Helen Rumbelow

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

Inside the inquiry: what I learnt about Southport’s instinctive heroes The testimonies of those who fought off the attack brought home both their bravery and the weakness of our knife control laws

Britain gets weaker the more knives sold

Can childhood infection trigger schizophrenia? This doctor says so The psychiatrist Ed Bullmore believes our immune system could hold the key to one of medicine’s most misunderstood mental illnesses

www.thetimes.com/article/7c23...

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

In a sane world this would be the number one political priority www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very succinct WSJ summary of the staggering migration shock that successive Tory governments inflicted on Britain as they tried to mitigate and hide the economic consequences of the Brexit disaster

Anna Wintour, the Vogue test and what it takes to enter the elite now In the 1990s, anyone aspiring to assist the devil in Prada had to ace an exam to prove their cultural capital. But how would that be tested now?

We are not interested in trad culture any more....

The millennial icon who branded herself as a ‘supporter of terror’ Sally Rooney, the author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends, has backed Palestine Action. What will she do next?

Digging deep into Sally Rooney's politics....via some of her best loved novels

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Love, Libor and loss: the Kafkaesque ordeal of Tom Hayes A decade on from his conviction, the trader has been cleared. The impact on his family has been devastating

The most extraordinary story of love and Libor

www.thetimes.com/article/bc48...

Feel the burn: Ulrika Jonsson’s tan has become a hot topic She’s defiant about sun worship, and so are Gen Z

Gen z tracking UV like it's the stock market

The trials of Constance Marten - the Saturday Story The Story · Episode

This story continues to resonate - find out why on this The Story podcast

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Persecuted by the state? No, Constance Marten was in thrall to conspiracy culture In court I watched the heiress and her partner, Mark Gordon, claim to be victims. But they prized freedom above their baby’s life

The Constance Marten case is conspiracy culture pushed to its violent extreme
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Palliative care doctors on assisted dying: he’s for, his boss is against Every week Fiona Chiplen and Adam Baker are asked, ‘Can you help me die?’ As the bill to make it law goes through the Lords, they talk to Helen Rumbelow

These doctors disagree in the kindest, deepest way....

So well deserved Jenny - you are fearless!

‘I can say Putin is an idiot — I have that freedom. In Russia that would be dangerous’ From grenade-throwing contests to marching drills, Pasha Talankin filmed how his school was being used as a military recruiting centre. Now the teacher turned film-maker is in hiding

An awfully funny film about Putin - one that this man risked everything to get to the West.

Here's Pasha Talankin on Mr Nobody Against Putin....

🤣

There's a nice, practical distinction between hope and faith at the end of this, and a rally: you can take action without hope, but you can't have hope if you don't take action

Jeff Bezos, his big wedding — and the tech bro satire Just as the Amazon founder’s Venice wedding to Lauren Sánchez is looming, along comes Mountainhead, a drama skewering Silicon Valley by the creator of Succession. By Helen Rumbelow

The wedding, Mountainhead and Jeff Bezos.20

Yes totally - feels like the model doesn't add up

I'm sorry Susie. And me too.

Andrew Norfolk obituary: Times reporter who exposed grooming gangs Investigative journalist whose forensic reporting revealed the systematic sexual abuse of girls by men of Pakistani heritage, dies aged 60

Andrew inspired admiration and affection in equal and enormous amount. A very sad day for his colleagues who were so proud of him and all he achieved.

No American sex therapy, please  … we’re British Helen Rumbelow thought there wasn’t space in the TV schedule for another show on the love lives of young people. So what did she make of Virgin Island?

Virgin Island makes me proud to be British....

A new high bar of male friendship has been set as **wearing the gold trousers for his wedding** - beautiful piece by @sathnam.bsky.social

Gorgeous in every way

Easily done! Who knows what they're into at sixteen...such a weird system

Teens are bored and stressed for four years — does it matter? The education system is unfit for adolescents and future employers, two experts tell Helen Rumbelow

Here's to every hollow-eyed husk of a teen this exam season

Agree. The more I found out about her, the more extraordinary she seemed.

With so many famous and powerful men usually the focus I was so proud of The Times Story Podcast for making Virginia Giuffre the centre of this story.
Virginia's life was dark, hopeful, and extraordinary.
Please give it a listen.

With thanks to Manveen Rana & producer Olivia Case
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Virginia Giuffre’s battle to escape the past She took on Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew. Despite her victories, she couldn’t break free

Two people, a prince in a royal lodge, and a woman in rural Australia 9,000 miles away, will now be forever bound together by her death

This is such a good piece and such an interesting phenomenon. He looks healthy & happy in both pics, and it’s his body to wear how he likes. But it doesn’t surprise me at all that the male gaze and female gaze diverge so sharply on which photo is more appealing.