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How Severance became our favourite new mystery box TV show
In 1994, Ben Stiller codified the generation X ethos into celluloid with Reality Bites, which he directed and co-starred in as the film’s villain. We...
‘We saved each other’: Alvaro Barrington’s 90s hip-hop exhibition
For his debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles, London-based artist Alvaro Barrington hosted an all-day barbecue in the Blum & Poe gallery parking lot and...
Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga among this year’s Windham-Campbell prize winners
Pulitzer prizewinning Margo Jefferson, playwright Winsome Pinnock and acclaimed novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga are among this year’s recipients of the $165,000 (£120,000) Windham-Campbell prizes. The award,...
‘Nadine Dorries is terrible! That’s made my job easier’: Labour’s Lucy Powell on the Tories, culture war and BBC
Lucy Powell has already made herself at home by the time I arrive at Hallé St Peter’s, the new rehearsal rooms opened by one of...
Ramzan Kadyrov: Putin’s ‘attack dog’ and Ukraine
It’s not just Vladimir Putin who has staked his reputation on the war in Ukraine. The Chechen warlord and leader Ramzan Kadyrov has also led...
Rail staff killed in ‘unprecedented’ attack on train in Nigeria
Gunmen have attacked a train travelling from the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to the city of Kaduna, in an “unprecedented” act of violence that will heighten...
‘Another Baldwinito’: Alec and Hilaria Baldwin expecting their seventh child
After a nearly month-long social media break, Hilaria Baldwin announced on Tuesday on Instagram that she is expecting her seventh child with her husband, the...
Mexico armed forces knew fate of 43 disappeared students from day one
Mexico’s armed forces knew that 43 student teachers who disappeared in 2014 were being kidnapped by criminals, then hid evidence that could have helped locate...
Russia and Belarus officials ‘not welcome’ at concentration camp ceremony
The memorial foundation at the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald has said that official representatives of Russia and Belarus have not been invited to ceremonies...