The singer and his boy have a healthy breakfast then head out into the forests with the dogSunday morning starts… Between 5.30 and 7.30am, whenever my son, Reuben, decides to wake up, jumping on my face aggressively while shouting, ‘Daddy let’s go outs…
Young photographers reshape our visions of ‘English’ heritage
Migration and the role of women are examined in new exhibitions at historic sites by four artists“I wanted to show people the black Britain I know,” says portrait photographer Kemka Ajoku of his new series, Finding Common Ground.Ajoku is one of four yo…
オリンピック選手の猛烈なプレッシャーと、自身のメンタルヘルスについて語ることの意味
常にプレッシャーに晒されるスポーツ選手にとって、オリンピックという舞台は特別な意味をもつ。こうしたなか、東京オリンピックでは米国の体操選手のシモーン・バイルスが自身の精神状態を理由に競技を棄権するなど、自身のメンタルヘルスについて明かす事例が出始めている。こうした動きはアスリートのメンタルヘルスに対するわたしたちの考え方や、わたしたち自身の生活におけるメンタルヘルスの考え方にとって重要な転機になるかもしれない。
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Revealed: the secret trauma that inspired German literary giant
WG Sebald’s writing on the Holocaust was driven by the anger and distress he felt over his father’s service in Hitler’s armyHis books are saturated with despair. Over and over again, his emotionally traumatised characters are caught – inescapably – in …
Pop maestro Simon Cowell finally bows to the public’s resounding ‘no’ vote | Rebecca Nicholson
The X Factor won’t be returning to our screens. It had long outstayed its welcomeLike a knackered old cruise singer who has finally decided that this cover of Make You Feel My Love will be, must be, their last, The X Factor has slunk offstage for good….
The week in audio: Tokyo Olympics coverage; The Hundred; Passenger List; Fully Amplified
BBC radio and podcasts have all aspects of the Games covered, while a new take on cricket proved a bit too zippy for the airwavesTokyo Olympics coverage BBC Sounds/Radio 5 liveThe Hundred – BBC 5 live | BBC SoundsPassenger List BBC Radio 4 | BBC Sounds…
SA Cosby: ‘The holy trinity of southern fiction is race, class and sex’
The bestselling Virginia crime writer on getting his big break, what southern fiction means to him, and setting his next murder mystery right after Trump is electedCrime writer SA Cosby was the talk of the US literaryscene last year when his novel Blac…
National treasures: posters celebrating US parks – in pictures
The art director JP Boneyard ’s favourite park is Montana’s Glacier national park. “It’s breathtaking, I’m smiling just thinking about it ,” he says. For his screen-print project Fifty-Nine Parks, now collected in a book, he asked modern artists to rei…
On my radar: Domhnall Gleeson’s cultural highlights
The actor on an exhibition that’s like a rave, the best crispy chicken and why he’s having to take a break from Kazuo Ishiguro’s latestDomhnall Gleeson was born in Dublin in 1983. Following his father, Brendan, into acting, he broke through in 2010 wit…
Eddie Izzard: ‘Becoming an MP is still my goal’
The comedian, 59, talks about her love of running, gender fluidity and her plans to go into politicsBoarding school was pretty grim: dormitories, horrible food, structure. Mum disappeared and then suddenly I didn’t see Dad for huge chunks of the year e…