We asked newlyweds, long-married couples, and the odd divorcee about the wedding gifts they truly cherished. Their answers? A lot more interesting than a toaster • In the US? Find our top picks for American couples here “If you don’t say what you want, your parents’ friends will buy you […]
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In heart-tugging drama Mix Tape, two ex-lovers are thrown back together with the music they wooed each other with 20 years earlier. Here, writers dig out their most treasured tapes and CDs full of meaning, mishaps and mega-tunes At 18 my go-to albums were Dog Man Star, His ’n’ Hers […]
How Englishman fulfilled his own prophecy to triumph against the odds at the 1951 championship “Max Faulkner. Open champion 1951”. Faulkner signed those words for a young fan who had offered up a golf ball en route to the first tee of the final round at Royal Portrush. He regretted […]
The Reform leader is trying to import Doge’s cuts to spending and ‘DEI’. It’s clear what he gets out of it – not so much the British voter A popular maxim on the American right is that politics is downstream from culture. In the UK, it increasingly feels like politics […]
For Sami Tamimi, preparing the food of his homeland is an act of resilience and keeping his culture alive Food is both deeply personal and political for Sami Tamimi, the Palestinian chef and food writer, whose first solo cookbook is an emotional culinary ride down memory lane through the bountiful […]
Jennifer Love-Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr return for a goofy, slickly made legacy sequel stuffed with fan service Rushed into production after the surprise success of 1996’s Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer has forever lived, and suffered, in the same bracket. Sure it’s another slasher with another […]
An intimate account of an unprecedented trial If we believe her parents, Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, a baby girl was born on Christmas Eve, 2022, in the upstairs bedroom of Woodcutters Cottage in Haltwhistle, Northumberland. Her mother knelt against the double bed and gave birth without assistance or complication. […]
Commons remain tone deaf as superinjunction lifts lid on data leak and £800m Afghanistan Response Route I suppose we might have guessed something like this. In August 2021, the then foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, had moaned about the “sea being closed” while on holiday in Crete. The fate of thousands […]
Noel Gallagher named a song after it, Marc Almond practically moved in and the Killers had a bathtub reserved for puking in – but was it rock’n’roll, or just a bit tragic? In the early 2000s, a member of the New York dance-punk band Radio 4 was walking upstairs when […]
While Mstyslav Chernov was on the Oscars circuit with his first Ukraine war film, soldiers in his latest – made using bodycams – were dying. He explains why he needed to join them in the trenches It was in Sloviansk, in the rear of eastern Ukraine’s frontline, that I first […]