Jair Bolsonaro This article is more than 2 years oldBolsonaro’s ‘banana republic’ military parade condemned by criticsThis article is more than 2 years oldArmoured vehicles roll through streets of Brasília as congress prepares to vote on plans to change Brazil’s voting system
Critics have denounced Jair Bolsonaro’s “banana republic-style” decision to send combat vehicles on to the streets of Brazil’s capital for a rare military parade in what was widely seen as a beleaguered president’s ham-fisted attempt to project strength.
WesternsObituaryDale Robertson obituaryTaciturn hero of film and television westernsIn Hollywood, in the days when men were men, Dale Robertson, who has died aged 89, was considered the epitome of masculinity. In the Clarion Call episode from O Henry's Full House (1952), a giggling, snivelling crook, played by Richard Widmark, whom Robertson, a cop, has come to arrest, keeps calling him "the beeg man". Robertson, an ex-prize fighter, was indeed "beeg" – tall, well-built and ruggedly handsome, with a gravelly voice.
Damian Green This article is more than 6 years oldDamian Green sacked as first secretary of state after porn allegationsThis article is more than 6 years oldGreen admits he made misleading statements after pornography was found on Commons computer in 2008
Damian Green sacking prompts new trouble for Theresa May – live updates Damian Green has been sacked as first secretary of state after admitting he lied about the presence of pornographic images on his House of Commons computer.
TheatreReviewSwan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Lolita Chakrabarti’s staging of Maggie O’Farrell’s moving novel about the death of the playwright’s son – and his resurrection in Hamlet – is powerfully played, with the occasional cheesy line
It is not only the tragically short life of William Shakespeare’s son that lies at the heart of Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel, Hamnet, but also that of his wife, Agnes Hathaway, of whom so little is known.
Mafia This article is more than 2 years oldMafia fugitive caught after posting YouTube cooking videoThis article is more than 2 years oldMarc Feren Claude Biart was betrayed by failing to hide his distinctive tattoos in the clip
A mafia fugitive has been caught in the Caribbean after appearing on YouTube cooking videos in which he hid his face but inadvertently showed his distinctive tattoos.
Marc Feren Claude Biart, 53, led a quiet life in Boca Chica, in the Dominican Republic, with the local Italian expat community considering him a “foreigner”, police said in a statement on Monday.
FictionReviewCries of witchcraft greet any woman who dares threaten a cruel patriarchy in this richly drawn medieval world
Near the beginning of Kirsty Logan’s fine new novel, a travelling theatre company stages a nocturnal performance on a frozen lake. It’s winter and this play, which tracks a woman’s trajectory from maiden to mother to crone, is a small smudge of light in a grim surround of dark. It’s the perfect image – life atop icy precarity; festive warmth upon unforgiving cold – to set the stage for a tale whose protagonist will be confronted by many perilous contrasts.
Detail from the Illustrated Police News report of the murder of Emily Coombes. Photograph: The British LibraryDetail from the Illustrated Police News report of the murder of Emily Coombes. Photograph: The British LibraryFantasy booksIn the 1880s and 1890s, penny dreadfuls were blamed for youth violence and suicide. Did they play a part in the grisly murder of a mother by her two sons?On 17 July 1895, during an exceptionally hot, dry summer, the decomposing body of a woman named Emily Coombes was found in a small terraced house in Plaistow, east London.
AristocracyObituaryThe Marquess of Bath obituaryEccentric aristocrat and chatelain of the Longleat safari park who was a favourite of newspaper gossip columnsAs the chatelain of Longleat, one of the grandest Tudor mansions in Britain, the Marquess of Bath, who has died aged 87 after contracting Covid-19, devoted his life to a remorseless and self-conscious campaign to preserve the English aristocracy’s reputation for eccentricity.
An imposing 6ft 5in figure with flowing shoulder-length hair and a straggly beard, colourful waistcoats, shirts and trousers, often topped with a fez, he was a tabloid favourite, not only for his picturesque appearance and peculiar artistic tastes but for his string of mistresses, whom he referred to as his wifelets (he reckoned there to have been around 74 of them).
78/87 London Youth by Derek Ridgers – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Derek Ridgers has been documenting London's young people since the early 70s. His new book focuses on the decade after punk, when youth culture was at its most varied Sean O'Hagan reviews 78/87 London Youth Fri 21 Mar 2014 11.21 EDT First published on Fri 21 Mar 2014 11.
Wimbledon 2023 This article is more than 6 months oldCarlos Alcaraz overcomes frustration to blast past Holger Rune and into last fourThis article is more than 6 months oldWorld No 1 will face Daniil Medvedev after 7-6 (3), 6-4, 6-4 winAlcaraz: ‘It’s been a dream making good results at Wimbledon’Throughout the opening set of the first major meeting between the two brightest young players in men’s tennis, Carlos Alcaraz’s growing frustration was palpable.