The prosecution: Carol double quotation markFood should not fall out while you eat a sandwich, and your hands shouldn’t be sticky with sauce I grew up in Ireland and, to…
When the LA wildfires burned last year, playwright Dave Harris watched as everyone’s “crisis personalities” emerged. “Mine,” he recalls, “was that I was incredibly horny.” During that period, when the…
Hippodrome It doesn’t look like much from the outside. An inelegant, industrial redbrick block; if you didn’t know, you might guess it’s a biscuit factory. Make that a former biscuit…
I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where we had lots of family and friends around, which meant lots of people to feed. On those occasions, if…
Minestrone (Pictured above) Here, the vegetables, beans and pasta are roughly the same size, so every spoonful is heaped and satisfying. Nothing to poke the roof of your mouth or…
The onset of sunshine has caught my limbs by surprise. I went out in short sleeves last week and my neglected, greyish arms looked as if they were recently freed…
Three years ago, I helped my friend, the chef Sam Webb, set up Babette, a street food stall at Newquay Boathouse. Webb and his team make everything from scratch and,…
It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database and its backups, according to its founder. PocketOS, which sells software…
I have identified my worst character trait. In such a crowded field, this has been no easy task. This one wins out because it’s two equally unappealing traits rolled into…
You know those round deli containers people love to keep after getting takeout pho? Recently, I’ve been using some new food storage containers in the same shape that stack the…
Health Canada approved the first generic version of brand-name semaglutide drugs like Ozempic on Tuesday, becoming the first G7 country to do so. Manufactured by Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories in India,…
Wellness culture is coming for your vagina. On Instagram, in the vitamin aisle, and even on the subway, the billion-dollar “feminine probiotic” industry promises healthier, better-smelling, infection-free genitalia. The proliferation…
Mother’s Day deals are popping up everywhere, but one of the best I’ve found comes from Field Company, the maker of the premium skillet that I said “fixed everything I…
Wake up, 100 messages from group chat overnight about something – what? another assassination attempt; a village destroyed in Lebanon; the football result in England; the weather in Iran being…
Although far less important than the political violence at the White House correspondent’s dinner in Washington over the weekend, the sartorial choices of the Maga administration are now getting airtime…
Leather trousers are not for the fainthearted. They come with … baggage? Mythology, perhaps, is a gentler way of putting it. Either way, you know what I mean. Leather trousers…
To Davis Schneider, his older brother Steven was “kind of like a Superman.” “He worked as a nurse up until he died. He worked every single day to help people…
Weddings can be complicated to organise, especially when the venue is more than 4,000 miles from home. But Andrea, a Londoner, was confident she and her partner, Josh, had thought…
A few months ago, Valen Tagliabue sat in his hotel room watching his chatbot, and felt euphoric. He had just manipulated it so skilfully, so subtly, that it began ignoring…
Babies exposed to higher levels of air pollution in the early stages of pregnancy take longer to learn to speak than those exposed to lower levels in the womb, new…
As I cycle in golden light through the Loire’s vineyards, I have the sudden wish to wear a flowing floral dress, tuck a sunflower behind my ear and answer only…
At a fundraising event, I looked across the crowded room and saw a woman with a cleft – a gap in the lip (and sometimes the palate) where a baby’s…
Many of us, regardless of our age or fitness levels, know that we should be doing more exercise but are unsure where to start. So what is the ultimate exercise…
20. PJ Harvey ‘Second skin’ … Harvey at the O2 Academy in Brixton, London, in 2016. Photograph: Joseph Okpako/WireImage “Dressed like a fabulously turned-out carrion crow,” is how our reviewer…
A bikini made from tangled strands of diamantes drapes down the torso of Colombian superstar Shakira. She is singing from a floating pink bubble in the sky. It is the…
The self-published zine has long been central to cultural revolutions, from queer activism to Black feminism and the riot grrrl punk movement, producing titles such as Sniffin’ Glue and Sweet-Thang…
Health Canada has approved the first generic version of brand-name Ozempic. The department says Canada is the first G7 country to authorize generic semaglutide. The injectable medication is manufactured by…
What’s the best birthday cake?Katie, by email“My mum once made a cake with mini rolls made to look like cats with googly eyes and strawberry lace tails,” says Nicola Lamb,…
They’ve been billed as “humanity’s fastest shoe”, the cutting edge of trainer technology, lighter and bouncier than anything that’s gone before. Sabastian Sawe was wearing them when he became the…
Created by three dads from Seattle, the resolutely un-mobile handset doesn’t have internet access, apps or even a screen. No wonder anxious parents are snapping it up Name: Tin Can….