At conference where the stench of decay is overpowering, the shadow chancellor’s speech was an act of desperation The unbearable lightness of the Tory party conference. A place where nothing ever happens. Where dreams come to die. Where the only joy to be found is in the possibility of forgetting. […]
After stadium tour success, the delusional broadcaster is back where he belongs: self-funding a series about the nation’s mental health. As comedy goes, it couldn’t be more pleasurable Like anyone who has grown up in the shadow of Alan Partridge’s three-decade dominion over British comedy, I want only the very […]
Guy Gilboa-Dalal was taken from Nova festival in 7 October Hamas attack that led to Israel’s devastating assault on Gaza Sometimes two years seem to have lasted for ever. Sometimes Gal Gilboa-Dalal feels trapped in an eternal present, still living the agonising, endless day when his brother, Guy, was kidnapped […]
As her company prepares to celebrate its centenary, the legendary choreographer’s groundbreaking work is finally getting the respect it deserves in the UK. What took so long? A century ago, the dancer Martha Graham began teaching at a small studio above Carnegie Hall in Manhattan. It was the start of […]
Hayward Gallery, LondonFrom the calling cards of male sex workers to shocking headlines about murder, the octogenarian pair see and incorporate everything, resulting in a show that seethes with life The first picture in Gilbert & George’s retrospective of their art of this century is a portrait of them sitting […]
Jones and Jodie Whittaker are astonishing as conwomen bent on pulling off one last job. It’s a wild, thrilling ride whose portrait of a toxic friendship is fantastically stylish What would you do if your most reckless friend from your teenage years got back in touch? What if you were […]
Conservative leader has achieved the seemingly impossible: she has taken the Tories even further backwards It was time for Laura Kuenssberg to make a scene. She slammed her dressing room door and went in search of her producer. “Just who is that woman in the green room?” she asked. “She […]
The market for supplements is booming and it can be difficult to know which are actually any use. Dietitians give the lowdown on those you should take and those you can ditch I used to proudly eschew health supplements. Doctors always told me that if you eat a healthy diet, […]
Silicon Valley is keen, once more, on a working pattern of 12-hour days, six days a week. It really is time for a new approach … My current cultural comfort food is The Gilded Age, Julian Fellowes’ deeply silly Manhattan toffs-in-bustles drama, in which one storyline (summarily dealt with due […]
Forty years ago Prince, Madonna and Judas Priest were among stars dubbed the ‘Filthy Fifteen’ in a high-profile parents’ campaign against ‘objectionable’ music. Some of those artists, and supporters like Alice Cooper, recall a major moral panic Prince’s Purple Rain album had been bought by 11 million Americans by May […]