As midlife audiences turn to digital media, the 55 to 64 age bracket is an increasingly important demographic In 2022, Caroline Idiens was on holiday halfway up an Italian mountain when her brother called to tell her to check her Instagram account. “I said, ‘I haven’t got any wifi. And […]
Usually found at Monday press conferences, the Reform leader has taken a vow of silence in the face of mounting allegations The dog that didn’t bark in the night. You can normally set your watches by Reform. It’s a rare Monday morning in which Nigel Farage doesn’t pop up somewhere […]
From prog cabaret and joyful jangle-pop to a rapper who rhymed ‘bonkers’ with ‘chompers’, here are the year’s finest LPs as decided by 30 Guardian music writers• More on the best culture of 2025 *** Continue reading…
Handing the Egyptian a contract extension while also bringing about a new identity has backfired terribly Sign up for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson here There is perhaps nothing in a career as hard as the leaving of it. Unless something utterly remarkable happens, Mohamed Salah has played his last game […]
The War Between the Land and the Sea may already have been given a rude nickname on fan forums, but does the latest addition to the Whoniverse hold the key to the future of the franchise? The War Between the Land and the Sea, which debuted on BBC One and […]
After blows in mid-season the British driver rallied to hold off the challenge of his teammate Oscar Piastri and a stunning late run from Max Verstappen to make history in Abu Dhabi “Just want to go have a burger and go home,” was the disconsolate entreaty from Lando Norris when […]
Thankfully, we now know more about conditions such as autism and ADHD. The health secretary must not be part of this attempt to turn back the clock Wes Streeting is a politician whose keen interest in the zeitgeist is only matched by his seeming drive to be as close to […]
Parcels worth £666.5m have been stolen in the UK this year, though some pranksters have found ways to give culprits their comeuppance. With Christmas deliveries arriving thick and fast, here are practical steps to take A couple of years ago, 31-year-old charity worker Nicki Wedgwood had ordered Christmas presents online […]
This year’s most-wanted ornaments include weight-loss syringes and favourite foodstuffs. When and why did Christmas trees become so commercialised? it was the second Tuesday in November but Christmas was already in crisis. Sarah Gibbons had just received a shipment of baubles at her Glasgow homeware shop, Modern Love Store, and […]
Powerful Christian figures are emerging in Britain but there are important differences from the US, where evangelism has fuelled Trump At recent Reform UK press conferences, two very distinctive heads can often be spotted in the front row: the near-white locks of Danny Kruger, the party’s head of policy, and […]