Why Waif Girl is one of pop culture’s…

Everybody suffers,” says Frances, the wispy protagonist of Sally Rooney’s debut novel, Conversations with Friends. True, but does anyone suffer quite like Rooney’s female characters? In recent years, popular culture has seen the emergence of…

Monkeypox news – live: WHO says world faces…

Blood samples are drawn from a boy who didn't display any sign of monkeypox despite all family being contaminated (AFP via Getty Images)A British minister has insisted monkeypox is not a “repeat of Covid” as…

Boris Johnson news – live: Minister ducks questions…

(PA Wire)A cabinet minister has refused to say if No 10 called a controversial “secret meeting” with Sue Gray about her Partygate investigation or what was discussed.Nadhim Zahawi, the education secretary, ducked multiple questions about…

Sissy Spacek: ‘I’m very shy, and an introvert,…

Sissy Spacek’s farmhouse is a time machine. Scattered around her Virginia spread are keepsakes from a 50-year career she’s convinced was an accident. There are notebooks upon notebooks of character ideas and song lyrics, all…

Monkeypox news – latest: UK offers smallpox vaccine…

Monkeypox continues to spread across the globe (Brian W J Mahyvia/CDC/Reuters)Healthcare workers have been offered the smallpox vaccine in the UK as monkeypox cases spread further across the globe.Two more cases of the West African…

Vardy trial – live: Lawyer claims Rooney should…

(Reuters)Rebekah Vardy’s lawyer has said Coleen Rooney should pay a “substantial award of damages” to his client as the Wagatha Christie trial drew to a close. In his written submission, Hugh Tomlinson said: “The libel…