• The Guardian
• Mon May 26 2025

When Justine Kong Sing stepped off a steamship into Edwardian London, the Nundle-born daughter of a Chinese merchant could tell straight away she was ...

• The Guardian
• Mon May 26 2025

?We offer 15,000 whites. Pick any three.? I more often give this advice to female clients, since in 40 years restoring, colour-matching and consultin...

• The Guardian
• Mon May 26 2025

On stepping aboard the Empress of Australia, the setting for Toby Schmitz?s debut novel, I thought I might be in for a fizzy nautical romp. I rather h...

• The Guardian
• Mon May 26 2025

I?m the best driver I know, whatever my driving record might say. I don?t hog the right lane. I never tailgate. And I usually let people in ahead of ...

• The Guardian
• Mon May 26 2025

In the final episode of Ted Lasso?s second season, Ted sends a text to his ex-wife that reads simply: ?Knock, knock.? Nothing too unusual about that y...

• The Guardian
• Mon May 26 2025

The last great voice of wartime European cinema has gone with the death of documentary film-maker Marcel Ophuls, son of director Max Ophuls; he was bo...