A collection of poetry inspired by years teaching in a London school has won the Costa Book Awards. Hannah Lowe, who taught at City and Islington College for a decade, won for her book The Kids. The book is a series of sonnets about her time in the classroom asContinue Reading
I first saw Louise Bourgeois’s work in 1995 in an exhibition at Tate Britain (then just ‘Tate’) called Rites of Passage: Art for the End of the Century, curated by Stuart Morgan. I didn’t know him then, but after that I became very good friends with Stuart, and he alwaysContinue Reading
N ineties chart star Betty Boo has revealed how lockdown inspired her pop music comeback. The singer, real name Alison Clarkson, scored massive hits with Doin’ The Do and Where Are You Baby before quitting performing to make documentaries and write songs for other acts including Girls Aloud and Hear’Say,Continue Reading
2022 is the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War. 40 years ago Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Army units were deployed at pace from Devonport and Plymouth as part of British efforts to liberate the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. Plymouth-based units were involved in some of the fiercest fightingContinue Reading
Review at a glance T he annual exhibition at Two Temple Place is intended to highlight collections across the UK. It can be exactly what you expect from this almost hallucinatory neo-Gothic mansion – there was an exhibition of the 19th-century critic John Ruskin a couple of years ago. ButContinue Reading
A US school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman, according to minutes from a board meeting. McMinn County School Board in Tennessee decided on January 10 to remove Maus from its curriculum,Continue Reading
Review at a glance T he glitchy buzzing of a dial-up modem makes a lo-fi electro soundtrack in Pam & Tommy, Disney+ and Hulu’s colourful dash through the Nineties it-couple’s whirlwind marriage and the fall-out from the theft and distribution of their sex tape. Even before disgruntled carpenter Rand GauthierContinue Reading
In the shake-up, Sky News’ political editor Rigby will host a prime time show, Beth Rigby Interviews, from March 10. She tweeted: “We’ll be covering politics, culture, biz, sport, entertainment & real life stories, talking to people at the coal face of change & exploring their views of what’s goingContinue Reading
Review at a glance F ilmmaker Michael Ogden has set out on a simple mission: to bring colour to the 16 victims of infamous serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Until now, the dead have been known as little more than “down and outs”, “homosexuals” and “rent boys.” “As a gay man,”Continue Reading
An outfit worn by Years and Years frontman Olly Alexander, historical documents and transgender portraits are among the exhibits that could be on show when it opens in King’s Cross in the Spring. The charity Queer Britain has taken on the ground floor of the Art Fund building in GranaryContinue Reading
