Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 14 min Liverpool counter and Robertson has a good chance, but he leans back too far. Before that, Mainoo was again to be seen dancing into the Liverpool box. The Old Trafford crowd, who can be muted, are making a thunderous […]
Post-2019 UK cabinet ministers last average of eight months, study finds | Conservatives
Cabinet ministers in the UK’s post-2019 parliament have lasted in their jobs for an average of just eight months, a report comparing political stability across 17 countries has found, with Westminster also faring badly on a series of other metrics. The study, Strong and Stable, which looked at 10 aspects of parliamentary and governmental stability […]
Chelsea v Leicester City: FA Cup quarter-final â live | FA Cup
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Half-time reading This is a cracking piece, with one unforgivable flaw: it should have been twice as long. Share The BBC are showing footage of Sterling taking the ball off Palmer for the penalty. There wasnât a row, though it was […]
Brighton v Manchester City: Womenâs Super League â live | Women’s Super League
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 11 min: Coombs wins a free kick in a dangerous position following a challenge from CarabalÃ. Greenwood steps up to take it and sends the ball over to Shaw in the box. The striker attempts to chest it down but her […]
Phantom Parrot review â eye-opening documentary about Orwellian surveillance in the UK | Documentary films
British human rights activist Muhammad Rabbani had been stopped and interrogated at the UK border on several previous instances â the consequence, he says wryly, of being a Muslim man with a beard. But this time was different: the interviewer asked for the password to his electronic devices, and when Rabbani refused â his clients […]
Nigel Slaterâs recipes for potatoes with mussels and dill, and filled with cauliflower cheese | Food
When my garden was more of an allotment, there was nothing I enjoyed growing more than potatoes. The planting and earthing-up, the first green leaves poking through the soil and the mauve and white flowers like tiny stars were pleasures enough; the real business started when I plunged my garden fork into the earth and […]
âBlack men are conditioned not to articulate our emotionsâ: Ryan Calais Cameron on his hit play bringing new audiences to the West End | Theatre
Born in Tooting, London in 1988, Ryan Calais Cameron is a playwright, actor, director and producer. His breakout playwriting hit, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy, blends poetry, physical theatre and raw confessional in a multifaceted exploration of black masculinity and has recently started its second West End […]
Middle East crisis live: Israeli strikes hit multiple sites in Syria, wounding a soldier, says Syrian military | World news
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature More now on reports that Israeli airstrikes hit several sites in southern Syria early on Sunday. The Associated Press is reporting that state news agency Sana, citing an unnamed military official, said air defences shot down some of the missiles, which […]
Austerity doesnât just damage public services, it destroys faith in the future | Torsten Bell
As the dust settles on the budget, itâs time to reflect on the real task facing anyone trying to govern Britain. The tax cuts announced are paid for with big spending cuts to come: unprotected departments (like councils and prisons) face 13% (£19bn) cuts by 2028-29. Most people think delivering them is impossible, because theyâve […]
Springtime on the allotment
The allotment year begins with Howard’s hazel poles while early birds keep us company Spring, the time to build garden supports for sweetpeas, peas and climbing beans. Howard has his hands on a beautiful bundle of hazel via his local spoon-carving community. There are tall heavy poles for the French bean structure (we will be […]