[ad_1] The Gardeners’ World presenter is a very old-fashioned version of the modern man March 15, 2024 3:15 pm(Updated 3:33 pm) Monty Don’s Spanish Gardens (Photo: Alexandra Henderson) When the 18th-century Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote of the “noble savage” – a type of man in total communion with primordial nature – he may not…
[ad_1] This raucous, sometimes-very-funny new caper from Ethan Coen is a throwback Thelma and Louise with a sapphic twist. Written by Coen’s wife Tricia Cooke, the crime road movie – whose original title Drive Away Dykes was at some point reined in to Drive Away Dolls – features two odd-couple pals: Jamie, a garrulous, sexually…
[ad_1] Just a few weeks before the publication of this new book from the doyenne of gender theory, Judith Butler, two teenagers – Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe – were each sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for the brutal murder of 16-year-old Briana Ghey. Their violent attack was, according to the judge,…
[ad_1] In the early hours of 13 November 2022, four students from the University of Idaho – Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen – were stabbed in their off-campus residence. The case shocked the world and went viral almost immediately. In BBC Three’s The Idaho Murders: Trial by TikTok, Love Island star…
[ad_1] Once a national punchline, the Irish twins are now online warriors committed to taking the establishment to task March 13, 2024 1:04 pm(Updated 2:09 pm) John and Edward Grimes fresh from being ousted from the XFactor in 2009 (Photo: Dave Hogan/Getty) That we are living in interesting times can be no better illustrated right…
[ad_1] It’s a tale as old as time. You wait forever for a Sound of Music-themed bedroom in a former convent and two come along at once. It can only be the return of Interior Design Masters. Alan Carr is back for a fifth series, with 10 aspiring Linda Barkers, this time competing to win…
[ad_1] Earl Spencer’s grim revelations that he was groomed by a school matron at the age of 11, and subjected to the paedophilic sadism of the school’s then headmaster John Porch, have grabbed headlines ahead of the publication of this book. What a heartbreaking read it it is. Charles Spencer, historian and brother of Princess…
[ad_1] There weren’t many twists in part one of Love Rat – not unless you were naïve tourist Emma (Sally Lindsay). At the conclusion of the gripping first episode of this four-part holiday thriller, she was shocked to discover there was more to her (clearly massively suspicious) new boyfriend Niko (Gerald Kyd) than met the…
[ad_1] By now, Holly Humberstone’s preoccupation with places is well established; the title of last October’s debut album, Paint My Bedroom Black, suggested she believed in the importance of some feng shui when making an emotional restart. But even before that, she was lamenting the loneliness of stop-gap house shares on her 2021 EP The…
[ad_1] For too long, the ceremony has been haunted by idiotic jokes, ill-conceived musical numbers, and predictable choices. Not this year March 11, 2024 3:27 am(Updated 4:27 am) Ryan Gosling performs “I’m Just Ken” from “Barbie” during the Oscars (Photo: Mike Blake) In my lifetime of watching the Academy Awards, and my entire career as…
