72 minutes ago Pub manager shares final day to book your Christmas dinner before it's too late

According to the pub manager, the final date to take Christmas Day bookings is approaching and people need to get organised if they want to enjoy their grub out and about

Politics

81 minutes ago Face value: the masterly theatrical masks of Kitazawa Hideta – in pictures

A new book celebrates the Japanese masks carved by Hideta, a traditional wood-carving artist. They are for classical and contemporary noh and kyōgen theatre performances Continue reading...

Politics

84 minutes ago More and more, I sense I’m out of touch. Can my expat writing still call Australia home? | Mikaella Clements

Writing anything is an exercise in vulnerability, but the fear of writing Australia and getting it wrong is embarrassing and invalidatingI’ve lived overseas for 12 years, the vast majority of my adult life. I visit Australia every year (global pandemics permitting), but I’m no longer allowed to vote. I consider Melbourne my hometown and brag about it relentlessly, but my accent has become hopelessly mangled. And though my nationality is the first line of my standard bio – Mikaella is an Australian writer based in Berlin – it’s rarely apparent in my actual writing.My fiction already has a strange, hybrid quality; I write novels with my wife, Onjuli Datta, our two voices twining around one another with more than a decade’s worth of practice to create a shared language I step into as easil...

Politics

84 minutes ago Indigenous elder scolds Lidia Thorpe for yelling ‘disrespectful’ comments at King Charles

Aunty Violet Sheridan says the Victorian senator ‘does not speak for me and my people’ and called her yelling of ‘fuck the colony’ inappropriateWho is Lidia Thorpe, the Australian senator who accused King Charles of genocide?A Ngunnawal elder has rebuked Lidia Thorpe over her confrontation with King Charles, saying the Victorian senator doesn’t speak for her people and that her comments of “fuck the colony” were “disrespectful”.Aunty Violet Sheridan, 69, met the royals as part of an official greeting party on Monday and was sitting near the king in Parliament House when Thorpe “jumped out”, marched forward and started shouting at the royals. Thorpe yelled at the king to “give us our land back”, and shouted “fuck the colony” and “you are not my king”. Continue reading...

Politics

2 hours ago 'King Charles didn't colonise Australia. But who else can they complain to?'

Indigenous people across the former British Empire were murdered and mistreated for centuries, says Fleet Street Fox. But how can anyone apologise for history?

Politics

2 hours ago The best London musicals to book right now from Hadestown to Hello Dolly!

As Lion King turns 25, here are the best musicals playing in Theatreland right now

Culture

3 hours ago Helicopter crashes into Houston radio tower killing 4, including a child

Victims’ identities are not yet known

Events

3 hours ago Friends book boutique Greek hotel on easyJet – but it looks nothing like the pics

After booking with easyJet and arriving at their resort in the Mediterranean, the pair were left horrified by their surroundings. They looked nothing like snaps on the website

Politics

3 hours ago Six idyllic cottages in Yorkshire that are perfect for a Christmas getaway

Consumer writer Gareth Butterfield picks out some of the perfect places to stay if you’re planning a festive trip away

Politics

3 hours ago Pakistan bake Rawalpindi pitch with patio heaters and giant fans in bid to send England spinning in final Test

The third and final Test takes place at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium and begins on Thursday

Sport