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Streaming: Steven Soderbergh’s Presence and the best haunted house films
The first more-or-less horror movie in the lengthy, genre-skimming career of director Steven Soderbergh, Presence is a film about grief, trauma, familial dysfunction and abusive masculinity. But it’s also, to a significant and compelling extent, about property. Beginning with a family’s first viewing of a handsome Victorian home in an...
US support to maintain UK’s nuclear arsenal is in doubt, experts say
Britain’s ability to rely on the US to maintain the UK’s nuclear arsenal is now in doubt, experts have warned, but working with European states to replace it will be costly and take time.An existing debate about the future of Trident – Britain’s ageing submarine-launched nuclear missile system – has...
Alessia Russo: ‘England camps are great. We’re being tested … and we want to be better’
Alessia Russo has had an intense 10 days. She has been a key player in a gutsy, resilient and energy‑draining performance in England’s 1-0 win over Spain and then part of Arsenal’s astonishing Women’s Super League fightback from two goals down to beat West Ham 4-3.England needed the win against...
All-action Muñoz to Aït-Nouri: 2024-25 may be year of the wing-back revival | Jonathan Liew
“You’re asking for specialists throughout the team,” Gary Neville said recently of the wing-back system. Which presumably came as news to Daniel Muñoz, who before becoming one of the Premier League’s leading wing-backs had never actually played the position before.Of course Muñoz – a winger in his youth – always...
Streaming: Steven Soderbergh’s Presence and the best haunted house films
The first more-or-less horror movie in the lengthy, genre-skimming career of director Steven Soderbergh, Presence is a film about grief, trauma, familial dysfunction and abusive masculinity. But it’s also, to a significant and compelling extent, about property. Beginning with a family’s first viewing of a handsome Victorian home in an...
US support to maintain UK’s nuclear arsenal is in doubt, experts say
Britain’s ability to rely on the US to maintain the UK’s nuclear arsenal is now in doubt, experts have warned, but working with European states to replace it will be costly and take time.An existing debate about the future of Trident – Britain’s ageing submarine-launched nuclear missile system – has...
Alessia Russo: ‘England camps are great. We’re being tested … and we want to be better’
Alessia Russo has had an intense 10 days. She has been a key player in a gutsy, resilient and energy‑draining performance in England’s 1-0 win over Spain and then part of Arsenal’s astonishing Women’s Super League fightback from two goals down to beat West Ham 4-3.England needed the win against...
All-action Muñoz to Aït-Nouri: 2024-25 may be year of the wing-back revival | Jonathan Liew
“You’re asking for specialists throughout the team,” Gary Neville said recently of the wing-back system. Which presumably came as news to Daniel Muñoz, who before becoming one of the Premier League’s leading wing-backs had never actually played the position before.Of course Muñoz – a winger in his youth – always...
Around the world in 60 hours: Nigerian aims to set travel record with ‘low-mobility’ passport
In 2019, Alma Asinobi, a Nigerian postgraduate architecture student, gave herself an ambitious goal after obtaining her first passport: to visit up to 16 countries every year.Then Covid-19 triggered a global lockdown, curtailing her dreams. Since restrictions were lifted, she has visited more than 30 countries and founded a travel...
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