Weekend

This week, columnist Marina Hyde asks why all the blame for the sewage dumping scandal is pointed towards politicians and not the water company bosses, writer Sam Parker on the Gen Z entrepreneurs who are turning their backs on office nine to fives and turning their personal passions into full-time jobs, historian Lucy Worsley on whether best-selling author, Agatha Christie, really did go into hiding to frame her husband for murder, and finally, neuroscientist and psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett asks: can we really tell what animals are feeling, or are we merely projecting?

This week, Marina Hyde on Brooklyn Beckham’s ever-evolving career path, comedian Nish Kumar is at the Edinburgh fringe, Jess Cartner-Morley investigates Whatsapp fatigue, and writer Daniel Dylan Wray asks why thirtysomethings are giving up on music.

This weekend, columnist Marina Hyde on why the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home will lead to him running again in 2024, Simon Hattenstone sits down with diver Tom Daley to discuss how making a documentary about gay rights led to an awakening, and Annalisa Barbieri reveals what triggered – and eventually settled – her late-onset hypochondria.

Weekend is taking a break. So this week, the team are picking out their favourite pieces from the last few months just in case you missed them. This week, reporter Kari Paul asks why so many people are going ‘goblin mode’ (1m46s), Hadley Freeman shares some defining moments from the Wagatha Christie trial (9m51s), and Charlotte Higgins asks why Brits are still obsessed with the Regency period (43m40s)

Weekend is taking a break. So for the next two weeks, the team is picking out their favourite pieces from the last few months just in case you missed them. This week, columnist Eva Wiseman chats to comedian and activist Joe Lycett (01m15s), comedian Hannah Gadsby unpicks the myths and personal struggles surrounding autism spectrum disorder (15m55s), and Michael Segalov reviews Netflix’s recent LGBTQ+ coming of age romcom series, Heartstopper (35m47s).

This weekend, journalist Elle Hunt on why thousands of people are embracing the ‘age of anti-ambition’, Aaron Hicklin meets with John Cho – or as you may know him – Harold of Harold and Kumar, now Sulu in the new Star Trek, and Kelsy Burke strips away the pretence after trying out naked yoga.

Rhik Samadder finds out how it feels to walk down his local high street in a skirt, Sirin Kale looks at what happens to pets after relationships break down, and John McEnroe reflects on how he went from tennis bad boy to the game’s elder statesman.

This week, Marina Hyde on the week the prime minister’s house of cards finally fell down, Rebecca Seal investigates if our smartphones are ruining our memory, Tim Lewis interviews actor Daisy Haggard, and Francisco Garcia introduces us to the people who earn a living looking like our favourite famous people.

This week, Marina Hyde looks at the prime minister’s £150k treehouse plan, Charlotte Higgins asks why we’re still obsessed with the Regency era, Brian Logan documents the history of gags so offensive that punters called the police, and Lisa Niven-Phillips charts the rise of ‘non-shampoo’ shampoos.

This week, Marina Hyde on Boris Johnson’s ability to blame everything on anyone but himself, musician Norman Cook, AKA Fatboy Slim, on his mental health DJ classes, Emma Beddington investigates whether winging it to the top really works, and Imogen West-Knights looks at how the ‘mid-century millennial’ look took over our homes.