Full of jeopardy, trauma and humour, Motherboard is a film made by a lone parent using 20 years of footage of her son – starting as a foetus. They talk about the fights, festivals and cancer diagnosis that went into it There’s a scene in the documentary Motherboard in which […]
Lionesses are escapologists who have secured what no other football team from these islands have before: a dynasty They thought it was all over. Quite a few times, in fact. Written off after their opening game against France; knocked to the canvas in their quarter-final against Sweden; behind with seconds […]
Everything the US president does is for money – and in serving his avarice, he’s managed to triumph over the market Donald Trump embodies dealmaking as the essence of a particular form of entrepreneurship. Every deal begins with his needs and every deal feeds his wants. He thus appears to […]
Latest wave of displaced citizens curse ‘imperial ambition’ that has led to an estimated one million Russian casualties It was last year when Valentyn Velykyi noticed Russia’s war with Ukraine was getting closer. In early summer, it arrived on his doorstep. “You could hear explosions day and night. Recently missiles […]
Forget cortisol belly, cortisol face and cortisol-reducing cocktails. Without cortisol we wouldn’t even get out of bed in the morning Of all the hormones produced by the body, cortisol is the most misunderstood. It’s essential to any number of biological processes, and yet commonly typecast as “the one to do […]
Those aged between 13 and 28 have been accused of deploying a bored, superior expression. As a woman in her 50s, let me tell you I can do a slack-mouthed look of bafflement better than anyone Have you been the victim of a gen Z stare? Maybe you have but […]
The actor explains how she is fighting back against the ‘cosmeceutical industrial complex’ and why she has finally found freedom at 66 years old I’m scheduled to speak to Jamie Lee Curtis at 2pm UK time, and a few minutes before the allotted slot I dial in via video link, […]
In Stow-on-the-Wold resistance seems yet to mobilise but US vice-president and influx of tourists divides opinion The narrow lanes and honeyed stone walls of the Gloucestershire market town of Stow-on-the-Wold are not the setting where one would expect to see an angry altercation – unless it was a standoff between […]
Phillipa Wiley’s life changed when she first laid eyes on John at a Queensland army base. More than 50 years later, she finds him just as gorgeous Find more stories from The moment I knew series I grew up in the bush, and in 1966, as soon as I was […]
After the tragedy, one question haunted me: how do you miss an unborn child? Everything was golden in the weeks after my son died. Glimmering threads of light spooled through my kitchen window and illuminated the most mundane objects, making them look sacred. Sunlight danced on the concrete in my […]