Author: Olivia Carter

At MM6, taking familiar shapes and turning them inside out, upside down, and sideways is the gift that just keeps on giving.With its spring 2026 Avant Première collection, the studio keeps its focus squarely on the product while also chasing up new adventures in abstraction. Clothing labels and linings rise to the surface on coats and shirts; a humble washed-out denim gets the haute peacoat treatment, knits appear lifted straight from the loom, ribbing still trailing; and elevated materials—notably leather—get crumpled like a brown paper bag from a convenience store.Setting aside a few noisily branded pieces here and there—a blousy…

Described as “a troublemaker of the very best kind”, the health activist Jean Robinson, who has died aged 95, championed the rights of patients, pregnant women and disadvantaged people for more than 50 years. She was chair of the Patients’ Association, president of Aims (the Association for Improvements in Maternity Services) and a lay member and outspoken critic of the doctors’ regulatory body the General Medical Council. In 1988 she wrote the explosive booklet A Patient Voice at the GMC, laying bare its inadequacies and contributing to its reform.Robinson’s activist career took off in 1966, when, living in Oxford and…

You’ve probably watched this sort of science-fiction scene more than once: some stalwart starship captain and their crew are fleeing from aliens/escaping a supernova /running out of fuel and are seemingly out of options, about to get eaten/vaporized/stuck. But then, just ahead, they spot a planet! So they head right for it, rockets blazing, then dive down and use its gravity to slingshot to safety. Hooray! Cue the triumphant music.So it goes on the silver screen, at least. But does this maneuver work in real life?Yes! Well, not so much the way it’s done in movies—but it is an actual…

Belden House and Mews The hotel is a half-minute walk from Litchfield center, where you will find hearty but casual restaurants and small, sophisticated shops flanking the village green.The acid-green bar with a zinc countertop and alluring cheetah lamp is the most inspired hotel space I have encountered in years.The three-acre property’s natural light is extraordinary, especially when it pours through the original bay windows that curve over banquettes in the dining and living rooms.Some guest rooms in the main house feature handsome recessed minibars that are refashioned original washbasins; the amenities are hyperlocal, from Litchfield Candy Company and Litchfield…

Norway backs new 5% Nato defence spending target, prime minister saysSpeaking at the press conference, Jonas Gahr Støre declared Norway’s support for the 5% target proposed by Nato’s secretary general Mark Rutte.In his opening statement, Støre explained the target is divided into 3.5% on “classic defence” spending including staff, investments, preparedness, and support for Ukraine, with the remaining 1.5% on “defence-related expenses” including on operational and industrial measures.He said that the latter category could cover expenses on protecting and developing critical infrastructure, facing hybrid threats including in digital, and disinformation, among others.He said the country was currently spending 3.2% on…

The amount of water being sucked from England’s rivers has surged to record levels, with potentially disastrous consequences for people and wildlife, it can be revealed.An investigation into licensing data by Watershed Investigations and the Guardian found that the volume of water taken from rivers and lakes for industrial or public consumption has jumped 76% in two decades: 11.6m cubic metres (410 cu ft) were abstracted in the five years to 2023, up from 6.6m in the early 2000s.Abstraction – the removal of water from rivers, lakes, underground aquifers or tidal waters – is permitted for farming, industry or public…

The US Food and Drug Administration has just approved lenacapavir, an injectable form of HIV prevention that is almost 100 percent effective and requires only two doses per year. Science magazine described the medicine the most important scientific advance of 2024.In clinical trials, lenacapavir proved to be 99.9 percent effective in preventing HIV infection through sexual transmission in people weighing more than 35 kilograms. The drug, an antiretroviral, works not by stimulating an immune response, but by blocking HIV from reproducing during its early stages—specifically, by disrupting the function of the virus’s capsid protein. This happens so long as the…

Would “Jaws,” the first blockbuster, be greenlit today? Probably not. Alissa Wilkinson, a New York Times film critic, breaks down why.

A group of protesters a gathered at Parliament Square as MPs debate the final stage of a bill today which could legalise assisted dying in England and Wales.One woman described her son dying of cancer in “excrutiating pain” and saying that assisted dying would have given him a choice.Another protester said that the bill will open “a floodgate” if passed.The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill would allow terminally ill adults with six months or less to live to get medical assistance to end their own lives.

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature22nd over: India 82-0 (Jaiswal 36, KL Rahul 38) Oh that is so good by KL Rahul. Stokes goes full and offers a smidge of width, Rahul gets down on one knee and drives through cover with hold-the-pose panache. Headingley lets out a collective purr.Share21st over: India 77-0 (Jaiswal 36, KL Rahul 34) Carse sends down a full bunger that is duly dispatched for four by Jaiswal wide of point. Carse struggles with the change of ends and spears four wides down the leg side.ShareUpdated at 12.41 BST20th over: India…