Help! I want to steal my 13-year-old daughter’s style – but she stole mine first
There are, however, a few items that I can’t help but hanker after. Flared black stretch leggings is an example, as are baggy cargo pants – specifically…
France to reintroduce mask in outdoor spaces as part of a raft of new restrictions to combat omicron
The delay between the second vaccine jab and the booster shot has also been shortened from four to three months, while the proliferation of fake passes will…
‘Hot monk’ actor sentenced to hard labour for opposing Myanmar’s military coup
He became an outspoken supporter of the pro-democracy movement following the February coup, taking part in protests on the streets and urging his more than one million…
Where is the line when creating entertainment out of trauma?
As the woke were busy taking aim at a litany of fictional, traditional Christmas films this week – complaining Bridget Jones is ‘fat-phobic’, It’s A Wonderful Life…
No rehearsal, no warning: the West End stand-ins saving our Christmas theatre
“It was like living through an anxiety dream – the one you have as an actor where you don’t know the lines, you don’t know what’s going…
Titane, but real: the people sexually drawn to flags, shoes and the Eiffel Tower
By contrast, for objectophiles such as Titane’s Alexia, no other human being, or part of a human being, is necessary. For them, the object has sex appeal…
The 10 best TV shows to look forward to in 2022
With this craving for content, an inevitable consequence has been an insatiable demand for stories. As a result, literature has found itself in fresh demand: you buy…
No, internet – that shot does not look ‘like a Renaissance painting’
“I’m not an academic filmmaker,” he said. “Any smarts I might have is instinct and what you might call emotional intelligence. “I hadn’t thought, ‘Oh, let’s make…
What’s on TV tonight and this week: Worzel Gummidge: Twitchers, A Play in a Day and more
Disney+The latest offspring of the Star Wars franchise gives new life to a character whose massive popularity with fans has far outweighed the sum of his relatively…
Boxing Day hunts met with protests, with at least one erupting into violence
In Buckinghamshire, the Kimblewick Hunt was met with cries of “Shame on you! Shame on you!” as it set off from the village of Cholesbury. And in…
‘Psycho’ squirrel that went nuts biting residents is caught
Mrs Reynolds had been feeding the animal since the summer and it had made regular trips to her garden ever since, looking for food and shelter. But…
Janice Long was a human dynamo but had to put up with incredible sexism at Radio 1
This, then, was the culture Janice was thrown into. We may have been female, but it was still a man’s world. Fortunately she knew her music,…
Russia shuts down its oldest human rights group in Kremlin’s battle against Soviet past
He has also frequently referred to Josef Stalin, whose regime is believed to have killed 1.2 million in the Great Purge of 1937-1938 alone, as a leader…
‘Special relationship’ between the Queen and Sir Winston Churchill on display at exhibition
In promoting the exhibition, the trust quotes a member of palace staff commenting on their conversations, to say: “I could not hear what they talked about, but…
Waiving visa fees for Commonwealth soldiers who risk life and limb ‘is the least UK can do’
At present, foreigners who have served in the Armed Forces are charged £2,389 for visas to regularise their immigration status. Once fees for dependents are taken into…
Military coup fallout turns Myanmar into world’s largest synthetic drugs hotspot
The Covid-19 epidemic has caused record levels of unemployment in India’s northeast and many residents have been tempted by the quick cash drug smuggling offers. One “soap…
Quebec accused of launching ‘culture war’ on English with strict French language law
Quebec is poised to introduce a strict new French language law restricting the use of English in public services in what critics have dubbed a “culture war”…
More than 100 British travellers denied entry at Austria airport over new Covid rules
Gerald Hauser of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) criticised the move and expressed concerns about “ruining domestic tourism,” according to local media. Referring to one British…
Violent protests in Germany over new Covid restrictions
Further violent escalations were reported in Mannheim and Ravensburg in the south of Germany. In Pirmasens on the border to France, two demonstrators attacked a police unit…
Sir John Major admitted that he thought the IRA could not be defeated militarily
By that stage, as well as intensified efforts with the Dublin government, a backchannel was already in operation between the UK Government and Sinn Fein. Secret negotiations…
Number of migrants falsely claiming to be children triples in a year
Migration Watch, a think tank which uncovered the figures, said Channel smugglers were exploiting legal loopholes to encourage young-looking migrants to destroy their documents and claim to…
Pro-lockdown experts criticised for trying to rebrand Covid restrictions as ‘protections’
Pro-lockdown scientists and medics have been criticised for seeking to rebrand Covid restrictions as ‘protections’ to make them more palatable to the public. Members of Independent Sage,…
Secrets of only royal Egyptian mummy never to be unwrapped revealed thanks to CT scanner
Until now, the inability to unwrap the body had prevented Egyptologists from explaining a number of mysteries about Amenhotep I. The most prominent was the question of…
Institute of Physics experiments with TikTok stars to win over new generation of scientists
The original Victorian institute was open to women from its establishment, but has since struggled to attract equal numbers of girls and boys to take up the…
Revellers plot English nightclub invasion after Scotland and Wales tighten Covid rules
Meanwhile, Mark Drakeford has described omicron as the “most serious development in the pandemic to date”. In the week before Christmas, the Welsh First Minister announced a…