Ward has been at this game for a long time. Her new series, she says, is focused on Epstein and the men involved with him. “You’ll hear how brilliant a manipulator he was, and how he was able to get me on the back foot. The fact that he can, two years after his death, […]
At Ticketmaster, it costs £4.73 to cover each ticket to events such as Elton John on tour next year, or this month’s Latitude festival. …Read the full story
It was announced on Wednesday that the artwork would come home 100 years to the day since it was last seen in the UK. Gabriele Finaldi, the director of the National Gallery, said the 2022 loan was “a unique opportunity for visitors to see Gainsborough at his dazzling best”. After it was bought by Huntington, […]
Pablo Picasso, she said, had personally donated the Cubist painting to the nation in 1949 five years after Hitler’s troops withdrew from the country, inscribing the words “for the Greek people, a tribute. In that time the paintings were stripped of their frames before being spirited out of the gallery through a smashed balcony door […]
Jon Hassell, the influential American avant garde composer who invented the global-minded “fourth world” musical aesthetic, has died aged 84. And those less developed countries were places where tradition was still alive and spirituality was inherent in their musical output, for lack of a better term. He studied at the Eastman School of Music at […]
“I’ve just been talking to your secretary of state for health, poor man He came for privy council. Hancock has been a target for Cummings, Johnson’s top former adviser, in recent weeks. The health secretary then endured further public indignity when, as he was being driven away in a car, a journalist yelled at him: […]
We have apologised to Jess de Wahls for the way we have treated her and do so again publicly now. Freedom of expression can open up debate, create empathy or respect for difference, it can also at times cause hurt and outrage. “I think it’s important for an institution like that to stay out of […]
In one of the final scenes of the premiere, the twentysomething former webcaster Carly Shay, a role reprised by a now 28-year-old Miranda Cosgrove, once again stands in front of the camera – this time, an iPhone, filming the intro to her rebooted web series iCarly, which drew thousands of fictional young teenage fans on […]
And yet, here we are for the brand’s spring/summer 2022 show. In a show that used the phrases “tunnel to joy” and “urgency of feelings” as its key words, this journey was clearly a metaphor for people re-entering society after the pandemic. As men are gradually coming back to their normal lives, they are grappling […]
The warm embrace of the Cardiff audience may have been absent, the total thrill of voices bursting into bloom live in St David’s Hall irreplaceable, but that the competition still happened, was televised and produced a mighty handful of finalists as well as many other singers who made their mark, was a huge plus. Clearly […]
Jason Kelk, 49, was admitted to St James’s University Hospital in Leeds after contracting Covid-19 in March last year. “People might not think he has been brave but my God, he has been brave. …Read the full story
“OK. Like a 1969 Yenko Camaro soaring off a Florida quay on to the luxury yacht of an Argentinian drug baron, the Fast & Furious franchise can be seen as one prolonged exercise in defying gravity. Where rivals such as James Bond or Mission: Impossible pretend they’re addressing deadly serious geopolitical conflicts, Fast & Furious […]
Reynolds, a poet and author who is currently the US national ambassador for young people’s literature, was chosen ahead of shortlisted authors including former winner Elizabeth Acevedo to take the prize. Look Both Ways is a collection of 10 interlinked stories about children walking home from school. But this time around it has been really […]
Ikea, the Dutch beer brand Grolsch and the Swedish cider maker Kopparberg said they had suspended adverts because of concerns the channel’s content would go against their aim to be inclusive. It said on Twitter that it had not planned or purchased advertising on GB News, and added that it was investigating why it had […]
In times of trouble, the last thing anyone wants to see is a gory, operatic, kill-or-be-killed reminder that all life on Earth is locked in a hellish struggle for survival that, by design, they are guaranteed to lose. You sense that Netflix understands this, too, because that’s the only logical explanation for the existence of […]
On a Friday night in Enfield, north London, a group of eight-, nine- and 10-year-olds are discussing cryptocurrency and what people do with their cash. The 20th Edmonton Cubs had been challenged to write down ways to use money, and after five minutes they have come up with lots – from the mundane to the […]
The naval service is to participate for the first time by sailing close to Sandycove – a bathing spot where the novel begins – and by flying the Munster flag, the Irish Independent reported. …Read the full story
He announced in May that Tesla would no longer accept bitcoin for car purchases, citing long-brewing environmental concerns for a swift reversal in the company’s position on the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin mining – the process in which a bitcoin is awarded to a computer that solves a complex series of algorithms – is a deeply energy-intensive […]
The Queen has met every US president since visiting Harry Truman in 1951, when she visited Washington as a princess, with the exception of Lyndon Johnson in the 60s. …Read the full story
Fargo is probably the recent benchmark, but it can also go south, as the 1990 Ferris Bueller spin-off featuring Jennifer Aniston, which almost no one has heard of, can attest. The TV series, which picks up the action a few months after the film’s end, shifts the perspective from Collin to Ashley , Miles’s longsuffering […]