As part of the hugely successful girlband, she had to contend with an eating disorder, racism and a hostile tabloid press. Now JADE the solo artist is conquering the charts with her unorthodox pop bangers and unfiltered attitude It’s customary for former girlband members to shun their manufactured roots the […]
Month: August 2025
Utterly absorbing Slovenian debut reinvents the cliched idea of a Catholic girl’s sexual awakening, and proves that no teacher can be as cruel as a music teacher This elegant and mysterious debut from Slovenian director Urška Djukić, with its superb musical score and sound design, reinvents the cliched idea of […]
Federal officers swept encampments across DC overnight, leaving many uncertain about where they will find shelter US politics live – latest updates For the past eight months, David Harold Pugh has found his “spot” outside the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library in Washington DC. He keeps all his belongings, […]
Brooklyn and his wife Nicola have fallen out with the rest of the multimedia-lifestyle-industrial-complex. Luckily, it’s all being kept very private What is “Brand Beckham”? I don’t mean to question the very idea of a celebrity brand – far from it. In fact, part of the reason that celeb-watching phrases […]
Experts say Apple’s foray into flip phones is sign that consumers want devices that optimise internet use Back in 2005, nothing felt more high-powered and sophisticated than ending a call by snapping shut a clamshell flip phone. Now, two decades since they hit peak popularity, they’re back – with Apple […]
The Polari first book prize claims to promote trans rights and trans voices. But when I saw the longlist, I had to act Last week, I withdrew my nomination from the longlist for the Polari first book prize. The awards had become mired in controversy due to the nomination of […]
More than a million people in the UK left dating apps last year. The Guardian writer Kitty Drake explains why More than a million people in the UK left dating apps last year – a problem so severe, explains the Guardian writer Kitty Drake, that the apps are in “financial […]
Two tennis courts’ worth of wet wipes have accumulated in a rotting pile by Hammersmith Bridge. I went along to witness the horrors – and the cleanup operation Imagine several mounds of congealed grot (consistency akin to the insides of a leisure centre shower drain, or the world’s most disgusting […]
Ustinov Studio, BathAllen is convincing as the bored newlywed but Matthew Dunster’s version gets lost between our time and Ibsen’s It is not through any shortcomings of the cast that Matthew Dunster’s modern-dress reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is so peculiar. Lily Allen is convincingly brittle as the bored […]
Donald Trump is concocting a drama in DC because he would like us to really stop talking about the Epstein files One of most violent days in the history of Washington DC, was 6 January 2021, and the instigator was Donald J Trump, who this week has endeavored to seize […]