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
Lucy Powell, the Leader of the Commons, said that an Elections Bill — which would include lowering the voting age — could come in the next parliamentary session
In its manifesto Labour committed to giving “16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all elections”, but the pledge was not included in the government’s first King’s speech, setting out its priorities for its first parliamentary session
On the eve of election day, the polls had predicted the closest race in modern times. Instead, it was a rout
With Donald Trump poised to sweep Kamala Harris in all seven swing states, the pollsters — despite spending an estimated half a billion dollars on surveying the nation — underestimated the president-elect’s support for the third election in a row
🔺EXCLUSIVE: King Charles and his eldest son make millions from feudal levies on schools, hospitals, homeowners and the very charities they represent, a joint investigation by The Sunday Times and @C4Dispatches reveals today thetimes.com/uk/royal-famil…
@C4Dispatches The ancient property empires that fund the King and the Prince of Wales have remained a closely guarded secret within the royal family and its small circle of advisers for centuries.
Even parliament has been denied access to the list of landholdings held by the royals
@C4Dispatches We used the royal addresses to uncover how the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall are making millions of pounds by charging government departments, councils, businesses and the general public via a series of rents and feudal levies on land largely seized by medieval monarchs
Sir Keir Starmer has rejected Donald Trump's claims of US election meddling but the Republican presidential candidate has filed an official complaint — follow live updates below ⬇️
The complaint was filed on Monday by Gary Lawkowski, Trump’s deputy campaign manager, and accuses Labour of “forgetting the message” of the American War of Independence
The Trump campaign have used a post by Sofa Patel, Labour’s head of operations, as evidence of its claim of election interference.
Patel said in a LinkedIn post last week that she had almost 100 “current (and former) party staff” ready to campaign for Harris in many swing states
🔺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