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Here's how you can win tickets to see rock titans Muse at their comeback show
Muse's Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme, Dominic Howard stand in darkness except for blue light reflected from their faces
The Big Issue

Here's how you can win tickets to see rock titans Muse at their comeback show

A Bug's Life to Billy Elliot: 7 best socialist films to watch this Labour Day bank holiday
Film

A Bug's Life to Billy Elliot: 7 best socialist films to watch this Labour Day bank holiday

Sophie Marceau: 'I hope love always stays a mystery'
Sophie Marceau in I Love America. Photo: Prime Video
Film

Sophie Marceau: 'I hope love always stays a mystery'

This week's Big TV: Ten Percent, Navalny, Clark and Generation Change
Jim Broadbent, Hiftu Quasem and Jack Davenport in Ten Percent
What to watch

This week's Big TV: Ten Percent, Navalny, Clark and Generation Change

After the musical Six comes SVN - meet the group redefining girl power in 2022
SVN have plenty of big issues to talk about. Credit Danny Kaan
Music

After the musical Six comes SVN - meet the group redefining girl power in 2022

Hullraisers proves that Hull is intrinsically funny
Hullraisers
TV

Hullraisers proves that Hull is intrinsically funny

Downton Abbey: A New Era – 'It's got such a big heart, this movie'
Downton Abbey
TV

Downton Abbey: A New Era – 'It's got such a big heart, this movie'

Fight Night by Miriam Toews review: The funniest, smartest novel you’ll read this year
Woman with face in hands
Book review

Fight Night by Miriam Toews review: The funniest, smartest novel you’ll read this year

Ben Okri: 'War taught me as a kid that there is no certainty in this world'
Books

Ben Okri: 'War taught me as a kid that there is no certainty in this world'

The story of Chervona Ruta – Ukraine's pop song of resistance
Music

The story of Chervona Ruta – Ukraine's pop song of resistance

Channing Tatum was seemingly engineered in a lab to give uncomplicated pleasures to audiences
The lost City
Film

Channing Tatum was seemingly engineered in a lab to give uncomplicated pleasures to audiences

Kit Connor: 'Heartstopper is a love story above all else'
Image of Kit Connor who plays Nick Nelson.
Heartstopper

Kit Connor: 'Heartstopper is a love story above all else'

This week's Big TV: Gaslit, Chivalry, Tan France: Beauty and the Bleach, Life After Life and Heartstopper
What to watch

This week's Big TV: Gaslit, Chivalry, Tan France: Beauty and the Bleach, Life After Life and Heartstopper

How Manchester became the UK's jazz capital
Music

How Manchester became the UK's jazz capital

Ai-Da: Meet the robot artist exhibiting at the Venice Biennale
Art

Ai-Da: Meet the robot artist exhibiting at the Venice Biennale

Thomasin McKenzie and Sian Clifford compare acting to their new series Life After Life
Thomasin McKenzie in Life After Life
TV

Thomasin McKenzie and Sian Clifford compare acting to their new series Life After Life

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
The Wonders by Elena Medel review: a gripping portrayal of poverty and powerlessness
Friends in bright colours
Book review

The Wonders by Elena Medel review: a gripping portrayal of poverty and powerlessness

Derry Girls: ‘What Lisa McGee has done is change the path for all Derry girls going forward’
TV

Derry Girls: ‘What Lisa McGee has done is change the path for all Derry girls going forward’

Why we need to talk about Anatomy of a Scandal according to Michelle Dockery and Naomi Scott
TV

Why we need to talk about Anatomy of a Scandal according to Michelle Dockery and Naomi Scott

Peter Mullan: 'This is a party who single-handedly created food banks. That should be on the collective Tory gravestone'
TV

Peter Mullan: 'This is a party who single-handedly created food banks. That should be on the collective Tory gravestone'