Aperitivo hour just got an update. From floral to fruity to alcohol-free, these expert-picked spritzes are made for summer • I tried 40 tinned drinks: here are my favourite canned cocktails, wines and seltzers for sunny days Sundowners, aperitivo, golden hour: whatever your preferred term, using early summer evenings to […]
This meticulous tale of an investigation into a Canadian chef accused of supplying deadly toxins on a suicide forum makes you despair. It’s yet more evidence that we live in a terrible world What – and I ask myself this question with increasing frequency and seriousness – are we going […]
Kemi thinks the Tories left the country in fine shape and Labour have ruined it. Keir thinks the opposite. Yawn Spare a thought for Rachel Reeves. After last week’s mini-meltdown during prime minister’s questions, the chancellor is now condemned to spend the next year grinning manically every time she’s out […]
US president appears to have run out of patience with his Russian counterpart – but how that transmits into practical support for Kyiv remains to be seen Europe live – latest updates “I’m not happy with Putin. I can tell you that much right now,” Trump said, expressing his frustration […]
Departure now leaves a question mark about the next chapter of one of the sport’s extraordinary success stories The removal of Christian Horner from his post as team principal at Red Bull represents both the end of an era in Formula One and, in the short term, the most turbulent […]
Michael Briggs was a well-known scientist – and a fantasist. When his daughter Joanne began digging into his past for a memoir, new lies kept emerging … Growing up in the 1960s, Joanne Briggs knew her father, Michael, wasn’t like other dads. Once a Nasa scientist, now a big pharma […]
French president fills seats for stylish Royal Gallery speech, after snubbing Farage and meeting the king It wasn’t quite the Pyramid stage. When the queen, the pope, Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama were invited to address both houses of parliament, they were given Westminster Hall. On the first state visit […]
The Man of Steel – played with square-faced soullessness by David Corenswet – has an uninteresting crisis of confidence in Gunn’s cluttered, pointless franchise restarter Here is a film occupying the heartsinking Venn diagram overlap between franchise exhaustion and AI soullessness: a film fatally unconvinced of the reason for its […]
From TV’s most infectious laugh to presenters so joyous they make the world a better place, here are the most adorable presences to grace the UK’s screens There’s a lot to be said for lovability on TV. Whether it’s charming presenters or experts who entertain as they educate, we decided […]
After eight-year campaign by Perkins, a former PA for Weinstein, UK ministers have announced plans to stop bosses using NDAs to silence abused workers Zelda Perkins was 24 when – exhausted, broken and surrounded by lawyers – she finally agreed to sign the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that would legally gag […]