OPINION: I've been a "PlayStation gamer" since around halfway through the PS3 and Xbox 360 generation when I decided to ditch my 360 for Sony's offering. But, like many I suspect, I'm questioning the value that the PlayStation 5 offers. I don't know what may finally make me switch, but it won't be Steam coming to Xbox. To varying levels, it feels like I've spent the last year or so pondering if it's time to switch from PlayStation to Xbox. I'm in the enviable position of having an Xbox Series...
It is a fraught time of cuts, rewrites – and alcohol. Our writer goes behind the scenes at The Divine Mrs S just as the official opening night looms and not everyone’s ready to face the musicRachael Stirling picks her way from the back of the stage, joins her colleagues in the stalls, and then promptly bursts into tears. “I’m tired,” she explains. Stirling is playing Sarah Siddons, the great 18th-century actor, in The Divine Mrs S at the Hampstead theatre in London, and we’re chatting right in...
Speaker Mike Johnson announced he will not change the procedure for removing him from the speakership, after hardliners reacted with fury to a proposed change to House rules. “Since the beginning of the 118th Congress, the House rule allowing a Motion to Vacate from a single member has harmed this office and our House majority,” Johnson wrote on X. “Recently, many members have encouraged me to endorse a new rule to raise this threshold. While I understand the importance of that idea, any rule...
Ben & Jerry’s independent board said it won’t stop overseeing the “social mission” of the brand even if parent company Unilever Plc sells or spins off the ice cream unit. There is a “firmly established framework” that will “remain intact” to protect the integrity of a brand known for promoting progressive causes, said the board, which has had a fractious relationship with Unilever in recent years. Led by Anuradha Mittal, the board told Bloomberg News that it’s here to stay and has played a key...
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Why tie the knot with someone you have lived with for years – and what happens next? Three women share their storiesOn the surface, marriage might not appear relevant to many Australians today. Indeed, most women and half of men say that’s so. De facto couples enjoy the same legal rights as their wedded counterparts, one in seven Australians are in a de facto relationship, and a new survey showed a 15% drop in marriage rates among young Australians between 2001 and 2021. Yet sometimes even...
MILLIONS of iPhones are set for a major change to Apple Pay but UK and US owners will miss out. The technology giant is planning on modifying a new feature which will allow more people able to use
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Out of descriptors that fit Gustaf Westman’s designs — colorful, bubbly, soft, squiggly, curly — one word that doesn’t come to mind is spiky.Ignoring the custo
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