Exploring the British countryside? Unlikely, says big cat expert. Karel Bartik/Shutterstock Rumours that there are big cats in Britain stubbornly keep cropping up. The thought of a large predator lurking in the rural landscapes of Britain is an exciting one. The most recent widely published claim of a big blackContinue Reading
M Ps will try to oust Nadine Dorries as an MP next month amid growing calls for her to follow through on her vow to resign. The Liberal Democrats will table a Bill when Parliament returns on September 4 that they hope will result in her suspension. The Tory formerContinue Reading
Sign up to the Arts & Life newsletter for reviews and recommendations “Beef” is the “best show Netflix has had in recent memory”, said Vox. This dark comedy follows two protagonists – played by Ali Wong and Steve Yeun – who meet in a “screeching episode of Southern California road rage”. TheContinue Reading
Peter Howson is an artist who has spent much of his life “tussling with the beast inside”, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. Born in London in 1958 and brought up in Glasgow, he immediately “stood out” when he first began exhibiting his work in the mid-1980s. For oneContinue Reading
A walkout by senior NHS doctors in England continues on Friday as the Government shows no sign of backing down in the bitter row over pay. The strike by British Medical Association consultants began at 7am on Thursday, with NHS chiefs warning patients would face “severe delays” as a result. ConsultantsContinue Reading
R ishi Sunak warned the asylum system is under “unsustainable pressure” after the bill for the taxpayer almost doubled in a year to nearly £4 billion. The Prime Minister, who has promised to “stop the boats” bringing migrants across the English Channel, said the cost was “unacceptable”. Home Office spendingContinue Reading
A UK minister has warned it is important “not to jump to conclusions” over the reported death of the leader of the Wagner mercenary group in a plane crash which is speculated to have been an assassination. Yevgeny Prigozhin was reportedly on the passenger list of a private jet whichContinue Reading
Be warned, said Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph: the opening of “Henpocalypse!” (BBC Two) may put you off. “Imagine being trapped on a stranger’s hen do, complete with screeching women, straws in the shape of penises, and a sozzled bride-to-be enthusiastically dry-humping a male stripper”, all set to theContinue Reading
This comic tour de force is a “bizarro faux-circus act gone wrong”, said Brian Logan in The Guardian, in which the US performer Bill O’Neill plays both parts of a clowning double act: Kevin Calamity, who promises to slip on 1,000 banana peels, or your money back, and his brother-cumgopher,Continue Reading
R ishi Sunak broke the MPs’ code of conduct by failing to correctly declare his wife’s financial interest in a childminding company which was set to benefit from Government policy, the Commons’ standards commissioner has said. Daniel Greenberg concluded the breach arose out of the Prime Minister’s “confusion” around theContinue Reading
