42 h. ago My son spent his last moments gasping for air in an underwater oil pipe: Listen to The Daily Mail's latest groundbreaking podcast

Traveling to the nation for a first-of-its-kind investigation into the disaster, this explosive real-time podcast will uncover a story of corporate negligence, betrayal, and greed.

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44 h. ago My son spent his last moments gasping for air in an underwater oil pipe: Listen to The Daily Mail's latest  groundbreaking podcast

Traveling to the nation for a first-of-its-kind investigation into the disaster, this explosive real-time podcast will uncover a story of corporate negligence, betrayal, and greed.

Society

3 d. ago The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to

There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics‘The boys are alt-right.” This seems to be the new consensus on far-right politics propagated in numerous articles and podcasts. But the media’s obsessive focus on the young men allegedly fuelling the rise of the far right isn’t just empirically flawed – it misses a much more significant shift in public opinion among young people. While many surveys show a large gender gap in support of far-right parties and policies, it is young women who stand out as the more politically interesting demographic, as they are turning in ever greater numbers towards the left.The idea that young people in general, and young men in particular, disproportionately support the far right has been around for a while. In a classic 2012 study, the German political scientist Kai Arzheimer characterised the “typical” voter of far-right parties in Europe as “male, young(ish), of moderate educatio...

Politics

3 d. ago The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to | Cas Mudde

There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics‘The boys are alt-right.” This seems to be the new consensus on far-right politics propagated in numerous articles and podcasts. But the media’s obsessive focus on the young men allegedly fuelling the rise of the far right isn’t just empirically flawed – it misses a much more significant shift in public opinion among young people. While many surveys show a large gender gap in support of far-right parties and policies, it is young women who stand out as the more politically interesting demographic, as they are turning in ever greater numbers towards the left.The idea that young people in general, and young men in particular, disproportionately support the far right has been around for a while. In a classic 2012 study, the German political scientist Kai Arzheimer characterised the “typical” voter of far-right parties in Europe as “male, young(ish), of moderate educatio...

Politics

6 d. ago It’s not a rich list – it’s gone far beyond that. We need to talk about ‘extreme wealth’ | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

We recognise extreme poverty as ruinous, but this turbo-charged affluence is deeply damaging too. Treat it as suchDhananjayan Sriskandarajah is chief executive of the New Economics Foundation and author of Power to the PeopleOnce again, it’s the Hinduja family. Gopi Hinduja and his family, who run the Hinduja Group, are cited as Britain’s richest family in the latest Sunday Times rich list. The big story so far seems to be that their wealth has dropped to £35.3bn from £37.2bn the year before. But that story, and much of the discussion there will be this weekend, risks missing the real story. “Rich list” is barely the right description for the extreme wealth we should be talking about.In 1989, when the Sunday Times first published its annual rich list, to be included someone would need to have 6,000 times the wealth of the average person in the UK. That’s already a pretty big gap – but this has now tripled to more than 18,000 times the average, according to a study by the University ...

Events

8 d. ago Fred and Rose West's 12 victims including three children and where their bodies were found

Fred and Rose West's crimes were laid bare in Fred and Rose West: The Real Story, which delved into the horrific murders carried out by the evil couple

Events

8 d. ago Netflix fans have just days to watch 'inspirational' film with huge star

The powerful biographical drama, Harriet, tells the story of real-life hero, Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery and went on to free hundreds of enslaved people during the civil war

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1 week ago ‘A whirling mass of limbs and lingerie’: the salacious, riotous story of the high

It started out as a dance for men who risked arrest for indecency – and grew into a legs-flying, bloomers-revealing sensation. We go behind the scenes at Bottoms, a thrilling new show about the cancan‘Our chorus line was never going to look like the Moulin Rouge’s,” says Katherina Radeva. And everyone knows what that one looks like, don’t they? The high-kicking cancan chorus line with long legs flying up in a blur as women show off their bloomers to the sound of Offenbach’s irresistibly infectious music – a riot of frills, thrills, whoops and garters. Well, that’s certainly one version. But Radeva is talking about Bottoms, a show she has put together with co-director Alister Lownie and their company Two Destination Language. Bottoms takes the cancan as its muse, its creators having discovered that the real story of the dance phenomenon is much more interesting than the tourist-friendly cliche.It turns out that the identikit all-female spectacle that we know so well is the opposite o...

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2 w. ago 'Must see' Netflix disaster movie based on harrowing real events

This overlooked film has an A-list cast that re-tells the 'heart-breaking' real-life story

Events

2 w. ago The Illegals by Shaun Walker review – gripping true stories of spies who lived deep undercover

An eye-opening account of the old Soviet tactic of embedding secret agents where you’d least expect themOne of the best series of the golden age of TV drama, The Americans (2013-2018), centred on a pair of Russian sleeper agents operating in suburban Washington DC during the height of the cold war. By day they seemed to be a boring married American couple; by night they set honey traps, sabotaged facilities, recruited traitors and assassinated enemies.That story was based in part on the real-life pair of “illegals” – as spies living under deep cover in civil society are called – Elena Vavilova and Andrey Bezrukov, who pretended to be Canadians living in Cambridge, Massachussetts, until their arrest and deportation in 2010. In reality, they weren’t so successful: owing to the turning of another Soviet agent, they were closely monitored by the FBI for years and never managed anything nefarious enough to make it worth charging them with espionage. Con...

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3 w. ago DAVID BECKHAM AT 50: The real story of football's 007, our tense encounter that I'm now forever grateful for and how he rewrote the rulebook, writes OLIVER HOLT

OLIVER HOLT: I wrote some harsh things about Beckham. But I was friends with his agent, Terry Byrne, and Terry asked me to meet him and Beckham at their offices in Madrid.

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3 w. ago Netflix's true crime drama with 'impressive' Rotten Tomatoes score to leave site in days

Netflix's Hatton Garden is a gripping true crime drama based on the real life story and fans have just days left to watch it

Events

3 w. ago AD FEATURE: Immersive Titanic exhibition with genuine artefacts to come to Manchester this summer

Explore RMS Titanic's story as you’ve never seen before with real-life items from the ship and fascinating storytelling

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4 w. ago Brutal birth examinations felt like rape. I was like an animal in an abattoir. Then the real nightmare began: Former MP THEO CLARKE's shattering story of giving birth in Britain today

The House of Commons is an intimidating place and, as I rose to speak, my voice wavered. What I hadn't reckoned on was how revisiting the birth of my daughter, Arabella, would affect me.

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