The Guide #197: Your front-row pass to who the performers will be watching at Glastonbury From punk trios to folk icons, performers share their Glastonbury picks – and it’s not who you might expect The Guardian - UK · Jun 27, 2025
Stanley Tucci shares his ultimate freezer martini recipe for World Martini Day From carbonara to lockdown Negronis, Stanley Tucci is now gunning for Bond’s crown as the king of cocktails – and he’s shared his perfect freezer batch martini recipe so you can celebrate World Martini Day in style The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2025
The Kardashians of history: why are we so obsessed with the Mitford sisters? They were impossibly glamorous, fatally flawed and turned up at every significant moment of the 20th century, but underneath it all is a highly relatable family drama – without the infamous friends The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2025
David Attenborough’s 'hope and optimism' hailed by Prince William as broadcasting legend celebrates 99th birthday Sir David Attenborough has been on our TV screens for more than seven decades presenting programmes such as Planet Earth and The Blue Planet Evening Standard · May 8, 2025
UK marks VE Day 80th anniversary with large crowds and military pomp Royal family and war veterans watch 1,300-strong military procession in London while street parties held around UK The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2025
Why the Kentucky Derby Has Never Felt Weirder Since the death of the race ambassador in 2018, the run for the roses has seen surreal, chaotic results. Sports Illustrated · Apr 29, 2025
Voices: ‘A myth’: Independent readers reject the UK-US ‘special relationship’ YOUR VIEWS: Our community share their views on the UK–US "special relationship" – from calls for a shift towards Europe and criticisms of subservience, to the belief that the bond was always a myth The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2025
Allies at War by Tim Bouverie review – a revelatory study of second world war alliances In focusing on the multilateral bonds that were forged to defeat Hitler, this entertaining account offers fresh disclosures about the course of the war The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2025
Burgh Island Hotel is a secluded idyll, just several hours from London This Art Deco hotel stands alone on its own private island — bar the neighbouring 14th century pub. Shireen Jilla checks in, following in the footsteps of everyone from Chanel to Churchill Evening Standard · Mar 9, 2025
Starmer plays royal card as he tiptoes around the madness of King Donald The British prime minister is the latest would-be Trump whisperer from Europe to butter up a capricious president The Guardian - US · Feb 27, 2025
OPINION - Why Donald Trump is absolutely right to end the war in Ukraine The US president has changed the game in a way nobody else has Evening Standard · Feb 27, 2025
Escaped Alone and What If If Only review – Caryl Churchill’s double whammy of dazzling dread Hiding behind the fluttering dialogue and domestic chatter lies a dark poetry in a pair of plays that address terrifying futures head on The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2025
Churchill in Moscow at the Orange Tree Theatre review: bursting with political playfulness 3/5 The ideas at work here is marred by a lack of believable characters Evening Standard · Feb 12, 2025
Call for ‘censorship culture’ to end as Unity Mitford’s German diary is revealed Extracts from Mitford’s papers published but many more archives concerning British fascists remain concealed The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2025
The Independent UK · Jan 3, 2025 Former Conservative MP Marco Longhi defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party Ex-MP attacks Tories saying the party of Churchill and Thatcher ‘has transformed into something unrecognisable’ in another blow to new Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch weeks after former minister Andrea Jenkyns crossed the floor
The Conversation · Dec 18, 2024 What will you be reading this summer? We asked 6 avid readers Summer reads are often advertised as fat paperback page-turners: romance, adventure or crime fiction. But everyone has their own definition of the summer read.
The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2024 Five writers on the five books they’d give for Christmas BOOKS: The Independent’s writers look back on the literary year and select the very best books to gift your loved ones this festive season
Radio France Internationale · Nov 11, 2024 Starmer and Macron demonstrate Franco-British unity at WWI anniversary in Paris British Prime Minister Keir Starmer joined French President Emmanuel Macron Monday at the ceremony in Paris commemorating the 106th anniversary of the end of World War I in a symbolic show of unity between the two countries.
Evening Standard · Nov 2, 2024 OPINION - A military collapse for Ukraine is now a possibility — and Nato is not good in shape The news from Ukraine is grave – to echo Churchill’s speech on the fall of France in 1940. Today the talk among advisers and analysts is less of possible victory for Ukrainians, but how they can avoid defeat.
The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2024 Has Boris Johnson new respect for women? Let’s ask the one he calls ‘old grumpy knickers’ In his memoir, the great inseminator has little good to say about the women around him
The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2024 Israeli soldier urges UK to be Churchill not Chamberlain in standing against ‘evil’ Iran Wounded soldier Barak Deri said his war started on 7 October last year when he faced ‘the toughest choice’ of his life
The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2024 Boris Johnson is a ‘loner’ who hates parties, says former Times political editor Author and journalist Tim Shipman called Johnson a ‘fairly bleak character’
The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2024 ‘I wasn’t interested in Churchill’: Steve McQueen on the ‘ordinary people’ in his film Blitz Director’s second world war feature is a grimy, chaotic look at Londoners navigating their way through hell
The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2024 Two tribes are at war for the Tory leadership. How to choose? Let me help Rabid Trussonomics or naked nativism? With the race down to four runners, here’s my guide to a party reeling in two directions, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2024 One size doesn’t fit all: how to buy hats when you have a big head – and 12 of the best It’s official: I have a really big head. Can experts, stylists and the world’s oldest hat shop help me find the perfect headgear?