Festivals are increasingly seen as a family holiday and many have kids’ areas – even nannies. We brave the hot tents and random ravers to see what they’re like As a DJ plays MJ Cole’s UK garage classic Crazy Love, adults across London’s Cross the Tracks festival lift up little […]
We assess how each top-flight side fared in the search for quality and value during the summer window Transfer interactive: all the deals from across Europe Andrea Berta’s first transfer window since taking over as sporting director has been busy. Headline moves for Viktor Gyökeres and Eberechi Eze have given […]
Veganism is still on the rise, but many popular venues and chains are shutting down. Are they victims of a terrible era for hospitality or part of a growing shift in cultural values? When London’s Unity Diner wrapped up 2024 with the announcement that it would soon be shutting its […]
The PM has brought in Darren Jones, whose superpower is ‘relentless delivery’. If that won’t save the world, what will? “If I hear one more of our people saying that deckchairs are being shuffled on the Titanic,” a government supporter of Keir Starmer confided to the Daily Mail, “I will […]
The new party leader is not afraid to say what he thinks, and that is pretty much anything to get attention The invitation promised that the results of the Green party leadership election would be one of the most consequential political events of the autumn. That might be pushing it, […]
Larmer Tree Gardens, WiltshireFull of warmth despite the rain, highs include Mexico City experimentalists Titanic and Vermont songwriter Lily Seabird’s gorgeously open-hearted voice Near End of the Road’s second stage is a billboard with an “extremely sophisticated, algorithmic” flow chart asking very specific questions to determine which artist you should […]
Since the summer recess, the public discourse, stirred by Nigel Farage’s weekly press conferences, has altered radically What the hell just happened? When parliament rose for the summer recess, the debate about immigration was still – just about – the right side of toxic. There was a pretence at least […]
Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey are back, talking through all of the challenges the government faces as MPs return to Westminster. Plus, they discuss the prime minister’s shake-up of his Downing Street team Continue reading…
At 54, the comic has found a new lease of life by embracing his first love – pottery. He talks about agoraphobia, ADHD and creating ceramic cuddles In a cavernous room in an old pottery factory, Johnny Vegas is approaching his work and his face is a delight. “Is it […]
Whether it’s her housing, clothes, the restaurants she goes to, or the fact she watches opera and drinks wine, she can apparently do nothing right It is hard to keep up with the tabloids’ rage at Angela Rayner, because it moves so fast. The Daily Mail and the Sun are […]