53 m. ago The family tragedy of Britain's interim US ambassador: How James Roscoe was by his BBC star wife's side as she learned to speak and walk again after suffering devastating brain injury

James Roscoe - who has worked for Queen Elizabeth II, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown - lives in Washington DC with his wife Clemency Burton-Hill and their two young sons Tomos and Joe.

Politics

58 m. ago 'This place has become absurd': Fury at surge in lazy MPs using AI

Tom Tugendhat, the former security minister, hit out at 'ChatGPT-generated press releases' being read out from the Labour benches during a debate this week.

Politics

2 h. ago The family tragedy of Britain's new US ambassador: How James Roscoe was by his BBC star wife's side as she learned to speak and walk again after suffering devastating brain injury

James Roscoe - who has worked for Queen Elizabeth II, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown - lives in Washington DC with his wife Clemency Burton-Hill and their two young sons Tomos and Joe.

Politics

2 h. ago Five million wet wipes cleared from disgusting 'island' in Thames — as false teeth and trousers also found

Diggers scooped up wipes, towels, scarves, trousers, a car’s engine timing belt and a set of false teeth from the river foreshore in west London

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3 h. ago I Love You, Byeee by Adam Buxton audiobook review – warm and witty whimsy

A chatty, self-deprecating memoir recalls the podcaster’s start in TV and his lifelong friendship with comedian and film-maker Joe CornishThe writer and comic Adam Buxton’s first memoir, Ramble Book, dug into his childhood and his relationship with his father, who featured as the cantankerous BaaadDad in Buxton’s 1990s pop culture series The Adam and Joe Show. I Love You, Byeee is the follow up in which he remembers his late mother, Valerie, and reflects on his TV career which began with him landing a job at Takeover TV, a showcase for new talent on Channel 4, where he brought in his childhood friend Joe Cornish.Fans of The Adam and Joe Show will find reminiscences about the pair’s toy movies, where they recreated films such as Titanic and Trainspotting, and their radio shows on XFM and 6Music. Buxton is candid about the strain of their working relationship and his feelings of insecurity when Cornish went off to direct his first film, Attack the Block, without him. Continue reading...

Events

3 h. ago Is this London's weirdest show? Prepare to enter world of a cow

This unique show features sound work by Foley artists which encourages audiences to close their eyes and be plunged into the world of a cow and a deer

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3 h. ago The end of Wet Wipe Island: Diggers clear 5MILLION wipes after 114

Congealed rubbish equivalent to around five million wet wipes has been cleared from the river banks  as a major project to remove it reaches completion.

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4 h. ago Mysterious 'severed head' found on riverbank as police issue update

Police are investigating after an upper body part believed to be a severed head was found along the side of a river. The remains have not yet been identified

Events

4 h. ago Raise the £450k LISA limit to give London's first time buyers a helping hand

There is a strong case for committing to an annual review of the property price cap to ensure it keeps pace with the ever-changing market.

Economics

4 h. ago I unboxed the Cult Beauty 2025 advent calendar – and it’s packed with viral beauty must

Is this popular calendar worth its £240 price tag?

Politics

5 h. ago I unboxed the Liberty beauty advent calendar – here’s my honest review

The luxury department store is celebrating its 150th anniversary

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5 h. ago Around 5m wet wipes cleared from Thames as work to remove ‘island’ completed

Diggers scooped up wipes, towels, scarves, trousers, a car’s engine timing belt and a set of false teeth from the river foreshore in west London.

Politics

5 h. ago Young woman swept to death on last day of holiday as tour guide makes fatal error

The 21-year-old woman was found more than two miles away from where she fell in at the beauty spot on holiday, with authorities retrieving her body from the river

Events

6 h. ago Tube strike latest LIVE: Strikes 'a sign of failure' says Sadiq Khan as London Underground and DLR wiped out

Early-morning commuters on the Elizabeth Line find trains not stopping from Liverpool Street to Bond Street

Events

7 h. ago Olivia Attwood's River Island range looks designer and these 5 buys are set to sell out

Olivia Attwood's River Island collection has just dropped and it's packed with wardrobe staples that look designer - here are the pieces to snap up now

Politics

7 h. ago All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert review – excruciating to read

The Eat Pray Love author’s account of her relationship with her late partner Rayya is solipsistic and self-indulgentThe first chapter of Elizabeth Gilbert’s much anticipated new memoir closes on a four-page love letter to Gilbert from her late partner Rayya, who, dead for five years, comes to her in a “visitation”. In Rayya’s voice, Gilbert calls herself babe, baby, or “sunshine baby” multiple times, emotes in all-caps, and grants herself permission to write the details of Rayya’s terrible, humiliating final year. “Let me just look at you for a minute,” “Rayya” says to Liz. “Look at your little rainbow eyes! Look at your sparkling tears! You’re so beautiful!” The letter is deeply self-indulgent and excruciating to read. “You’re going all the fucking way this time – all the way to the enlightenment.”I believe that the dead are gone and that artists don’t need their permission to evoke them. But I was stunned that this solipsistic mess opens the book, because Gilbe...

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7 h. ago Pépé le Moko review – mysterious and passionately despairing French noir with a luminous Jean Gabin

Powerful French film that inspired Casablanca stars Gabin as a holed-up gangster in Algiers lured to his doom by infatuationJulien Duvivier’s mysterious and passionately despairing 1937 movie is rereleased, with its luminous lead performance from Jean Gabin as a charismatic Parisian criminal hiding out in the labyrinthine Casbah of Algiers; he is protected there by the dense polyglot population of Indigenous locals that the French colonial authorities consider it imprudent to provoke. He is effectively given sanctuary, but also imprisoned in the unpoliceable, unknowable quarter that, like Polanski’s Chinatown, is a place that baffles and thwarts the imperial powers-that-be.It was a film remade by Hollywood in 1938 as Algiers, which was the debut of Hedy Lamarr and made a huge star of its French lead Charles Boyer, who is much sleeker and more conventionally photogenic than Gabin (but forever stuck with the misquoted line: “Come with me to the Casbah !” always being purred by nightcl...

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7 h. ago I boiled my wooden spoons – and what emerged from them will haunt me for ever | Adrian Chiles

A sleepless night of doomscrolling led me to dunk my cherished kitchen utensils in bubbling water. The murky results were horrifyingNever am I so creative as when it comes to finding something to do instead of what I really should be doing. There’s nothing like a looming deadline to spark some crackpot ideas. So it was that something I’d read somewhere on the internet came back to me. A tip on cleaning wooden spoons. I’d come across it in the middle of a sleepless night when, contrary to the advice of sleep experts, I’d resorted in desperation to doomscrolling. Being quite attached to my wooden spoons, I resolved to do as suggested, a prospect so soothing that I was soon drifting off thinking happy spoon-cleaning thoughts. Honestly, whatever works.And now it all came back to me. Stuff the deadline, I’m going to do the spoon stuff straight away. I gathered my entire stock of wooden spoons – 15 in total. As directed, I put them in my largest pot, filled it with cold water, and watched...

Politics

7 h. ago The two 'huge changes' Prince William will make when he becomes King, according to royal butler Paul Burrell in this week's Palace Confidential newsletter

Paul Burrell , the former butler to Queen Elizabeth and Princess Diana , has revealed seismic changes he believes Prince William will make when he becomes King.

Politics

7 h. ago Cow/Deer at Royal Court Jerwood: 'wordless oddity from an animal's perspective'

This unique show features sound work by Foley artists which encourages audiences to close their eyes and be plunged into the world of a cow and a deer

Events