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Here’s a reminder of how they start, by the way. It’s advantage Piastri and McLaren.

Lewis Hamilton won the sprint race yesterday after starting on pole. Can he produce more heroics in Ferrari red today? He sits fifth on the grid.

The actor talks bird-watching, homework trauma and the hands-on skill she’s teaching herself

Lie-in or early start? I’m a horrible sleeper – I spend very little time in the bedroom – and I’ll read until the rest of the world wakes up. On an ideal Sunday morning I’d go for a walk with binoculars. I like bird-watching.

Favourite bird? The house sparrow. They’re in decline, so they’re more interesting than they would seem, and they’re full of character.

The latest generation of SPF creams do more than simply protect you from the harmful effects of the sun. Choose a product you can wear all year round

I never tire of banging on about SPF, which I wear 365 days a year, because I believe in its importance. It’s a protective veil that lessens the chance of skin cancer. And the new wave of SPFs also combats a myriad of skin issues. There are SPFs that are super-hydrating, perfect for dry and mature skin types; SPFs for those constantly battling breakouts – it’s important you have something that won’t clog your pores and make things worse. There are SPFs for brightening and tackling pigmentation (which the sun has a habit of exacerbating), eradicating dark spots and keeping them at bay. For anyone caught up, even subliminally, in society’s increasingly terrifying obsession with youth, the demand for tweakments has begun to wane. Now people in their 30s and 40s are having mini-facelifts, and while an SPF will do nothing to combat what you might consider a saggy jowl, anyone who uses an SPF consistently will absolutely have more youthful-looking skin than someone who doesn’t. I still hear excuses about SPFs being thick and heavy and that they leave a white cast, but these iterations have mostly disappeared. Now you have sunscreen brands like Beauty of Joseon, so silky and light, they make wearing sunscreen dreamy. So there’s no excuse. Because even without the health implications, at the very least, you will have better-looking skin.

1. Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun: Rice + Probiotics SPF 50+ (perfect for sensitive skin) £16, boots.com
2. Emma Lewisham Sunceutical SPF 50 Mineral Face Crème (brightening and protects from pollution) £55, emmalewisham.com
3. Kate Somerville HydraKate Illuminating SPF 50+ Drops (illuminating and non comedogenic) £39, katesomerville.co.uk
4. Shiseido Expert Sun Protector Cream SPF 30 (antioxidant rich, defends against pollutants) £37, shiseido.co.uk
5. Naked Sundays Hydrating Glow Mist SPF 50+ (radiance boosting) £30, sephora.co.uk
6. Supergoop PROTEC(TINT) SPF 50 (comes in 14 shades) £40, cultbeauty.co.uk
7. Ultra Violette Future Fluid Superlight Mineral Skinscreen SPF 50+ (lightweight and great for oily and sensitive skin) £38, ultraviolette.co.uk
8. Mecca Cosmetica To Save Face SPF 50+ Matte Sun Serum (matt finish, great under makeup) £38, meccacosmetica.com
9. Kosas DreamBeam Sunlit Comfy Smooth Sunscreen SPF 30+ (ceramides, peptides and hyaluronic acid for plumper, smoother more hydrated skin) £36, spacenk.com
10. Kopari Sunglaze Sheer Setting Mist SPF 50 (includes hyaluronic acid and vitamin C for hydrating and brightening) £30, cultbeauty.co.uk

A report lays bare the extent of real-world detriment caused by institutions that have caved in to activist pressures

The idea that the reality of people’s biological sex is immaterial in society, and that it can be replaced by the concept of gender identity – whether someone feels male or female – is a highly contested belief system that does not reflect British equalities law. Yet in recent years, it has come to dominate sections of the public sphere spanning institutions as diverse as the NHS, the police and universities, as activists have sought to impose this personal belief on everyone.

The extent to which leaders in those institutions have caved in to activist pressures has led to real-world detriment. Gender-questioning children and young people have been prescribed untested drugs with harmful side effects by NHS clinicians. Rape crisis services have failed to provide women who have been sexually assaulted with single-sex services . Male rapists and sex offenders who say they believe they are really women have been locked up in female prisons with vulnerable women . The police have unlawfully tried to discourage people who believe biological sex is real from exercising their democratic right to free speech . Employment tribunal rulings illustrate how many people – particularly women – who have refused to comply with this belief system have been bullied and hounded out of their workplaces. And now a new government-commissioned review led by Prof Alice Sullivan of University College London has highlighted the extent to which official data sources have been corrupted by gender ideology .

Distorted external referencing can keep her paralysed, because she’s trying to live up to an imagined ideal

The question My daughter is now 34 years old, but she wants to be a teenager again , because she feels that she missed out on the fun she should have had back then. She hates the way she looks, because she thinks she looks older than 16. She wants cosmetic surgery and orthodontics to look younger.

She wants to experience university life as a fresher again and have young fun, but she also doesn’t want to as she feels too old. She wants to earn and have independence, but also fears it. She relies on her mother and me and is not interested in getting a job. She never goes out and has no friends. She has no interests and spends most of her time comparing herself with teenage social-media idols.

Choose carefully and you can find some low-price gems at Aldi

Unearthed Gemischter Satz, Niederösterreich, Austria 2024 (£8.99, Aldi ) With changes in duty adding an extra uncomfortable squeeze to the inflationary pressures that have affected all grocery products, wine retailers are finding it ever more difficult to source good wine at affordable prices. Rare is the wine of character and taste at less than £8, or even £10, these days, and I can count the number of genuinely appealing £5 bottles I’ve tasted in the past year on one hand. Retailers are trying to get around this issue by trawling away from classic, established areas and presenting whatever random assortment of cheaper offbeat wines they have found on the bulk market as “hidden gems”: hence the proliferation of own-labels with names on a theme of Found (Waitrose) Loved & Found (M&S) and Discovery Collection (Sainsbury’s). Despite the “virtue of necessity” feel, the wines are frequently among the more interesting supermarket bottles, none more so than Aldi’s latest find in its “Unearthed” line: a racy, tangy, springtime-floral aromatic Austrian white that punches some way above its £8.99 price tag.

Buenas Vides Argentinian Organic Malbec, Uco Valley, Argentina 2024 (£7.99, Aldi ) Austria was also the source for one of my favourite new Aldi red wines, a satisfyingly spicy, blackberry-juicy, refreshing and chillable red Specially Selected Austrian Zweigelt, Niederösterreich 2024 (£8.99). It was all the more appealing for being properly dry – as is so often the case when I taste supermarket wine ranges these days, far too many reds at Aldi’s recent tasting came with an unwelcome dose of sugar. Red wines that avoided the sweetness trap and that offer the same kind of bargain hunter’s buzz I feel when I buy a jar of Aldi’s palm oil-free peanut butter included what I think is Aldi’s best-value wine: the authentically savoury, supple Chassaux et Fils Côtes du Rhône 2023 (£5.29); and a pair of malbecs from Argentina’s Uco Valley: both the Buenas Vides Uco Valley Malbec 2024 (£6.29) and Buenes Vides Organic are worth the price of admission, although the extra violet-aromatic lift and succulent plum and cherry of the Organic really stand out when you taste them back to back.

Five years since Boris Johnson ordered the UK to stay home, steps to prepare for the next national emergency are clearer

Exactly five years ago Boris Johnson announced that the United Kingdom was being placed in lockdown. “From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction – you must stay at home because the critical thing we must do is to stop the disease spreading between households,” the PM told the nation.

That lockdown, Britain’s first of the Covid-19 pandemic, lasted until June. People reacted in myriad ways: with manic outpourings of video calls; obsessive outbreaks of bread baking and pet dog purchases; or simple, quiet desperation as they tried to fend off the isolation imposed on them. More lockdowns were to follow, but the first defined the sudden, chilling, unwelcome seclusion that individuals were forced to experience as social contact was halted across the country.

The alarm has been raised by experts as the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the introduction of lockdown

Key scientific lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic are being forgotten, UK scientists have warned.

The researchers have raised the alarm as the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the introduction of lockdown, which was announced by then prime minister Boris Johnson on 23 March 2020.

MPs claim during her 2022 party leadership campaign she promised them she was committed to green targets

Kemi Badenoch has been accused of breaking a promise made to Tory MPs during her leadership campaign after abandoning the party’s commitment to reaching net zero by 2050.

Speaking to the Observer , Chris Skidmore, who served as a government minister between 2016 and 2020, said that Badenoch had made clear to a group of Tory MPs and other Conservatives at a leadership hustings in 2022, when she was seeking their votes in the race to replace Boris Johnson, that she backed the policy.