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‘Audiences no longer laugh if you call their town crap’: can Phil Wang heal divided Britain?
He’s the perfect comedian to cool down these incendiary times. As Philly Philly takes his Uh Oh standup show on tour, he talks abo…
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Olivia Rodrigo sings about heartbreak but she's already chosen her wedding song
The pop star discusses the difficulty of writing happy songs, and her Glastonbury anxiety attack.
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Anger over Epstein and Andrew fuels festival of 'female anarchy'
Dozens of female playwrights unite to express their "seismic rage" in an ambitious theatrical event.
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Brunel’s SS Great Britain site drops historical name in ‘cool’ rebrand
New name, Bristol Dockyards, and museum revamp aimed at becoming more rooted in community, says chief executive One of the UK’s ma…
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Radiohead revenge tragedy Hamlet Hail to the Thief sets London dates
Production fusing the band’s sixth album and Shakespeare’s masterpiece will open at the Barbican later this year Hamlet Hail to th…
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Former director of Rio’s Museu de Arte Moderna ordered to pay breach-of-contract fine
Shortly before his departure from the museum, Fábio Szwarcwald had publicly stated that it lacked fire insurance between 2006 and …
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Shipwrecks linked to the ‘golden age of piracy’ discovered in the Bahamas
Three sunken pirate ships, one of which may have belonged to Henry Every, were recently found in Nassau Harbour
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New film about Leonora Carrington blends fact with fiction
‘Leonora in the Morning Light’ is a time-jumping look at the feminist Surrealist’s life
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We Had a World review – a playwright torn between his warring mother and grandmother
Hampstead theatre, London Joshua Harmon studies his family’s fraught matriarchal relations in this thoughtful drama In an empathet…
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Laurence Olivier honoured with blue plaque unveiled by Ian McKellen
Plaque installed at actor’s former home in Pimlico, central London, where he lived from the age of five to 12 Laurence Olivier has…
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David Harbour on Lily Allen’s West End Girl album: ‘It wasn’t my experience’
Stranger Things actor makes first public comments about his ex’s revealing hit album which tracks the dissolution of a relationshi…
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The truth about my famous ‘Party girl Kate Moss’ shot: Greg Brennan’s best photograph
‘The tabloids will always try to sensationalise. But it was 6.30pm. If Kate really had been falling out the door blind drunk, it’s…
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Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Disclosure Day' - Close Encounters Of The Fourth Kind?
Steven Spielberg revisits his passion for interstellar visitors, with a government conspiracy begging to be blown wide open... NB:…
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French veteran pop star Patrick Bruel charged on multiple counts of sexual violence
French pop star and actor Patrick Bruel has been formally charged over several allegations of sexual violence, including rape and …
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‘I’m carrying rage like a blood-filled egg’: the best of Glasgow International – review
From his deathbed photographs of his former lover to a face emerging from dirt, New Yorker David Wojnarowicz is the festival stand…
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Independent 20th Century adds 75% more exhibitors as it moves to the Breuer Building
The fair's first edition at Sotheby’s landmark Madison Avenue home will feature an expanded roster of international galleries
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First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
Oscar winner Mikey Madison and Jeremy Strong to star in film focused on fallout from whistleblower Frances Haugen The first traile…
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How Max put Orkney at the heart of his St Magnus festival – and in the heart of his extraordinary music
The festival founded by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies hits its 50th edition this midsummer and continues to connect culture and communi…
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No fairytale: what happened to the real children behind fiction’s best-loved characters?
Peter Pan, Christopher Robin and Alice in Wonderland … being the star of a classic story might seem like a dream, but there’s a da…
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Julian Barnes quits fiction after winning 2026 Princess of Asturias for literature
The British novelist said at a recent launch of his essay 'Farewells' at Barcelona's Caixafòrum that this would be his final novel…
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AI backlash, single-player epics and Y2K nostalgia: eight trends from Summer Game Fest
From horror galore to Chinese action games, the key trends, trailers and surprises from Summer Game Fest’s many, many hours of str…
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Under the Shadow review – Leila Farzad is fantastic in this nerve-shredding tale of 80s Tehran
Almeida theatre, London Carmen Nasr’s adaptation of the film set during the Iran-Iraq war is searing enough to feel like a 2026 li…
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Germany news: Recession looms as Iran war chokes growth
Economists say Germany is edging toward recession as an energy shock caused by the Iran war takes a chunk out of growth. Meanwhile…
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BBC cancels Doctor Who Christmas special and Russell T Davies announces exit
The BBC said the decision was made "after careful consideration" and had "not been taken lightly".