Be it winter fuel, criminal justice, the EU or Chagos Islands, never miss a chance to try to rewrite Tory history I fear for Kemi Badenoch’s sanity. She may need a little respite care. From herself. Little more than 24 hours after one of her by now customary car-crash outings […]
The leader of the opposition missed the openest of open goals after Keir Starmer reversed cuts to winter fuel payments Never change, Kemi, never change. We love you just the way you are. Look on the bright side: it could have been worse. KemiKaze could have used all six of […]
As the folk icon celebrates his 84th birthday today, he looks back on falling out with Paul Simon, smashing up pianos with Dylan – and the classic song he’s still not got quite right Martin Carthy has returned to Scarborough Fair. It’s been 60 years since he first recorded the […]
Condemnation alone won’t change Israel’s trajectory. For that, concrete action on sanctions and Palestinian statehood is required Sanam Vakil is director of Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa programme Nineteen months on from the 7 October Hamas attacks and the war in Gaza, Israel is under a new wave […]
Experts say there is huge potential for AI in the mental health sector, but there are risks of turning to technology, rather than human beings when in distress In the pre-dawn hours, Ann Li’s anxieties felt overwhelming. She’d recently been diagnosed with a serious health problem, and she just wanted […]
A crisis in post-adoption support in England means parents feel punished rather than helped when things go wrong More adoptions likely to fail in England amid funding cuts, warn charities Victoria Bristow was devastated when she was forced to place her adopted son back into the care of social services […]
Conservative leader’s attempts to refight the past suggests she won’t be happy until her party sinks even lower in the polls As the Brexit Nostalgia festival – AKA the Earnestness of Being Unimportant – eased into its second day, Keir Starmer prepared to give a statement to the Commons on […]
What you need to know about the essential yet misunderstood body part, including common issues and helpful exercises The pelvic floor is an essential but often overlooked and misunderstood part of the human body. Some people don’t even know they have one. “We’re never really taught about it,” says Dr […]
This hugely fun version of the 00s life-swapping show works even better than the original. First up: a posh Surrey estate agent tries running a market stall in Bolton I have long held a soft spot for Faking It, the 00s proto-reality series that was conceived as a modern-day Pygmalion. […]
To raise money for lymphoedema research, the actor sat before an audience for artist Frances Segelman, who admired her youthful, ‘pixie-like’ face while rendering it in clay It began as a blob: a 12kg lump of clay the size of a watermelon. Three hours later, it had become Judi Dench’s […]