The Rings of Power season 2 review — Lord of the Rings prequel ups the action
The stories in The Lord of the Rings’ budget-busting spin-off The Rings of Power are drawn from appendices in JRR Tolkien’s novel, meaning a streamlined narrative was never on the cards — much of the ...
German chancellor Olaf Scholz urges talks on tougher immigration policy
Chancellor Olaf Scholz has proposed talks with the main opposition party and Germany’s regional leaders on toughening immigration policy after a terror attack on Friday that killed three people.
The US mortgage rate whiplash
With the 30-year Treasury yield sliding from a high of over 5 per cent last October to nearly 4 per cent this month, US ...
Kamala Harris versus the media
That Kamala Harris has been averse to giving interviews is a problem. Harris’s opponents think it is because she is scared of flubbing her answers, as she has a couple of times as vice-president. The ...
UK mortgage holders and renters hit hardest by inflation
Britons with mortgages and renters have been hit by higher inflation than other groups in society, underscoring the uneven impact of the surge in living costs and the challenge facing the government ...
Paula Rego’s tales of the unexpected
The glory of mature Rego — the graphic brilliance and inventiveness, the blend of fantasy and acute naturalistic ...
Precipice by Robert Harris — consumed by illicit love, at a time of war
The author’s latest novel draws on Herbert Henry Asquith’s letters to aristocrat Venetia Stanley in the run-up to the first ...
Keir Starmer launches UK-German treaty bid in meeting with Olaf Scholz
Sir Keir Starmer plans to kick off efforts on a new treaty with Germany as he holds talks in Berlin with Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The meeting on Wednesday morning is part of the UK prime minister’s ...
Why Starmer can’t escape the politics of performance
Starmer is not wrong to lament these illusions and distractions of political performance. A leader’s job is to set strategic direction and oversee implementation. Even so, while the ability to inspire ...
The UK stocks that show there is beauty in being boring
Bunzl is a member of Lex’s “XFT” index, created in 2017 for a group of FTSE 100 companies that rarely generate eye-catching headlines but deliver steady, stable and outperforming returns for ...
Chinese mythology games breathe new life into Sony’s PlayStation 5
In China, Black Myth: Wukong, an action role-playing game rooted in Chinese mythology, could also change sales expectations for the PS5. Sales of the game had hit 10mn copies within three days of its ...
Recipe: The apricot tart that turns teatime into a special occasion
This week marks the end of holiday season, so we’re taking a break from dinner recommendations in favour of a last gasp of frivolity: a teatime tart. Ravinder wrote this recipe off the back of a trip ...