8 h. ago Next reduces versatile £46 boots to £17 that are 'comfy even after a full day of walking'

The Next biker boots 'tick every box' for spring

Economics

34 h. ago Unmasking the spy cops: how women found the truth about men who tricked them into relationships

Credit cards, passports and ingenuity led to the identities of undercover police who were loved under false pretencesAt least 25 ‘spy cops’ had sex with deceived members of publicThe spy cops who deceived women into sexual relationsHelen Steel was in her 20s and deeply in love with a man who told her he would “like to spend the rest of his life” with her.She and John Barker had just moved into a new flat and would share long walks in the countryside, where they hoped to one day buy a cottage using money he had inherited. Continue reading...

Politics

63 h. ago I skipped school once. Now the local kids seem to do so on a daily basis and with teachers’ approval

Stephen Jardine met children in Malawi who walked five miles every day to get to school, knowing that education was the one chance they had for a better life

Politics

3 d. ago Skechers £84 trainers that 'don't even blister after 15,000 steps' reduced to £9 in Sports Direct deal

"I have the worst feet for getting blisters in any type of shoe possible. I did 15,000 steps a day for almost a week walking around Rome and Venice in these and I didn't didn’t get a single blister"

Economics

5 d. ago Boden spring skirt reduced by £52 may be bold, but it's 'surprisingly versatile'

The skirt is bound to turn heads wherever you are thanks to its vibrant abstract wave pattern and endlessly swishable pleated skirt

Economics

6 d. ago Holidays in hell: summer camp with Russia’s forgotten children

At the rural orphanage where I volunteered, the place resembled a Dickensian workhouse. The staff’s main tools were antipsychotics and violence. The experience gave me a window into Putin’s Russia In the summer of 2007, I joined a group of 30 Russian and English students to work on a month-long summer camp at a state orphanage for mentally and physically disabled children in the Pskov region, south of St Petersburg. We lived in a house nearby, or in tents pitched in the garden. Every day, we walked up to the orphanage to put on developmental activities, sporting events, solve puzzles, play games, stage shows and go on camping trips.I volunteered at the orphanage, in the village of Belskoye Ustye, for almost a decade, but it was the first visit that made the biggest impression. I had seen nothing like it. My closest reference point was probably workhouses or orphanages from a Charles Dickens novel. I vividly remember the smells – cooked food, unwashed bodies, chlorine and urine – and...

Politics

7 d. ago UK tourists warned of strike action 'grounding' all flights at holiday hotspot

Air traffic controllers are staging a one-day walkout as part of nation-wide strike action

Events

7 d. ago The one change that worked: I found an escape from online life by swapping my home office for the library

I can find essential and unusual facts for my arts journalism in the dusty old tomes – information not readily available on Google. And, as I did as a child, I lose myself in a world of books ...Last September, I started walking to the library every day. As a University College London alumnus, I get free membership of both the Senate House library and the university’s main library. It is 90 minutes door to door, at a thinking pace, the perfect stretch of time during which to fuss over whatever is bothering me (a sentence, a professional hurdle, a private conversation) then gradually forget all about it and just let my mind wander too. That’s what the walk does. It unknots me.That the destination is a library only compounds that. The beep when I swipe in with my card is the loudest thing I’ll hear all day. The necessary quiet of the space gentles my every gesture. I open doors more quietly. I pull chairs out from behind tables more carefully. I set up my station and sit down more pro...

Society

8 d. ago Sports Direct shoppers race to buy Skechers £6 'like walking on clouds' trainers before they sell out at

"Amazing, comfy right from day one! Most comfortable shoes I've ever owned. Feels like walking on a cloud"

Economics

1 week ago Children face walking six miles a day due to school transport cuts

Primary school pupils have been spared but secondary-aged children are set to lose out as the council mulls over its future policies on home to school transport

Politics

1 week ago An exercise scientist recommends one easy trick to increase health benefits of walking 10,000 steps a day

Shorter bursts of more intense physical activity have a positive effect, says Harry Bullmore

Science

1 week ago An exercise scientist recommends this one easy trick to increase the health benefits of walking 10,000 steps a day

Shorter bursts of more intense physical activity have a positive effect, says Harry Bullmore

Science

2 w. ago ‘It comes from racism’: immigrant workers on Trump’s deportation push

The president’s actions have sent a wave of terror through the community that underpins much of the US economyDonald Trump has ramped up anti-immigration fervor into his second presidency, promising mass deportations, pushing to increase arrests and bolstering public relations efforts to amplify arrests. The moves have sent a wave of terror through the undocumented worker community that underpins large parts of the US economy.“Every day I wake up and walk out the door, I go with the hope of going to work, but with the fear of not being able to come back,” said a construction worker and single parent in Texas who obtained immigration protection under the Biden administration. She requested to remain anonymous due to fears about her immigration status. Continue reading...

Events