Beveridge revisited: Simon Callow film celebrates the radical co-founder of Britain’s welfare state
Christine Edzard’s The Man With the Plan tours the country with a timely message about tackling want, disease, squalor,…
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Wendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92
Author and Kentucky native, who celebrated the farming world of his home state and warned of the excesses of industrial…
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Scaring monkeys? Detecting bedbugs? Meet the elite working dogs – in pictures
John Fabiano has travelled the globe photographing dogs with jobs – from Italian truffle sniffers and Greenlandic sled…
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The best theatre to stream this month: Bryan Cranston cranks up the tension in All My Sons
Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste lead a brilliant staging of Arthur Miller’s tragedy, a Shelagh Delaney deep-cut is…
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‘I’m not nervous, I’m ready’: Tschabalala Self on racist vandals and her bold striding woman for the Fourth Plinth
The last time she displayed a sculpture in public in Britain, someone covered it in white paint. But, undeterred, the…
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Gen Z ‘Chinamaxxers’ fantasise about life in China. This journalist and this artist can never go back there
A graphic novel by Melissa Chan and Badiucao imagines China and the US at war in 2035. They hope to remind young people…
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Costumed carnival-goers in Notting Hill – in pictures
People hit the streets of west London as Europe’s largest street carnival marks its 60th year, celebrating Caribbean…
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‘Sometimes you just need a good cry’: why Little Women is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort films is an ode to the teary 1994 adaptation of…
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British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry
Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum The…
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The Mindhunter is a juicy true-crime show indeed: best podcasts of the week
Francisco Garcia’s dark, funny new crime show is a rare feat. Plus, an engrossing listen about whether people have…
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TV tonight: Judi Dench and Ian McKellen share stories, secrets and a little mischief
The stage and screen legends reminisce over tea. Plus: Fred Sirieix checks into one of Marrakech’s grandest hotels.…
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Daisy Chain Fields review – Olivia Rodrigo’s women-led festival is electric amid extreme heat
Great Park, Irvine, California Performances from Rodrigo, Stevie Nicks, Chappell Roan and Sarah McLachlan raise $20m…
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TV tonight: Hamza Yassin’s delightful birding odyssey in Africa
The wildlife presenter gets very excited about brilliant birds of prey in Kenya. Plus: Suranne Jones returns in cop…
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Underground Monk Show review – hysterical visions enrobed in mystery
Assembly George Square Gardens, Edinburgh Four clowns stir up a strange stew of ideas about faith in this playful and…
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How to make a bestseller: insiders reveal the tricks of the book trade
From cover design to shelf placement and influencer partnerships … how publishers will persuade you to buy their books…
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Bigmouth strums again: was Andy Burnham’s Smiths jam in Kyiv the perfect soundtrack to a Britain in freefall?
The UK prime minister clearly still adores the band. Perhaps he’s attracted to songs about sham justice and murderous…
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Add to playlist: the spectral, fathoms-deep folksong of June McDoom and the week’s best new tracks
Rich harmonies mix with synth, harp and aquatic grace on the intriguing first single from the New York songwriter’s…
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The Whisper Man review – Robert De Niro sleepwalks through silly Netflix potboiler
A father and son must team up to find a serial killer in a cheaply made and increasingly uninteresting thriller It’s…
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Fairytales pending: the fringe musicals hoping to live happily ever after
Edinburgh has given festival audiences a look at two long awaited musicals – Bliss and Disenchanted! – with both aiming…
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‘It’s the story of what happens when the music stops’: bringing tormented jazz legend Bill Evans to life
Having directed documentaries about David Bowie, Radiohead and Joy Division, Grant Gee takes on a biopic of the…
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Donnacha Dennehy: Limina album review – joyously unfettered music is a thrill in motion
McCarthy/Waarts/National Symphony Orchestra Ireland/McAdams (Nonesuch) Dennehy’s Limina, based on areas of the body, is…
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TV tonight: a battle of the lawyers in this glossy John Grisham series
John Slattery stars in The Rainmaker, which is already a hit in the US. Plus: catch Fontaines DC’s set at Reading…
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The 50 best TV shows to watch this autumn
Nigella on Bake Off! Attenborough in Blue Planet III! Blade Runner 2099! Plus Adrian Mole, Harry Potter and a certain…
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Owl at Home review – this Edinburgh fringe hoot is a wise choice for children
Gilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh Songs, physical comedy and clever design come together in Theatr Iolo’s adaptation of…
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BBC to bring back Top Gear amid speculation about show’s next presenters
Motoring series to return four years after Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff suffered serious injuries in crash during filming…
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Yayoi Kusama obituary
Artist known for her dazzling polka-dotted paintings and infinity mirror room installations The Japanese artist Yayoi…
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Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy review – picture-postcard retelling of haunting Minoan myth
PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S/X, PC; Asobo Studio The medieval franchise is transplanted to Crete, conjuring…
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Ain’t nobody better: Chaka Khan’s 20 best songs – ranked!
Ahead of the release of her 13th solo album, the fantastically titled Chakzilla, we rank the best of a sublime…
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A Slow Fire review – hope flickers in Simon Stephens’ postapocalyptic bunker drama
Jermyn Street theatre, London Two men shelter from catastrophe in this Beckettian tale of memory, companionship and…
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‘I am so tired’: Jillian Edelstein’s devastating portraits of apartheid and more – in pictures
The South African photographer documented her country’s harrowing Truth and Reconciliation Commission. These pictures…
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A Ugandan quarry worker carrying rocks on her head: Dan Nelken’s best photograph
‘Janet had eight children. Her husband drove a boda-boda taxi, but had lost a leg – so she had been working in her…
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Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival – a game so grotesque it scares its own director
With oversight from Clive Barker himself, and a role reprisal as Pinhead from actor Doug Bradley, Revival aims to…
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Adam Riches: The Captain review – the extraordinary glory of a ‘half man, half fish’ Victorian hero
Summerhall, Edinburgh An endurance test for a standup already starring in a fringe hit, this show resurrects the man…
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‘An act of resistance’: holdout homes in the US – in pictures
Ben Marcin’s stunning photographs show lone houses, derelict homes and makeshift camps that stand as epitaphs to past…
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TV tonight: the search for the murderer of Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee
A documentary series gains impressive access to the detectives who have been hunting for the killer since 2019. Plus:…
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‘We met Princess Margaret and she was paralytic!’ My wild life onboard the Adam and the Ants Antmania rollercoaster
With their twangy sound, madcap outfits, lusty yodelling and pirouetting pirate frontman, the band became global…
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