Month: March 2025

Great-aunt Lucy asked Britons to “please look after” Paddington Bear when he arrived on UK shores. Perhaps she was thinking of the risks of him running into two RAF engineers out on a bender in Hampshire. Fortunately, Paddington’s aunt didn’t have to watch the CCTV footage shown to Reading magistrates court on Tuesday of Daniel […]

As Sir Gareth Southgate has pointed out, boys today are let down by the empty promises of grifting influencers who sell them a vision of masculinity grounded in dominance, materialism and disdain for women (Editorial, 19 March). However, if we are to pull boys away from these figures, we need something meaningful to offer them […]

Accepting free concert tickets is “not appropriate”, the housing minister has said, in an apparent criticism of the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, who received tickets to watch Sabrina Carpenter. Matthew Pennycook, the MP for Greenwich and Woolwich, whose constituency includes the O2 Arena, said he had accepted “zero” free tickets. Asked about Reeves’s decision to accept […]

Strangers turning up at your house, a vehicle vandalised, violent commentary online, eyes tracking you as you shop – the last episode of Adolescence chillingly shows the modern consequences of sudden public attention. But the creators of the Netflix show – already seeming certain to sweep the prizes in next year’s TV awards – have, […]

Russia ready to strike new Black Sea deal if Washington ‘orders’ Zelenskyy to respect it, Lavrov claims We’re getting more lines from Russia on its talks with the US over the weekend and on Monday. Reuters is reporting that Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov claimed the country was willing to strike a new agreement on […]

Calls for resignations after White House security blunder Following the White House security blunder, there have been calls for those involved in the breach to resign. A senior administration official told Politico that they are involved in multiple text threads with other administration staffers on what to do with national security adviser Mike Waltz. “Half […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 72 min Accordingly, if Australia see this one out and given their vastly superior goal difference, a win against Japan will see them through; a draw will be enough if Saudi don’t beat Bahrain. Share 70 min Japan v Saudi has […]

Israeli shelling kills five people in southern Syria – officials At least five people have been killed in Israeli shelling of the southern Syrian province of Daraa, local authorities said. In a post on Telegram, provincial authorities reported a provisional toll of “five people killed in the Israeli bombardment of the town of Kuwayya… west […]

A long investigation into the mysterious death in 2023 of a French toddler took a surprise turn on Tuesday when police arrested the boy’s grandparents on suspicion of murder. The death of Émile Soleil, who was two and a half when he went missing in a French Alpine village in July 2023, has remained unexplained […]

Here is an extraordinary true-life tale. For more than two years during the second world war, a teenager named Irene Gut kept 12 Polish Jews safe from the Nazis, hidden in a basement right under the nose of her boss, a high-ranking Nazi officer. Following the war, Gut emigrated to America and never spoke a […]