The beacon of all things fitness, Joe Wicks, has fallen off the lean wagon. Well, he’s only human…
Uh-oh, who ate all the pies? Only the nation’s favourite PE teacher, that’s who. Say it ain’t so, Joe. But unfortunately, he’s already ’fessed up. Technically Joe…
Marina Litvinenko: ‘No one believed Putin was a monster, but Sasha showed it through his death’
“I had heard about him before I met him,” she says, “and I was really quite surprised when this very young man arrived, looking quite shy. He…
The Iran nuclear deal is a bridge to nowhere. Blow it up instead
Financial markets may crash, Georgia and Ukraine may be invaded, Britain may leave the EU, the West may be chased out of Kabul, but amid all this…
Reason should guide the gender identity debate
The week began with the leader of the Labour Party tying himself in knots over the definition of a woman. In a radio interview, Sir Keir Starmer…
Net zero is a conspiracy against British voters
The law has never looked like more of an ass than in the decision by a court to issue an interim driving disqualification to a mother who…
Macron losing to Le Pen is now a very real possibility
How do you solve a problem like Marine? This is the question troubling Emmanuel Macron nine days before the French vote in the first round of the…
Hollywood has become a bastion of hypocritical progressivism
I met a female banker last week and she described the persistently sexist behaviour of men in her industry –those who felt compelled to act in an…
Young people’s ignorance grows more mind-boggling by the year
According to a survey published this week, over a quarter of young people in this country have never heard of the Falklands War. Older readers were no…
The American dream is disintegrating before our eyes
Over the last decade the American presidency has passed from a man who arrived at his Inaugural shaking his fist in the air like a tinpot dictator…
Treasury mandarins may have ‘moved on’, but their doctrines are still hanging around
Democracy is highly inconvenient. That was the implicit message given by Lord Macpherson, former permanent secretary of the Treasury, who was dispensing wisdom at an event on…
Now we’ve all removed our masks, will the French kiss return?
If only the dilemma stopped at how many. Once you’ve ascertained that, you’re left with the nose-bumping/glasses-skewing dilemma of which side first? I discussed this with my…
Why the home bar has become the latest house essential
For a less permanent solution, a drinks cabinet can fit neatly into an alcove or the corner of a room, and can look inconspicuously like any other…
How to save money on your weekly food shop
Lockdown saw us using local shops more, and Chris Noice of the Association of Convenience Stores tells me that sales are holding up since restrictions eased, although…
Norman Tebbit: ‘Too many people in politics today are rather poor material’
‘We were semi-conscious, Margaret and I: there are those famous pictures of me being dug out. A bloke in the back of the ambulance with me, as…
Dear Richard Madeley: ‘Women leave me after I bed them. Am I terrible at sex?’
Dear Richard, I am a man of 28, working in the physics department of a Russell Group university. I earn a respectable salary and am a bit…
The haircut that instantly takes years off women over 60
Increasingly, I think Lennox’s grown-up crop is a timeless option – it’s like the cut that Twiggy and Mia Farrow debuted in the ’60s, but worn by…
The simple style formula that complements grey hair
Cobalt blue shirt, Arket (now sold out); burnt orange Rivelli trousers, £225, the Fold; velvet Venetian slippers, £315, Le Monde Beryl; 18ct gold chain Axiom necklace, £179, and…
Carine Roitfeld on why she doesn’t care about ageing: ‘I’m lucky, in France we never think this way’
‘I like that film,’ says Roitfeld, somewhat mischievously in her Clouseau-esque English when we meet in the fashionable London hotel where she’s staying. It’s in a part…
How to pull off double denim when you’re over 40
Cotton denim shirt, £95, Damson Madder; Cotton straight leg jean, £255, E.L.V Denim at Fenwick; Upcycled trainers, £176, Aspect Climate Projects Now for the gentle reminder of…
‘It is like 1937’: Informants denounce anti-Ukraine war Russians
OVD-Info, a Russian human rights organisation, said other examples of people denounced by informers included a woman in Siberia who tied yellow and blue ribbons to a…
Ukraine afternoon briefing: Five developments as Russian troops disperse protest rally with stun grenades
Good afternoon. Ukrainian protesters were violently dispersed by what appeared to be stun grenades in the Russian occupied city of Enerhodar on Saturday. Footage posted on social media…
Islamic State ‘Beatle’ claims his British Army Cadet training came in ‘useful’ when fighting in Syria
A British Islamic State “Beatle” on trial in the US boasted to an FBI agent how he had once been enrolled in the UK Army Cadets and…
‘Chilling effect’ of China crackdown and Covid measures prompts record brain drain in Hong Kong
Charles Cheng, a university lecturer in humanities, struggled for months over whether he should leave his well-paid, good status job in Hong Kong for an uncertain career…
‘Mr President, you have 15 minutes to launch!’ A chilling VR glimpse into nuclear Armageddon
In addition, the simulation shows how much comes down to the way one person is feeling that day. Too much coffee, lack of sleep, an extra glass…
Refugees fleeing Ukraine at increasing risk of human trafficking, Red Cross warns
The volunteers’ response is shifting as the weeks stretch on; they still deliver first aid, but are also focusing on building shelters to protect from bomb attacks…