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The boss of Britain’s largest industry body has warned the government that “resilience alone” would not boost growth in the UK, firing the starting gun on two months of policy lobbying ahead of a pivotal Autumn Budget.
Much of the UK has faced a summer of sweltering temperatures as the country has bounced from one unrelenting heatwave to another. Businesses know all too well that unrelenting feeling. A decade of constant cost pressures from domestic policy decisions has been hugely damaging. It’s a cost stack is chocking business growth. Before a pound of profit is made the list of costs mounts up for businesses. In the last 10 years we’ve seen increases in minimum wage, employer National Insurance,
The podcast Serial brought the controversial case of Adnan Syed into the spotlight in 2014, 15 years after he was charged with strangling his ex-girlfriend and burying her in Baltimore's Leakin Park.
Micheál Martin’s obnoxious Irish government has combined two of its cruel fixations – anti-immigration and pro-Zionism – to deliver a shocking refusal rate for Palestinians seeking visa entry to Ireland.
Ancient Assyrian kings named Aššur-uballiṭ, Tiglath-pileser, and Shalmaneser are seemingly missing from the official record, suggesting that their successors may have tried to erase them from history for political reasons.
Former US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has said that the Trump regime is “discussing using nuclear weapons on Iran in strategy meetings” in its desperation to reverse its loss in its war of aggression on Iran.
Construction of a sports complex in Vienna turned up a mass grave filled with at least 129 ancient Roman soldiers that had been sitting right underneath a soccer field.
On 3 January 2026, the US committed one of its most brazen acts of international law-breaking to date. Its special ops forces captured, abducted and imprisoned socialist Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro. Maduro’s supposedly interim ‘acting’ president, Delcy Rodriguez, appears mostly to have been acting in the US empire’s favour.
Spanish refereeing is set to take a new step towards expanding the use of AI technology in the 2026–2027 season, following the announcement by the Royal Spanish Football Federation and the Technical Refereeing Committee (CTA) that artificial intelligence will be introduced into the ‘Tiempo de Revisión’ (‘review time’) programme,
Abdul El-Sayed has issued a “call for Democratic unity,” said Toluse Olorunnipa and Elaine Godfrey in The Atlantic. That’s a new message for Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, a charismatic left-wing populist who earlier this month edged the establishment-backed Haley Stevens in a bitterly contested primary. During the campaign, El-Sayed—a former public health official who’s aligned with Sen. Bernie Sanders—denounced the Democratic Party’s brand as “so bullshit.” Since then, he’s started making amends, and Stevens has endorsed him.
“Is Ariana Grande’s body any of our business?” asked Monica Hesse in The Washington Post. Facing a deluge of commentary about her apparent weight loss, the 33-year-old pop star and actress recently announced that she’s stepping away from public life after her current tour concludes. Her “emaciated” appearance in a new music video for her song “Petal” escalated years of speculation that she has an eating disorder. The camera shows sunken cheeks, a protruding clavicle, arms that look like “sinew on bone,” and spindly legs.
The man whose “best-known culinary accomplishment is maintaining ‘a freezer full’ of roadkill” wants to teach you to cook, said Emily Heil in The Washington Post. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently debuted The Real Food Show, a government-funded YouTube series intended to help Americans “make healthful meals at home on a modest budget.” In the first episode, Kennedy and celebrity chef Andrew Gruel whip up crispy salmon cakes with a white bean, apple, and arugula salad. I followed the recipe and the dish was “quite good.”
Artificial intelligence is transforming the publishing industry. What does that mean for human authors?
What happenedPresident Trump signed a nonbinding executive order this week recommending a radical overhaul of the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule, a policy proposal that health experts warned will only sow more mistrust and confusion about lifesaving immunizations. The order proposes reducing the number of recommended childhood vaccines from 18 to 11, downgrading vaccines for diseases such as Covid, hepatitis A and B, and RSV to optional for most children.
He previously served as Trump’s personal lawyer
Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo has sparked speculation about his future after revealing that 2026 could be his final year on the football pitch, in a statement that opens the door to the end of an exceptional career spanning more than two decades.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) proxy war in Sudan has killed and displaced millions. The UK and the rest of the international community have let the war roll on unabated.
Commemorating the 81st anniversary of Japan’s unconditional WWII surrender in August 1946, Japan’s political leaders honoured a monument to known war-criminals. The infamous Yasukuni shrine commemorates thousands of war-criminals who served in the brutal Imperial Japanese Army. Leaders included the Prime Minister, defence minister and various cabinet members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Sea-Watch is calling for safe passages and a comprehensive,
Numerous UK police forces are now using Palantir technology for surveillance and tracking. The far-right genocide-linked tech firm has been capturing UK public bodies at pace – and shows no signs of slowing down.
Economists have argued the U.S. is experiencing a “K-shaped economy” in which the rich get richer while working Americans increasingly fall behind. Now the Trump administration is pushing back. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is “sick of hearing about this K-shaped economy,” he said on CNBC this month, insisting that lower-wage workers are seeing improvements under GOP policies.
Cameroon claimed their first Women’s Africa Cup of Nations title with a composed 3–0 victory over Malawi, completing a tournament run defined by organisation, efficiency and a clear attacking edge.
Todd Boehly and Mark Walters could cease being co-owners of Premier League club Chelsea after engaging in talks to sell their respective stakes to Clearlake Capital.
Earlier in August 2026, Maddison Wheeldon exposed, for the Canary and Skwawkbox, bullying and misogyny toward staff by Jack Clarke, husband of Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham.
On 16 August, Reform UK announced its intention to abolish Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Personal Independence Payments (PIP). As we noted, this was an ill-thought out move for Reform, because many of its own voters are reliant on DWP PIP.
Sticking to your budget can be hard enough without inflation. But when prices on everything from gas to groceries are steadily creeping upward, sticking to your plans for spending can feel like a losing battle.
Inside the Scottish castle a royal relative once called ‘horrible’ that the King returns to every summer
Male Japanese macaque Luka returned ‘of his own accord’ after disappearing overnight, officials said.
Everything you think you know — but more and better
As voting for the Toast the City Awards enters its final week, we sent our wine columnist Libby Brodie on a wine Odyssey through the City’s finest bars and restaurants. Vote for your favourites on our website here.
Right-wing podcaster Tim Pool “rage quit” during a debate after being called out for making “sensationalist” content for profit.During an appearance on Jubilee’s debate series Surrounded, Pool was tasked with defending the claim, “The United States is tracking towards a civil war”.
A team of charity rowers raising money for research into motor neurone disease (MND) has completed the last leg of its circumnavigation of Britain.
Google StoreWe don’t need to tell you this: tech is expensive. Keeping up to date with the latest gadgets can put a serious dent in your wallet, but the price tag doesn’t do much to quell our desires for a new phone.
The Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery merger will face “sufficient competition” in the UK to prevent the combined Hollywood giant from gaining too much market power, the competition watchdog has said.
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At least two sailors have reportedly tried to jump overboard. The Defense Department is denying all reports.
We've seen no shortage of celebrity-founded beauty brand success: Selena Gomez's Rare Beauty has earned itself a number of major industry accolades, Kylie Jenner's Kylie Cosmetics helped cement her billionaire status, and Hailey Bieber's Rhode is neatly tucked on the bathroom shelf of every 'it' girl.
The June 1967 Arab-Israeli War dramatically altered the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East, leaving Israel in firm military occupation of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights.
The first year after a baby is born can be a complete blur for new parents – I’ve been there twice, and I feel like I was delirious for about 90% of it.
What happenedJared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy and son-in-law, reportedly met Sunday with Hamas political leader Khalil al-Hayya in Egypt as the White House and regional allies attempt to revive the Trump-backed proposal for peace in Gaza. Representatives from Egypt, Turkey, Qatar and Trump’s Board of Peace also attended the meeting.
The Country Life quiz runs daily every afternoon, with new editions published at 4pm. Missed a day? Want more quizzes? Catch up with all our previous quizzes here.
Perez Hilton pictured in 2023Perez Hilton is receiving inpatient treatment two weeks after he was hospitalised following a mental health episode in which he appeared to self-harm during a TikTok livestream.
The legal watchdog has called out lawyers responsible for supervising junior staff when false AI-generated citations are put forward to the courts, as senior lawyers “remain accountable” for juniors.
What happenedA week of relentless storms caused widespread destruction in the Midwest and killed at least seven people in Indiana and another one in Ohio, officials said Sunday. President Donald Trump approved Indiana GOP Gov. Mike Braun’s disaster emergency declaration for the entire state. Across the country in Hawaii, Hurricane Lala grazed the state over the weekend, battering the islands with heavy rains and winds, but did not make landfall.
US attorney general Todd Blanche has sparked backlash after he refused to confirm the Department of Justice will act independently of the White House.Blanche, US president Donald Trump’s former personal defense lawyer,
US president Donald Trump is continuing to defend his actions in the Middle East,
What happenedPresident Donald Trump said on social media Sunday night he had instructed the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” America’s annual joint military exercises with South Korea, citing their cost, his own “very good relationship” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Seoul’s disinclination to join the U.S. in the Iran war. The defensive drills, which began this week, are “totally inappropriate and hostile,” he said, as North Korea “has been unthreatening and respectful” while he is president.
China is changing the car industry at extraordinary speed. For affluent professionals used to proven premium brands, the next chapter of that transformation is becoming ever more challenging to turn a blind eye to, writes our motoring journalist Tim Barnes-Clay.
Jason Arday was hunted down by a pack of rabid predators, relentlessly bullying and racially attacking him. Now he’s dead. His devastated family are left with nowhere to turn. No justice, no accountability. Just a laughable “self-regulator”, run by the very same billionaire bosses who released the wolves. It’s a disgrace. It’s rigged.
Jon Ossoff has been rocketing up the Democratic political rankings since 2021 when he was elected senior United States senator from Georgia. He’s youngish, honest, and not afraid to attack Magas right where it hurts. Usually, that means highlighting inflation, gas prices, and mismanaged international conflicts.
Todd Blanche used to be Donald Trump’s personal defense attorney. Now he is the Attorney General for the United States. Coincidence? Blanche would like you to think so.
Reform UK has been accused of many things in 2026, but a tendency towards honesty is not one of them. The latest example of a Reform politician telling porkies came on 16 August when Nadhim Zahawi peddled some rubbish about Count Binface.
Woman of the hour Anne Hathaway stars with Ewan McGregor in The End Of Oak StreetThis article contains spoilers for The End Of Oak Street.
A Labour backbencher with experience in the financial services sector has urged Healey to reconsider stamp duty on shares in UK trading.
Nothing reminds me that I’m a mere mortal mammal like the overwhelming urge to forage I get every August. Blackberries, cherries, and even some apples thrive and ripen during this month.
Imagine you are one of Aston Martin’s wealthiest customers, looking for a new addition to your car collection. Do you have the Vanquish, an elegant, decadent GT with a full-cream V12 up front?
For more than two centuries, Goodwood Racecourse has stood as one of Britain’s most celebrated sporting venues, attracting royalty, business leaders, racing enthusiasts, and international visitors from around the world. Today, through the title partnership with Qatar, the Qatar Goodwood Festival has evolved into far more than one of the UK’s premier horse racing events, it has become a powerful symbol of the growing relationship between the United Kingdom and the Middle East.
A luxury London property developer has collapsed after running out of funds, as the capital’s prime housing sector faces growing pressure.
Nigel Farage is back in Parliament, fresh from winning the Clacton by-election, posing for photos like he’s just liberated Dunkirk instead of securing a seat he’s chased on and off for 12 years. Meanwhile, the Labour government is so busy tiptoeing around the right they’ve forgotten how to walk forward.
When you think of sport in South Africa images from the 1995 Rugby World Cup come to mind alongside the sound of vuvuzelas en masse in 2010 and Chad le Clos (and his father, Bert) at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Major names are missing tournaments due to injury and the ‘gruelling’ schedule, but heatwaves,
The number of overseas tech workers applying for UK visas has fallen for a third consecutive year, despite ministers promising to make Britain a magnet for global AI talent.
Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to scale back annual joint military exercises with South Korea after the country stayed out of the war with Iran.
Just days after outgoing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt raised eyebrows for suggesting US president Donald Trump should be thanked for making America more affordable, the 80-year-old told supporters at a rally in Long Island, New York that he’ll “never apologise” for high gas prices brought about by his war in Iran.
The earliest residents of Great Budbridge Manor, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book, can be traced back to the reign of Henry III. William Urry owned the property on the Isle of Wight, which is for sale with Strutt & Parker for £2 million, in 1280, and his son Robert would be convicted of murdering the constable of Carisbrooke Castle.
Western media routinely frames “buffer zones” as neutral, defensive measures designed to stabilize volatile borders, but the ground reality across southern Lebanon and southwestern Syria reveals a deliberate strategy of asymmetrical territorial reduction.
Celebrity engagements have become somewhat of a size-off when it comes to rings.
The chair of Monzo will make an early exit from the UK fintech next month following a period of a turmoil in the neobank’s boardroom.
Boomtown 2026 review and star rating: ★★★★★ Pirates are squaring up to one another, clenching their jaws as they prepare to strike blows. Hundreds are jeering around the ring, where the crowd have been whipped into a feverish mob. Villagers are peering from the rooftops to get a glimpse of the fight.
Donald Trump has been labelled a “traitor” after ordering the scaling back of military exercises with South Korea over his “very good relationship” with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.In a move that appears to punish US ally South Korea for declining to join America’s Iran war,
We’re big fans of pretty much everything mathematician and much else besides Hannah Fry does, but it’s not often we’ve liked her more than this.
There is a red alert in France concerning water resources. Although France is currently experiencing its fourth heatwave since May, the drought is worsening. And with it, the insurance companies’ bill is rising, as they see their expenditure increase every year due, reportedly, to increasingly intense and recurrent exceptional weather events.
Hayden Panettiere pictured in 2011Stars who knew and worked with Hayden Panettiere have been paying tribute following the news of her sudden death at the age of 36.
There are certain clips – quite a few, let’s be honest – that we’ll always highlight when they go viral on Twitter, and this is right up there with the very best. It’s the Blue Peter ‘apology’ sketch from the fabulous Armstrong and Miller Show which originally aired far too long ago for comfort.
Arsenal opened the new season with a controlled, confident and quietly emphatic 3-0 win over Manchester City in the Community Shield, delivering a performance that underlined their status as Premier League holders and exposed early frailties in the first competitive match of the Enzo Maresca era.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has built its popularity almost entirely on a certain type of voter wishing for a return to the so-called good old days.
Carrots and other root crops are expected to be hit by this year's drought.Everything is expensive: the energy price cap has risen (again), water companies have been given the go ahead to increase bills and now, it seems our food shop is set to go up even more, too.
On 16 August, Laila Cunningham tried and failed to defend Nigel Farage’s £5m ‘gift’ scandal: Watching Laila Cunningham explain Nigel Farages £5m bung is wild. It was 7 minutes so I edited her replies to save your ears. ‘Where’s it going to end? are you going to ask him about every £5m he spends?’ Ummmm,
Brendan O'Carroll in character as Agnes BrownMrs Brown’s Boys creator Brendan O’Carroll has announced he will be unable to go ahead with this year’s festive specials on medical grounds.
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has labelled an Economist piece “antisemitic”. And given the outlet’s own description of the piece, it’s easy to see why: Seems pretty Antisemitic to me. How have we got to the place that they feel so emboldened to write this shit?
Madonna on stage during her Celebration TourWe’re afraid there’s been a disappointing update for anyone hoping to see Madonna making her Pyramid Stage debut next year.
Lion Finance thought of itself as the London Stock Exchange’s wallflower. But after its promotion the the market’s blue-chip index earlier this year, the bank is finally getting noticed.
Virgin Trains has been granted permission to run train services between London and Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels by the railway watchdog, making it the first operator to break up the Eurostar’s decades-old stranglehold over train journeys to the continent.
Two health factors could play an important part in keeping cognitive decline at bay as you age. New research from the University of Texas at San Antonio found physical activity and controlling blood sugar in midlife were linked to a “significantly slower rate of cognitive decline” later in life. This adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that modifiable risk factors contribute substantially to cognitive decline and dementia.
Nigella LawsonWith mere weeks to go until we can tuck into the main delicacy that is Nigella Lawson’s Great British Bake Off debut, bosses have given us a little amuse bouche to tide us over until then.
On this day, 17 August, in 1945, with pro-Soviet sentiment rapidly fading in the UK, George Orwell's Animal Farm is finally published.
Fill the grid with numbers one to nine so that each row, column and square contains every digit exactly once. This game will update daily.
Goldman Sachs and Intel have backed AI video maker Higgsfield in a $400m (£295m) funding round that has more than quadrupled the two-year-old company’s valuation since January.
Tesco and Sainsbury’s have stood firm after the boss of Aldi hit out at loyalty discounts, as a “price-gouging” row threatens to divide British supermarkets. Giles Hurley, the chief executive of the discount grocer, has backed the government’s plans to clamp down on retailers which offer “misleading” discounts which do not offer real-terms value.
Israel’s fascist ‘security’ minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has demanded even more slaughter of Palestinians to advance Israel’s theft of Gaza. In keeping with his racist, genocidal worldview, he has dismissed Gaza’s indigenous and refugee population as “not worthy of life” and “not even people”.
Fill the grid with numbers one to nine so that each row, column and square contains every digit exactly once. This game will update daily.
Hayden Panettiere pictured in 2022Police officers in Greenville, South Carolina, are currently looking into the death of actor Hayden Panettiere.
In this bittersweet portrait of a farm town in Canada,
Premier League club Fulham FC will this week announce a Michelin Guide-recognised dining experience at their Craven Cottage home, City AM can reveal.
If you only buy one fan, make it one from Duvelleroy.
The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them
The next US presidential election in 2029 may feel like ages away, but people are already speculating as to who might run for the Democrats and take on the Republican nominee (whether that be current president Donald Trump pursuing an unconstitutional third term, given his constant flirting with the idea, or someone else).
This is the way to enjoy the British summertime. Battered fish and salt-and-vinegar-seasoned chips have been a staple for hundreds of years, best paired with stinging seaside winds and spray. Wherever you are in the UK, there will always be a handful of chippies vying for your order. Here are some of the best seaside establishments, giving you decades-crafted favourites, and some newer twists on tradition.
Back in the 1970s and 80s it seemed that the makers of kids’ TV thought that the best way to entertain children was to scare the crap out of them. Shows such as Doctor Who, Chocky, Children of The Stones and the notorious Noseybonk from Jigsaw were responsible for a lot of childhood sleepless nights.
From the new lead actor to plot details,
For decades, diabetics have had to prick a finger to get a drop of blood on a test strip that is then inserted into a meter to quickly display a blood glucose reading.
For most of the last 30 years, BBC Radio 2 has been the UK’s most popular radio station. It plays a comfy mix of classics from the 1960s onwards, interspersed with current releases, yet steering well clear of anything too edgy or experimental that could potentially scare its predominantly white, middle-class, middle-aged audience. Fair enough!
To the world – briefly – of Clavicular, the alpha male influencer who’s managed to make a thing (and quite a living) out of this lookmaxxing nonsense.
Wellness can quickly become a victim of its own success. What starts as a way to feel on top of your game can soon turn into an ever-growing list of rituals to squeeze into the day, from morning supplements and evening stretches, ice baths and endless recovery routines.
Johnny Depp in character as Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchisePirates Of The Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer has claimed that he is currently in negotiations with Johnny Depp to get him to return to the franchise.
Donald Trump joked that he’s “concerned” Karoline Leavitt likes her children more than she likes him – but people think his narcissism jumped out.Last week,
The boss of JP Morgan has issued a bank tax warning to John Healey as the Chancellor gears up to deliver his first Budget in October.
Fidelity personal financial specialist Marianna Hunt is back on hand to answer your burning questions, and today a reader wants to know if they’ve found a hack on UK ISA rules.
Like us you may not have come across David Wolfe before. He appears to be an American author and conspiracy theorist with a fondness for raw foodism and some seriously alternative medicine, that kind of thing. He’s also not a huge fan of doctors.
President Donald Trump said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was an example of Democrats trying to “disavow” former wokeness.President Donald Trump shared an oddly lyrical prediction about the future of “the woke” on Friday.
A U.S. Marine leads a military vehicle at a beach during a joint field training exercise conducted by the South Korea-US Combined Forces Command in Pohang on July 15, 2026.President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he has ordered the Pentagon to scale back the joint military exercises with South Korea that began this week.
Britain’s summers keep getting hotter, but for millions of renters, staying cool is not that simple. Many tenants cannot drill into a ceiling, rewire a light fitting, or fit permanent equipment without written permission.
Donald Trump pictured holding a press article about drug prices drops as he spoke to the press before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.Donald Trump and the White House’s weekend boasts to reporters about the lowering of prescription medication prices somewhat backfired.
Hayden Panettiere has died. The actress, who was best known for roles in Heroes, Nashville and the Scream movies, was 36.“It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden,” Panettiere’s father, Skip said in a statement to ABC News.
Melanie Bryan recounts the green-tinged history of Aldenham House.
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo performing together on SundayAriana Grande had a surprise in store for her fans in London on Sunday night.
Robert Jenrick has been having a long, hard think about Britain’s record-breaking drought and the hosepipe bans in place all over the country. But it’s not the urgent need to tackle climate change that is at the front of the Reform UK-er and Tory turncoat’s mind – of course it isn’t!
The activist investor locked in a boardroom battle with The Works has accused its chair of switching his residence to New Zealand and dialling in to crucial meetings.
Hayden Panettiere pictured in August 2013Hollywood is in mourning following the sudden loss of Hayden Panettiere at the age of 36.
To America now, where people have been trying to work out what’s going on under Donald Trump’s suit. Specifically, what is going on under his ‘fart flap’. Because, well, watch. Seriously, what is going on with Trump’s rear end here?
In a bid to ensure fresh fruit and vegetables can be grown in increasingly challenging climates,
The Clacton by-election has been and gone but Reform UK are making it very difficult for us to stop writing about it.
Hayden Panettiere at the premiere of Scream VI in 2023Hayden Panettiere has died at the age of 36. The Golden Globe nominee was best known for her work in the TV series Heroes and Nashville, while to fans of the horror genre, she was most recognisable for her performance as Kirby Reed in the Scream franchise. On Sunday night, her father Skip Panettiere issued a statement which read: “It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden.
Idle ships are a microbes’ playground
Can you believe it is already mid August? For many of us at Country Life, the thought is unfathomable. Our inbox is already full of emails warning about Christmas. Blink twice and it will be September.
Welcome back to the City AM liveblog. Oil prices are holding up at around $88 per barrel after the war of words between the US and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz continued over the weekend.
Featuring a Denver beauty and a Queen Anne cottage in San Antonio
Alan Sendorek explains why we are seeing a third revolution of football stadium development on these shores. The third football stadium revolution in England is underway.
The UK economy could be plunged into a recession an “order of magnitude” greater than recent financial crises if America’s borrowing costs continue to climb over the rest of the year, a group of leading City analysts have warned.
High on the Burnham bounce, an early election could be a tempting proposition for Labour. But the PM should heed caution, writes Eliot Wilson.
‘Tony’Directed by Matt Johnson (R) ★★★ Though the new Anthony Bourdain biopic is merely an amuse-bouche, it’s “a memorably tasty one,” said Nick Schager in The Daily Beast. The movie covers only early chapters in the celebrity chef’s name-making memoir, Kitchen Confidential, and because it’s mere prologue to Bourdain’s New York City arrival and globe-hopping TV days, it’s “a tad slight.” Still, as it shows us a cocky but rudderless 19-year-old Bourdain falling hard for the rowdy life of the kitchen during a 1970s summer in Provincetown, Mass.
The disappearance of 43 students in 2014 has come to symbolise Mexico’s “brutal cartel violence and government impunity”, said The Guardian.
House prices in the UK have suffered their biggest August drop since 2018, as a usually quiet period for the property market is stifled further by fears of Budget tax rises.
The London Irish Brigade held a demo outside the German Embassy on Saturday 15 August 2026 to call attention to the show trial of the ‘Ulm 5‘ anti-genocide activists in Stuttgart Stammheim, Germany.
US president Donald Trump’s administration is facing yet another controversy this week, amid reports of dire conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East.The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier was deployed to the region all the way back in November, with around 5,000 crew on board,
As we recently reported, Nigel Farage was forced to tell the media that he would discipline Zia Yusuf over controversial comments he made.
JD Vance — America has a great problem on the horizon; namely that it will one day cease to be the world’s global reserve currency. Should this happen, America would almost certainly cease to be the richest and most powerful country in the world.
Israel has been caught in a new campaign to influence how AI chatbots answer questions about its genocidal military and its crimes in Gaza. Again.
On 14 August, the 41-year-old academic Jason Arday was found dead in Battersea, London. His death followed a relentless media blitz in which the previously unknown professor was subjected the sort of relentless coverage which is usually reserved for heads of state.
Charles Joughin saved the lives of several women and children before refusing to board a lifeboat himself, then treaded water in the icy Atlantic until help arrived — and he credited his survival to the "drop of liqueur" he had as the ship went down.
The resurgence of the teen TV drama is here.From Off Campus, The Summer I Turned Pretty, to My Life with The Walter Boys, Maxton Hall, ELLE, Heartstopper, We Were Liars, andOuterbanks, we all can’t get enough of the YA genre.Now,
A series of disturbing videos have shown a new weapon police and security forces are now using. And as people are pointing out, it’s a weapon which could serve as both the delivery method of violence and the excuse for dishing it out: Y’all get what this is, right?
The lives of top-tier football stars have always been associated with vast wealth and extraordinary luxury. With multi-million dollar contracts, an entire world of employees is built around the player to ensure they focus on their primary mission on the pitch. However, the lives of some stars do not stop at luxury cars, opulent mansions,
The suspected killing of the 39 year old Salvadorian father Edwin Lopez Corenjo by America’s ICE, reflects the ways the removal of medical access works as a tool of oppression, revealing the authoritarian tactics of the USA’s immigration police force.
J. Eason Gibson got his mitts on the Aston Martin DB4 back in 1961 and was suitably impressed.
US president Donald Trump has long made his opinions known about his predecessors – from endless attacks on “Barack Hussein Obama” and “Sleepy Joe Biden”, to installing partisan “Walk of Fame” plaques at the White House. And now, the 80-year-old is sharing AI slop to Truth Social in which he’s horse riding with George Washington.
When we think of dementia, symptoms like memory loss and confusion might spring to mind. And that’s completely reasonable – dementia is a condition that progressively affects memory and thinking.
The hardy, shaggy bearded collie has centuries of history behind it, but this much-loved Scottish sheepdog once came remarkably close to disappearing.
In another sign that there are no bounds to ‘Israeli’ efforts to seek novel forms of cruelty, the apartheid entity’s security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has gloated over the arrest of a bride and groom on their wedding day.
Demonstrating yet again that the party has zero idea of what it’s doing,
On 14 August, the 41-year-old academic Jason Arday was found dead in Battersea, London. His death followed a relentless media blitz in which the previously unknown professor was subjected the sort of relentless coverage which is usually reserved for heads of state.
Artists in Gaza have painted a mural honouring Burger King worker Arianna Hamilton. Israeli visitor Rami Feinstein tried — and to the burger chain’s shame reportedly succeeded despite provoking the incident — to get Hamilton fired after she said “free Palestine” when he said he was Israeli.
Leading authors have called on Andy Burnham to roll out emergency support to the UK’s small bookshops as part of his pledge to save Britain’s high streets.
The Canary recently spoke to Irish satirist and pro-Palestine activist Tadhg Hickey, as he faces further pushback from the pro-Israel lobby. His YouTube channel has been taken down, apparently for “endorsing criminal organisations”.
Allardice Castle comes with all the history and heritage you could desire, in a great location, and has been sensitively restored by its current owners.
We’ve lost count of the number of times US president Donald Trump has flirted with the idea of being president in 2028 – despite this being unconstitutional due to a two-term limit – but the 80-year-old has once again entertained the notion that he’ll still be in the White House in two years’ time in a Truth Social post on Saturday.
The author at age 17 (2000).When I was 17 years old, I wrote Elliott Smith a fan letter. It was the year 2000, and I was a high school senior in Dallas. I had never written a fan letter to anyone, but I felt connected to Elliott, despite the fact that we didn’t really have that much in common. He was, after all, a man in his 30s who had tattoos and wore an assortment of black band tees, while I was a teenage girl who shopped at Abercrombie & Fitch. He sang about drinking and drugs; I hadn’t even tried my first beer.
One of Norfolk's most iconic landmarks leads the way for the many superb houses to come to market through Country Life this week.
The signing of Israeli winger Manor Solomon by West Ham United, arriving from Tottenham Hotspur, has sparked widespread controversy among a number of the club’s fans and social media users who support the Palestinian cause. The player’s name has been linked to previous pro-Israel stances and posts made during the war in Gaza.
The boss of Aldi has waded into the bitter row over whether supermarkets are profiteering off of struggling customers as he backed a government crackdown on “rip-off” discounts.
Nigel Farage’s recent scandals have been a tale of two crypto tycoons — one a millionaire and the other a billionaire. The millionaire of the two is George Cottrell (a.k.a. ‘Posh George’); the billionaire is Christopher Harborne.
Reform UK has pledged the biggest benefits overhaul “in a generation,” unveiling plans to cut £50bn per year from the welfare bill. Robert Jenrick, the party’s treasury spokesman, said the proposals would see nearly 3m people have their disability and sickness payments withdrawn or modified.
I’ve been banging on about the merits of slow cookers, especially during a heatwave, all summer. Even though they’re usually associated with stodgy winter dishes, their lower temperature and enhanced insulation mean they don’t warm your kitchen up as much as you’d expect. Alongside a delicious coconut lentil soup and some Greek-inspired mains, I’ve been batch-cooking my own chickpeas, too.
Rising energy prices are poised to send UK inflation rearing back up, as economists warn that the summer boost to the economy could be fleeting.
Kelly Loeffler is a prominent MAGA supporter who briefly served as a US Senator for Georgia from 2020-2021. Now, she’s been given a cabinet-level position in the US government – as Administrator of the Small Business Administration. To mark the occasion, Loeffler released a TikTok video doing a walking interview introducing what the role is.
There you are, enjoying your Sunday morning, so we’re sorry that it behoves us to give you an update on the cognitive health of the US president. We know Donald Trump is a fan of AI – seriously, someone cut him off – but his latest AI video creation is truly something to behold.
As the youngest daughter, you may get labelled as the baby of your family even long after becoming a grown adult.
Every summer, a quiet Cheshire village becomes the scene of one of the world’s most unusual sporting contests: the World Worm Charming Championships. Tom Howells reports.
Nigel Farage has been roundly criticised for not turning up to the Clacton result declaration on Friday – citing alleged claims by Essex police that the event would be disrupted. The Reform UK leader also said he wasn’t going to stand on stage to “be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies”.
Back in 1992, Disney’s flick Aladdin brought in $504 million dollars which, in today’s money comes to over a billion US Dollars. A huge part of the success of the film, of course, was Robin Williams’s incredible performance as Genie.
In his book How To Prevent Dementia, neurologist Dr Richard Restak wrote: “I strongly suggest that if you are 65 years old or older, that you completely and permanently eliminate alcohol from your diet”.
When the young Greek-Cypriot entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou launched easyJet in 1995, in a bid “to democratise travel”, the no-frills airline operated just two routes, said Angharad Carrick on This is Money.
Kemi Badenoch is not a fool, said Tom Harris in The Telegraph; nor is she remotely an antisemite. So why did she stick her neck out for Joshua Bonehill-Paine, the former neo-Nazi who’d hoped to stand as a Tory councillor in Somerset?
We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about how different the pitch for Pretty Woman – originally called 3000 – was from the film we know now.
Aaron Sorkin on stage at CinemaCon in AprilFamed screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has lamented what he sees as America’s demand for politicians who feel like the average Joe, calling for an end to the “glamorisation of dumbness”.
Growing up, I always heard the same dietary advice: go for brown rice where possible, and if you can, choose low-fat dairy.
Artists take on the land of the free, Big Tech reassurances,
Curraghmore in Co Waterford, Ireland — the home of the Marquess and Marchioness of Waterford — has been developed over the course of six centuries by a single family. In the first of two articles, John Goodall explores its early history and first Georgian transformation. Photographs by Paul Highnam.
Madonna is unquestionably one of the greatest and most impactful pop artists of all time – not to mention one of the most controversial.
Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption; Viggo Mortensen in LOTR; Charlotte Rampling in DuneIn a job where a regular day of work might involve bunching your genitals into a drawstring bag or spending 12 hours in a sweaty costume (not all of which allow you to pee easily), actors are pretty used to unusual requests.
In my line of work, I come across a fair few parenting hacks – some of which occasionally make my eyebrows hit the ceiling (egg sock, looking at you).
The Yucatán Peninsula is Mexico’s prime tourist hotspot, but most visitors stay in the north, around the “mega-resort” of Cancún and the stretch of Caribbean coast known as the Riviera Maya. The south of the peninsula is a different world, said Martin Symington in The Times – a vast, sparsely populated region which is relatively little visited by holidaymakers.
Set midway between Amsterdam and Groningen in the northern Netherlands, the village of Giethoorn is the kind of place that should be prescribed for depression, said Gavin Haines in The Telegraph. With its thatched houses and “manicured” gardens, it’s “almost too perfect to be real” – but what makes it particularly “idyllic” is that it’s built largely around canals. Its charms are no secret: it receives about a million visitors a year (roughly a third of them from China), and the central waterway is often gridlocked.
As Andy Burnham’s government presses on with the Sporting Events Bill, what does it mean for brands and media owners? The World Cup may have wrapped up, but the sporting calendar is relentless, and brands and media owners will already be preparing for the next big event.
After bragging about his "foolproof" plan, Richard McCoy Jr. hijacked United Airlines Flight 855 in April 1972 — and was promptly arrested 48 hours later.
The lively Scottish folk dance seems odd and complicated to the uninitiated but is great fun, Will Hosie finds on a London dancefloor.
Sleep experts have dubbed it a “Holiday Sleep Hangover”For some people, the joy of a holiday is slightly dampened by the inevitable impacts holidaying can have on sleep. In fact, according to new research commissioned by sleep technology firm Simba has found that over three quarters of Brits 76% find that holiday travel affects their sleep, with over 2 in 5 UK adults finding that tiredness affects the first day of their holiday and more.
The author's father holding her as a babyI hadn’t seen my dad in five years when my sister texted me that he had fallen at home. After I had my first child, the childhood abuse I had previously overlooked to keep the peace suddenly became incomprehensible, and I chose to become estranged from him.
Lotte Brundle meets the artistic director of Dior and Baby Dior.
Menopause “doesn’t mean your sex life is finished. It just means the rulebook might need a rewrite”.
Did you know that the UK now has a Minister for Artificial Intelligence, as of last month? 36-year-old MP for the Vale of Glamorgan, Kanishka Narayan might not have been too well known before Andy Burnham took over, but, given his brief, is likely to be an increasingly high profile presence on our screens. Well,
So it’s all over. Nigel Farage has been declared the winner of the Clacton by-election – even though he didn’t turn up for that. Still, avoiding appearing in Clacton is kinda Nigel’s thing, isn’t it?
...and the home port of the vessel at the heart of Moby-Dick.
At 7pm on Friday night, millions of people in England and Wales were startled when their phones started blaring a siren – notifying them about an Emergency Alert from the prime minister Andy Burnham.
Beijing is embracing clean energy on a massive scale
Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic Back in 1997, James Cameron brought the story of Titanic to the world stage. With a total running time of over three hours, the film was an epic, telling the story of the ship and using fictionalised characters to depict the wide range of passengers on the ship.
This week you might have seen a heartbreaking story being shared, in which a leading medical expert warned that three toddler deaths in the past two years in Australia had been linked to excessive cow’s milk consumption.
Grease star Stockard Channing has opened up about what she has described as her “reclusive” life in London.
East Lambrook Manor in Somerset — home of Andrew and Alison Johnson — where Margery Fish’s exuberant ‘jungle gardening’ style took shape, is flourishing once again under new custodianship. Charles Quest-Ritson paid a visit; photography by Jonathan Buckley.
Artists take on bunker blues, TACO truck,