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Lilac dogs: the cruel new craze that commodifies our faithful friends

Pedigrees are being bred to have a range of unusually coloured fur, including lilac, silver, charcoal and even tiger stripes as well as a host of health problems Name: Lilac dogs. Age: About 30 years.

Make mine a Direwolf! The GoT tattoo parlour in pictures | Television & radio

To celebrate the last season of the fantasy behemoth, superfans have been queuing round the block for free tattoos of Needle, Nymeria and Hodor at Now TVs GoT Ink studio in London Portraits by Sarah Lee and interviews by Mate Mohos

Mike Johnson, the new speaker of the House, is a gender extremist | Moira Donegan

Gender conservatism does not tend to attract as much notice as the other pillars of the far-right ideology, but it is central to the Republican ideology Late last month, when House Republicans ended their chaotic, weeks-long search for a new speaker by elevating Louisianas Mike Johnson, a curious trend of stories began appearing in national

Mrs Delgado review Mike Bartletts lockdown fable brims with life

Old Fire Station, OxfordCompassion and community lie at the heart of this hilarious one-woman show about curtain-twitching neighbours Mike Bartlett wrote Mrs Delgado during lockdown, after a period of struggling to put pen to paper, and it has the gleeful glow of someone returning to what they love. The story and characters tumble out fully

Nadya Tolokonnikova: I suppose we have nothing more to lose | Pussy Riot

If Nadya Tolokonnikova wanted to abandon protest and flee Russia for a life of quiet exile in the west, it wouldnt be so surprising. Although she was freed, by presidential amnesty, last December after serving 18 months in prison for participating in an anti-Putin punk protest, the Pussy Rioter remains under the close watch of