When Mary Ann Kenny lost her husband, she hoped therapy or medication would help. But soon she was losing touch with reality – and panicking about what she might be doing to her two young sons Mary Ann Kenny first met her husband in 2000, at a conference in Dundee. […]
Medications such as Ozempic have transformed obesity treatment and are now leading a healthcare revolution Obesity was once medicine’s Cinderella subject with some questioning whether the condition should even be viewed as a biological disorder. But the arrival of a new class of appetite-suppressing drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy […]
Manchester City manager lost the mind games battle with Oliver Glasner and made odd tactical choices at Wembley A vintage FA Cup season had its vintage ending. Perhaps a second half that didn’t live up to the extraordinary drama of the first meant that this wasn’t quite a classic final, […]
What makes for a great place to live? Access to nature, a sense of community and culture on your doorstep can all help. So which towns make the cut?• Homes in happy places to buy or rent in England and Scotland – in pictures What makes a place somewhere good […]
OVO Hydro, GlasgowHer Tension world tour reaches the UK, and it’s the work of a relaxed but inherently flamboyant singer with a bold new vision for her back catalogue The lights go down in Glasgow, and Kylie Minogue ascends from underneath the stage like a pop deity: head-to-toe in electric […]
As her memoir of losing her sons is published, the author talks about radical acceptance and how writing fiction helped her to prepare for tragedy As the novelist Yiyun Li often observes, there is no good way to state the facts of her life and yet they are inescapable: she had […]
Several strongly worded X posts, a bungled Albanian scheme and the ghost of Enoch Powell. Once again, he’s smashed it On Friday morning, Keir Starmer was posting without compromise. “If you’re one of the smugglers putting people in small boats across the channel,” ran the prime minister’s communique on X, […]
From dominatrix divas to sauna bros and the ‘Viking Jedward’ – plus maybe even Céline Dion – there’s something for everyone at this year’s Eurovision. Bring on the innuendo! Pomp and pageantry. People from different nations wearing camp costumes. A tense buildup before the winner is announced. But enough of […]
As an R&B star in the 00s, the singer found herself pitted in the media against artists like Beyoncé and Rihanna. Two decades on, she’s building bonds with a new generation of stars – and going viral with a gravity-defying chair trick Backstage at April’s Coachella festival, beyond the influencers, […]
From wordless books to dynamic bestsellers and those that will give your kids a giggling fit, these are some of our readers favourites stories to share New research has shown a decline in the number of parents reading aloud to young children, with only 41% of 0 to four-year-olds now […]