An anti-selfie exhibition is set to run in London next week with the aim of bringing portraiture into the 21st century. The pop-up show highlights the emptiness of our social media personas through revealing portraits which show their subjects’ flaws – and what it is to be human. Dellasposa, a new ...
I’ve got a friend who, despite being one of the most lethargic people I know, has got calves the size of tree trunks. To the innocent bystander he’s a physical anomaly. This is a man who has spent the best part of his life on a diet of cheese toasties ...
Incredible pictures of planes taking off and landing at the busiest airports in the World have been released following the announcement that Heathrow is to get a third runway. Photographer Mike Kelley has been working on the aptly-named Airportraits project for two years, taking pictures of planes taking off from ...
Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter @rgdewinter @TLE_Sport In sport, there seems to be an obsession with finding the equivalent of a recently-retired, or in some cases, slightly older player. In Argentina, for example, every vaguely promising playmaker will inevitably be named ‘The New Maradona’ – there is even ...
The third runway at Heathrow could be built eight metres above the M25. Rather than tunnelling the motorway under the runway, plans have been put forward for building it on an eight metre ramp above it. It comes after senior highways officials warned of years of traffic mayhem and hefty bills if ...
Kent University has faced backlash after it picked Zayn Malik and Sadiq Kahn as poster-boys for Black History Month. The Canterbury-based university was labelled a “national embarrassment” by furious students for picking two representatives who are both half-British, half Pakistani and both born in Britain. Black History Month tweeted soon after ...
A sweary Mother Nature was outspoken today after plans for a new runway at Heathrow were given the go-ahead. She said: “I am sick of fucking hearing about it, do you know how many species have died since you started talking about the new runway in the 1950s? “The Great ...
A campaign has been launched to overturn the negative stereotyping of Essex girls after the term "Essex Girl" became officially recognised by dictionaries. Natasha Sawkins, 34, and Juliet Thomas, 32, have started an online petition to get the expression removed and have already had thousands of signatures in support. The Oxford ...
New pictures have emerged of French police clearing up the final refugees at the Calais migrant camp before demolition work begins. Some 2,000 migrants left voluntarily on Monday for centres across France, with hundreds more leaving today. The tents and structures that formed "The Jungle" which was once home to some ...