Fed up with being inside all day? Missing fresh air and nature? Five people who ditched their desks reveal the truth about their new lives Steve Kell, 59, countryside ranger, Warwickshire Country Parks I always loved being in nature. But I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I was […]
When Mary Ann Kenny lost her husband, she hoped therapy or medication would help. But soon she was losing touch with reality – and panicking about what she might be doing to her two young sons Mary Ann Kenny first met her husband in 2000, at a conference in Dundee. […]
It was the political satire that gave us omnishambles, pet asbos and the terrifying Malcolm Tucker. Two decades on, creator Armando Iannucci and stars including Peter Capaldi and Rebecca Front lift the lid on its chaotic creation Twenty years ago this month we were plunged straight into the middle of […]
Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera are essentially wingmen to Kate Winslet’s daughter, making a breakthrough big screen turn in Anderson’s enjoyable yet airless ensemble romp Wes Anderson has contrived another of his elegant, eccentric, rectilinear comedies; as ever, he is vulnerable to the charge of making films that stylistically […]
It’s human nature to trust strongmen, but we’ve also evolved the tools to resist them A recent piece of research commissioned by Channel 4 suggested that more than half of people aged between 13 and 27 would prefer the UK to be an authoritarian dictatorship. The results shocked a lot […]
What makes for a great place to live? Access to nature, a sense of community and culture on your doorstep can all help. So which towns make the cut?• Homes in happy places to buy or rent in England and Scotland – in pictures What makes a place somewhere good […]
Medications such as Ozempic have transformed obesity treatment and are now leading a healthcare revolution Obesity was once medicine’s Cinderella subject with some questioning whether the condition should even be viewed as a biological disorder. But the arrival of a new class of appetite-suppressing drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy […]
OVO Hydro, GlasgowHer Tension world tour reaches the UK, and it’s the work of a relaxed but inherently flamboyant singer with a bold new vision for her back catalogue The lights go down in Glasgow, and Kylie Minogue ascends from underneath the stage like a pop deity: head-to-toe in electric […]
Manchester City manager lost the mind games battle with Oliver Glasner and made odd tactical choices at Wembley A vintage FA Cup season had its vintage ending. Perhaps a second half that didn’t live up to the extraordinary drama of the first meant that this wasn’t quite a classic final, […]
As her memoir of losing her sons is published, the author talks about radical acceptance and how writing fiction helped her to prepare for tragedy As the novelist Yiyun Li often observes, there is no good way to state the facts of her life and yet they are inescapable: she had […]