Vietnam has banned the new “Barbie” film because it features a map showing China’s claim to the South China Sea. The map appears for only a split second on the screen, but it caught the attention of Vietnam’s National Film Evaluation Council for including the controversial “nine-dash line”, which isContinue Reading
L inda Nolan says she has wondered whether she will still “be here” in a month’s time, after revealing cancer had spread to her brain earlier this year. The 64-year-old singer, part of Anglo-Irish family pop group The Nolans, said it was often hard to stay “positive” about her situationContinue Reading
H ow Do You Live, the latest film from Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, opened today in cinemas across Japan. The release of any film that comes from Miyazaki’s preeminent animation studio, Studio Ghibli, usually causes a huge buzz. But the tone of the arrival of How Do You Live hasContinue Reading
Huw Edwards is facing the end of his broadcasting career after he was named by his wife as the presenter at the centre of a sexual impropriety scandal that has dominated headlines. The BBC figurehead is in hospital with “serious mental health issues”, said his wife Vicky Flind, after sheContinue Reading
Paul McCartney “was always the most surprising Beatle”, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Despite his reputation as a “cheerful, garrulous mop top”, he was the closest thing the group had to a “Renaissance man”: while his bandmates “retreated to mansions in the stockbroker belt” at the height of their mid-1960s fame, McCartney immersed himself in London’s counterculture,Continue Reading
U K Garage fans are in for a treat. The Streets have announced a UK headline tour, alongside The Streets’ upcoming release The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light — their first album in more than a decade. The album will be released on October 20, and the full-lengthContinue Reading
Kevin Spacey began his defence in his sexual assault trial today by telling a packed Southwark Crown Court in London that touching one accuser was “in my mind romantic”. The 63-year-old Hollywood star faces 12 sexual offence charges against four men between 2001 and 2013, all of which he denies.Continue Reading
“As most of us are unlikely to be invited on holiday with Joanna Lumley any time soon, let us enjoy the next best thing,” said Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph: an ITV series in which she travels through Indonesia, Madagascar, India, Jordan and Zanzibar, tracing the history of theContinue Reading
Is practising yoga a form of cultural appropriation? The question has arisen in recent years as the yoga industry continues to grow and strange new forms of the practice – from “goat yoga” to “gin and yin yoga” – are introduced. Yoga practitioners in India have accused the West ofContinue Reading
Huw Edwards’s wife Vicky Flind has named him as the BBC presenter accused of inappropriate sexual behaviour. Around the same time, the Metropolitan Police said that they had no information to suggest that any criminal offence had been committed. The initial story, published in The Sun, was that an unnamedContinue Reading
