6 h. ago I just moved to Sydney from Italy and I'm deeply bothered by how everyone behaves here

A woman who recently moved to Sydney from Milan has confessed that her everyday interactions are leaving her so confused that she sometimes ends up in tears.

Politics

13 h. ago Dear Jobs Guru: ‘Do I need to tell prospective employers I’ve been off sick long

Jobs Guru James Innes has some advice for reader Angie, who’s been off sick from her warehouse job with fibromyalgia. She’s not sure whether to say so at her next job interview

Society

15 h. ago Tim Minchin: Songs the World Will Never Hear review – a bumper night with the marvellous misfit

Hammersmith Apollo, LondonMinchin embraces his oddball status – is he musician, comedian, auteur or clown? – in this three-hour showIt’s 20 years since Tim Minchin’s life-changing Edinburgh fringe in 2005, and tonight he’s singing 20 songs of commemoration. There’s a lot to celebrate: few careers are this distinctive, or this successful. And there’s a real sense Minchin has got life where he wants it tonight. With a five-strong band in tow, the balance is better than on his last tour between troubadour and rock Gargantua. And there’s an embrace, too, of his misfit status: who cares if no one knows whether he’s a musician, a comedian, an auteur or a clown – or whether tonight’s show is, as Minchin describes it, “an absolute shitshow of tonal inconsistency”?I mean, he’s not wrong. Minchin has always been a curious mix of cool and uncool, sending up rock theatrics while openly in thrall to them. He is an artist of excess, never knowingly underwritten – and for more than three hours ton...

Politics

18 h. ago Wireless earbuds 'even better than AirPods' slashed by 86% before Amazon Prime Day sales

Amazon customers reckon the Cillso wireless earbuds are even better than the Apple AirPods alternative and now you can get them at a huge discount of almost 90% off

Politics

19 h. ago 'I work in brothel where husbands stop by for lunchtime quickies and women make £40k'

Brothel worker, Catherine de Noire has revealed what hours of the day business is most booming as she spills the beans on her life between the sheets and the sneaky men who visit

Economics

20 h. ago The Zola Experience review – life follows art as stage relationship spills into real

When actor-director Anne Barbot embarks on an adaptation of a Zola novel with her neighbour, the gap between theatre and reality appears to collapse entirelyArt and life fuse deliriously in Gianluca Matarrese’s hybrid film, which alternates between documentary and fiction, theatre and cinema. Recently divorced from her husband, actor-director Anne Barbot throws herself into preparing a stage adaptation of Emile Zola’s classic novel L’Assommoir. In Gervaise, the working-class heroine of the book, Barbot finds echoes of her current situation: both are women who struggle to reclaim professional autonomy in the aftermath of broken relationships. Barbot’s production becomes more complicated when she casts Benoît Dallongeville, a neighbour who is also an actor, in the role of her love interest in the play. Soon, passion and tension begin to spill from personal relationships on to the page, and vice versa.Matarrese’s film keeps the camera strikingly close to Barbot and Dallongeville as the...

Politics

20 h. ago Future job satisfaction trumps salary for UK teenagers, new survey shows

A survey reveals that half of teenagers would rather be content in their future job than earn a hefty salary.

Politics

21 h. ago Single man sends Facebook wild after accidentally revealing his six

A single man gained thousands of 'thirsty' female fans from all over the world after posting photos of a children's desk to sell on Facebook - and accidentally including his ripped physique.

Politics

21 h. ago GP who felt stress 'was going to kill him' sells up to travel world in campervan

Gary Grant said the stress of the job after the pandemic became too much

Events

21 h. ago ‘I’m rooting for them’: why American Movie is my feelgood movie

The next in our series of writers drawing attention to their favourite comfort films looks back to a funny and touching documentary from 1999“I was a failure and I get very sad and depressed about it. I really feel like I betrayed myself. Big time. When I was growing up, I had all the potential in the world. Now I’m back to being Mark with a beer in his hand who is thinking about the great American script and the great American movie. This time I cannot fail. I will not fail.”As far as opening monologues go, you couldn’t have scripted a more perfect introduction to a film that captures one of the purest pursuits of the American Dream ever set to film. But these were not written for a character, but instead straight from the heart of Mark Borchardt in a 1999 documentary. It’s rare that documentaries are associated with feelgood movies, which is odd because they are remarkable vehicles for generating warmth, empathy and humor from spending time in the company of real life people who y...

Politics

23 h. ago Alison Hammond's son gives rare insight into real life with This Morning star when 'doing his head in'

The This Morning presenter and her 20-year-old Aidan are now appearing together on Celebrity Gogglebox

Politics

30 h. ago The man I thought was my boyfriend turned out to be a married undercover cop with two children... he went from my bed, to a debrief with his handler, to the bed of one of my activist friends

For the duration of their romance, Mark Stone - in reality Kennedy, an undercover police officer - was actually working all the time, spying on Kate and reporting back to his superiors.

Politics

39 h. ago I trusted my stepmother, but after my father died, she cut me out of his £1.5million estate. Here's what you must do now to stop it happening to you or your children...

The blunt, stony response that showed the woman who had played the role of our stepmother for two decades did not care about us. Dad was dead, and so were we to her.

Economics

40 h. ago 'I've spent 40 years helping people to die well – this is what I've learned'

EXCLUSIVE: After four decades of helping hundreds of people through their final days, Belinda Marks has seen some extraordinary moments as people reach the end of their lives.

Events

41 h. ago I lost 120lbs but then realised how much skin I needed to lose – this is how I did it

EXCLUSIVE: Raquel Sardinha' powerful before-and-after photos, workout updates, and candid talk about body image have earned her thousands of fans TikTok followers

Politics

43 h. ago Horrifying doorbell footage of mum begging for help after being poisoned in own home

Tracey Condron has no recollection of having a seizure before making her way to her neighbour's house for help - just moments later, she was resuscitated as she was blue-lighted to hospital

Politics

43 h. ago All the places where Bonnie Blue is banned and which one 'hurts the most'

EXCLUSIVE: Controversial figure and adult star, Bonnie Blue has revealed all the places she's banned thanks to her racy antics - but there's one she's truly gutted about

Events

44 h. ago 'I ditched the UK to live my dream retirement in Portugal for less than £1,000 a month'

A retired Brit has shared why he ditched the UK and packed up his life to live abroad in a rural farmhouse

Economics

48 h. ago You've got 'eyes of a sniper' if you can find the odd bottle cap in mind

A new brainteaser is sweeping the internet which shows rows of a Banquet bottle cap – and somewhere is an odd lid - but you'll need to have sharp eyes to find it

Politics

57 h. ago 'Oasis can be incredible or terrible live but in Cardiff I was left in no doubt'

EXCLUSIVE: Oasis gigs this century lurched from incredible to terrible as Liam and Noel Gallagher broke up Britain's biggest band, but at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff our man's verdict was clear

Events