As Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue’s Where the Wild Roses Grow turns 30, we count down pop’s finest two-handers, from career-revivers to celebrity meta-texts Most pop/hip-hop collaborations don’t qualify here – commissioning a verse from a rapper to increase your single’s “reach” does not a duet make – but Lights […]
Former prime minister was grateful for a 45-minute slot on the Harry Cole Saves the West YouTube channel this week Those we haven’t loved. It’s been quite the week for rightwing populists shooting their mouths off. Trolling the world. We’ve had Donald Trump at the UN. Rubbishing medical science by […]
The Parks and Recreation actor answers your questions on being married to Megan Mullally, visiting Manchester and preparing for the apocalypse What attracted you to the role of the radicalised father in new thriller Sovereign? SkillWizard The script is a work of art, about the “sovereign citizen movement”, which – […]
While VAT is going up to finance the war and fuel is in short supply, few expect Putin to adjust his war plans Russia’s economy is in deep peril, Donald Trump assured the world this week, in a dramatic change of tune on the war in Ukraine in which the […]
Trying to progress a relationship can feel awkward, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But it’s easier if you find something specific to do together Read more Leading questions I am 86 and have been on my own for many years. However, despite being financially secure, it is a lonely life […]
Up to 30,000 alleged drug users and dealers were slaughtered in the Philippines’ so-called drug war, but on Manila’s streets some of their killers still believe they did the right thing The kills were easier to swallow after a few drinks. After each operation the police death squads would haunt […]
Jack Thorne’s lacklustre script – full of cringe-making lines, strange dreamlike sequences and a recurring dung beetle – fails to capture the drama of the Guardian’s landmark investigation into media corruption Before reviewing in the Guardian newspaper a programme about a famous Guardian investigation, a few disclaimers are probably in […]
In the acclaimed new film about boys written off by the system, Murphy drew on his own past as a troublesome schoolboy while Little Simz played a teacher – and wrote a 90s-style banger of a song Months before the publication of his latest book, Max Porter went on holiday […]
From immigrants eating the king’s waterfowl to sharia law in London, it’s all there in our Nige’s relativist world UK politics live – latest updates “Attention all swans! Attention all swans! You are not safe! Immigrants from inferior cultures have been seen loitering with intent to kill in royal parks. […]
Morgan McSweeney under spotlight over late declarations of donations to thinktank when he was its director Labour says Starmer’s 2020 leadership campaign paid McSweeney salary History is littered with the resignation letters of those who have tried to drive a wedge between Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney. But that relationship […]