Richard Sharp

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You don’t need anyone’s approval to enjoy a vaccination biscuit. Photograph: Ina Fassbender/AFP
Covid cakes, the great cassette ‘revival’ and historical business pivots

Image of the week: Covid confectionery Banish all thoughts of new year’s resolutions this January and get stuck into a month of lockdown excess, with(...)

Richard Sharp, new BBC governor. Photograph: PA/Bank of England
Former Goldman Sachs banker to be new BBC chairman

Former Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp will succeed Sir David Clementi as BBC chairman, BBC News has said. His appointment comes amid a debate abo(...)

She’s a hippie; he’s a posh English bloke. A few minutes of their lovey-dovey speak and you’ll be yearning for return to the drifting boat and the looming skies
Adrift: Damp survival epic based on a (spoiler alert) true story

When we were looking in the other direction, a new genre seems to have grown up: the extreme survival movie. This damp windy yachting epic most conspi(...)

Jeri Lacks Whye, one of Henrietta Lacks’s grandchildren, with her two daughters, Jabrea (9) left, and Aiyana, (12). Photograph: Monica Lopossay/New York Times
Fight for say in grandmother’s crucial cancer cell legacy

Henrietta Lacks was only 31 when she died of cervical cancer in 1951 in a Baltimore hospital. Not long before her death, doctors removed some of her t(...)