-
2 months ago | 
thetimes.com | Harry Yorke |Will Lloyd
-
Jan 12, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Will Lloyd
-
Jan 11, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Will Lloyd
-
Dec 7, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Will Lloyd
Andy and Tracey stand in the cold night outside the Brighton Centre with the slightly furtive look of recently escaped convicts. They don’t want their children to know where they have sneaked off to: Ricky Gervais’s new show, Mortality. “Loads of people don’t like him,” Andy says quietly. He looks around nervously. What people? “The woke brigade,” Tracey murmurs. “Our kids are the woke brigade,” her husband says, half-laughing, half-worried.
-
Nov 23, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Will Lloyd
Tax-rich Ireland should be the happiest country in Europe as it enters the final week of its general election campaign. No other major European economy looks as healthy as Ireland’s. Britain, Italy, Germany, and France do not have a budget surplus — Ireland does. And no other European finance minister could afford to do what Ireland’s finance minister, Jack Chambers, did in last month’s budget. A sweeping package of pledges worth €2.2 billion saw voters’ pockets stuffed with gold.
-
Nov 22, 2024 | 
airmail.news | Will Lloyd
Sixty-four years ago, Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor was pretending to be the most doomed monarch in British history when he learnt that Andrew, his brother, had been born. On February 19, 1960, the 11-year-old Charles was playing the role of a young Richard III in a Cheam School production of The Last Baron, a play written by one of the staff.
-
Nov 17, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Will Lloyd
When Karl Marx acidly condemned the “idiocy of rural life” in a throwaway line of The Communist Manifesto, I’m fairly sure we can all imagine what he meant. Yokels. Mud. Muckspreading. Indigents who sleep with their cousins in hay-strewn outhouses. Udder-clenchers and goose-chasers, imprisoned in a timelessly rotating cycle of seeding and harvesting. The idiocy of rural life today has almost nothing to do with farmers.
-
Nov 17, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Will Lloyd
When Karl Marx acidly condemned the “idiocy of rural life” in a throwaway line of The Communist Manifesto, I’m fairly sure we can all imagine what he meant. Yokels. Mud. Muckspreading. Indigents who sleep with their cousins in hay-strewn outhouses. Udder-clenchers and goose-chasers, imprisoned in a timelessly rotating cycle of seeding and harvesting. The idiocy of rural life today has almost nothing to do with farmers.
-
Nov 16, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Will Lloyd
Sixty-four years ago, Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor was pretending to be the most doomed monarch in British history when he learnt that Andrew, his brother, had been born. On February 19, 1960, the 11-year-old Charles was playing the role of a young Richard III in a Cheam school production of The Last Baron, a play written by one of the staff.
-
Nov 13, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Will Lloyd
On the morning of November 14, 2015, technicians at a mortuary in Paris found themselves in a difficult situation. Two sets of parents wereconfused about a corpse inside. One couple believed that their daughter was dead, even though she was alive. The other parents hoped against hope that their daughter was alive, even though she was dead. The night before a series of co-ordinated attacks had been carried out by Islamist terrorists in Paris.
