Saturday, March 15, 2025

Culture

Only the government stands in the way of humanist marriage | Letter

The Ministry of Justice says that legal recognition of humanist weddings would require creating a new category of “belief marriages” (Stephen Fry and Sandi Toksvig lead call for recognition of humanist marriages, 18 April), ignoring the fact that already...

Failure to recognise ectopic pregnancy causing women’s deaths, says expert

Women are dying or suffering avoidable harm because of a failure to recognise ectopic pregnancy, one of the country’s leading experts on maternal health has said.Speaking to the Guardian, Prof Marian Knight of the University of Oxford, who leads...

‘Worst thing that’s ever happened to me’: the trauma of ectopic pregnancy

Laura Cox describes her ectopic pregnancy as “the worst thing that’s ever happened” to her, saying that what would have been a difficult experience was made more traumatic by a delayed diagnosis and a lack of compassion in her...

Fake books: the controversial interiors trend for literary pretenders

Name: Fake books.Age: Not as old as you would immediately think.Appearance: Like books, but – get this – fake.Is this about ghostwriters? No, it’s worse. Have you ever visited someone’s house and seen acres and acres of books spread...

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for potatoes and greens with pancetta or halloumi | A kitchen in Rome

Mixed days of sun and rain mean that every bit of green in Rome has burst: parks, piazze, hedges, ruins and the banks of the river, obviously, but also verges, circles of soil around the base of trees and...

The pet I’ll never forget: Friday the parrot bullied, confused, embarrassed and bewitched us

Friday arrived on horseback, in the saddle bag of an itinerant trader. I was six years old and living in northern Nigeria. We’d had pets before, but Friday was different – a handsome African grey parrot with a bright-red...

Like Ruth Gordon, I’m a big believer in giving away things that matter to you – whatever the cost | Emma Forrest

On the first day directing my first film came my first communication error. I’d asked the costume department to take a man’s shirt (which the lead character had stolen after a one night stand), and fashion it into something...

Three things with Stephanie Alexander: ‘Without false modesty, my most useful object is the Cook’s Companion’

Stephanie Alexander has been in many of our homes over the years. Her kitchen bible, the Cook’s Companion, has sold more than 500,000 copies since it was first published in 1996, placing it next to the Women’s Weekly Children’s...

Should I worry about how much sleep I’m getting?

Of all the things to worry about in life, sleep may be the most pernicious. Most things you either can directly control (your booze intake, Twitter consumption, exercise regime) or you can’t (pollution, bees dying, malevolent artificial intelligence). But...

Why do some words not have opposites?

Why do some words have an opposite, but others don’t? Grant Huxley, AlbanyPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to [email protected]. A selection will be published next Sunday.
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