OpinionAir transport This article is more than 1 month oldIt’s bad enough having to work at Christmas – please don’t make me wear antlers tooThis article is more than 1 month oldMeryl LoveI work for an airline that is keen to be festive. Spare a thought for all us obliged to have ‘fun’ while serving the public I’ve just received a company-wide message from the airline that I work for telling me, “All cabin crew are invited to wear Christmas hats over the festive period!
The outspokenEncephalitisWhen she began experiencing head pain as a student, Dawson was diagnosed with a breakdown and sectioned. She actually had encephalitis. Five years on, now paralysed in one leg, she is speaking out for disability rights
Lucy Dawson was skating through life. Everything came so easily to her: she had friends, confidence, academic success. At the age of 20, she was studying criminology at the University of Leicester, determined to join the police.
Annie LeibovitzFrom the outside, it looked like an odd relationship - Annie Leibovitz, celebrity photographer, and Susan Sontag, writer and intellect. Yet they were a couple for 15 years, travelling the world and sharing their lives. Now Leibovitz has put together her images of Sontag in a book to tell their story. Interview by Emma BrockesOver the course of their 15-year friendship, Susan Sontag would often complain to Annie Leibovitz that, despite being one of the most famous photographers in the world, she never took any pictures whenever they went out together.
TheatreReviewSTCSA, Adelaide Edward Albee’s 2002 play has a deliberately ridiculous premise – but this production eschews the real issues it could interrogate in favour of broad laughs
Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email A Claudia Karvan-led revival of Edward Albee’s taboo-prodding 2002 play, The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?, sees a happy, perfect family shattered by an unthinkable revelation.
Between the polished concrete floor, tasteful wooden beams, trending midcentury furniture and shelves of carefully arranged books, pot plants and ceramics, the Dunstan Playhouse stage could have been lifted straight out of Architectural Digest.
Don PatersonReviewThe poet tells the story of his early life in Dundee in vivid prose, complete with hyperbole, swearing and grumpy asides
Don Paterson does not have a typical poet’s CV. He grew up on a council estate in Dundee and left school at 16, having failed most of his Scottish Highers. Poetry is indeed entirely absent from his memoir, which takes us through his first 20 years and some extraordinarily retentive memories of working-class life.
Kathleen Turner as Martha and David Harbour as Nick in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Apollo, London, in 2006. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The GuardianKathleen Turner as Martha and David Harbour as Nick in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Apollo, London, in 2006. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The GuardianEdward Albee This article is more than 7 years oldWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a misunderstood masterpieceThis article is more than 7 years oldMichael BillingtonThe film, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, led Edward Albee’s play to be remembered as a boozy marital slugfest.
OpinionTaylor SwiftWhy obsess over Taylor Swift’s sexuality when there are more openly queer musicians than ever? Rebecca ShawWe are living in a time when we are spoiled with immediately available access to queer artists of any genre. You don’t have to hunt for clues
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USAThe USMNT have rebuilt nicely after a disastrous World Cup qualifying campaign four years ago, but the race to be Gregg Berhalter’s No 9 is wide open
By this time next year, the 2022 World Cup will have come and gone. Soccer’s great and good will have descended on Qatar for the most controversial tournament in the sport’s history, and they’ll have left again. New world champions will have been crowned.
Australian anthemsMusicAustralian anthems: Hunters and Collectors – Throw Your Arms Around MeBoth a booty call and a memento mori, played at weddings and funerals, fewer songs have a greater claim to being Australia’s secular hymn
Throw Your Arms Around Me – released as a single in 1984 – was one of the most popular songs in Australia for many years. Performed by Hunters and Collectors, it was voted in the top five on the Triple J Hottest 100 in 1989, 1990 and 1991 (before the chart changed from a “best ever” to a “best of the previous year”).
Manchester City This article is more than 1 month oldDe Bruyne close to return and out to be ‘best in the world’ for Manchester CityThis article is more than 1 month oldMidfielder is in City’s squad for Club World Cup in Saudi ArabiaErling Haaland visits ‘Miracle Man’ foot specialist in MarbellaKevin De Bruyne is determined to become the “best player in the world” on returning from a hamstring injury sustained in Manchester City’s opening-day win at Burnley.