Kill Russian soldiers, win points: how the Ukrainian army's reward scheme is gamifying war

Stewart Lee's layered irony and leftist satire – is it comedy or condescension? And does even he know how far the layers of irony go?

The Good Life may be fondly remembered, but its upper-middle-class caricatures never reflected the realities of 1970s suburban Britain.

The number of millionaires is spiralling. And destinations – particularly the over-touristic ones – are desperate to woo them

Every Easter, the Creme Egg dominates supermarket shelves. It is, Cadbury’s marketing department loves to remind us, ‘the nation’s favourite Easter egg’. Its popularity sometimes verges on cultlike....

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The jokes that may have been funny 20 years ago have worn thin – as David Tennant's lame gag at the Baftas proved.

I’m on the 10.45 slow train to Ipswich. It’s not even lunchtime, yet everyone around me is already gorging on food. The corpulent man opposite is posting fistfuls of cheesy Doritos into his gaping...

I share little in common with the royal family, but like certain members of that beleaguered group, 2024 turned out to be a particular annus horribilis for me. With sorrows coming at me, not as...

Alan Partridge is one of the funniest characters of all time – but Steve Coogan's political posturing and more serious performances fall flat

The Arlberg Line features epic mountain scenery at every turn, chic ski resorts and dreamy lakeside towns, with almost no delays