The best-selling single so far this year in the UK is Californian singer Alex Warren’s “Ordinary”. It stayed at the top of ...

As the name suggests, the Near Jazz Experience owe a huge musical debt to jazz, but that’s not the full story by any means.

Brian Clarke died on 1 July 2025, after a long illness. He was one of the most original British artists of our time – ...

Lovers of a particular novel, when it’s adapted as a movie, often want book and movie to fit together as a hand in a glove. You want it to be like sheet music transfigured into the sound of an ...

What am I, a philosophical if not political Marxist whose hero is Antonio Gramsci, doing in Harvey Nichols buying Comme des ...

Ambroise Thomas’s version of Hamlet is the flagship production of this year’s Buxton International Festival and was always ...

Before Luigi Illica wrote the libretti for Puccini’s Tosca and Madama Butterfly, he had joined the composer as the librettist ...

The frenetic brand of humour that Tim Robinson brings to Friendship comes from a long lineage. There have been turbo-charged, mad-staring, cringe-inducing figures occupying the centre of comedies and ...

War, pestilence, famine, death. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had my fill of them all. So what better time to visit the genuinely sunny uplands – the long-anticipated second album from Wet Leg.My, ...

It took until the last room of her exhibition for me to gain any real understanding of the work of Australian Aboriginal ...

A three-century-spanning countdown rapidly ticks to a version of now, and a beaten Superman (David Corenswet) ploughing into Arctic snow. His super-whistle fetches Superdog Krypto to excavate him like ...

I like guns. At school we had to fight with guns in the army cadets. I’m actually a first-class sniper. I could shoot people ...