Ayr, Bangor and Millom routinely bring up the rear in coastal town polls, but they offer a calmer alternative to the brash traditional seaside resorts • Where tourists seldom tread, parts 1-17 Tis the season to be beside the seaside – and to hype and critique coastal towns in surveys and rankings. I suppose lists…
From the deserted Danish Riviera to the unspoilt beaches of Poland, our readers share their favourite, more chilled European coastlines• Tell us about your favourite rail holiday – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucher Spend some time on Rügen, Germany’s largest island, on its Baltic coast. White sandy beaches and darker history await….
Those who insist on spending cuts are those who are never hurt by them. Time to be brave – and take a new tack Britain is in danger of going bankrupt. It may happen slowly or quickly, but since Labour took office this possibility has increasingly been promoted and discussed in the press, by opposition…
Angela Rayner’s proposed reforms are ill-conceived and fail to address the system’s inherent unfairness At last a Labour government has found itself a wealth tax – or thinks it has. Its proposed adjustment to council tax in England is crude and possibly cruel, and does nothing to help with Rachel Reeves’s “missing £40bn”. It is…
In 2026, Disney expects to shutter Hulu as a standalone app and service — and fully merge Hulu into Disney+. Why did the Mouse House decide to essentially sunset the Hulu platform, which some users believe is superior to Disney+? Disney chief Bob Iger touted a number of benefits through the move, including increased engagement…
Here’s a piece of Republican rhetoric that used to be ubiquitous but that you never hear anymore: America has the best health-care system in the world. Republican politicians liked this line because it helped them dismiss the idea that the system needed major reform. American health care at its finest offered the most advanced treatments…
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Harold Ryan, the former chief of “Halo” and “Destiny” maker Bungie, has unveiled the first two games coming from his new indie video game developer, ProbablyMonsters, which will debut this fall. The pair of titles include “Storm Lancers,” a rogue-like game coming to Nintendo Switch, and “Ire: A Prologue,” a psychological horror experience arriving on…
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The second film acquired by Eli Roth’s The Horror Section is a low-budget, found footage nightmare that has taken horror festivals by storm. “Dream Eater,” co-written and co-directed by Jay Drakulic, Mallory Drumm and Alex Lee Williams and starring Williams and Drumm, is set to debut theatrically on Oct. 24. Per the official logline, “The…
