The big 2023 quiz of the year
Barbie was on the big screen, Taylor Swift on the airwaves… How well do you remember the year that was?
South-east Asia’s quirky, sweary shopping stars cashing in on livestream selling
Presenters walk the aisles of supermarkets and small shops offering what they can find
‘It makes me feel nostalgic’: Lisa Carney’s best phone picture
The photographer enjoys the sadness in this shot of her son lost in thought against the backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge
Share your favourite so-bad-it’s-good Christmas films
We would like to hear about your guilty Christmas film pleasures
Frutiger Aero: the Windows screen saver design trend taking TikTok by storm
The ‘retro-futuristic’ mid-2000s look harks back to a time of technological optimism
The 25 best Christmas films – ranked!
Muppets and elves jostle with orphans, serial killers and Santa in our list of the greatest yuletide movies ever to grace the big screen
Looking for an online bargain? Beware of exploding batteries, dangerous toys, even socks that can burn you …
Many items sold through online marketplaces don’t meet safety regulations. Then there are the counterfeits. Why is the law so powerless – and how can you protect yourself?
14 hours a night: should we all sleep as much as Dakota Johnson?
The actor says sleep is her top priority in life, followed by meditation, working out and a lot of baths. Sounds lovely – but is it wise to double your rest?
Totally unplugged: a digital detox holiday in Cheshire
Would a stay in a remote off-grid cabin – with phones locked away – be respite from the madness of the Christmas season for this young family?
‘They told me: you’re too loud and you put on 10lb’: Annette Bening on success, surgery and surviving Hollywood
She was 30 when she got her big break – and spent a decade being asked about her marriage to Warren Beatty. As she stars in the astonishing biopic Nyad, she talks about sexism, motherhood and almost being cast in Dangerous Liaisons
Readers reply: why do photographs of beautiful scenery never do it justice?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
Luke Evans: ‘The littlest of naps calm me down’
The actor, 44, on being bullied at school, crying at dogs on Instagram, keeping his temper and getting a quick snooze in before going on stage
Tim Minchin: ‘I’m obsessed with this question … am I allowed to enjoy my life?’
He may not shy from controversy but the writer and performer despairs at the nature of debate online
How Nicholas Winton saved 669 children (and counting) from the Holocaust: ‘He became everybody’s grandfather’
Four generations owe their lives to the man who brought trainloads of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia to Britain in 1939. The original refugees remember the Kindertransport – and the shy stockbroker who got them on it
Tramps! review – the New Romantic story of freaks, Blitz kids and a ‘typhoon of death’
This nostalgic documentary tells the story of the scene that evolved from punk and was energised by London’s gay scene until it was ravaged by Aids