The Responder series two review – another total TV triumph
Two years ago, the former police officer and debut screenwriter Tony Schumacher gave us five of the most riveting and harrowing hours of television there have been for many years. The Responder was the story of Chris Carson (a career-best…
I Kissed a Girl review – the sweetest, most touching reality TV in a long time
First, let’s start with the premise: 10 singles are sent to a villa – sorry, masseria – in Italy in the hopes of finding love. They’re each coupled up – in this case, sealed with a kiss from a total…
County cricket: Kent sense win at Lancashire, Sussex rout Derbyshire – as it happened
Kent, despite losing Zak Crawley to the second over of the innings, lbw for one, need another 93. Earlier, Matt Parkinson and Wes Agar finished with three wickets each, despite some plucky innings from Lancashire’s young batters, Georges Balderson and…
May Contain Lies by Alex Edmans review – fake news rules… and that’s a fact
“What is truth, said jesting Pilate – and would not stay for an answer.” Thus philosopher Francis Bacon dramatised the opening of his famous Of Truth essay. Every human being alive, he thought, was prey to the bewitching temptation to…
Letter: Marion Ecob-Prince obituary
I attended the same senior school as Marion Ecob-Prince. She and her brother were born in the same week as me, in the same nursing home and we were all involved in a baby mix-up. At feeding time my mother…
Buddha taught us to be happy with less. How does this apply to the climate crisis? | Bhikkhu Sujato and Nadine Levy
From a Buddhist perspective, everyone can learn to live simply and be happy. There’s no great secret to it. Simplicity is not an aesthetic or a lifestyle choice. It’s how your life expresses itself when you are content. How can…
Work under way to bridge 32km gap in NSW dog fence – but ecologists say it should be taken down
In the far-western reaches of New South Wales, the world’s longest fence tracks through the red dirt making a cartographically straight path along state borders. The 5,614km fence starts in South Australia, where it’s called the dog fence, and joins…
UK installs record number of public electric vehicle chargers
The UK has installed a record number of public electric car chargers this year, as companies race to keep up with the growing number of battery vehicles on British roads. Nearly 6,000 new chargers were installed during the first three…
Sufferance by Charles Palliser review – a well-crafted, slow-burning novel
For readers of a certain age, Charles Palliser’s name is so deeply associated with his massive debut novel, The Quincunx, a literary mystery that was on every bedside table in the 1990s, that you would be forgiven for not knowing…
Being diagnosed with dyslexia has made me happier
Discovering that I have dyslexia, and most probably dyscalculia, later in my life has raised many questions for me, not least whether a childhood diagnosis would have changed the trajectory of my life, both personally and professionally. Over the years…