George Hill on NBA coronavirus protocols: ‘I’m a grown man, so I’m gonna do what I wanna do’
The NBA implemented new coronavirus protocols that essentially prohibit players from interacting with anyone outside their household or team.
He’s the MP with the Downton Abbey lifestyle. But the shadow of slavery hangs over the gilded life of Richard Drax | Slavery
Drive into Dorset on the A31 and you roll past a high brick wall butted up tight to the road that seems to go on for ever. Every so often it doglegs at a monolithic gateway crowned by either a lion or a stag. This is the “great wall of Dorset” that r...
No Hard Feelings review – life lessons and love stories in a refugee shelter | Drama films
The winner of the Berlin film festival’s Teddy award for best queer-themed film begins as shuffling character study, then broadens out to resemble Jules et Jim or The Dreamers yanked brusquely into an urgent multicultural present. Its focal point is...
My wife wants a lover. How can I help her find one? | Life and style
We are a retired couple who have been married for 40 years. I adore my wife and she adores me. We still have an active sex life, but we have talked about her finding another sexual partner to be with on occasion. Neither of us approves of going onlin...
Scenic routes: five of the best road trips along Australia’s east coast | Life and style
With Billy Joel blaring through the 4WD, surfboards and Sups strapped to the roof racks and the boot packed to the brim with skateboards, sand buckets and wetsuits, I travel Highway 1, up and down Australia’s east coast. As a travel writer, I’ve lost...
Feeling nostalgic? The lure of yesteryear is stronger than ever | Life and style
One day on my way to work I walked past McDonald’s, over the zebra crossing and into 1966. The shop-fronts had been cleaned to a hand-buffed gloss, the signs replaced and painted with jaunty shadow. What had yesterday been a mobile phone repair shop...
Industry: is the BBC’s banking drama This Life for a new generation? | Television & radio
When the banking drama Industry blared on to our screens earlier this month, one name towered above all others. The first episode was directed by Lena Dunham which, when coupled with its workplace setting, led to a flurry of lazy it’s-Girls-meets-Mad...
La vie en rose: pink shades for pretty eyes | Funmi Fetto | Life and style
Years ago, if anyone had mentioned the words “pink eye” I would have immediately linked it to a case of conjunctivitis. But not now. In makeup terms, the pink eye is literally that – pink eyeshadow. Less intimidating than blues and greens, more excit...
My life in sex: ‘The Bible doesn’t speak of polygamy for women, but it works wonders for me’ | Life and style
I was raised in a traditional evangelical home and my husband and I were virgins when we married. Every Christian marriage book and seminar had made it seem as though men always wanted sex and wives should submit to that. But my husband had a signifi...
Child labour doesn’t have to be exploitation – it gave me life skills | Global development
Aged eight, Tayambile would walk with her mother every day to fetch water. On her 2km return journey in 30C heat, she would carry 20 litres in an aluminium bucket on her head. She would then help to pound maize in a mortar and prepare food for the fa...