The Man Who Pays His Way: Do you agree that aearly is on-time and on-time is latea?

Obama opened up about recent struggle in surprise admission

From fabulous florals to showstopping fascinators, the best dressed from Ladies Day 2025

Why cleansing matters, as a new study reveals one in five Brits donat wash their face every day

Keep yourself fit and healthy by addressing these common habits and thought processes

Faked deaths. Fat-shaming. Stolen design patterns. How did an ostensibly wholesome pastime become a hotbed of feuds and conflict? Newfound knitter Kate Ng digs into the strange world of aKnitToka and beyond

Overcooked lamb, dry chicken, pork with no crackle a the Easter roast can be a battlefield. Hereas how to nail every joint, every time, with timings that actually work and tips that donat involve guesswork or blind hope

The CIA wanted them to spy as well as perform. The Communist Party insisted that fans were not to dance to them or learn their ways. Forty years ago, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley were the first Western band to tour China a Mark Beaumont revisits an event that influenced both Cantopop and the rebellion in Tiananmen Square

In 2008, Patrick Bringley took up a post as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art after the untimely death of his older brother. Now, 17 years later, heas preparing to talk about his experience in an off-Broadway play inspired by his bestselling memoir. Tom Murray joins Bringley where it all began: the Met

aYou know, the depression is going to be so great. We"ll be the ones eating the cats and the dogs. That"s going to be funa

New law aims to eliminate added costs that can be up to 25% of retail price

Sneaky fees that are estimated to cost consumers APS2.2bn a year are to be banned from today under new consumer protection laws.

Businesses, including travel websites, ticket agencies and food delivery apps, will be required to include any mandatory fees in the headline price. Research has found these fees can be more than 25% of the product price.

Survey says queues outside emergency departments are leading to acar park carea and fatalities

Paramedics across England are watching patients die in the back of ambulances because of delays outside emergency departments, according to a survey by Unison.

The gridlock of patients in some of the countryas hospitals has led to queues of up to 20 ambulances outside casualty departments in certain areas. In a number of cases, crews have been forced to wait more than 12 hours before handing over patients.

Tariff discussions would make Netanyahu the first foreign leader to travel to Washington in an attempt to negotiate a better deal

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is set to travel to Washington to meet with US president Donald Trump to discuss issues including tariffs, Gaza and the aIranian threata, his office has confirmed.

The meeting will take place on Monday, a White House official said on the condition of anonymity.

White House welcome for key member of Russian presidentas inner circle raises fears over Americaas commitment to peace

Kirill Dmitrievas meetings with US officials in the White House last week went largely below the radar. And deliberately so.

The dapper investment envoy to Russian president Vladimir Putin, who also serves as a key negotiator for Moscow on Ukraine, posted an image of his flight plan on social media to make the point that a senior sanctioned Russian official was being welcomed by the Trump administration. Otherwise, details of what was discussed remain opaque.

This inner critic isnat you, itas just a voice that has been given far too much authority

The question I am struggling with intrusive and increasingly critical self-talk around my appearance. So much so that some days I struggle to look in the mirror. Iave recently had a baby and assumed that my long history of feeling ugly, lesser and fundamentally inadequate would be surpassed by being a mother and having an external concern other than myself but, if anything, itas worse.

It has become so bad I have convinced myself that my partner will find someone else despite him being lovely, reassuring and committed. I know this cognitively, but emotionally I feel deeply flawed as a woman and ugly in the world. I judge myself constantly when Iam around other women.

The actor and writer returns to a childhood favourite for a large slice of family nostalgia

Giovannias on The Hayes, 38 The Hayes, Cardiff CF10 1AJ (029 2022 0077;
giovanniscardiff.co.uk). Starters from APS4.55; pizza from APS12.55; mains from APS14.95; desserts from APS7.30; wines from APS28

Places from your childhood age slower than you do. Giovannias is a family-run Italian restaurant in the centre of Cardiff. While most of the landmarks of my childhood have gone or become other things, Giovannias has been there for more than 40 years. Itas where, in a training bra and polyester dress, Iad come to celebrate family birthdays and exam results. Itas where men with cigarette breath would ask me to do a twirl, as my mum looked on proudly. Itas where I first saw my dad drunk a we had come to collect him after a work do, because he was too pissed to get home. At the door, as I watched Mum help him stand up, I felt like Lisa in The Simpsons looking into Moeas. That was the last time I was here.

In his memoir the former Vanity Fair editor and man-about-town recalls the golden age of glossy magazines, when sales were in the millions and athe budget had no ceilinga

I canat pretend to be impartial. When I look at the artworks in my house I say athank you, Graydona from the bottom of my heart. He hired me as a writer when he first became editor of Vanity Fair in 1992 and paid me a salary beyond my wildest dreams, which I mainly spent on art. Alas, the largesse only lasted two years. I was meant to interview Hollywood stars but none of them would agree to be interviewed by me a I was blackballed by the formidable publicist Pat Kingsley. So after only writing about eight articles in two years we reluctantly agreed to part. But still a thank you, Graydon.

He is an odd character a ebullient, apparently confident, he confesses in this memoir that he is always anxious. But he believes that an anxious editor is a good editor, and he really loves being an editor. Born in 1949, and growing up in Canada, where life revolved around skiing and hockey, he dreamed of living in New York, editing a big magazine, marrying and having a happy family. He achieved it all eventually, but it took a while. Although he never enrolled as a student, he got a job editing a magazine at the University of Ottawa called the Canadian Review, which attained a circulation of 50,000 but no profits. So then he landed a job as a floating writer at Time magazine in New York. As he says, Time is anow a digital huska but it was then one of the most successful magazines in the world, selling 4 million copies a week, with salaries and expenses to match. All meals were on expenses and in five years, he says, he never switched on his oven. But after five years he was reassigned to Timeas sister magazine, Life, which ahad become a zombie monthly, close to deada.

The actor talks about getting excited at the cinema, being lured to kidsa parties and buying amazing breakfast samosas from the farmersa market

Sunday highlights? Spending time with Eric Cantona, my dog. Heas a nine-year-old grey French bulldog. I meet my friends for a chatty run on the heath, then my husband, Matt, will meet me and weall walk Eric. The dog hates walking around our park because he finds it boring.

What do you chat about? Gossip. DIY. My friend Becca is renovating her kitchen. Weare trying to move, so thereas quite a lot of very dull chat about conveyancing.

Red Bullas Max Verstappen has won the Japanese Grand Prix from McLarenas Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. Join Joey Lynch for live reaction

• Any thoughts? Email or tweet @joeylynchy

Pole is always important, of course, but it could prove especially so for Verstappen today.

The Dutchman has gone coast-to-coast from the front of the grid in the last three races in Suzuka and while he hasnat had to deal with the kind of gap between himself and a rivalas car like experiencing this season with the McLarens, his drive to secure pole yesterday shows you right him off at your peril.

• Tszyu wins IBO superwelterweight title following two shock losses
• Sydney fighter calls out American Keith Thurman for next bout

Tim Tszyu has restored his reputation and reignited his international career with a brutal beatdown of American Joey Spencer in Newcastle.

The referee stopped the fight two minutes and 18 seconds into the fourth round after Australiaas former WBO world champion battered Spencer with a stunning blitz to the head and body.

Keir Starmer can help redefine global trade while strengthening new a and old a alliances

aLiberation Daya was, of course, a tragic idiocy based on a bewildering inversion of reality. The rest of the world has not been ripping off or pillaging and plundering the US, as claimed by Trump launching his salvo of tariffs, the highest for a century. The truth is the opposite.

There is no American anational emergencya. The US still represents the same 25% of world GDP, as it did in 1980. More than half the goods it imports are from affiliates of US multinationals denominated and paid for in dollars, so its deficit is an accounting identity with itself rather than reflecting economic weakness.

A new book, Underdogs, demolishes the myth that it is homogeneous in its hostility to immigration

aMany of those who act as the champions of the white person against immigrants,a Labour MP David Winnick told the House of Commons in 1968, ahave not in the past gone out of their way to defend the interests of the white working class.a

It was the first time anyone had referred to the awhite working classa in parliament to describe a segment of the British population. Half a century on, that segment has become the focus of one of the most contentious and polarising of debates. For many on the right, the white working class constitutes a distinct group, both their distinctiveness and their problems, stemming largely from their whiteness. Many on the left have, Joel Budd notes, afallen silent on the�subjecta, nervous of racialising issues of class.

If a car generates more potholes, takes up more space and poses more risk, it is only fair that its owner pays more

Britain is facing an unusual crisis: carspreading. Our road vehicles are getting bigger as people buy more and more SUVs of increasing dimensions and weight. At the same time, our streets and parking places remain the same size.

The consequences of this uncontrolled vehicular expansion have become profound. Potholes are being created in greater numbers as our roads are pounded by heavier vehicles; multiple parking spaces are being taken over by single, giant cars; and road accidents are now producing more severe injuries to drivers and passengers of other vehicles. This last issue is of particular concern.

In his last Observer column, he outlined an interesting proposition for the UK a a unified Europe rejuvenated by the new world era of Donald Trump

I would like to thank Simon Tisdall for his informative and educational journalism over the many years I have read the Observer. His articles on the new world era, created and perpetuated by the second Donald Trump administration, have been one of the few considered insights into our demise towards an acceptance of immoral behaviour by powerful demagogues.

He has articulated an interesting proposition for the UK: a unified Europe which includes Britain, a concept rejected with the Brexit referendum, but rejuvenated by the betrayal of Ukraine, Europe and the UK by the US (aBritain has been paying a high price for Uncle Samas craziness. Itas time to turn to Europea, Comment). For centuries, England barricaded coastal defences because of threats of invasion, but the recent era of supposed protection by allying UK interests with the US has been exposed as a fallacy.
Michael and Raewyn Firmston
Auckland, New Zealand

State department ataking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and prevent further entrya, secretary of state says

Washington is revoking all visas for South Sudanese passport holders and blocking new arrivals, secretary of state Marco Rubio said on Saturday, complaining the African nation is not accepting its nationals expelled from the US.

The state department ais taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and prevent further issuance to prevent entrya, Rubio said in a statement.

Days of heavy rains have led to rapidly swelling waterways and prompted a series of flood emergencies from Texas to Ohio

Another round of torrential rain and flash flooding on Saturday hit parts of the US south and midwest already heavily waterlogged by days of severe storms that also spawned deadly tornadoes. Forecasters warned that rivers in some places would continue to rise for days.

Day after day of heavy rains have pounded the central US, rapidly swelling waterways and prompting a series of flash flood emergencies from Texas to Ohio. The National Weather Service (NWS) said dozens of locations in multiple states were expected to reach major flood stage, with extensive flooding of structures, roads, bridges and other critical infrastructure possible.

Adrien Brody, Paapa Essiedu and Romola Garai are some of the big stars of the night. Plus: Bruce Parry watches a teeth-removal ritual. Hereas what to watch this evening

10.15pm, ITV1

The American photographera captured lifea behind the wheel aacross the US and elsewhere over three decades, using a vehicleas angles to frame the world outside

Itas 3.35pm in Beijing and everything is happening. The wide street, bathed in slanted afternoon sun, is filled with traffic. We are in the back seat of a taxi, paused at the mercy of the traffic controller atop his tiered stand, like a figurine on a wedding cake. The edges of the road are clogged with cyclists rushing towards and away from us, but mostly what we see is cars, cars and more cars, including the interior of our own.

The four-wheeled automobile is the subject and the vehicle, so to speak, of American photographer Clark Winteras Here to There: Photographs from the Road Ahead, which chronicles three decades of road life across the US and beyond. As a youth, Winter was offered a rare place to study at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design under American photography luminaries such as Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan. Realising he wanted to know more about the world before fixing it with his lens, he instead took an entry-level job at JP Morgan, who funded a year of education in finance and then sent him across the world to learn about global markets. He took his Leica with him.

Here to There. Photographs from the Road Ahead is published by Damiani (a!50)

Easter lunch means lamb in one form or another for many of us, and nothing sets the flavour off better than wines made with the saperavi grape

M&S Found Saperavi, Kakheti, Georgia 2022 (APS11, Ocado.com; Marks & Spencer) At a time of year when many of us are gearing up to prepare a lamb-based feast for Easter, the food and wine culture of Georgia offers a novel way of approaching a meal that is, for most of us, rather less hidebound by family traditions than Christmas dinner. This corner of the Caucasus has a distinctive culinary heritage, in which fresh herbs (tarragon, dill, coriander), nuts (as in the staple walnut paste nigvzis sakmazi used as a base for many dishes), fruit (such as sour plums and dried barbary/berberis berries), spices (fenugreek and the mix of fiery red pepper-based spice mix ajika) and the yoghurt-like fermented milk matsoni all play leading roles. Lamb, too, is widely used, not least in a leading contender for national Georgian dish, chakapuli, in which the meat is stewed with sour plums and herbs, providing layered, intensely vibrant-zingy flavours that go so well with the robust, darkly fruited, succulent reds, such as M&Sas Found bottling, made from one of Georgiaas many outstanding indigenous varieties: saperavi.

Tbilvino Saperavi, Kakheti Georgia 2023 (APS13.99, or APS11.99 as part of a mixed case of six bottles, majestic.co.uk) Saperavi is an example of a subset of red grape varieties called teinturier that, unlike most of those used for wine, have red flesh as well as skins a an attribute that gives the wines an inky depth of colour with vivid dark juice that calls to mind a punnet of freshly picked blackberries. The wines often have a similar crunchy-black-berried exuberance, with acidity and grip that makes them a fine foil for cutting through the fat of lamb dishes of all kinds, not just those made in a Georgian style. Separavis to try whether your preparation features slow cooking and sweet Moroccan spicing or classic Sunday roasting with garlic and rosemary include Tbilvinoas fragrant example, which reminded me of a youthful southern French syrah with its slick of succulent dark fruit and hint of aniseed, and the seriously classy Orgo Saperavi a wine of gorgeously silky texture, with notes of aniseed, hibiscus and blackberries (the 2022 vintage is APS21.50 at nywines.co.uk; the excellent 2023 is in shops soon).

With its white sand, sparkling sea, olive groves and echoes of ancient myths, a holiday in Greeceas beautiful Parga makes you very glad to be in the kingdom of the living

There is a place in western Greece where, in a single day, you can frolic at an all-inclusive resort at breakfast time and then, after lunch, wade through an entrance to the underworld. This is Parga, built over a double-curve bay where the beaches are studded with tasteful tourist attractions, and inland the Acherontas River (the ariver of woea) weaves through the rocks.

Itas a good way to plan a family holiday, I think: glamour, sunburn, feta, little bit of death, beer, swim. I decided not to tell the children about the death.

All her life Jean Hannah Edelstein had tried to feel comfortable with her breasts, battling unwelcome attention and breastfeeding woes. But then came cancer and a double mastectomy a and she realised she was losing something she loved

Let me tell you about my breasts, of blessed memory. Thatas not something I would have said while I still had them. I was quite prim, you see, and maybe I still am, but a double mastectomy gives you license to say aabreasta over and over again, without the usual consequences. My breasts were real, and they were spectacular.

Thatas a Seinfeld reference, if youare not familiar. Seinfeld was one of the shows that I watched often in my adolescent years when my breasts first asserted themselves. It was among our key texts. We were in late-20th-century America, my breasts and I. It was a time and place that taught me that womenas bodies a breasts, specifically a were objects of desire, and jokes, and danger. Friends, Baywatch, Melrose Place. Clueless, Scream. Britney, BeyoncA(c). Monica Lewinsky.

Dark circles, under-eye bags: these problems require quite different approaches

With age comes wisdom, experience and a unfortunately a dark circles under the eyes. Sneaky little shadows that make you look as if youave pulled an all-nighter, even after a proper rest.

Dark circles and under-eye bags are often assumed to be the same thing, theyare not. The former is usually caused by thinning skin or hyperpigmentation, making them harder to treat. Under-eye bags, on the other hand, are more about puffiness and fluid retention. Each requires a different approach. You canat banish dark circles completely, but you can improve their appearance.

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Obama opened up about recent struggle in surprise admission

From fabulous florals to showstopping fascinators, the best dressed from Ladies Day 2025

Why cleansing matters, as a new study reveals one in five Brits donat wash their face every day

Keep yourself fit and healthy by addressing these common habits and thought processes

Faked deaths. Fat-shaming. Stolen design patterns. How did an ostensibly wholesome pastime become a hotbed of feuds and conflict? Newfound knitter Kate Ng digs into the strange world of aKnitToka and beyond

Overcooked lamb, dry chicken, pork with no crackle a the Easter roast can be a battlefield. Hereas how to nail every joint, every time, with timings that actually work and tips that donat involve guesswork or blind hope