Lifestyle - Saturday, June 27, 2026

First Liza Shaw and Rohan were housemates, then they had a casual relationship. But a protest at Woomera would deepen their emotional connection Find more stories from the moment I knew series I met Rohan in 1998 in Lismore, New South Wales, where we were both going to university. Before that, I’d noticed him around town in his sarong and peacock feather earrings. He was distinctive and slightly dandyish, sometimes wearing dresses on campus. I had another partner at the time but our mutual friend introduced us, and Rohan and I became housemates. We bonded living together and hosting dinner parties, where we’d talk about life and politics well into the night. I was intrigued by his friends. One time Rohan invited a member of the Black Panthers to come and stay at our house. Continue reading...

Serve these saucy, smoky and skewered options on their own or in a salad or sandwich.

Insider knowledge of the Danish capital’s food scene: four chefs (and our head of food) share their favourite spots Where Copenhagen leads, the food world still follows It has to be Københavns Bageri ; they upgrade beloved Danish classics using the best ingredients. The cardamom buns are second to none, but the “potato cake” – that’s a choux bun filled with vanilla custard and topped with a cocoa-dusted marzipan disc to resemble a potato – might be my favourite. MF For bread, go to Tír Bakery in the morning and stand in line – they sell out every day, but their bread is the best. For croissants, go to Bageriet B and sit outside and enjoy a good filter coffee. TH Continue reading...

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The Irish standup and writer on three-day benders, her accidental comedy career, and her feral stage persona Born in County Roscommon in 1983 and raised in Dublin, Joanne McNally is a standup comedian and writer. Her breakthrough came with the one-woman show Bite Me, and her subsequent tour, Prosecco Express, included a 78-night run at Dublin’s Vicar Street. She co-hosts the hit podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me with Vogue Williams. Her standup show Pinotphile is touring Ireland and the UK until December. She hosts Unacceptable with Ed Gamble and Richard Ayoade on TLC. I’m three and in the garden of my Aunty Joan’s house in Dublin , in knee-high socks with those little black crossbar brogues everyone had, a white polo neck and little bows in my hair. Continue reading...

Texas officials told people to stay indoors, but volunteers raced to the scene with their beekeeping gear, risking stings to save as many bees as they could.

Mixed leaf salad can be a mixed bag, but which supermarket offerings are filled with crunchy green goodness and which are woefully wilted? • The best supermarket strawberries, tasted and rated Supermarket salad bags can rarely compete with the wonderful diversity of leaves found on small farms. The former are often made up of only two to four types of leaf (spinach, sweet batavia or butterhead, maybe some rocket and a bitter leaf such as frisée), compared with the incredible range of eight to 12 varieties found in a good farm salad bag. That said, this test did teach me that some brands are starting to include more exotic leaves in their mix. I awarded points for leaf diversity and, more importantly, flavour (it’s incredible how the same leaf variety tastes so different from one packet to another, from nutrient-dense and alive to bland and flavourless). Freshness is also a crucial factor, of course, as is value for money. Sadly, though, compared with other fresh supermarket products such as strawberries and tomatoes, few brands display much by way of transparency or provenance. Most list, at best, a country of origin, with several offering nothing more than just “red and green lettuce” on the ingredients list, leaving me to try to identify the varieties myself. Continue reading...

Heaven is a round table in a favourite Cardiff restaurant, and dainty dim sum tucked inside bamboo baskets Whenever someone asks what my death row meal would be, I say dim sum without fail. It’s cheating, I know; a loophole where you don’t have to choose. I’ve spent more time thinking about it than I’d like to admit, but what I love most about dim sum is that you never have the same experience twice – a bit like snowflakes, no two are ever the same. Dim sum covers all bases – there’s no settling on one thing: it’s a chance to sample everything as you work your way through the menu. It doesn’t fit neatly into starters, mains and desserts, but exists as its own genre, borderless and all-encompassing. It’s overwhelming, loud and chaotic for first-timers; an assault on all the senses, but in the best way. Continue reading...

The actor on becoming a celebrity after Coronation Street, her weakness for Bovril, and why she wants a helicopter Born in Manchester, Paula Wilcox, 76, moved to London aged 17 to join the National Youth Theatre and was cast in Jack Rosenthal’s 1970 television sitcom The Lovers, which ran for two series and became a film. She also appeared in The Liver Birds, Man About the House and Miss Jones and Son, and she played two characters in Coronation Street. On stage she starred in Shirley Valentine, Great Expectations and Canary. Her recent TV work includes Trying, The Cleaner, Avoidance and Channel 5’s new drama The Fortune. She is married and lives in London. What is your greatest fear? Being run over by a cyclist on a pavement or pedestrian crossing, because it’s nearly happened too frequently. Continue reading...

From the Cosmati Pavement and Pyx Chamber to Ode to the Yimeng Mountains, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz 1 Who requested in his will that an art gallery be established in Linz? 2 Which mustelid was named “most fearless animal” by Guinness World Records? 3 What was the first concert tour to gross $2bn in ticket sales? 4 The Kirkwood gaps are regions within what? 5 The Ishihara test is used to diagnose which condition? 6 Which element is named from the Greek for lead? 7 Helvetia appears on which country’s stamps? 8 Which sports teams were rebranded from “minor” to “national” in 2020? What links: 9 Agatha Christie; Sophia Engastromenou; Earl Spencer? 10 The Red Detachment of Women; The White-Haired Girl; Ode to the Yimeng Mountains? 11 Cosmati Pavement; Henry VII Chapel; Pyx Chamber; Shrine of Edward the Confessor? 12 Alexandria and Avignon; Balkans and Levant; Cairo; New York? 13 Lost (Confederate myth); Good Old (English republicanism); Great (13th-century Scottish succession)? 14 Coldplay; Devo; James; Talking Heads; U2? 15 Alces alces , Canada; Haliaeetus leucocephalus , US; Panthera onca , Mexico? Continue reading...