Gina Rinehart tops Australia’s rich list, worth almost $40bn. She’s also a climate sceptic, a Trumpette and a litigant – even against her own kids. Her life reads like a script from the TV series Succession. Senior correspondent Sarah Martin has spoken to her critics and her defenders to try […]
It’s hard to keep up with everyone the Tory MP tipped as a future party leader hates Oi. You there. The foreign looking one. I can see you. Don’t try to sneak away and hide. Your time is up. We’ve had enough of you. And don’t try to play the […]
The timing of the Strictly Come Dancing presenters’ exit is odd: do they know something we don’t? Or did they just get sick of all the scandal? When long-serving presenters leave a seemingly timeless franchise, two questions immediately arise. Why are they going? And who will replace them? On the […]
He has already turned the Oval Office into a wrestler’s changing room. Now the president is building a place so gilded Nero would feel at home. Why did he pick an architect whose speciality is Catholic churches? As if truffling thuggishly in pursuit of the Nobel peace prize wasn’t enough, […]
The world’s largest sportswear company was wobbling amid complaints that it had become too safe. Armed with a provocative new slogan, the company reveals the innovations and strategy it hopes will turn its reputation around The entrance to Nike’s swish global headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon is paved with rough cobbles, […]
Just days after the Louvre theft comes this drolly unconventional gallery robbery drama. Director Kelly Reichardt talks about solving crimes as a kid – and casting Josh O’Connor as a crook in autumnal knitwear The term “cosy crime” describes the reassuring, cardigan-swaddled whodunnits that currently dominate both page and screen, […]
Demolition work has begun on part of the White House’s East Wing to make way for the president’s ballroom. Truly, these are post-satirical times Occasionally, life gives you scenarios that are so on the money it’s impossible to do anything with them. Boris Johnson getting stuck halfway down a zip […]
Former deputy PM’s resignation statement offered a moment to reflect on what the party had lost – and might have again The chamber had been almost empty at the start of the ministerial statement on Heathrow airport. But by the end, the Labour benches were almost full. Though this was […]
If Labour loses the Senedd seat, it will be a huge blow for party that has dominated politics in Wales for a century When he steps out of the byelection campaign office opposite Caerphilly castle, the Plaid Cymru candidate, Lindsay Whittle, tends to hear a couple of different cries from […]
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