Ed Cumming

Those gripped by the saga will hope the appearance of his long-time executive assistant before a US House committee can illuminate a case that still refuses to yield all its secrets.

You might have thought Keir Starmer’s government had run out of ways to surprise us. Between the scandals and U-turns and the entire sorry Mandelson affair, it has crammed a whole parliament’s worth of dismal headlines into less than two years. Quite a run rate.

With his 6ft 6in rugby player's frame, unmistakable sweep of grey hair and proudly "anti-fashion" dress sense, Sir Tim Martin in a Wetherspoon is less undercover boss and more visiting religious leader.

Keir Starmer's proposed ban on social media for under-16s will target 10 companies in particular: TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, X, Reddit, Facebook, Twitch, Kick and Threads.

As England’s footballers prepare to face Croatia in Dallas this evening, Britain itself is bracing for World Cup mania to take hold.

We are in late June, when home chefs dust off their tongs, pray their Kiss the Cook aprons still do up around the middle, and Brillo last year's carbonised flesh off their grills.

“The Irish government is a bunch of incompetents,” says Michael O'Leary. “We've built a second runway at Dublin [Airport], but there's a 25-year-old

Alasdair Gill’s memoir about his powder-heavy chef life has a promising subject. Shame that it’s terribly written

Erling Haaland has propelled Norway to the later stages of the World Cup with Viking spirit and bagfuls of goals. For fashion lovers, however, his bags are #goals, too. In particular, his array of custom Hermès Birkins. He has the HAC (Haut à Courroies), also known as the Road Hack, priced at $45,500. He has also been spotted with a black and orange checked version, reselling for $33,000. In one picture he can be seen climbing out of a private jet holding a Birkin within a Birkin. You never saw Bobby Moore doing that.