Anyone who spotted the run Tom Vickery uploaded to exercise tracking app Strava on 18 February last year might have been a little confused. The 30-minute sprint appeared to have taken place right in the middle of the Channel, not far from Guernsey and heading towards the west coast of France. The run was also, … Read more
It’s a greyish Saturday afternoon in late August, and alongside other street party attenders, I’m watching two flamboyantly dressed women, one clutching a flute, backed by three male musicians while they shout out the lyrics to their new song, Kiddy Ska Party. “I told you about my stitches / I told you about my stitches … Read more
Hyderabad: Justice Juvvadi Sridevi of the Telangana High Court denied anticipatory bail to a cab driver accused of running a brothel house. The judge was dealing with an anticipatory bail petition filed by Bhagathi Sai Charang, who was accused of running a brothel house along with others and was allegedly involved in women trafficking. Considering … Read more
Nancy Friday’s groundbreaking anthology My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies was first published in the US in 1973, though Gillian Anderson only read it for the first time when she took on the role of sex therapist Dr Jean Milburn in Sex Education. “Their unfiltered and painful honesty shook me,” she says of Friday’s letters … Read more
Sérgio Mendes, who has died aged 83 after suffering from the effects of long Covid, was one of the most successful Brazilian artists of all time. A pianist, songwriter, arranger and bandleader, he enjoyed a lengthy career that began in the bossa nova boom of the early 1960s and continued for six decades – long … Read more
Maria Costigan remembers following the ambulance. It was weaving the same path as she was through Canberra’s suburban sprawl. It was a route Maria had taken countless times to drop in on Tara Costigan, the niece she loved like a daughter. Her sense of foreboding grew with each shared turn. The paramedics and Maria both … Read more
As England’s white-ball teams were letting go of the two World Cups they held at the start of last winter, Moeen Ali was the one guy acknowledging the need to start again. It was time for the next generation to step up, the vice-captain said with typical self-effacing honesty, and now, aged 37, he has … Read more
Our economy is broken. Our public services are in crisis, from the NHS to the dozens of local councils facing bankruptcy. Our industries are in crisis as infrastructure collapses, from transport and water to the electricity grid. From Port Talbot to Aberdeen, tens of thousands of workers face job cuts from an unjust “transition to … Read more
The back-to-school landscape is often categorised by celebrities humblebragging about how their bad grades had no lasting impact on their eventual amazing life. “I think of Jeremy Clarkson,” writes the head teacher author of Exam Nation, “ritually tweeting every exam season about how he failed his A-levels and he’s done all right.” On the one … Read more
It had been a sweltering morning picking cherries beneath plastic polytunnels in July when Ilyas finally lost his temper at the farm where he was working in Kent. “We could hardly breathe in there,” he said. “It was very difficult to work because the weather was very hot.” It was his first day harvesting the … Read more