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When it comes to Lisbon it’s “safe to say the secret’s out”, said Condé Nast Traveller. Portugal’s coastal capital welcomes more than 4.5 million visitors each year, many of whom “flock” to the city for its “fado music, historic ruins, winding old town, trams”, and, “not to mention”, those pastéis…

The sudden sacking of Tucker Carlson has left a void at the heart of the Republican media landscape, just as the contest to secure the party’s presidential nomination for 2024 hots up. 

First staged in 1990, Brian Friel’s “magnificent memory play” Dancing at Lughnasa has been revived at the National Theatre, said Sarah Crompton on What’s On Stage. And the production, directed by Josie Rourke, is a “glory”. The story is told from the point of view of a man called Michael,…

Dominic Raab resigned as deputy prime minister and justice secretary last week after an independent inquiry concluded that his treatment of civil servants had, in some cases, amounted to bullying. 

David Cronenberg’s 1988 psychological thriller about twin gynaecologists descending into mania featured surgical instruments “so misshapen and disturbing, it was difficult to watch without squirming”, said Barbara Ellen in The Observer. Now the film has been made into a six-part series for Amazon Prime, with the lead roles gender reversed,…

There is a particular type of person one might associate with Sexy Fish, the Asian restaurant and bar in London’s Berkeley Square. And, let’s be brutally honest, it’s not me. Hell, I’m so diametrically the opposite of the implied Sexy Fish customer I’d be afraid that, if I met one,…

A cat that alerts its deaf owner to phone calls and visitors has been shortlisted for a national award. Zebby, an untrained two-year-old from Derbyshire, also taps Genevieve Moss on the face to encourage her to put on her hearing aid, fetches her slippers when he notices they’re not on…

Toilet paper was stolen from Westminster Abbey the night before Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation, archives have revealed. A book outlining the detailed planning and preparation that went into the 1953 ceremony, states: “It was found, early on Coronation day, that much of the lavatory paper had been removed.” The document…

A Singaporean man was hanged today for trafficking 2.2lb (1kg) of cannabis into the country, despite last-minute appeals for leniency from his family and human-rights groups.