A familiar story is unfolding: of lofty aims undermined by meagre budgets, constant anonymous briefing – and a drive to remove families’ basic rights Where is this government heading, and who is now in charge? Keir Starmer looks even weaker than he did a week ago, uncoupled from the aides […]
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After her death, police dropped a case examining Katie Madden’s former partner, despite evidence he had repeatedly told her to kill herself Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core Hours before Katie Madden took her own life, she had a tense phone […]
Thai cuisine’s most delicious curry is also its most complex. Thankfully, our resident perfectionist is here to help you master your massaman Bickering pleasantly over the menu in a Thai restaurant with my family recently, I realised I was unable to explain exactly what a gaeng massaman was, beyond the […]
Lego and Crocs have joined forces to create oversized Lego-shaped shoes. Are they as ridiculous as they sound? We sent our most podophilic writer to find out Everyone knows that standing on Lego is the worst pain known to man, but standing in Lego Crocs – how bad can they […]
Experts question convicted sex trafficker’s motivations as she claims she can reveal ‘truth’ in exchange for freedom When Ghislaine Maxwell refused to testify before Congress last week, she nonetheless insisted on her willingness to help. Maxwell, who was convicted of helping Jeffrey Epstein draw teenage girls into a world of […]
Which quiche egg-celled and which crumbled in the face of our rigorous taste test? • The best supermarket extra-virgin olive oil I learned to make quiche from one of the best chefs I know, Gill Meller, my old head chef at River Cottage HQ, about 20 years ago. His quiche […]
The actor on a massive scam, the guilty pleasure of Judge Judy and why he’s never done a day’s work in his life Born in Lancashire, Matthew Kelly, 75, studied drama at Manchester Polytechnic and acted at the Liverpool Everyman. He moved into TV, presenting Game for a Laugh in the […]
Five women on both sides of the Atlantic reveal what it’s like trying to find a partner in your 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s Stella Ralfini, 78-year-old beauty writer, London (pictured above) Continue reading…
Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote At a time when geopolitical certainties of old are crumbling away, it has become the go-to quote to make sense of the current moment in all its seeming senselessness. “The old […]
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever There is a long buildup before I get to see Tracey Emin – her two […]