She brought the house down as a stripper in Gypsy, going on to star in films with Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson. Now, at 96, she’s stealing the show in Eleanor the Great. What’s her secret? ‘Be a looker-ahead’ It is surely a comfort to anyone still awaiting mega-success to […]
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Amid all the fairy lights and tinsel, an understated getup can look a bit curmudgeonly – you need to add some fashion sparkle Christmas has begun. Don’t come for me with your pedantry about partridges and pear trees. The lights are lit, the turkey sandwiches are in Pret: ’tis the […]
As the publisher celebrates an important milestone, we chart its journey from an ‘expensive hobby’ to an international household name • Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Hello and welcome to the Long Wave. This week, I had the huge pleasure of an audience […]
Major attractions often don’t take lone-parent families into account in their pricing structures, making days out more expensive I’m frequently irked by family tickets – as a parent of an only child there’s rarely a deal to be had for my circumstances. But at least in my set-up there are […]
After the budget there should have been easy wins for Badenoch at PMQs but the Tory leader just can’t help herself On days like this, Kemi Badenoch increasingly gives the impression of an over-excitable puppy with a low IQ. Overwhelmed by all the different smells she can pick up on […]
The rising star has made her debut film, Dreamers, a semi-autobiographical love story set in an immigration detention centre. She talks about fleeing persecution in Nigeria – and what she learned from French new wave Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor had a little wobble when she stepped on to the stage after the […]
Investment was not enough to save the courts, said the justice secretary. At least, not the amounts he was prepared to put in Spare a thought for David Lammy. Not so long ago he was foreign secretary. His dream job. Turning left on boarding planes to go to meet his […]
Laying a table well is one of the best ways to make guests feel relaxed and cosy. Queen of tablescaping Laura Jackson’s advice? Forget the stiff old rules and have fun with it A feast is not just about food. Just to sit at a table surrounded by the faces […]
Now he’s free of the BBC, he’s gone combative. He drives a horse and cart through a piece of Dominic Grieve sophistry, and tries his best to skewer the institution based around a jewelled velvet hat Settling down in front of David Dimbleby’s new three-parter, and looking at that confrontational […]
Contrast the furious reaction to Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ to the response offered to those living with real housing injustice: indifference The new “mansion tax” announced by Rachel Reeves in last week’s budget is estimated to affect around 165,000 property owners, and on current trends the British media is forecast […]