Upskirting, ‘sluts’ and Andrew Tate — my online xlife as a teenage boy. Helen Rumbelow takes a dive down the rabbit hole of boys’ social media feeds and is by turns appalled and intrigued | Continue reading
Richard Sharp celebrated the BBC's centennial year not by enjoying newly discovered episodes of Hancock's Half Hour, but by developing a man crush on Tony Adams. The former Arsenal defender was the early star of Strictly Come Dancing and Sharp loved his moves. "Tony legitimised d … | Continue reading
I’ve detoxed more than 25 times in my life — but the first was when I was 26. My Vicodin habit had kicked in badly. If you watch season three of Friends, I hope | Continue reading
Kathleen Booth obituary: Pioneering computer scientist, mathematician and researcher at Birkbeck College who wrote one of the earliest books on programming | Continue reading
The world’s most famous climate change activist tells Caitlin Moran what it’s like to be 19 and Greta Thunberg | Continue reading
President Putin is set to demonstrate his willingness to use weapons of mass destruction with a nuclear test on Ukraine’s borders, Nato is believed to have warn | Continue reading
The Star Wars actor Mark Hamill has joined President Zelensky to raise money for drones to fight Russia, which the actor compared to the “evil empire” from t | Continue reading
Two leading scientific organisations have backed Irish scientists who are campaigning for The Lancet to correct a study that linked eating unprocessed red mea | Continue reading
A severely paralysed man in New York underwent relatively simple surgery this summer and woke up with a superpower. He is now able to control his mobile phone w | Continue reading
More than six years ago I wrote on this page about an expanding star in the Tory sky. "Steadily," I said, "almost imperceptibly, an absurd idea has crept upon us." The idea, I said, was that Boris Johnson might prove fit to be prime minister. Laughable, I wrote, ". .(thetimes.co. … | Continue reading
The Tavistock gender clinic is facing mass legal action from youngsters who claim they were rushed into taking life-altering puberty blockers.Lawyers expect abo | Continue reading
Midnight arrived 1.59 milliseconds too soon on Wednesday June 29, and nobody is sure why. That day was the shortest since measurements began, with the Earth ta | Continue reading
Plans have been drawn up for an €8 million spy-proof bunker in Brussels, complete with luxury catering, so European Union leaders can hold secret talks over d | Continue reading
It was an unfortunate scheduling clash. In November 2017 Christie Smythe had finally persuaded her husband to attend marriage counselling, but their opening ses | Continue reading
Children are arriving at school unable to say their own names or drink from cups, The Times Education Commission’s final report will reveal this week.It will ca | Continue reading
Anxious meat-eaters are being brainwashed, Jayne Buxton says. They are being shamed by the fashionable consensus that a “plant-based diet will improve our healt | Continue reading
The BBC changed the testimony of a rape victim after a debate over the pronouns of her transgender attacker, The Times has learnt.The woman referred to her al | Continue reading
British scientists have built an artificial intelligence system that can monitor the health of a coral reef by listening to its “song”.One that is thriving will produce a complex array of sounds. Crustaceans living around the coral will emit a near-continuous chorus of pops and s … | Continue reading
The inventors of a flea-sized robot crab have suggested that future versions could travel through the arteries of patients with heart disease to clear blockages | Continue reading
Sipping any green soup is guaranteed to make you feel virtuous, but perhaps not quite as worthy as I feel drinking the one in front of me, which comes with an i | Continue reading
Judging by a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion, the cause of women's rights in America could be heading for its greatest setback in decades. The 67-page document published by Politico sets out the basis for the court to overturn Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that establis … | Continue reading
For decades, people told the world to get ready for a pandemic, but hardly anyone made it a top priority. Then Covid struck, and stopping it became the most imp | Continue reading
A fighter pilot known as the Ghost of Kyiv died in an air battle last month after allegedly shooting down more than 40 Russian aircraft, it can be revealed.Majo | Continue reading
I am often asked why we listed Darktrace in London. As a business founded and headquartered in Cambridge, the UK felt like the natural place for our initial pub | Continue reading
Russia is believed to be using its submarines in the Black Sea to hit far-off Ukrainian targets with cruise missiles, with its warships forced to take a more ca | Continue reading
If you thought mounting evidence of Vladimir Putin’s war crimes and his psychopathic thirst for blood and conquest would have terminal political consequences fo | Continue reading
Russia has made a “massive strategic blunder” as Finland and Sweden look poised to join Nato as early as the summer | Continue reading
I do my best thinking between 8pm and midnight, pacing around my flat or lying on the floor at the end of my bed. Lamplight, the stillness of evening, the gathe | Continue reading
British military chiefs are drawing up plans to send armoured vehicles to Ukraine, The Times has learnt. The UK is adding to its offer of lethal weapons in the | Continue reading
Since the invasion of Ukraine, concern over Russian cyberattacks and eavesdropping has grown. One area is messaging apps, with Telegram — reportedly the most po | Continue reading
The boss of one of the UK's biggest airports quit last night, having presided over days of Easter getaway chaos.Karen Smart, the managing director of Manchester Airport, resigned with immediate effect hours after the city's mayor said that the police could be drafted in to help s … | Continue reading
China is being urged to protect and constantly monitor the world’s first three genetically engineered children and make the man who edited their embryos respons | Continue reading
Three Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station last night in flight suits made in the yellow and blue of the Ukrainian flag, in what appeared to be a daring statement against the war.Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov blasted off from Baikonur C … | Continue reading
An elite Ukrainian drone unit has destroyed dozens of “priority targets” by attacking Russian forces as they sleep, The Times can reveal.Aerorozvidka, a specialist air reconnaissance unit within the army, has been picking off tanks, command trucks and vehicles carrying electronic … | Continue reading
The defenestration of several senior spies is a sign of Putin’s growing fury towards the intelligence services | Continue reading
On the last Saturday of February sunshine greeted the inhabitants of Helsinki after several gloomy winter months. It was the end of a school holiday week and t | Continue reading
Spies in Russia’s infamous security apparatus were kept in the dark about President Putin’s plan to invade Ukraine, according to a whistleblower who described | Continue reading
President Zelensky has survived at least three assassination attempts in the past week, The Times has learnt.Two different outfits have been sent to kill the Uk | Continue reading
President Zelensky has survived at least three assassination attempts in the past week, The Times has learnt.Two different outfits have been sent to kill the Uk | Continue reading
Russia is set to introduce a new law that will make it a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison to spread “fake news” about the Kremlin’s military operati | Continue reading
The first brain scan of a dying man has given scientists a rare insight into what happens during our final moments.The 87-year-old epilepsy patient had a fatal heart attack while hooked up to an electroencephalogram, which monitors brain activity.An analysis of the 30 seconds bef … | Continue reading
Alexei Navalny, the imprisoned Kremlin critic, is to go on trial tomorrow on embezzlement charges that could keep him locked up until 2032.Navalny, 45, will ap | Continue reading
“Let’s be honest, nobody, nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uighurs” — that’s the Canadian billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya, talking recently on his po | Continue reading
At the age of eight, Fatima’s future is decided. Her eyes limpid and far away, her clothes tattered emerald green, she would, she says, “like to go to school an | Continue reading
Cards for patients to tell doctors that they do not wish to be weighed unless absolutely necessary have been produced by an online “body positivity” group. The | Continue reading
Amazon quietly removed criticism of President Xi’s books by scrubbing bad reviews, ratings and comments from its Chinese site, it has emerged. The US retail giant agreed to Beijing’s demand to have anything below a five-star review of Xi Jinping’s book The Governance of China rem … | Continue reading
The British technology sector has enjoyed its best year in raising funds from venture capital investors, attracting £29.4 billion in 2021.Funds flowing into the sector rose from £11.5 billion in 2020 and the 155 per cent jump was also the largest annual percentage increase since … | Continue reading
More than a thousand places and monuments could be renamed as America tries to wipe out offensive place names.Places with racist and sexist names are sprinkled throughout the US, after white settlers took over land that had been occupied by indigenous peoples. In Colorado, for ex … | Continue reading