The chancellor vowed to renew Britain in her spending review but it all felt like an exercise in cognitive dissonance When Rachel Reeves took over the Treasury last year, she went out of her way to portray herself as the Ministering Angel of Death. Her stock answer to any question […]
Despite the ongoing crackdown on protesters in Los Angeles, the US constitution (for now) provides far more freedom of speech than there is in the UK Hello from the US where, if you’re a fan of things such as civil liberties and not getting shot in the leg by masked […]
This chilling film takes two activist brothers back to the hellish jails where they were held for almost a decade. Then it goes further – and tracks down the soldiers who tortured for the Assad regime The response to the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 is an indication […]
In a riotous show, Garry Starr dons a tailcoat, flippers and little else to re-enact a bookshelf full of classics. Would you help him bring The Jungle Book to life? Comedy smash-hits come in all shapes and sizes. You’ve got your standup, your sketch – and then there are those […]
Reform leader has taken to arranging press events for himself around the country on an almost daily basis If it’s Tuesday, it must be … checks notes … London. We’ve reached the point where Nigel Farage has taken to arranging press conferences for himself in various locations around the country […]
He went from the towering highs of the 60s and 70s, where he changed the face of music, to the shambolic lows of a decades-long addiction. But interviewing the music genius over the years showed me a man who was awed, revered and strangely shy Sly Stone, pioneering funk and […]
If group of lenders has any prospect of getting its proposal to fly, some of its big numbers will have to look very different Thames Water creditors offer up £5bn as part of emergency turnaround plan If you would kindly rip up the regulatory system, move the goalposts on sewage […]
‘It’s a myth that Jimi Hendrix played while the stage was on fire. It was a firework’ In 1968, when I was 22, my older brother Ronnie got a job as a fundraiser for a swimming pool on the island. I’d done a concert for CND [the Campaign for Nuclear […]
As the Beckhams finally get what they’ve apparently always wanted, what does it say about the institutions that put so much energy into blocking them? And what does it say about the rest of us? When the unauthorised, warts-and-all biography of the Beckhams, The House of Beckham, came out last […]
From Anne Boleyn to Lady W to Game of Thrones, she has played tough women who kick against society’s constraints. What will the actor bring to the great Russian character who leaves her husband and son? It was back in 2019 that the role of Anna Karenina was first mentioned […]