Review at a glance T he biggest female singer in Britain gives each of her albums a numerical title, while the biggest male’s are all mathematical symbols. Putting Adele and Ed Sheeran together as they both prepare to release their latest gives us 19 + 21 x 25 ÷ 30Continue Reading
The Nineties: cassette tapes, Cool Britannia and… European conflict. Yes, there’s a rupture running through our kitschy, nostalgic idea of this decade: the Yugoslav Wars, which have since largely faded from memory, cost the lives of over 140,000 people, according to the International Center for Transitional Justice. But a newContinue Reading
Hindus globally are highly concerned regarding reports of overnight closure of Swindon Hindu Temple & Cultural Centre in South West England by Swindon Borough Council without consulting the community. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that it was clearly a case of ill-treatment of minoritiesContinue Reading
John le Carré, who died last December at the age of 89, did not really exist. His name was a “cover” for a former British Intelligence officer called David Cornwell, who monitored the trap-door disappearance of agents in Cold War Germany and ran agents in the shadow of the BerlinContinue Reading
A lan Ruck, best known at the moment for playing the damaged and overlooked eldest sibling Connor Roy in the savagely sharp and universally hyped TV show Succession, is sitting opposite me, cheerily miming pumping breast milk. He’s talking about the pre-Succession era, when he took a career break toContinue Reading
Review at a glance I ’ve yet to meet anyone who dislikes Chloé Zhao’s spartan, Oscar-winning epic, Nomadland. Her new movie will be more divisive. It’s a lavish, ambitious, Marvel superhero movie that starts with the words: “In the beginning… before the six singularities…” Any viewer who reads that andContinue Reading
Artist Nora Al-Badri is using deepfakes for good – to free historical artefacts from museums and reinvent them for the digital ageContinue Reading
H ours before our interview Neil Gaiman, the UK’s leading purveyor of fantasy across comics, novels, TV and cinema, tweets that he’s “about to do something so remarkable and unlikely that I have decided to wear my lucky Batman underpants”. He’s not referring to our chat. “I had my DesertContinue Reading
Pulling disaffected young men back from the bring is complicated, and it’s making academics question their whole approach to extremismContinue Reading
Review at a glance Never mind the shark – in this show about the troubled shoot for classic blockbuster Jaws, it’s Ian Shaw that you need to see. Playing his father, Robert Shaw – aka Quint, the world-weary shark hunter – he gives what is undoubtedly one of the bestContinue Reading
