Phones have been banned for all but a small window shortly before bedtime on a week-long residential course in the Scottish Highlands with @OutwardBoundUK, leading to brief panic amongst the students
@OutwardBoundUK But Kyra, thinks for a moment and says: “I do feel like it has given us more time to have deep chats about each other’s lives.”
Teachers believe the trip is needed more than ever. After months apart from one another in lockdown, pupils have struggled to readjust
@OutwardBoundUK “When I’m speaking to people, I don’t really have as much confidence as I used to” says Jasmine. “But I feel that I am starting to build it back up and this trip is actually helping. Having a certain role to do, it makes you feel like everyone listens to you a bit more”
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"Mary came at exactly the right time. She changed my perspective to a degree where I could look at what was happening with the Beatles and think, 'Does it really matter?'"
#EmilyInParis2 is no different from the first, packing in the same old “oh là là” French clichés and being almost gleefully bad. Well, you don’t tamper with a winning formula thetimes.co.uk/article/emily-…
If people like watching something with the emotional complexity of a hair bobble just so they can see thin people wearing high fashion, who is it harming? Apart from my knuckles as I chewed them to the bone, writes @CarolMidgley
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Jackie Weaver is famous for controlling an unruly parish council Zoom meeting, but how would she deal with Christmas fall-outs at your house? thetimes.co.uk/article/festiv…
Weaver cites Elizabeth I and Cersei Lannister, the ruthless queen in Game of Thrones, as her role models 👑
Challengers to her authority at the Handforth meeting were met with either instant banishment (to the Zoom waiting room) or rendered mute
“Believe in yourself, believe in Britain, that would probably be her campaign slogan,” says a former adviser. She’ll mention freedom, she’ll mention liberty, she’ll mention free trade
Her ideology is late-era Thatcherism: low tax, work not welfare, slash red tape, shrink the public sector, reduce workers’ rights
Roughly 30 minutes into this extraordinary and inescapably violent film, Rousselle's character smashes her own nose deliberately against the corner of a Belfast sink
For many viewers of the movie, which won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and is France’s submission for next year’s Oscars, the scene is just too much.
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