre than sex, say the fans who queued for hours outside the brick-and-mortar Oxford store ‘We left Warrington at 5.15am this morning to get here,” Emma […]