High tides and a Versailles fancy dress ball: Tuesday’s best photos
Sumatra, Indonesia A mother Sumatran orangutan with her baby at the Mount Leuser national park. The Sumatran orangutans, one of the rarest mammals and protected...
‘Ready to face my trauma’: Poulomi Basu’s Fireflies – in pictures
Basu weaves together the real and the fantastical to create a charged psychological landscape: capturing moments of love and closeness, the intensity of traumatic memory,...
Design Review: get the newsletter for the way we live now
‘Design’ is a word used to describe architecture and products, ideas and visual arts. Design makes your sofa comfortable, but it can also save the...
Will he or won’t he? Rishi Sunak needs to stick or twist on windfall tax | Nils Pratley
Now the windfall tax debate gets interesting. Rishi Sunak and his Treasury officials have noticed what should have been obvious from the off. It’s not...
Are UK coronavirus cases actually going down or are they just harder to count?
How can we tell how high cases are when people have stopped testing? For almost two years we’ve been glued to a set of numbers:...
‘I was in labour for 10 hours alone’: how people spent the day of the Downing Street leaving drinks
While photos of the prime minister at a gathering on 13 November 2020 have raised questions about the credibility of the Partygate inquiry, they have...
Trump-backed nominees lost in Georgia, but can Republicans escape the specter of Maga?
Donald Trump’s big lie lost bigly in Georgia on Tuesday night. Some might take this as proof that his spell over the Republican party has...
‘They could not save their baby’: the human cost of Sri Lanka’s fuel crisis
It was, said the doctor, an avoidable delay that would haunt these parents for ever. When their two-year-old daughter first refused to eat, then began...
I’ve tried everything but have never experienced an orgasm
I am a 38-year-old married woman and have never experienced orgasm, either on my own or with a partner. I have tried everything: sex toys,...
Panic 101: what to do during a panic attack – and how to prevent them
Panic is like a runaway train. A form of acute anxiety that quickly spirals out of control. As a psychiatrist, I try to help prevent...