Have British fliers ditched their masks? I boarded a BA flight to find out
She found it “interesting” that cabin crew weren’t wearing one, but added that this wouldn’t put her off taking another BA flight. “I don’t worry too much…
This memoir will do for disaster response what This Is Going to Hurt did for medicine
After an explosion or a crash, a flood or a fire – after any disaster with mass fatalities caused by accident, negligence or terrorism – there are bodies…
Will Smith’s Oscars slap: what really happened
Given their overlapping social circles, it seems unlikely that Rock would have been unaware of Pinkett Smith’s struggles with alopecia – she first spoke publicly about it…
When celebrity fights go public
Ricky Gervais’s hosting of the Golden Globes, in which he cheerily lambasted some of Hollywood’s most prominent figures, turned it into must-see, viral television. And it is…
The slap that divided the world: Why wouldn’t you jump to the defence of your wife?
In a way, Will Smith warned us that the 2022 Oscars wasn’t going to be just another awards ceremony. He even announced on Instagram that he and…
Oscars 2022, review: a snoozy, inessential ceremony – then a talking point for the ages
Until Will Smith threw the punch heard around the world, the 2022 Oscars was shaping up to be cliché-packed, thrill-deficient snooze. An awkward three-way opening monologue by…
Piers Morgan vows to ‘cancel the cancel culture’ on new TV show
Tom Newton Dunn, the Times Radio presenter, will host a news programme, while Kate McCann is joining the channel as political editor from Sky News. TalkTV will…
What’s on TV tonight: Winning Time: the Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, and more
Moon KnightDisney+From the mysterious opening, as a hooded figure walks on broken glass to the soundtrack of Bob Dylan’s Every Grain of Sand, it is clear this…
BBC News changes ‘assigned female at birth’ to ‘women’ after backlash
She said the BBC piece was a “classic example of data being obscured by de-sexed language”. “One in 10 people is not the same as one in…
Scientists hope to use gene-editing technology to breed non-allergenic cats
Scientists are using cutting-edge technology to make cat-triggered sneezes a thing of the past by genetically modifying the pets and deleting the gene responsible. Academics have identified…
King Richard, review: Will Smith smashes it as Venus and Serena Williams’s headstrong father
Cert tbc, 138 mins. Dir: Reinaldo Marcus Green What has Will Smith been up to for the past ten years? His CV has all the hallmarks of…
CODA, review: comedy drama about deafness that should have taken more risks
12A cert, 111 min. Dir: Siân Heder The industry has been making big noises around CODA, a warmly well-intentioned comedy-drama about a deaf family, which won multiple…
The scandalous Gilded Age female tycoon who became America’s ‘Empress of Journalism’
This was Frank Leslie, short, dark, bearded and already a household name – a highly successful publisher and pioneer in print technology. Soon Frank had abandoned his…
Ed Sheeran proves once again that all you need is guitar, voice, and brilliance
Ed Sheeran is a pop star who stands outside of time and trends. It is genuinely astonishing how one man can still mesmerise a modern, 21st-century audience…
Will Smith’s slap was the most shameful – and unforgivable – Oscar moment ever
What happened in the aftermath of the slap? Actors and publicists flocked to console Smith, not Rock. Rather than being escorted from the building, he took his…
This year’s Oscars were an embarrassment from first to last
Elsewhere, though, it paid to have put in the hours. Kenneth Branagh, a semi-regular nominee since 1990, won Best Original Screenplay for his Belfast script. The film…
Women’s sports are for women
Boris Johnson got it absolutely right in the Commons when he said that “when it comes to distinguishing between a man and a woman, the basic facts…
Could the next big outbreak be lurking in the water? Pharma pollution blamed for breeding superbugs
This discharge is sent through canals, largely hidden from public view, to the local sewage treatment plant, he says. There it mixes with domestic waste, and is…
The 28 biggest Oscars disasters
15. Goldie Hawn perks up slavery Did Goldie Hawn really have to announce the title of the grim, gruelling Best Picture with such peppy enthusiasm in 2014?…
Oscars 2022 winners: Will Smith wins Best Actor, while CODA scoops Best Picture
Best Production Design WINNER: Dune: Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos Nightmare Alley: Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau The Power of the…
To cut N-word from To Kill a Mockingbird’s West End run would be wrong, says writer
Sorkin was also asked about the controversy surrounding the “inauthentic” casting of Javier Bardem in his recent film, Being the Ricardos. The Spanish actor played the Cuban…
Shanghai herds Covid patients into quarantine centres as hospitals buckle
“As a Shanghainese, I felt the coldness and ruthlessness of my city; for the first time, I found that the Huangpu River could also separate family,” that…
Russian police officers sue their bosses after being sacked for refusing to invade Ukraine
Kirill Alexeev, a lawyer and opposition politician from the town of Vladimir, east of Moscow, has told The Telegraph how he was being interrogated at a police…
Murdered Putin rival was trailed by same FSB hit squad as Navalny
Leaked details from Magistral, an FSB database that records details of all flight and train bookings, show that Sukharev repeatedly followed Nemtsov by train from Moscow to…
Mountain deaths in Scottish Highlands are almost all men as ‘guys tend to overestimate their ability’
Mountain deaths in the Scottish Highlands are 90 per cent men because “guys tend to overestimate their ability,” a mountaineering instructor has claimed. Heather Morning, the chief…