62 m. ago Shop Smeg's coffee machine on sale for £93 less as coffee is soon to outprice a pint

Smeg's coffee machine has been designed to create authentic espresso, cappuccino, and lattes from your home, and we've found where to shop it for £93 less

Economics

83 m. ago Alabaster DePlume: A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(International Anthem)While some listeners might baulk at the earnest spoken-word incantations, you can’t argue with DePlume’s outstanding melodies, played with tremulous vibratoAlabaster DePlume’s seventh album comes with a statement of purpose. “What is it FOR?” asks the accompanying blurb, written by the artist, born Angus Fairbairn. “To inspire and facilitate our independent healing Recently I told everyone to ‘go forward in the courage of your love’ and ‘be brazen like a baby’. Following this incitement to boldness it is only fair that I offer a perspective on healing whatever comes as a result.”There is more – a lot more, including a poem – but you get the gist. An album arriving with an explicit mission statement is an unusual occurrence, but to anyone familiar with Fairbairn and his work, the obvious response is: well, of course it does. The only variable is whether you say that in a tone of delight or with a roll of the eyes. Since his 2020 breakthrough with the soothing To...

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83 m. ago David Ellis reviews La Palombe: Sweet dreams are cooked like these

Il Portico restaurateur James Chiavarini knows all about fresh starts, says David Ellis, and the reborn La Palombe is leagues above what it was

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95 m. ago Liverpool’s remarkable night in Paris and Bayern buoyant: Football Weekly Extra

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Mark Langdon and Lars Sivertsen as Liverpool pull off a miraculous win against PSGRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.On the podcast today: Alisson is in sensational form as Liverpool succeed in the ultimate smash-and-grab win at PSG in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Laurel County Grand Jury indicts man involved in London standoff

Laurel County Grand Jury indicts man involved in London standoff  The News Journal

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2 h. ago Pictured: The heavily armed Russians being shadowed by the Royal Navy in the English Channel in dramatic stand

Armed personnel were seen manning machine guns on the Boikiy, a 343ft-long Russian corvette that can carry up to 99 men at a time.

Events

4 h. ago Chilling moment Russian navy officer brandishes machine gun on warship in the English Channel 'while escorting shipment of arms bound for Ukraine frontline'

Armed personnel were seen manning machine guns on the Boikiy, a 343ft-long Russian corvette that can carry up to 99 men at a time.

Events

4 h. ago ‘Luxury’ Liz Earle skincare products worth £111 slashed to £12 each in ‘bargain’ deal

The Liz Earle Glow set has been designed to help boost radiance in 'dull and lacklustre' complexions, with five full sized products to help pamper from head to toe

Economics

4 h. ago Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards WALK OFF CBS Sports after what Alisson said to them

Alisson was in inspired form for Liverpool as they beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in the Champions League - and he was in a cheeky mood during an interview with CBS Sports, Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards

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4 h. ago Alive by Gabriel Weston review – a revelatory study of the body

A doctor draws on science, history, art and her own experiences to help us see human anatomy anewUntil the early 17th century, scientists believed that the heart operated a bit like a lamp, warming blood that had been produced by the liver. In 1616, when the English physician William Harvey corrected this misconception and explained how the heart works, the audience at the Royal College of Physicians booed him. Why did it take so long for scientists to understand the heart’s real function? One possibility is that until the invention of mechanical pumps in the late 16th century, doctors lacked the metaphorical language to describe what the heart does.“The truth of the body is as much about storytelling as it is about anatomy,” the writer and surgeon Gabriel Weston argues in Alive, an unusual and gripping book that she describes as an “ecumenical exploration” of her subject. An English graduate, in her early 20s Weston enrolled in a pioneering medical degree programme designed to enco...

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5 h. ago Flesh by David Szalay review – brilliantly spare portrait of a man

From youthful curiosity to midlife resignation, the protagonist is buffeted by forces beyond his control in this thrilling exploration of what it means to be aliveSamuel Butler’s 1903 novel The Way of All Flesh carried with it an implied subtitle. In the book of Kings, from which Butler drew his title, the dying David tells his son Solomon, “take thou courage and shew thyself a man”. Butler’s inference was clear enough: here is a book about what it means to live, what it means to die, and what might be a worthwhile way to fill the time in between.Flesh, the sixth book from Booker-shortlisted David Szalay, has more than just a biblical allusion in common with Butler’s masterpiece. Thrillingly, in an age when we arguably have weaker stomachs for such things, it also shares its bold ontological and artistic ambitions. In Flesh, Szalay has written a novel about the Big Question: about the numbing strangeness of being alive; about what, if anything, it means to amble through time in a ma...

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6 h. ago Twiggy review – breezy telling of sunny star’s landmark career

Sadie Frost’s documentary follows the working-class Londoner taking bad luck in her stride as she progresses from fashion to film stardom and back againThis feelgood film directed by Sadie Frost is about the 60s fashion icon Twiggy; originally Lesley Hornby from Neasden in London, latterly Lesley Lawson after her marriage to actor Leigh Lawson, and then Dame Lesley Lawson with her DBE in 2019. (That is how she was gazetted, at all events, although Dame Twiggy has a ring to it.) With comments from A-listers including Edward Enninful and Suzy Menkes, it tells us the story of a working-class heroine with an almost eerily beautiful gamine face who became a fashion legend with a pop-star status that eluded earlier figures such as Jean Shrimpton, though without the smouldering attitude of the supermodel generation that came later.Twiggy made a glorious success of her life, and never conformed to any tragic narrative about how triumph in the ephemeral world of fashion and fame must surely ...

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6 h. ago Twiggy review – Sadie Frost’s breezy telling of sunny fashion star’s landmark career

Frost’s documentary follows the working-class Londoner taking bad luck in her stride as she progresses from fashion to film stardom and back againThis feelgood film directed by Sadie Frost is about the 60s fashion icon Twiggy; originally Lesley Hornby from Neasden in London, latterly Lesley Lawson after her marriage to actor Leigh Lawson, and then Dame Lesley Lawson with her DBE in 2019. (That is how she was gazetted, at all events, although Dame Twiggy has a ring to it.) With comments from A-listers including Edward Enninful and Suzy Menkes, it tells us the story of a working-class heroine with an almost eerily beautiful gamine face who became a fashion legend with a pop-star status that eluded earlier figures such as Jean Shrimpton, though without the smouldering attitude of the supermodel generation that came later.Twiggy made a glorious success of her life, and never conformed to any tragic narrative about how triumph in the ephemeral world of fashion and fame must surely be pun...

Events

15 h. ago A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story on ITV review: a riveting portrayal of a monstrous miscarriage of justice

Toby Jones is on characteristically excellent form as the doomed Ruth’s barrister in ITV’s latest true crime series

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15 h. ago A Cruel Love’s true story of Britain’s last executed woman will make you shudder – and sympathise

Was the last British woman to be executed a victim of misogyny and snobbery? ‘A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story’ makes her case

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18 h. ago Man treated 'like a dog' before murder in upstate New York, prosecutor says

Prosecutors in upstate New York say seven people were indicted on first-degree murder charges in the killing of a 24-year-old man who was subjected to weeks of torture

Events

18 h. ago Acer AOPEN Projector QH12a review: The affordable way to create a home cinema

Lights, camera, popcorn! The clever projector that turns your home into a cinema

Politics

18 h. ago WBA clarifies controversial Gervonta Davis vs Lamont Roach decision

The result is currently under review after Davis took a knee without the referee awarding a knockdown

Politics

19 h. ago How JD Vance is displaying ‘primitive, savage and evil impulses’ that Freud warned about

Europe’s response to Donald Trump and JD Vance’s attacks on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the suspension of US military support needs to be grounded in ethics and morality

Events

19 h. ago James Wade comments on Luke Humphries match after darts 'licking' controversy

EXCLUSIVE: James Wade has broken his silence after he allegedly licked Luke Humphries as ‘The Machine’ knocked the World No.1 out of the UK Open last weekend

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