The Times and The Sunday Times Subscription
(or, why not treat yourself?!)
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 about current affairs and with life & style ideas, tips and news. There's news and views to read, comment and analysis to immerse yourself in, to digest and mull over. From politics to travel, food and drink to the environment, law, world news, property and home, lifestyle, parenting, health and fitness, culture, sport, business and money. 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.
And what a lot of news there is to keep up with! From events in the Middle East to the impact of the 2026 Election results in the UK, and their possible/probably consequences, there's also plenty to immerse yourself in. Just some of the reading in The Times in the evening on Monday 11th May 2026 includes...(the way the news is moving, this will change....!):
- Cabinet ministers tell Starmer to consider his position
- Analysis: The herd is moving and Starmer can't keep up
- Iran ceasefire 'on massive life support', says Trump
- Lorry sent to repair rural potholes...gets stuck in a pothole
- 'Super El Niño' set to make next year hottest on record
- Editor's picks, Health & Fitness: 'I didn't know prostate cancer could come back when you have had it removed'
- Interview: I made an app to stop school photos being stolen for sex abuse images
- Comment, William Hague: Only Starmer makes governing look impossible
- Comment, Mathew Parris: Talk of change amounts to failure of nerve
- Comment, Melanie Phillips: Badenooch shows the spoine voters want to see
- Money: How to handle your first stock market wobble
- Life & Style: First person: Ravishing! Inside Jilly Cooper's world of divots and chukkas
- Business, Eon will buy Ovo to create UK's largest energy supplier
- Sport, Football: Football lawmakers to review penalty-area grappling at set pieces
- Sport, Cricket: County Round-up: Duckett 'regains love of cricket' after first ton in 11 months
- Culture, Books: Nine great crime novels to read this May
- Culture, Classical & Opera: The best classical concerts and opera to book now
- Travel: Wine with everything! This is the ideal way to explore Bordeaux
- Travel: Inside the hotel slipper scandal..
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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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Different digital subscriptions to The Times and The Sunday Times...
The Basic Subscription gives you Smartphone-only access, on one device and also the Daily Briefing newsletter. Subscribe to the Basic Subscription here
- Unlimited smartphone, web and tablet access
- Daily Briefing newsletter
- 3 bonus accounts to share
- Comment on articles
- Save and share articles
- Exclusive subscriber rewards with Times+
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.