81 m. ago Doing dry January? Use languishing bottles of wine to make the ultimate comfort food

Whether you’re abstaining or just cutting back, a glass of red, white or rosé can elevate everything from risottos and stews to pasta and puddings• Sign up here for our weekly food newsletter, FeastHands up, who is dry Januarying? While it’s not something I do explicitly, I do like to cut back a bit at the beginning of the year. The marathon that is Christmas socialising can be fun but relentless, and I imagine there are many others in the same boat. When it comes to wine, at least, the problem with cutting back is what to do with the rest of the bottle. Sure, I’ll have a glass or two if I fancy it one evening, but it’s pretty much a wasted bottle if you don’t finish the rest within a few days. Fear not – I have a plethora of recipes that will ensure you never need to waste a drop – enjoy a glass or two, then use the rest in the dish of your choice. Winner, winner, chicken Marbella dinner (one of my all-time effortless favourites – scroll the link for the recipe).There are lots of e...

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1 hour ago This Mexican resort is one of Baja California’s best secluded escapes

Swapping the popular and lively Baja resort towns for a more tranquil resort on the East Cape, Cristina Alonso enjoys a secluded tropical escape

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2 h. ago The Prince, Old Street: Cheers to the black velvet, already the must

Guinness and champagne is a potent, poetic mix, says Josh Barrie

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2 h. ago Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency at Gagosian review: More radical than ever

The artist and activist’s visual diary is shown in full for the first time in the UK as queer lives are threatened once again

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2 h. ago Andreas Skov Olsen earns Rangers transfer rave review as Danny Rohl reveals what title fight 'weapon' truly brings

The Ibrox boss opened up ahead of the Denmark international putting pen to paper

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2 h. ago Scott Robertson already lined up for next job after Welsh coach's sudden exit

The 51-year-old has been sacked by the All Blacks after senior players reportedly raised issues in an end-of-year review

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2 h. ago The BBC has ten strict rules every Traitors star must follow or be booted from the castle

Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, the ultimate game of deception has been captivating audiences since its 2022 debut.

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3 h. ago Make the 'ultimate' beef stew with chef's recipe that takes just 10 minutes to prep

This beef stew recipe from chef Jack Ovens is a comforting, slow-cooked classic with tender chunks of beef and a rich, well-rounded gravy

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3 h. ago Commodore 64 Ultimate review – it’s like 1982 all over again!

Showing the value of great design over visual impact, this faithfully resurrected home computer seamlessly integrates modern tech with some wonderful additional touchesThe emotional hit was something I didn’t expect, although perhaps I should have. The Commodore 64 Ultimate, a new version of the legendary 8-bit computer, comes in a box designed to resemble the original packaging – a photo of the machine itself on a background of deep blue fading into a series of white stripes. Then when you open it, you find an uncannily accurate replica of what fans lovingly referred to as the breadbox – the chunky, sloped Commodore 64, in hues of brown and beige, the red LED in one corner above the row of fawn-coloured function keys. It’s like 1982 all over again.My dad bought us a C64 in late 1983. It was our second computer after the ZX81 and it felt like an enormous leap into the future with its detailed colour graphics, advanced sound chip and proper grown-up keyboard. We unpacked it on our di...

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6 h. ago Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials review – think Downton Abbey is real? This terrible adaptation is for you

Martin Freeman does his best to lift this three-parter, but it feels like Enid Blyton – made for an international market that thinks Paddington Bear is holding the queen’s hand in heaven‘Tis the season, just, for your annual Agatha Christie. In recent years, the adaptations have been infused with the grief and instability of the postwar backdrop against which they all exist, and been given rich, dark, adult inflections by Sarah Phelps for the BBC.The latest, however, is for Netflix by Chris Chibnall and we are back in the world of period costume, clipped vowels and dialogue infused with nothing but plot, designed to get the puzzle pieces recited into the right position for the next bit then the next bit then the solve – this time at the end of three very hour-long episodes. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials on Netflix review: deliciously twisty mystery fare

It’s camp, it’s silly and it’s utterly absurd. What’s not to like?

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6 h. ago Andy Warhol would have hated safe spaces. So why keep dragging dead artists into today’s culture wars?

Critics and curators are reframing great artists, from Gentileschi to Soutine, to fit with modern ethical narratives. But this ignores the glorious ambivalence of their creationsOne rainy afternoon last winter, sitting under a blanket with a cup of tea, I found myself Googling paintings by Chaïm Soutine. It’s a pastime I’ve indulged ever since visiting an exhibition of his portraits of hotel staff on the French Riviera during the 1920s – paintings that combine such a mixture of tenderness and debasement that it’s as if his brush is kissing and beating his subjects at the same time.I flicked through images of hopelessly innocent cooks and bellboys, with complexions the colour of raw sausage and ears that look as if they have been brutally yanked. And as I did, I came across a review of the very show where I had first encountered Soutine’s works. Ah, I thought, looking forward to luxuriating in literature about his particular genius for kindly sadism. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago 'Gutted' Scott Robertson axed by All Blacks after scathing review

Scott Robertson says he's "gutted" to be leaving his post with the All Blacks

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7 h. ago Off the Scales by Aimee Donnellan review – inside the Ozempic revolution

A fascinating deep dive into the discovery, use and implications of a revolutionary new treatmentFew aspects of being human have generated more judgment, scorn and condemnation than a person’s size, shape and weight – particularly if you happen to be female. As late as 2022, the Times’s columnist Matthew Parris published a column headlined “Fat shaming is the only way to beat the obesity crisis” in which he attributed Britain’s “losing battle with fat” to society’s failure to goad and stigmatise the overweight into finally, shamefacedly, eating less. The tendency to equate excess weight with poor character (and thinness with grit and self-control) treats obesity as a moral as well as physical failing – less a disease than a lifestyle choice.One of the great strengths of Reuters journalist Aimee Donnellan’s first book is its insistence on framing the discovery of the new weight-loss drugs within the fraught social and cultural context of beauty norms, body image a...

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7 h. ago Status Audio Pro X review: striking design meets serious audiophile sound

The Status Audio Pro X earbuds stand out visually and technically, pairing bold design with impressive triple-driver audio

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7 h. ago Clickbait review – gripping drama about the human cost of moderating the internet

A social media content moderator becomes obsessed with a violent video in this restrained, unsettling workplace thriller starring Lili ReinhartHere is a workplace drama, of sorts. Like many people, Daisy (Lili Reinhart) works a desk job using a computer. Unlike most people, fainting at work is a rite of passage; she moderates videos on social media that have been reported for violating the terms of service. That means watching everything from horrible porn to horrible politics to horrible accidents and everything in between, a non-stop diet of videos with titles such as “fetus in blender” or “strangulation but she doesn’t die”.Her boss takes her to task for deleting a graphic video showing a suicide, which supposedly has news value and should have been left up. But the tipping point for Daisy is a really nasty video titled “nailed it”, which shows violence and cruelty that she believes is real and non-consensual. So begins a low-key quest to track down the perpetrator, though she is...

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8 h. ago All Blacks part ways with head coach Scott Robertson after damning review

Robertson had spent just two years in charge of New Zealand but has agreed to leave his role

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8 h. ago Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials review – A country house mystery crackling with wit and escapist glamour

Netflix manages to capture the seductive appeal of Britain’s Roaring Twenties in this spirited and ingeniously plotted espionage thriller

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9 h. ago Star Trek: Starfleet Academy review – Holly Hunter is a transgressive thrill in this horny high

This hormone-fuelled tale of the training college for space voyagers is like Grange Hill, with phasers – and it has a female lead unlike any captain beforeThe original Star Trek TV series debuted in 1966, so trying to get your head round all the sequels, prequels and timeline-splitting spin-offs can often feel like homework. It was only a matter of time before the venerable sci-fi franchise used a school as a setting. But Starfleet Academy, the latest streaming series, is not some random cosmic polytechnic for aliens to study humanities or vice versa. This is the oft-referenced San Francisco space campus sited right next to the Golden Gate Bridge. With James T Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard on the alumni list, it is basically Hogwarts for wannabe starship captains.Or at least it used to be. As this newest Trek opens we are in the 32nd century: as far into the future as the franchise has ever gone, boldly or otherwise. (The original 1966 five-year mission for Kirk and co took place in the ...

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11 h. ago All Blacks coach Scott Robertson sacked after damning review

He has come under increasing pressure due to a series of significant defeats

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