Food, admin, their own TV — how to make a refugee feel at home

In the midst of a dreadful news cycle, it was heartening to hear last week that within days of the launch of the government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme, more than 130,000 people applied to host refugees. In order to be accepted, a host is expected...In the midst of a dreadful news cycle, it was heartening to hear last week that within days of...In the midst of a dreadful news cycle, it was heartening to hear last week that within days of...

Anne Tyler: ‘What am I going to do with my life? I’m only 80!’

America’s Jane Austen talks strange families, cancel culture and the tyranny of mobile phones

Why it’s a new golden age of spy fiction

From The Ipcress File to a new Mick Herron show, the next generation of writers is picking up the mantle of John Le Carre

What are NFTs anyway?

As they break records for sales, will NFTs change everything or are they a bubble waiting to burst? Here’s what you need to know...

Meet Julia Quinn, the woman behind Bridgerton

‘It’s bonkers that something I wrote so long ago is now the zeitgeist,’ the author says ahead of the second series arriving

Coe: I can be World Athletics chief and sit on Chelsea board

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Lord Coe is confident that he can still be the president of World Athletics and hold a position on the board of Chelsea if his proposed bid to buy the football club is successful. Speaking at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Coe said he was comfortable that he could hold both positions. “I have...Lord Coe is confident that he can still be the president of World Athletics and hold a position...Lord Coe is confident that he can still be the president of World Athletics and hold a position...

The scandal that Britain forgot

Failed by everyone supposed to protect them, steelworkers were misled into moving £2.8bn out of their final salary pensions. Five years on they are still fighting for compensation

Is the dream of a mortgage-free retirement over?

Soaring numbers of young people are taking home loans that they won’t pay off until they are 70

Suzi Quatro: ‘I love my 15th century home — and my ego room’

The US rocker lives in a 15th-century manor house, still flies first class — for the champagne, of course— and gets her leather jumpsuits made to measure

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Why I took my husband to die at Dignitas

The author Amy Bloom’s heartbreaking account of how she helped her husband end his life after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s

Can this scientist solve the world’s energy crisis?

Nuclear fusion is the holy grail of clean energy — and this Oxford engineer is sitting on the brink of a breakthrough

Sam Fender: ‘I felt I needed to punch people’s heads in to prove my masculinity’

Bullied as a child in North Shields, Sam Fender grew up filled with rage. Two No 1 albums later, he explains how the gift of a guitar led to his salvation

Alison Colwell, ‘Britain’s toughest headmistress’, on her classroom hell

She’s written an eye-popping book about her experiences. How much did she embellish the reality?

Marina O’Loughlin reviews Heft, Cumbria: ‘Go easy on the cheese!’

Godlike culinary powers on display at this sprawling 17th-century inn

Adrien Brody: ‘Ageing? It’s a cruel business’

Life at 48 is treating the actor just fine. So why does he keep slapping himself, wonders Jonathan Dean

Dear Dolly: ‘My boyfriend invites his friends to everything we do’

Your love, life and friendship dilemmas answered by Dolly Alderton

Why the Beatles were the best-dressed band of all time

Floppy fedoras, bell-bottoms and silk scarves — Get Back proves that the Fab Four were superstylish

Lucien Laviscount on how Emily in Paris changed his life

How did this Burnley lad become a Hollywood heart‑throb? It’s actually all down to David Beckham

30 new season hits for men — for work and weekend

Here’s how to do spring in style, whether you’re looking for something for the office or the great outdoors

The road to recovery in Australia

After their dad died, Lizzie Pook and her sister bond on an epic adventure Down Under

My stay in the hilltop town of €1 homes

Victoria Brzezinski ventures to sleepy Sambuca di Sicilia where Airbnb has got in on the act of an extraordinary campaign to boost visitor numbers

Postcard from Belize: ‘The royals are coming — but locals aren’t impressed’

There’s a certain amount of ambivalence about the impending visit of Kate and William as the cost of living crisis takes hold

How the pandemic changed travel for ever

Exactly two years after the turbulence of Covid started, the UK’s final Covid travel restrictions were scrapped last week. What have we learned, asks Chris Haslam

The 6 seaside towns everyone’s going to be talking about this summer

From Dorset’s rising star to the ‘Hawaii of the North’ (ahem), these are the towns that aren’t just relying on their retro charms

Cheer-up chic

Boost your mood with bright colour and a dose of dopamine decor

The British expats plotting ways around the 90-day Brexit rule

Unable to visit sick family or stay for the summer, Brits with homes in Europe are furious with the new post-Brexit limits

Feeling flush: at home with Britain’s richest plumber

After selling Pimlico Plumbers for £148 million, Charlie Mullins’s first act was to buy his riverside rental. Now he wants to solve the housing crisis

Twelve self-building trends to inspire you this year

Want to be forward-thinking, supercool and future-proof? Here are some brilliant ideas, from self-powering houses to microcement murals

Landlords are still caught in the cladding trap

Leaseholders who innocently invested in buy-to-let are still excluded from government aid

Parents told they can swap toddlers’ sex in Scottish census

Scottish parents completing census forms are being advised they can assign the sex of their children, including toddlers, according to “what describes them better”. After losing a legal fight to require adults completing the survey tomorrow to disclose their biological sex rather than their self-defined gender, campaigners have reacted...Scottish parents completing census forms are being advised they can assign the sex of their children, including toddlers, according to “what describes them better”. After losing a legal fight to require adults completing the survey tomorrow to disclose their biological sex rather than their self-defined gender, campaigners have reacted...Scottish parents completing census forms are being advised they can assign the sex of their children, including toddlers...