Cheating hearts: inside Japan’s private detective agencies With infidelity and divorce driving most of their business, many detectives are resorting to extreme methods and scams to entrap their ...

Sci-fi has suddenly turned sappy The genre usually warns of the dangers of technology. But Hollywood is now more concerned about the dangers of breaking up with your soulmate ...

In August, the 27th season of South Park began, more than two years after season 26 finished airing. Back in 2017, Trey Parker, one of South Park ’s showrunners, said publicly that the show would no ...

Reading aloud isn’t just for children For my kids, stories are visceral, a way to inhabit other worlds and other selves. And for me, reading to them has become a necessity—cathartic, joyful, and ...

Europe is just about compensating for Trump’s increasingly brazen attempts to sell Ukraine out to Putin. Monday’s theatrics in the White House suggest that there probably won’t be a Ukrainian peace ...

Almost everyone wants the fighting in Ukraine to stop. Yesterday’s meetings in the White House were about demonstrating to Donald Trump the obvious fact that Vladimir Putin, not Volodymyr Zelensky, is ...

Animal Farm, which was published 80 years ago this week, is the most insidious of George Orwell’s books. At first sight it’s a rollicking story, funny and unusually (for Orwell) full of affectionate ...

How ‘distinguished’ UK lawyers made an unconvincing case against the recognition of Palestine But the UK government is not making a convincing case for recognition ...

Politics is a precarious business, and politicians are a precarious bunch. Every five years MPs face an employment review from an increasingly volatile public. But what happens to those who don’t make ...

Securing a ticket for this, Hopkins’s third foray into stand-up, has been tricky. About half the stops on her Batshit Bonkers Britain tour are sold out. I am squeezed into Bethnal Green’s Backyard ...

When I heard that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were to meet in Alaska, the first thing that sprang to mind was a humorous kolomyika—a sort of Ukrainian answer to the limerick—that I grew up with: ...

How does a mother tell her child that there will be no bread today—or tomorrow? What words can soften the ache when a little one asks, “When will we eat like other children do?” In Gaza, war isn’t ...