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‘It’s a deep soul connection’: Erasure on how 40 years of friendship got them through grief, and why Vince Clarke has quit touring

Returning for a 20th album of sumptuous synthpop, Andy Bell and Clarke open up about difficult recent years, being happily uncool and battling resurgent homophobia Andy B

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Sexual assault case dismissed against Trailer Park Boys actor Mike Smith

Actor Mike Smith had been charged with sexual assault in 2025 for an alleged incident in 2017.

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Sex, drugs and amoebic dysentery: the 20 best making-of documentaries, ranked!

From tropical disasters and doomed sci-fi epics to bribing Orson Welles and fending off a puma, we rate cinema’s most revealing gl

Alliance against invisibility: Prado and Rijksmuseum join forces for women in art

Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson to watch Bafta Scotland awards in separate ‘relaxed’ space

The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson audiobook review, a Caribbean child’s-eye view of 60s Bradford

The Last First: Winter K2 review, race up second highest mountain reveals fatal cost of regrettable traits

Orgy, apocalypse and exorcism: Faye Driscoll’s revolving bed puts everyone in a spin

‘These early friendships are huge romances’: Extra Geography’s lessons in teenage love

Gears of War: E-Day review, an alien invasion shouldn’t be this boring

Kanye West's Russia shows officially cancelled after weeks of uncertainty

Naomi Campbell wins appeal over charity ban

Extra Geography review, a wickedly funny lesson in sex, class and female friendship

Nicolas Cage calls Marvel movies ‘a glorified WWE’ with over-50s in ‘ridiculous outfits’

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? review, Gillian Anderson fights tooth and nail in marital meltdown

Break Clause review, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll never want to live with anyone again

Don’t hate the movie, hate the critic! Digger’s new PR push is a risky bet for film that was never meant to be divisive

‘A saving gesture’: the art exhibition spotlighting US prisoners’ creations

RSC embraces ‘hugely challenging’ task of staging Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

East of Eden review, Florence Pugh’s soapy Steinbeck adaptation is brilliant, compelling TV

South Park has ​​AI datacentres​, sentient penises ​and a billionaire problem, in more ways than one

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