Post-breakup, following a decade-long relationship, I awoke to find myself thrust violently back into the dating pool. It was a new, unfamiliar landscape where nothing was left to the imagination. Sex was assumed to be on the cards, and a new performative intimacy inevitable. Having relied in the past on chance encounters, an air of … Read more
Michael Sheen has been fabulous in so many TV dramas and movies, it’s hard to know where to start. But perhaps his most memorable appearance came earlier this year in a TV show that didn’t require him to do any acting at all. The Assembly was a Q&A session in which he took questions from … Read more
An ambitious plan to plant at least a million native trees on crofts in the Outer Hebrides has taken root, its organisers say, with more than 200 small new woods sprouting across the islands. The Western Isles woodland project hopes to reestablish a thriving mosaic of small woods dotted across the islands by using vacant … Read more
When Tanni Grey-Thompson was left stranded at London’s King’s Cross station on her way to the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Paris this week, she had to crawl on to the platform. Lady Grey-Thompson, a former Paralympic athlete and crossbench peer, said she and other disabled passengers frequently suffered humiliating incidents travelling by … Read more
Donald Trump has claimed that when he was president he wanted to appoint his daughter, Ivanka, as America’s ambassador to the UN but she opted to instead to work on job creation and hired “millions of people”. The Republican nominee for president in 2024 made the bizarre comments during a “fireside chat” on Friday night … Read more
X has clashed with de Moraes over its reluctance to comply with orders to block users. (Photo: Shutterstock) A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has ordered the suspension of Elon Musk’s social media giant X in Brazil after the tech billionaire refused to name a legal representative in the country, according to a copy of the … Read more
When Pavel Durov came under criticism from Russian regulators over the spread of pornography on the VKontakte social media platform he founded, the tech entrepreneur responded mockingly by changing his Twitter handle from “VK CEO” to “Porn King”. More than a decade later, Durov’s anti-authoritarian stance and hands-off approach to moderation have landed him in … Read more
Alice Forward Voices from the Edge, a global majority group based in mid and west Wales, created artworks in response to the British Museum’s Sloane collection A group of racially diverse artists invited to reinterpret a touring British Museum collection with links to slavery have raised issues around payment, representation and emotional support. The group … Read more
Australia’s winter runs from June to August, but swathes of the country have felt like summer the past week with temperatures topping 40C and records tumbling. “It doesn’t matter how you slice and dice it,” said Dr Linden Ashcroft, a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne. “The temperature records have been gobsmacking.” The national … Read more
Over the past couple of years, as he has ploughed an often lonely furrow for Australia at grand slam events, Alex de Minaur has been at pains to state that things would come good, sooner rather than later. Numbers, it’s all about numbers, he suggested, referring to the increasing presence of Australians in the men’s … Read more