From “Freedom Day” to “Hot Vax Summer”, was there ever a year with so much pressure to scrub up well?
Let’s enjoy a refresher of the stylish heights 2021 managed to scale in difficult circumstances, writes Harriet Walker thetimes.co.uk/article/best-d…
Adele
How to sum up 2021? Adele wearing a leather trouser suit and monogrammed Louis Vuitton coat to a... basketball game 🏀👠
This look had strong “putting Saturday night make-up on to go to the big Sainsbury’s” energy
Billie Eilish
Once famous for wearing genderless baggy T-shirts and dyed-green hair, Eilish chose this year to emerge in silver screen blonde-bombshell mode - which tells you everything about how young people feel about being cooped up
Zendaya
Fashion types thrill to see the film star dressing as though they are still in the film when they attend the premiere — witness Zendaya in this otherworldly sci-fi column dress by the apocalypse-couturier Rick Owens for the opening of the epic Dune
Timothée Chalamet
The strength of this holographic silver Tom Ford suit for his appearance at the Cannes Film Festival alone would guarantee the actor a spot on this list
Lady Gaga
From the meat dress of 2010 🥩 to the Quality Street dress of 2021 🍬
Sure, she still has her pants on show, but Lady Gaga’s purple Gucci gown at the House of Gucci premiere represented a maturing of the singer’s style
Emma Raducanu
Two days after winning the US Open, the tennis star, then 18, took to the Met Gala stairs wearing a printed Chanel two-piece and matching cape
Raducanu’s was a masterclass in how to emerge from one’s corona-crisis chrysalis
Helen Mirren
Mirren’s sea-foam shade of glitter at the Venice Film Festival set the standard for all 2021 occasionwear.
At 76, Mirren is a poster girl for those vaccinated early, who then really went for it on the party front 🎉
AOC
“Tax the Rich”, read the gown worn by every hipster’s favourite congresswoman.
Online debate raged on and on as to whether AOC was helping the cause or not by attending such an expensive and lavish event
🔺EXCLUSIVE: Rosie Duffield (@RosieDuffield1) has resigned as a Labour MP, blaming Sir Keir Starmer’s “cruel and unnecessary” policies and the freebies row that is engulfing him and his party
Duffield, 53, has become the fastest MP to jump ship after a general election in modern political history. She is writing to the prime minister today informing him of her decision to resign the whip “with immediate effect”
In her resignation letter, which she has shared with The Sunday Times exclusively, Duffield condemned Starmer for accepting gifts worth more than £100,000, including clothing, glasses and accommodation paid for by Lord Alli, the Labour peer
Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff has been accused of “subverting” cabinet ministers in an effort to secure a government bailout of up to £310m to rebuild a derelict stadium in Belfast thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
Sue Gray has angered government officials and ministers by “personally dominating” negotiations for a bailout for Casement Park, a dilapidated Gaelic games venue due to host matches at the 2028 European football championship
Gray’s close interest in the project, which is politically contentious in Northern Ireland, has caused resentment among Labour ministers who have been told there is no money for new spending commitments
Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, has been injured in a shooting and taken to hospital, according to local reports ⬇️ thetimes.co.uk/article/slovak…
🔺 UPDATE: Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, is in a life-threatening condition after being shot in the street ⬇️
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The police investigation into Angela Rayner is examining multiple allegations and is not merely limited to potential electoral law offences ⬇️ thetimes.co.uk/article/angela…
At least a dozen officers at Greater Manchester police are investigating the Labour deputy leader over where she lived in the 2010s and the sale of her former council house in Stockport
They are examining tax matters and other issues on top of the question of whether Rayner gave false information for the electoral register when she lived between two former council houses in Stockport in the 2010s
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: top universities recruit foreign students on low grades
Young Britons need straight As to get into Russell Group institutes. But their international classmates may have bought their way in through secret routes thetimes.co.uk/article/cash-f…
Foreign students can buy their way on to highly competitive degree courses with as little as a handful of C grades at GCSE. The courses require British students to have A or A* grades at A-level
Representatives of the elite Russell Group universities were secretly filmed discussing the “back door” routes used to recruit overseas students, who pay much higher fees than their UK counterparts
Ukrainians are resorting to extreme lengths to flee the war as Zelensky wants to lower that age of conscription to 25 as casualties mount in the war with Russia ⬇️ thetimes.co.uk/article/ukrain…
More than 17,100 Ukrainians have been detained by the DPSU trying to leave the country illegally since the Russian invasion thetimes.co.uk/article/ukrain…
Those numbers look set to climb as a contentious new bill seeks to mobilise another 500,000 men for military service