World » 1 week ago
The Scottish film-maker on bringing humour to his look at male emotional repression, being compared to Louis Theroux, and his problems with reality TVSilence is golden – at least where men are concerned. The “strong, silent type” endures as an aspirational archetype, whet...
World » 1 week ago
After a loved and hated second season, more of the button-pushing teen drama has been on pause but production is soon to officially beginYou would be forgiven for thinking that Euphoria was all wrapped up with. After all, as things stand, it has the entire world stacked a...
World » 1 week ago
There’s comfort in being surrounded by like-minded people, but challenge is important, and we may have to look for it elsewhereHell is other people. Or, more specifically, other people on social media. Hell is millions of people who would avoid each oth...
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What would it witness in Azerbaijan? A species that knows it is destroying itself but is too greedy to change courseImagine, as many people do, an all-seeing eye in the sky, looking down on planet Earth. Imagine seeing what it sees. It watches, over the course of decades,...
World » 1 week ago
Plant a tomato bush then lecture it on how it should grow tomatoesSign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are...
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Sudan is the largest food crisis and Gaza is the worst emergency by intensity of deprivation – both disasters need urgent actionI care about both Gaza and Sudan. It’s distasteful to compare extreme human suffering. But we can use the international metrics for famine to ex...
Lifestyle » 1 week ago
The novelist on Virginia Woolf’s luminous prose, obsessively rereading James Baldwin and why Saint Augustine is his favourite writerMy earliest reading memory The earliest book I remember reading and loving was Crockett Joh...
Lifestyle » 1 week ago
Smarter, more inventive – and with added Harriet Walter. The second outing of this riveting sci-fi drama gives its talented supporting cast room to breatheLook, things are pretty dire. As the nights draw in, there are few reasons to feel particularly optimistic that 2025 ...
Lifestyle » 1 week ago
A wonderful but thoroughly conventional celebration of the science of evolutionAll things must pass, but some leave legacies. That is the story of life on Earth. Fossilised remains of organisms represent just one of the various treasure troves of information about how lif...
Lifestyle » 1 week ago
TV presenter says colloid cyst was found during a check-up she was given as part of her menopause workDavina McCall has said she is to undergo brain surgery after being diagnosed with a “very rare” tumour.The TV presenter, 57, said the benign brain tumo...