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<p>Mike Faist, Zendaya and Josh O’Connor star in new film ‘Challengers’ </p>

What are the pros and pitfalls of having a threesome?

Zendaya’s new film ‘Challengers’ has titillated audiences with a steamy scene of a three-way between the main characters. Helen Coffey asks the experts how to navigate the tricky waters of group sex, and whether it’s something we should all try at least once in our lives

What are the pros and pitfalls of having a threesome?

Zendaya’s new film ‘Challengers’ has titillated audiences with a steamy scene of a three-way between the main characters. Helen Coffey asks the experts how to navigate the tricky waters of group sex, and whether it’s something we should all try at least once in our lives

<p>Mike Faist, Zendaya and Josh O’Connor star in new film ‘Challengers’ </p>
<p>‘Women in Love’ stars left to right: Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Alan Bates, Jennie Linden and Eleanor Bron</p>

Why Women in Love is one of Britain’s most misunderstood masterpieces

A newly restored version of the romantic drama that was issued with an X certificate in 1969 arrives at the BFI this week. Geoffrey Macnab looks back at a film that was as profound as it was provocative, by a maverick director who was never given his due...

Why Women in Love is one of Britain’s most misunderstood masterpieces

A newly restored version of the romantic drama that was issued with an X certificate in 1969 arrives at the BFI this week. Geoffrey Macnab looks back at a film that was as profound as it was provocative, by a maverick director who was never given his due...

Geoffrey Macnab
<p>‘Women in Love’ stars left to right: Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Alan Bates, Jennie Linden and Eleanor Bron</p>
<p>Channel 4’s Fresh Meat: ‘In my experience of cleaning up after students, the hardest thing was plugholes…’ writes Paul Clements </p>

Cambridge is right to room-shame dirty students – and I should know

Top marks to the housekeepers at Fitzwilliam College, who have had enough of their disgusting undergraduates and posted photographs of the filth they have to deal with. Paul Clements, who spent two summers cleaning up after students, says it can be like something out of a particularly evocative Pulp song

Cambridge is right to room-shame dirty students – and I should know

Head shot of Paul Clements

Top marks to the housekeepers at Fitzwilliam College, who have had enough of their disgusting undergraduates and posted photographs of the filth they have to deal with. Paul Clements, who spent two summers cleaning up after students, says it can be like something out of a particularly evocative Pulp song

Paul Clements
<p>Channel 4’s Fresh Meat: ‘In my experience of cleaning up after students, the hardest thing was plugholes…’ writes Paul Clements </p>
<p>Without a consistent plan for aid, Kyiv will find itself in a critical position once again </p>
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The US will give $61bn to Ukraine. What does it mean for the war?

Congress has finally agreed on an aid package that will provide much-needed weaponry to the front lines in Ukraine. But a country at war cannot afford to wait while politicians argue, writes Olga Tokariuk

In focus

The US will give $61bn to Ukraine. What does it mean for the war?

Congress has finally agreed on an aid package that will provide much-needed weaponry to the front lines in Ukraine. But a country at war cannot afford to wait while politicians argue, writes Olga Tokariuk

Olga Tokariuk
<p>Without a consistent plan for aid, Kyiv will find itself in a critical position once again </p>

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