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Need a model for how to thrive in the stranglehold of the modern music economy? How about a band of Australian garage-rockers who cut albums at the pace of an Atlanta rap crew, tour like peak-era Grateful Dead and who just told the biggest company in streaming to go to hell. King Gizzard & the…
2026 is five months away, but already, battle lines are being drawn for elections across the country. The Senedd (Welsh parliament) will be electing new members, along with council elections in various parts of England, including London, Birmingham, Newcastle, Sunderland, and Bradford. Electoral Dysfunction listener Marianne sent in a question to the podcast about one…
Every week, our Money team interviews top chefs from around the UK, hearing about their cheap food hacks, views on the industry and more. Today, they speak to the co-founder of Genuine Restaurants Group, Sam Harrison… My favourite cheap eat is… Burnt on Askew Road in Shepherd’s Bush, west London – it’s a great spot…
Has there ever been a love as true, wild and literally epic as that of βOutlanderβsβ Claire Beauchamp (CaitrΓona Balfe) and Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan)? Made possible by a circle of standing stones (and the imagination of Diana Gabaldon, who wrote the novels on which the series is based), the all-but-instant passion of a British…
MP Rupert Lowe alerted the coastguard to potential migrants on a boat – who turned out to be a charity rowing crew. The independent Great Yarmouth MP posted a picture on social media on Thursday night of a boat near some wind turbines off the Norfolk Coast, saying he had alerted the authorities. He wrote…
When John Beck first watched Jayden Maiava throw a football up close this summer, he could see pretty quickly why USC might hang its hopes on Maiavaβs rocket right arm. βHe spins the ball really well,β Beck said. βThe talent is there. The ability is there.β Few are as qualified as Beck to make that…
Citroen has been told to improve its “chaotic” and “shameful” recall over a potentially fatal airbag safety fault.Β Consumer champion Which? wants the government to intervene if Stellantis, the car brand’s parent company, does not improve the process for fixing the fault and offering customers compensation. Read all the latest Money news here A “stop-drive”…
Book Review The Island of Last Things By Emma SloleyFlatiron Books: 272 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Hundreds to thousands of animal species go extinct every year, according to the World Wildlife Fund, and things are projected to…
The American investment giant Carlyle is preparing to take control of Very Group, one of Britain’s biggest online retailers, in a deal that will end the Barclay family’s long tenure at another major UK company. Sky News has learnt that Carlyle, which is the biggest lender to Very Group’s immediate parent company, could assume ownership…
On the Shelf We Are All Guilty Here By Karin SlaughterWilliam Morrow: 448 pages, $32If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. As Karin Slaughter talks about her new thriller book series, βWe Are All Guilty Here,β sheβs equally wry, reflective and…
