The Times and The Sunday Times Subscription
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If you know of someone who loves keeping up with the news, how about giving them a subscription to TheTimes and The Sunday Times?
The papers both pride themselves on keeping us all well informed. There's news and views to read, comment and analysis to digest and mull over. From politics to travel, food and drink to the environment, law, world news, UK updates, property and home, lifestyle, fashion, beauty, parenting, health and fitness, culture (books, films, music, threatre, dance, opera, art), sport, business and money (entrepreneurs, money and so on), Scotland, Wales and Ireland - there's plenty to keep you immersed on what's going on. There are cartoons to make us smile and cheer us all along. There are puzzles to work your brain, with crosswords, brain teasers, Sodoku, Quintagrams and the Times Cryptic and Polygons. Writers include Daniel Winkelstein, Matthew Parris, Matt Syed, Janice Turner, Libby Purves, Caitlin Moran, Giles Coren and Dolly Alderton, all penning articles and comments on a wide range of topics.
In The Sunday Times on 20th April 2025, you'll find news and articles such as...
- Supreme Court victors getting death threats in gender ruling backlash
- Royal Family: Macron to make state visit months before Trump
- Russia-Ukraine War: Russia's Easter truce is a lie and attacks go on, says Zelensky
- History: Tim Bouverie: I study how we beat Nazism. The last few weeks alarm me.
- Money: How to give your family money (legally)
- Politics: Will Lloyd: Welcome to the Tory heartland (where no one says they're Tory)
- Canada: Analysis: Why conservatives can't seem to crack Canada
- Comment: In Vietnam I saw all the urgency and purpose the West once had (Matthew Syed)
- Comment: Cut your own phone use before you try it with children (Rachel de Souza)
- Business, Companies: From riches to rags: is luxury falling out of fashion?
- Sport: Football: Jonathan Northcroft: 'Fuming' Watkins' response is just what Emery would have wanted
- Life & Style: Property & Home: Should all new housing developments come with allotments?
- Life & Style: Wine: Jane MacQuitty: The best wines for Easter - including the £5 sauvignon blanc to buy
- Culture: Review: Books, Fashion: Fashion in the 1940s? Make-do and mend unless you're a princess
- Travel: Why you'll love Europe's oldest wine region - with new direct flights
- Travel: Spain: This new rail pass is your ticket to Spain's most exciting cities
- Puzzles to keep your mind active
- And lots more!
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The Times' history
The Times was founded back in 1785 by editor and publisher John Walter I, the aim being "to record the principal occurrences of the times” for the service of the public. It was actually calledl Daily Universal Register at first, and then it became The Times in 1788. Today, it is very much reporting on the main occurences of our times, covering everything from World News to business, sport, law, fashion, wellbeing , home and garden, the environment, society, politics, Scotland, the Register – and of course Letters to the Editor, Comment (always good to read).
In the first edition, Walter explained that "like a well-covered table, it should contain something suited to every palate” including politics, foreign affairs, matters of trade, legal trials, advertisements and “amusements” and it still holds true to that today.
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The Sunday Times has had an innovative and pioneering career ...
The Sunday Times was founded in 1822. It was a separate newspaper, and was innovative and pioneering, with the first female prorprietor in 1887 and female editor (1894), large illustrations, book serialisations and separate sections. It also had the first colour magazine supplement in 1962. Today, The Sunday Times has three magazines in print, Culture (useful for identifying the TV programmes you want to see in the week and immersing yourself in reviews of books, plays, the threatre etc), Style (all about fashion, places to eat and so on) and The Sunday Times magazine with fascinating articles
Online, there’s an Explore option, to take you to areas such as Politics, Life and Style, Luxury, Business and Finance, Society, Travel, Environment, Sport, Arts and Culture, Russian-Ukraine war. So wherever you are, you can keep in touch with what's happening!
You can take a quick look at what's covered each day through a drop down tab at the top of the page, and you can also check what's been featured and reported on in the last six days, too.