Shortlisted for the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes respectively, the novelist and biographer talk about working and living together – and giving a voice to Black queer history The literary power couple is a historically seductive concept. Two writers sharing a life, their private and creative worlds entwined, each becoming […]
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Actors Peter Houghton and Anne Browning played lovers onstage, but a shared sense of humour and a magazine horoscope flipped the script on their real-life relationship Find more stories from the moment I knew series Anne and I met in Melbourne in 1997 when we were cast in a production […]
Once Bobby Robson’s translator at the Camp Nou, José Mourinho is tasked with bringing down Barcelona on Sunday José Mourinho has done the por que?, the printout and the press conference no-show, and he’s been here only three months. The Real Madrid manager has played the classics without even playing […]
The AI boom is pitting local residents against corporate giants seeking to power their energy-hungry networks – but one Welsh city is fighting back Dale Johnston opens the gate to his neat suburban garden on the western fringes of Newport in South Wales. There’s a trampoline and a slide on […]
Each of those 144 deaths was entirely avoidable, but nobody was held to account. We still don’t know how to get justice for ordinary people Aberfan taught us a lot. Mostly, of course, that those in power cannot be trusted. Correction: must not be trusted. Too sweeping? Continue reading…
Sadler’s Wells, LondonAlina Cojocaru astonishes in John Neumeier’s Ghost Light, an ethereal meditation on time, while Glen Tetley’s Firebird has much to cherish A ghost light is the name for a single lamp left on stage when a theatre is dark, and one glows throughout John Neumeier’s ballet Ghost Light. […]
Jack Lowden, Callum Turner and Josh O’Connor are rumoured to be the final candidates taking screentests this weekend. So how can they best prepare? And who is likely to triumph? This weekend, the identity of the next James Bond is finally expected to be known – to the insiders, at […]
UK allies have long urged people to stockpile supplies for a crisis. How are people from France to Australia being advised to prepare? The UK has told people to fill their pantries with food for three days in case of catastrophe, joining a host of countries urging citizens to ready […]
PM and the Liverpool mayor prove to be naturals at watching TV, with a genuine connection and sense of fun On nights like this a man can feel like he’s slipped through the looking-glass. I’m sitting on the sofa watching the TV, poised to make some gags about the prime […]
Duchess of Sussex’s decision to cut ties with elderly father cast in new light as he faces sexual abuse image claims Meghan ‘deeply distressed’ by allegations against father The depiction of the Duchess of Sussex by certain sections of the media has often been one of a fame-hungry daughter casting […]