37 m. ago Furious McDonald's fans hit out at 'wild' price hikes as the cost of some favourite items rise by up to 15% in a year

McDonald's fans in the UK have hit out at 'wild' price hikes as the cost of some favourite items rise by up to 15% in just a year.

Economics

44 m. ago Last One Laughing star 'had to choose' between alcohol and her career amid addiction troubles

Lou Sanders took part in Prime Video smash hit Last One Laughing after her debut on Dancing On Ice back in 2024, where she was the fifth celebrity to be eliminated

Events

57 m. ago My immigrant mother can’t stop saying thank you. Why does that make me uncomfortable? | Gaia Neiman

Amid growing hostility to foreigners, my Italian-born mum feels she should be grateful to be in the UK. Yet she gives so much to a society lucky to have herOn the day of the last general election, my mother rose at 5am to head to the polling station. With any kind of voting, she volunteers her days off from work to help out with the ballots. Although she can’t vote in this country.My mother feels patriotic about her country of origin, Italy, but her home has been England for the past 15 years. She has a British partner, holds legal residence in the UK, and has been paying British taxes as long as she has been here. She never felt fully accepted by people in this country. She is often talked down to because of her accent, although her English is proficient. She also finds some difficulty with everyday things, such as worrying about being understood by her manager or applying for pension assistance – struggling with everything from British humour, to the country’s administration. And ...

Events

76 m. ago Patricia Clarkson: ‘When women make equal pay, everybody wins’

The Oscar-nominated actor talks about her new role playing equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter and why the Trump administration should be carefulPatricia Clarkson, who portrays late equal pay activist Lilly Ledbetter in a biopic released this week, has a wish.The Oscar-nominated actor hopes her fellow American women collectively withhold sex from their partners – especially men in power – if the second Trump administration’s assault on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives ever takes aim at the gains won by the subject of her new film. Continue reading...

Politics

1 hour ago The White Lotus’s Walton Goggins: ‘Who do I most admire? My wife, because of what we have overcome together’

The actor on obsessive cleaning, missing his own teeth, and his sand and dirt collectionBorn in Alabama, Walton Goggins, 53, moved to Los Angeles where he started a car valeting business and took acting lessons. His films include Lincoln, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight and Tomb Raider. He plays the dual role of the Ghoul and Cooper Howard in the Amazon series Fallout and starred in the third series of Sky Atlantic’s White Lotus. The Uninvited, his new film, is in cinemas. He is married for the second time, has a son and lives in upstate New York.What is your greatest fear? Snakes. Continue reading...

Events

1 hour ago Justin Bieber's former pal gives verdict on star as he says 'it only ever ends one way'

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Bieber's ex pal Asher Roth, best known for viral hit I Love College, wishes he stayed in touch with the Canadian singer who has been swallowed up by fame

Politics

2 h. ago Specky Clark by Oona Doherty at Sadler’s Wells: dance as portal to the supernatural

Irish choreographer Oona Doherty returns with this folk horror fable about a grieving boy breaking through into the land of the dead

Politics

2 h. ago Kashmir crisis live: Pakistan and India accuse each other of striking military bases in major escalation

‘Multiple locations’ in India being targeted in retaliatory attacks, says state-run media, after Pakistan says three air bases attacked by Indian missilesFull report: Pakistan says it has hit back after India strikes military basesWho is Asim Munir, the army chief leading Pakistan’s military amid the crisis with India?The general once fell foul of Imran Khan, but since taking the top spot has been quietly amassing power over the government and supreme court, as our profile here says.Yet even now that the country is out of the clutches of martial law, it is still widely understood that the most powerful man in Pakistan is not the head of the government but instead the chief of the army.Since Gen Munir took over as Pakistan’s army chief more than two years ago, he has been accused of quietly consolidating greater power without even having to topple the country’s civilian rulers. As he kept himself largely out of the limelight, he consolidated an iron grip over the army’s ranks and ben...

Events

2 h. ago William Shatner says that the US should join Canada following Trump’s ‘insulting’ comments

‘Doesn’t feel good; does it?’ wrote the actor after joking about the tensions between the two nations

Politics

2 h. ago ‘Buddhism and Björk help me handle fame’: novelist Ocean Vuong

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous made him a literary superstar. Now the Vietnamese American author is exploring his working-class roots in an ambitious follow‑upThere are three kinds of family, muses the novelist and poet Ocean Vuong. There’s the nuclear family, “which often we talk about as the central tenet of American life”. There’s the chosen family, “the pushback”, the community and friendships built by people who have been rejected by their parents, often because of their sexuality or gender identity. And then there’s the family we talk about much less frequently, but spend most of our waking hours within – our colleagues, or what Vuong describes as “the circumstantial family around labour”.Vuong’s forthcoming second novel, The Emperor of Gladness, encompasses them all. There’s its 19-year‑old hero Hai’s relationship with his mother, a poor Vietnamese immigrant who believes that he has fulfilled her desperate aspirations for him by going to university, when he has actually...

Politics

3 h. ago James Martin says people will 'freak out' over his five ingredient lunch after weight loss

James Martin has been open about his weight loss journey, which saw him drop from 17 stone to 14 stone. The chef has shared the unusual sandwich he loves to eat for lunch

Events

3 h. ago He's been in everything from EastEnders to Star Wars, yet this Essex

He's starring in the new Disney hit Suspect and Spielberg's movie of The Thursday Murder Club. For a self-effacing Essex-born actor, DANIEL MAYS has one dazzling CV

Events

3 h. ago Beans are being genetically engineered to grow in the UK – but how do they taste?

Three types of beans have been more than a decade in the making and hit shelves amid booming interest in legumesThe pan of beans on my cooker have taken a long time to prepare. It’s not just because I soaked them overnight and have now simmered them for about an hour: more than 12 years has gone into the creation and production of these beans. After all that, they had better taste delicious.These beans are the creation of Prof Eric Holub, a geneticist and researcher at the University of Warwick, who has spent more than a decade developing three new varieties of beans, engineered to be grown in the UK. Continue reading...

Politics

4 h. ago Coronation Street fans have just realised where they recognise Mick actor from

Coronation Street's Mick Michaelis actor Joe Layton was recently revealed to have a major connection to another character, but fans have only just remembered where they've seen him before

Politics

4 h. ago Dianaworld review: For Diana fans to enjoy — but not to trust

Generally when I’m reviewing a book on a subject I’ve written about, I turn to the index as soon as I’m bored to see if I’m quoted, so I can skip to the scintillating bits. No need to, here; I rock up in the very first paragraph of the introduction: “Of the various titles that Diana Spencer collected during her life, it is the unofficial one of ‘the People’s Princess’ that has most come to encapsulate her reputation. The origins of the term are contested. Many have claimed that Tony Blair’s spin doctor, the shrewd, calculating Alastair Campbell, invented it. Others have said it derived from Anthony Holden, a royal biographer and translator of ancient Greek poetry and Italian opera. Julie Burchill, a republican iconoclast perhaps best known for her writing about pop music, asserts that it was in fact she who bestowed the title upon Diana in a laudatory article about the princess published in 1992.”

Politics

5 h. ago I was Hitler’s neighbour: ‘If he’d known we were Jewish, we’d have been sent to Dachau’

In 1929, Edgar Feuchtwanger was five years old and living with his family in Munich when Adolf Hitler moved into a flat opposite. At first, his parents thought they were safe hiding in plain sight – until they weren’tThe odds were against Edgar Feuchtwanger reaching the age of 100. He was born on 28 September 1924 into a time of poverty and political turmoil in post-first world war Germany. He was also born into a Jewish family in a society that was about to turn to National Socialism, an ideology that would ultimately be responsible for the murder of 6 million Jews. In 1929, when Feuchtwanger was five, something happened that made his long life even more unlikely. He got a new neighbour: Adolf Hitler.In October that year, Hitler moved into the grand second-floor flat at Prinzregentenplatz 16 in Munich. His previous flat, on the other side of the Isar, the river that divides Munich, had become too small. Munich to him was the “Capital of the Movement”, a title he awar...

Events

6 h. ago Cardiff Council fears bus franchising plans could hit school transport

The Bus Service (Wales) Bill is aimed at improving public transport across the country, but Cardiff Council is worried about potential unintended consequences

Events

6 h. ago Benidorm's barman Mateo actor unrecognisable 21 years since cheating death

Benidorm's flirty barman, Mateo, was played by Jake Canuso for 11 years from 2007 to 2018 and is now unrecognisable from his time on the hit ITV sitcom set in Spain

Events

6 h. ago UK weather: Exact dates Met Office forecast says 27C will hit as maps turn red

Parts of the UK are set to be hit with a 27C forecast as the Met Office confirms when these temperatures could reach parts of the country, as maps for those days turn red

Society

7 h. ago Justin Baldoni makes decision over Scarlett Johansson movie amid drama with her ex Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively

Amid his ongoing legal drama with her ex-husband Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, the 41-year-old actor will not be attending the Cannes premiere of Eleanor the Great.

Events