With buckets of fried chicken available on pretty much every high street in the UK, are diners at saturation point or is there still an appetite for the chicken shop?
Britain’s chicken shop takeover has a long history. Nearly 300 years ago,…

With buckets of fried chicken available on pretty much every high street in the UK, are diners at saturation point or is there still an appetite for the chicken shop?
Britain’s chicken shop takeover has a long history. Nearly 300 years ago,…

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Cabinet ministers will discuss the “most significant reform of Irish asylum laws in the history of the State” when they meet for the first time in 2026 on Tuesday.
Justice and migration minister Jim O’Callaghan will bring the International…

A true-crime investigation into the supposed secret double life of British army major Robbie Mills. After Mills died in 1955, apparently from an accident on a submarine, a man called John Cotell turned up at his…

Joanna Kavenna’s two decades as a writer have seen her beat a gorgeously unconventional path through a plethora of subjects and genres, from polar exploration to motherhood to economic inequality, and from travelogue to academic satire to…

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Timothée Chalamet was the final clue. As he arrived in good time on the Golden Globes red carpet, the star of Marty Supreme put pay to speculation as to whether the chromatic marketing of the film’s ping pong balls would have him wearing…