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Netflix's The Body Captures Adolescent Chaos Better Than It Handles Its Eight Episodes
Quinn Shephard's The Body arrives as a gleefully camp addition to the high school drama canon, and for good reason. Set on Halloween 2004 at St Mark's Catholic school, the Netflix
Stop Starving Your Houseplants: The Evidence for Feeding Them Right
Visit any garden centre and you'll see a bewildering array of plant feeds: liquid concentrates, slow-release formulas, droplet bottles and specialist products for every conceivable
The Dock Leaf Myth Deserves to Be Laid to Rest
For generations, the advice has been consistent: brush against a stinging nettle and someone will inevitably point you toward a dock leaf. It's become so embedded in British folk w
Three hours is all the magic Harry Potter needs
Ten years after its premiere, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has taken a bold gamble by shedding its two-part format and emerging as a streamlined one-part production at the Pal
Monty Don leaves a legacy that Gardeners' World must not abandon
Monty Don's final episode of Gardeners' World marks the end of an era spanning almost a quarter of a century, and it deserves to be recognised for what it truly is: a masterclass i
Trevor Nunn's Production Deserves Better Material Than Kilgallen's Recycled Theories
Trevor Nunn's direction of Torben Betts's play at Marylebone theatre demonstrates considerable theatrical skill, but even the most accomplished staging cannot overcome the fundamen
Rob Brydon's Refusal to Play the Villain Is Comedy's Greatest Strength
At 61, Rob Brydon has built an extraordinary career on a simple principle: he is, as he puts it, 'a nice person' and 'a people-pleaser.' This might sound limiting for a performer,
Scotland's Roman Story Deserves More Than Archaeological Fragments
The discovery of two sandstone altars dedicated to Mithras and Sol beneath a cricket pavilion in Inveresk in 2010 should have sparked a national conversation about Scotland's Roman
The tradwife reckoning: When influencers discover that 'God-given authority' often masks abuse
Bernadine Bluntly's April video renouncing the tradwife movement she once championed sent shockwaves through social media. The 36-year-old, who previously sold T-shirts reading 'RI
Mimi and Ruben turned our home into a nightmare—and the real victims are the mice
There's a particular kind of cruelty that comes wrapped in fur and purrs. The author's tabby twins, Mimi and Ruben, arrived during lockdown as adorable kittens, but they quickly tr
Patrick Stewart's Greatest Role: Showing Bald Men They Don't Need to Apologize
When Patrick Stewart died at 86, many people were shocked by his age. That's because he looked essentially the same for decades—not because of cosmetic surgery or anti-aging treatm
Nina and Noah Show What Real Sexual Compatibility Looks Like
When Nina and Noah first tried penetrative sex, it was, by Nina's own account, 'a complete disaster.' It really hurt her and she didn't experience any pleasure whatsoever. Noah, wh
Aidan Turner deserves to age out of the objectification trap
At 43 years old, with a wife and a small son, Aidan Turner is doing what any reasonable person would do: he grew a beard to try to escape being reduced to his looks. The fact that
Patrick Stewart proved that wisdom and compassion make the most compelling television
When Patrick Stewart took command of the Enterprise as Jean-Luc Picard in 1987, Star Trek's creators gambled that audiences would embrace a bald, cerebral Englishman over the swagg
Stewart's Villainous Turn in Green Room Proved He Was Far More Than Sci-Fi's Chosen Captain
Patrick Stewart's career trajectory from the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1970s stage generation to Hollywood stardom is the stuff of legend. His Shakespearean training, combined wi
Rivals Is Teaching Us to Embrace Our Lived-In Style—and That's Brilliantly British
Jilly Cooper's Rivals is doing more than entertaining viewers with drama and scandal—it's reshaping how we think about British fashion. As Jess Cartner-Morley notes, the show has "
It's Time to Stop Thumbing Our Noses at Precision in the Kitchen
A reader named Nick posed a reasonable question to The Guardian's food columnists: why do recipes measure fresh ginger in vague terms like 'thumbs' and centimetres when the root ve