Jack Malvern

Nov 5, 2024 | thetimes.com | Jack Malvern |Tony Turnbull

Gordon Ramsay lambasted the microwave as a device for “lazy cooks” and Raymond Blanc said that using them to prepare children’s food was “an act of hate”. Most controversially of all, Nigella Lawson created a sensation when she pronounced microwave as “meecro-wah-vay”. Now Marco Pierre White has joined the debate by declaring that microwave haters should “take off the blinkers” and embrace the device for dishes such as veal kidney or marrowbone.

Nov 5, 2024 | thetimes.com | Alex Farber |Jack Malvern

The BBC is guilty of leaving staff “dangling” when they have complained about their treatment at work, according to the corporation’s chair. In his first speech since taking up the role in March, Samir Shah said the BBC had “more to do” in the wake of allegations from staff about bad behaviour in the workplace. Shah’s tenure has been marked by high-profile incidents including the departure of Huw Edwards and the controversy surrounding Amanda Abbington’s experience on Strictly Come Dancing.

Oct 6, 2024 | thetimes.com | Dominic Kennedy |Jack Malvern

Mandy Damari faltered as she described her missing daughter to a crowd of 2,000 spectators gathered in Hyde Park on Sunday. The mother of the only British hostage still held being captive by Hamas after the attacks of October 7 last year spoke from a stage a short distance from where her daughter had cheerfully sat on the grass the previous March. “My beautiful, funny and brave daughter, who I love to the moon and back deserves to come home,” she said, her voice breaking with emotion.

Aug 12, 2024 | thetimes.com | Ellie McDonald |Jack Malvern

It has been more than 20 years since the first gay couple adopted children in Britain but attitudes have changed more slowly among flamingos. Curtis and Arthur, two male residents at Paignton Zoo in Devon, have been celebrated as trailblazers after becoming the first male flamingo couple to have adopted a chick on British soil. Zoo staff said that they were unsure how two males had helped to hatch an egg, suggesting that the most likely explanation was that it had been abandoned by another couple.

Aug 4, 2024 | thetimes.com | Philip Willan |Jack Malvern

A pomeranian gazes into the camera as a man with a heavy Italian accent describes Dolce & Gabbana’s latest perfume. “I am,” the man says, with a dramatic pause, “delicate, authentic, charismatic, sensitive, enigmatic, rebel, fresh, irresistible, clean.”The Italian fashion house, which has previously tried to woo customers with campaigns including Colin Farrell and Miley Cyrus, has now identified a new market: dogs.