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Trite, racist and dull: Why the spectre of Crash still haunts Hollywood, 15 years on

The Oscar-winning film is ripe for a roasting thanks to its tone-deaf treatment of race relations. But, asks our chief film critic Clarisse Loughrey, has anything really changed?

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Ben Burrows How swimming is keeping its head above water during coronavirus

A new Covid-19 Relief Fund has been announced with the hope of helping the swimming and aquatics community through the crisis

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Psycho vs Peeping Tom: Why was Hitchcock’s twisted murderer not a career killer?

Two films about psychopaths were released in 1960 by famous British directors. Both are now considered classics. So why did ‘The Red Shoes’ director Michael Powell’s reputation never recover, asks Gerard Gilbert

Long Reads

John Rentoul Coronavirus diary: I didn’t think any of it applied to me

John Rentoul looks back at how we came to realise that the world was being turned upside down

Sean O'Grady An obituary for hot-desking: The unnatural stain on offices everywhere

The modern perversion was supposed to be egalitarian, in reality, it was only successfully inflicted on those at the bottom of the economic food chain

Why the spectre of Crash still haunts Hollywood, 15 years on

The Oscar-winning film is ripe for a roasting thanks to its tone-deaf treatment of race relations. But, asks our chief film critic Clarisse Loughrey, has anything really changed?

Harriet Walter: ‘Male writers have their fantasy of an awful woman’

After joining 'Killing Eve' for its third season, actor talks about taking care with pronouns, the limitations of Shakespeare’s heroines and the joy of not wearing a corset

Lockdown manicure: The trending nail art you can create at home

An expert nail artist reveals how to give yourself an Insta-worthy look

How leggings became the unofficial uniform of lockdown

Will leggings make it into office spaces once normal life resumes? Only time will tell, writes Sarah Young

‘Coronavirus saved my relationship’

For some couples on the brink of breaking up, the pandemic has offered an unlikely lifeline. Helen Coffey finds out more

First brown bear in 150 years spotted in Spain national park

Video shows animal foraging for food and back-scratching on tree