New high-end restaurants to book in 2022
Under wraps in every sense, chef Brett Graham’s two-Michelin-starred Notting Hill restaurant closed in June 2020, with the chef saying that he could not reopen with social…
How the next season of Bridgerton will make 2022 the year of Regencycore fashion
When the Collins Dictionary was deliberating over which term to make the word of 2021, they couldn’t decide between ‘NFT’ and ‘Regencycore’. In the end, non-fungible token…
US and Russia will work together on International Space Station until 2030, despite tensions on Earth
Bill Nelson, Nasa’s administrator, hailed the station as benefitting diplomacy as well as science, when he announced the funding. “The International Space Station is a beacon of…
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro rushed to hospital with stomach pains three years after being stabbed
Mr Bolsonaro’s beach vacation, which started on December 27, triggered controversy in recession-hit Brazil. With the northeastern state of Bahia battered by deadly floods, the president ignored…
Pro-Iran hack of Israeli website raises spectre of nuclear attack
Meanwhile, off the coast of Yemen, Iran-aligned Houthis rebels seized an Emirati-flagged ship in the Red Sea. The group – which Israel and the US describe as…
North Korean gymnast who defected to South ‘climbs back over the fence’
Jihyun Park, who fled the North in 1998 and who last year became the first ever defector to run in UK local elections, said North Koreans experienced…
Resignation of Sudan’s prime minister leaves democratic transition on the brink
Analysts say military leaders were concerned that civilian rule would include accountability for past abuses and oversight over military financial interests, which represent a large share of…
The new-era all-inclusive offering a different side to Dominica
But he was left almost gnawing the table after a 50-minute wait for a pizza; the service, always smiling, was sometimes inexorably slow. And when our food…
This is what a modern Around The World In 80 Days challenge would look like
A better bet might be to go from Russia to China, then pick up a freighter cruise. This is an established, albeit unusual, way of getting around…
What actually happens when a stressed-out midlifer visits a hipster’s paradise
Unlike many other swanky Alpine spas, it is not a white coat, starvation diet and enema kind of place. It offers an altogether kinder approach to wellness,…
Chris Packham: ‘As it turns out, octopuses are complete escape artists’
I was immediately confronted by a whole load of turtles hatching and going down into the sea – I felt like I’d stepped into a David Attenborough…
How John Berger’s Ways of Seeing changed the way we look at art
According to Dibb, Berger considered his scripts merely a “beginning”, and wanted the series to be a “50:50 collaboration”. Much of its power derives from images and…
George Alagiah: I’m lucky for the life I’ve had, but cancer will probably get me in the end
George Alagiah has said he feels “lucky” for the life he has lived, while acknowledging that cancer will “probably get me in the end”. The BBC newsreader, 66,…
Breakfast with Eamonn and Isabel, GB News, review: nothing for Ofcom to see here
“Do you know what really annoys me? Wrapping paper.” And just like that, with one seemingly meaningless quip about Christmas presents, the Eamonn Holmes era of GB…
Father Brown, series 9, episode 1 review: the perfect post-Christmas pick-me-up
Criminal skulduggery and genteel English villages go together like Prince Andrew and sensibly-priced pizza chains. And it was back to that fantasy realm of redbrick boozers, apple-cheeked…
JK Rowling’s battle to make the Harry Potter films ‘100 per cent British’
Twenty years on, the intense furor around the casting of Harry Potter himself is sometimes forgotten – a kind of scrutiny usually reserved for a new James…
Overblown, daft and Americanised, Diamonds Are Forever made a fool of Sean Connery
Diamonds Are Forever marked a return to what felt like proper Bond: the glimmering title and Shirley Bassey theme tune, Goldfinger director Guy Hamilton, and – of…
What’s on TV tonight: Four Lives, Father Brown, and more
Channel 4, 9pmSitting somewhere between Porridge and Jimmy McGovern’s Time, Rob Williams’s (The Victim) deft, incisive and often very funny new prison drama does for prison officers…
‘Offensive’ Black and White Minstrel Show features in BBC commemoration
The controversial Black and White Minstrel show features in a new archive collated to commemorate the BBC’s centenary, as the corporation examines how such an “offensive” programme…
Cabin fever grips holidaymakers braving the rain to bag a beach hut
Staycationers have camped out overnight in the cold and rain in a rush to book a beach hut for the summer. With just 12 cabins available at…
UK weather: Sub-zero temperatures to bring end to record-breaking mild spell
Neil Armstrong, the chief meteorologist at the Met Office, said: “Following an exceptionally mild spell, temperatures are set to drop for many in the north of England…
Corruptible by Brian Klaas, review: inside the minds of petty psychopaths
In similar fashion, corruption in Third World governments isn’t always down to a leader’s personal venality, but the expectations of their particular ethnic group that it is…
Rapunzel, The Theatre, Chipping Norton, review: an old-school, family-friendly, escapist treat
Your panto needs you. It may now be the wrong side of Christmas, but every attendance will help carry the day for those umpteen playhouses that have…
The English Concert, Wigmore Hall, review: spinning Handel’s clichés into pure gold
The English Concert, Wigmore Hall ★★★★★ With the Omicron variant wearking havoc and bad news all around, a New Year tonic is sorely needed. On Sunday night,…
Watch: LAPD release bodycam footage after 14-year-old was fatally shot when police fired at suspect
The Los Angeles police department has released body-camera footage from an officer who fired shots at an assault suspect inside a department store, in an incident that also…