P&O Ferries may not regret breaking law, but the UK should regret dealing with its owner | Nils Pratley
More than a few business chancers have appeared before Commons select committees over the years, but it’s hard to recall a chief executive who has...
I have covered countless Tory mini-budgets. The cruelty of this one shocked even me | Polly Toynbee
This was a great “levelling down”, with two-thirds of Rishi Sunak’s giveaways in his spring statement going to the top half of earners. At least...
Give us credits: why do so many films now take 40 minutes to start?
If movies didn’t need to be publicised in advance, audiences would be able to go into Fresh feeling entirely, well, fresh. They could spend the...
Deutsche Börse photography prize review – striking imagery of global belonging
This year’s Deutsche Börse photography prize shortlist show is, as ever, a study in dramatically contrasting approaches to the medium. On one floor of The...
Michael Grade: from showbiz royalty and ‘pornographer-in-chief’ to Ofcom chair
Michael Grade, the Tory peer who has been put forward as the government’s choice to chair the broadcasting regulator Ofcom, is one of the most...
‘He helped shape the modern world’: gif inventor Stephen Wilhite dies after getting Covid
Wilhite worked for Compuserve until 2001, after he had a stroke. Meanwhile, gifs’ popularity took off, including on early social media sites such as MySpace....
Adding fuel to the fire: customers at the forecourt react to Sunak’s statement
The dust had settled a day after Rishi Sunak swept through a Sainsbury’s petrol forecourt in south east London as part of a publicity event...
Sulky Sunak is as thin-skinned as any other politician with eye on top job | John Crace
It normally takes at least a couple of days for a budget to unravel. But the chancellor’s spring statement had landed dead on arrival with...
‘Putin is just the frontman’: Sergei Loznitsa, the Ukrainian film-maker who refuses to be cancelled
On 27 February, three days after Russian tanks rolled into his homeland, the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa resigned from the European Film Academy. Loznitsa, an...
‘You cannot put the pain into words’: Anoosheh Ashoori on his detention in Iran
Sitting in the front room of his house in south London, surrounded by his wife, daughter and four excited dogs, Anoosheh Ashoori admits that at...