Keeping my act topical, given our chaotic government, is getting beyond a jokeI opened my new standup show, Basic Lee, 14 days after Liz Truss took office. Do you remember her? The cheese one? I joked to the Guardian-reading tofu-eating wokerati in attendance…

It’s Halloween week, with Ellie and Nikita foxtrotting to the Scooby Doo theme, while Fleur and Vito do the salsa to Beyoncé. But who will be spooktacularly good – and who will be sent to the Strictly graveyard?Why are all the questions on The Wheel about Tik…

As cost of living crisis pushes more households to cut shopping budgets, we assess stores’ offersGrocery prices are rising at their fastest rate in more than 40 years, with the cost of budget items such as vegetable oil and pasta shooting up by 65% and 60% re…

Tips on how to sleep if you (or your kiddos) had one too many chocolate bars before bed this Halloween season.

Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonThe comedian is as spontaneous as ever in this unadorned show featuring a one-ghost campaign to rewild the sanitised customs of All Hallows Eve‘Just a very long-winded way of shouting boo.” So says the hero of Daniel Kitson’s Maybe …

With buckets of trick or treating sweets on the horizon, should parents let children gorge or spread the treats over time? A dietician, a dentist and a psychologist weigh inHalloween is fast approaching, and with it comes questions about the excessive confect…