Новости за 22.04.2015

The head of the beleaguered English National Opera (ENO) has vowed to protect the company’s full-time musicians after Arts Council England suggested they could be dropped to save money.

Whatever became of the Green Party? There was a time when the “Green surge” promised to be one of the big surprises of 2015. Boosted by the controversy around who would take part in televised debates, the Greens gained 2,000 new members in a single day in January, taking their membership close to 45,000, more than the Liberal Democrats or Ukip. They now claim a membership of 60,000, four times what it was less than a year ago.

The British have a strange relationship with their largest retail group. Even after its recent travails, culminating in a record-breaking loss of £6.4bn, about one pound in every three the British spend on their groceries makes its way through a Tesco till. And yet, as much of the coverage of its various scandals and setbacks demonstrates, many people seem to want to dance on its grave – often the same people who might pop in to a Tesco Metro on their way home for a ready meal and a bottle of wine. Читать дальше...

Kate Hilpern pitches up with family-sized accommodation for holidays under canvas

The setting is the same Connecticut seashore home as in the angst-ridden Long Day's Journey Into Night. But the mood of Eugene O'Neill's earlier semi-autobiographical play is surprisingly humorous and benign.

Whether it's budget accommodation you're looking for, or five star luxury

People who have more sex are likely to earn more, new research claims.

Rare photos shows Western fighters working alongside Kurdish forces

Daniel Barenboim may have been on the podium, but it was the figure at the piano – with whom as a boy he had briefly shared the same ferocious teacher – who guaranteed that the Festival Hall was filled to bursting, at the start of this year’s Barenboim Project.

A “Sharia compliant” sex shop is reportedly to open in Mecca selling halal products for Muslims.