European Commission U-turns on ban of gendered words and ‘Christmas’ in woke communication guide
The European Commission has been forced to row back on an attempt to put an end to gendered words such as “man-made” and “ladies and gentlemen” and…
Moderna chief predicts vaccines will be much less effective against omicron variant
But, while drug companies including Moderna and Pfizer are already working on omicron-specific vaccines, he warned that it could be months before big pharma can produce these…
Alison Nathan: The New York judge deciding Ghislaine Maxwell’s fate
Her nomination was met with hostility from various conservative groups. Heritage Action for America charged that she lacked experience, while Concerned Women for America’s Legislative Action Committee…
The quickest, easiest and cheapest Day 2 PCR tests for travel
A headache has returned to the post-Covid travel checklist: Day 2 PCR tests. This time, however, it comes with a fresh pain – self-isolation until you receive…
10 forgotten worlds you can rediscover through scuba diving
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The eccentric new city that’s as authentically English as you can find
Three things pulled me into The Cornucopia. One, the roguish black and gold paint job. Two, the sign “reputedly Essex’s smallest pub.” Three, the sign “most improved…
Travel to the UK: latest advice for overseas arrivals
International visitors arriving in England from overseas are subject to, for the most part, the same rules as UK residents – if they were immunised in a…
Inside India’s maritime graveyard, where cruise ships go to die
One of the most poignant images to illustrate the untimely demise of cruise ships was captured by a drone overhead the Aliaga ship-breakers on Turkey’s Aegean coast…
After losing my father, there was only one place I could confront my grief
I don’t remember ever questioning the need to climb or walk the area as a child. Mornings were spent perusing Ordnance Survey maps that billowed out over…
On the slopes in France as Britons face a mountain of new restrictions
Nevertheless, my trip back to the Alps, regardless of the ever-variegated restrictions, was deeply satisfying. A few harum-scarum runs up and down the OK and Orange Haut…
‘I saw people jumping barriers for the last UK flight back from South Africa’
When my phone first started insistently buzzing, it was well past midnight and I was asleep, happy to be back in my [native] South Africa, after two…
Max Stafford-Clark’s MeToo mea culpa: how a giant of British theatre was brought crashing to earth
Not helping matters is the fact that his stroke seems, for some, to be a convenient smoke-screen. In 2017, the actress Tracy-Ann Oberman wrote in The Guardian…
Warn public before they watch films depicting blacked-up actors such as Laurence Olivier, says official censor
Films in which actors black up such as Laurence Olivier in Othello should carry a ratings warning, says the official censor. Prospective audiences will be able to…
Lady Gaga vs Disney? British audiences go with Gucci
When Ridley Scott’s weighty, starry, medieval-era The Last Duel sputtered at the global box office, plenty of commentators were happy to hammer another nail in the coffin…
‘Of course Jeffrey Epstein was murdered’: Dasha Nekrasova on Succession and her ‘taboo’ new film
But back to The Scary of Sixty-First, which she finished editing in time to premiere at the Berlin International Festival in March, and those Epstein conspiracy theories….
What’s on TV tonight: Who Do You Think You Are?, Britney, and more
Paddy and Christine McGuinness: Our Family and AutismBBC One, 9pmWhen presenter Paddy McGuinness discovered that each of his three children was autistic, he struggled to accept the…
GPs don’t have time to administer Covid booster jabs, warns union
GPs have said they do not have time to administer booster vaccines on top of routine health checks. Dr Farah Jameel, recently elected chairman of the British…
Donald Trump to be interviewed by Nigel Farage on GB News
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Church enters race for the Christmas number one with a carol
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Covid booster jab Q&A: Everything you need to know about the third vaccine dose
Until now, only those over the age of 40, and those in priority groups were eligible – and only if it was six months since their second…
Why John Betjeman would have approved of a ‘Netflix for churches’
Earlier this month I was honoured to be asked to give the annual lecture for the Churches Conservation Trust, about how best to look after the 12,000…
Music composed before 1800 is rubbish? I couldn’t disagree more
What a sadly constricted view of the musical world my friend Simon Heffer reflects! In a column published in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday, he said he…
The perfect poetry of Sondheim’s rhymes
Rhyme, of course, was only one weapon in his armoury. There is comic wordplay. The girls in Sunday in the Park with George sing of their two soldier suitors:…
The Princes and the Press, episode 2 review: Recycling information for TV has only soured relations between the BBC and the Royals
There is navel-gazing, and then there is the sight in The Princes and the Press (BBC Two) of BBC presenter Amol Rajan reporting on media editor Amol…
European Commission bans gendered words and ‘Christmas’ in woke communication guide
The European Commission is attempting to put an end to gendered words such as “man-made” and “ladies and gentlemen” and replace them with neutral phrases like “human-induced”…