After eight-year campaign by Perkins, a former PA for Weinstein, UK ministers have announced plans to stop bosses using NDAs to silence abused workers Zelda Perkins was 24 when – exhausted, broken and surrounded by lawyers – she finally agreed to sign the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that would legally gag […]
On retiring at 56, Michelle Jackson needed a big new challenge. So she picked up her first proper camera and was soon spending 20 hours a week in the field, and winning awards A few weeks ago, Michelle Jackson was in the Peak District, hiding beneath a camouflage net with […]
Reports say wealthy elite are leaving over tax changes – prompting a possible rethink by Rachel Reeves – but hard data is tricky to find In Chester Square, the exclusive London address that was once home to Margaret Thatcher, multimillion-pound stuccoed townhouses are proving a hard sell. More than 20 […]
Victorian jury convicts 50-year-old who poisoned her in-laws with death cap mushrooms, killing three Full report: Erin Patterson found guilty of murdering relatives Five key moments in the murder trial of Australia’s mushroom lunch cook Erin Patterson Several hours after a person eats death cap mushrooms and becomes violently unwell, […]
An Israeli directive gives a green light for demolitions in Masafer Yatta, where residents keep watch at night for attackers in the darkness Ali Awad is tired. The 27-year-old resident of Tuba, one of the dozen or so villages that make up Masafer Yatta in the arid south Hebron hills […]
The government opens up another fight, while the Reform leader throws his sidekick to the wolves Gluttons for punishment. You’d have thought that after their experience of the last week in which they were forced to make not one, but two U-turn concessions to secure the support of MPs over […]
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse Sereen Haddad is a bright young woman. At 20 years old, she just finished a four-year degree in psychology […]
Decades ago, a generation of UK schoolchildren unwittingly took part in an initiative aimed at boosting reading skills – with lasting consequences Throughout my life, my mum has always been a big reader. She was in three or four book clubs at the same time. She’d devour whatever texts my […]
American actor best known for playing heavies, including the ‘psycho’ Mr Blonde in Reservoir Dogs The actor Michael Madsen, who has died aged 67 of a cardiac arrest, saw himself as a “throwback” to the era of noir heavies such as Robert Mitchum and Lee Marvin. But plying his jocular […]
Chefs have gone head over heels for the brown stuff. Some drown their burgers in it; others serve it with brioche and black pudding; one even turns it into ice-cream. What’s going on? Pub roasts, grannies, Sunday lunch, Ah! Bisto!: gravy triggers nostalgic food memories for Britons like little else. […]