I love polenta, but very often forget about it in favour of pasta or rice. However, for those transitional spring evenings, it’s perfect comfort food: warm, filling, and cooks in…
Oh, for the days of the sleeping babe in the sling. It must have driven more seasoned parents mad when I waxed lyrical about how easy, how special, it was…
The Beckham empire is a tangled web of family and fortune. After her Paris fashion week show on Friday evening, Victoria Beckham talked backstage about Tamara de Lempicka, the Polish…
I live in a fairly average town in Oxfordshire, and despite having friends and family nearby, I never felt as if I was properly a part of the community. I…
I read your story about a man fined £500 for dropping a cigarette butt on the pavement. I have been issued with a £500 fixed-penalty notice (FPN) by Haringey council…
On Sunday night in Sydney, on the eve of Australian fashion week, First Nations Fashion and Design (FNFD) staged their first runway show in four years. Titled Reclamation, the collective…
Roasting a whole chicken seems to be one of those things that works all year, whether with salad in the summer or as a part of a heavy roast in…
‘Once in a while, you get to see a legend at the absolute top of their game,” booms a voice at the beginning of Robby Hoffman’s Netflix special, Wake Up,…
The anxiety-spiked, drug-fuelled, hyperstylised technicolour online messiness of generation Z was not on anyone’s bingo card for Balenciaga’s Paris fashion week show. Cristóbal Balenciaga dressed Ingrid Bergman and Jackie Kennedy;…
Beneath the Paris fashion week hoopla – Chappell Roan resplendent in the front row, champagne flowing backstage – there were dark undercurrents at Alexander McQueen’s Paris fashion week show. The…
Six months after Lorraine C Ladish turned 59, she began to get emails – from fashion stores, the supermarket, the opticians – offering her a discount. Her half-birthday was coming…
I was recently beset by a plague of clothes moths. After hours of research, I discovered the miracle that is the parasitic wasp, or Trichogramma evanescens – near-microscopic beasts that…
The inside of my jumpers and cardigans never become bobbled, despite the friction that must occur. So why can’t the pieces be sewn together inside out? Helen, by email Send…
My husband is away this week, something that used to happen regularly, but is a post-pandemic rarity. Like, I suspect, many people in long-term relationships, I look forward to a…
Composite of two images of Shirley Ballas and her mother laughing and hugging, in 2015 and 2026Shirley Ballas (on right) and her mother, Audrey, in 2015 and 2026. Later photograph:…
British Columbia’s top doctor is set to outline plans on how the province will monitor the health of four people returning home from a cruise ship at the centre of…
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On a quiet path in a sunny, grassy park, six women are playing an unusual game of limbo. All on bicycles, they lean as far forwards as they can without…
I spotted the quilt the moment I walked in. It was magnificent – hand-sewn in shades of vibrant purple and green by a local quilting maestro in a pattern known…
The first plane carrying passengers from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship left Spain’s Canary Islands on Sunday for Madrid, where they will be taken to a military hospital. Spanish nationals were…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 10, 2026 9:25 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canadians on board the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship will…
Before I wrote this recipe, it hadn’t occurred to me that the word “arancini” means “little oranges”, and, plump, round and golden as they are, it makes sense, too. Indeed,…
Maxine, 62, Barnsley Occupation Retail sales assistant Voting record Used to vote for Ukip, and has since always chosen “patriotic parties” such as the English Democrats, the English Constitution party, and…
Ali, 58 double quotation markAny pressure to have sex doesn’t come from James – it comes from within, from a fear of complete loss I used to really enjoy sex,…
A building site, but make it chic: that was the set for Chanel’s Paris fashion week show. Cranes in Meccano-bright colours towered over the catwalk, their reflection shimmering sequin-bright on…
Now that trainers have supplanted smart shoes for so many occasions, and people replace them as often as fashion and budget allow, shoe maintenance is becoming a lost art. But…
I feel torn between being a supportive wife and protecting my own mental health. My husband has recently had great success using drugs, diet and exercise to lose weight. He has…
A s a young man, Nick Dooley never thought about his hormones. He always considered himself “quite an outgoing, confident, chatty person”. Around the time he turned 30, however, Dooley…
No matter the rumours, no matter the truth, Hollywood convention dictates that all actors describe whatever cast they’ve been part of as “one big happy family”. This rule being broken,…
While the eyes might be the window to the soul, lapels are certainly doing some talking. On the Oscars red carpet last Sunday night, Hollywood’s leading men flashed a lot…