On paper, the US constitution is a thing of beauty. But the would-be emperor in Washington has revealed its great weakness America’s big birthday has come at a bad time. On Saturday it will be a divided nation that marks 250 years since 13 North American colonies declared their independence […]
Cortisol is bad. Testosterone makes you aggressive. Melatonin helps you sleep. Experts bust common hormone myths False The main puberty hormones are oestrogen and progesterone for girls and testosterone for boys. “They are active in the womb during foetal development and in infancy in a phase called mini-puberty,” says Sasha […]
Avoiding traditional questions and stilted broadcast clips, PM-in-waiting has evolved his style of media management He is due to become prime minister in just over a fortnight as parliament begins its six-week summer break. But at a marquee speech this week, he took precisely zero questions. So is Andy Burnham, […]
From serums to hand soap, fragrances to hair stylers, here are the beauty buys that justify the price tag and the ones you can happily get on a budget • Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Walk down any beauty aisle, and you’ll be told […]
Thomas Tuchel’s side have problems aside from the altitude: defeat in a Mexican haze would be no embarrassment It’s a warm June afternoon in 2009. The teams look uneven. At 30, I am the second-oldest player in our lineup. Lloyd, Nathan and Ben are early 20s – they can all […]
As GLP-1s drive the current protein craze, a supplement once only taken by powerlifters is now so popular US producers are struggling to keep up For generations, the Meives family made cheese. Tony Meives’s grandfather, a Swiss immigrant, and his father both ran small cheese factories in Wisconsin, in the […]
Women from minority backgrounds are less likely to receive adequate pain relief during childbirth Women from minority backgrounds in UK less likely to get epidurals, study finds How the ethnicity pain gap follows people from birth to death Julie Hammond, a 35-year-old mother of three from Kent, believes that the […]
An estimated 185,000 babies were taken from unmarried mothers in England and Wales between 1949 and 1976. I was one of them After my adoptive father died in November last year, my adoptive siblings found a short story by Enid Blyton among his possessions. The Child Who Was Chosen was […]
Whether it’s a brilliant beach towel or the perfect party bag, our fashion expert’s monthly edit is full of summer winners • The best summer sandals for men and women Summer arrived with a bang in that heatwave, right? And it’s the World Cup. And Wimbledon. And nearly the end […]
For all its gloss and elitist governance, football will not bend to the will of a president so eager to demonise and exclude At 4.38pm on 28 June Donald Trump dropped a Truth. Nothing unusual in that. Trump’s Truth Social feed is relentless and ever-giving. That same afternoon he also […]