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'Music is an important creative outlet': IDLES answer questions from superfan with Angelman syndrome
Mark from IDLES and Alastair
Music

'Music is an important creative outlet': IDLES answer questions from superfan with Angelman syndrome

From stars of children's books to the best in crime writing: Here's the best UK book festivals in 2024
Books festival illustration
Books

From stars of children's books to the best in crime writing: Here's the best UK book festivals in 2024

'No song written about football is actually any good': The best and worst Euro 2024 songs, ranked
Euro 2024

'No song written about football is actually any good': The best and worst Euro 2024 songs, ranked

Blue Note Records opens first ever Glasgow store as jazz festival fever hits town
Jazz performing
Glasgow International Jazz Festival

Blue Note Records opens first ever Glasgow store as jazz festival fever hits town

How world's first drag troupe with Down's syndrome is breaking boundaries for people with disabilities
Learning Disability Week 2024

How world's first drag troupe with Down's syndrome is breaking boundaries for people with disabilities

Line of Duty's Martin Compston: 'I've been dreaming of going to the Euros since I was 14'
Gordon Smart and Martin Compston
Euro 2024

Line of Duty's Martin Compston: 'I've been dreaming of going to the Euros since I was 14'

Can the story of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol show us a way through the climate crisis?
The cast of new play Kyoto in rehearsals
Theatre

Can the story of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol show us a way through the climate crisis?

John Cale on The Velvet Underground, teaching Bowie the viola and why drugs aren't the creative stimulant
John Cale
Letter to my younger self

John Cale on The Velvet Underground, teaching Bowie the viola and why drugs aren't the creative stimulant

'The threat to our rights': Women share what keeps them awake at night in honour of Ulysses' Molly Bloom
Illustration by Chris Bentham
Books

'The threat to our rights': Women share what keeps them awake at night in honour of Ulysses' Molly Bloom

Top 5 children's books for summer
Books

Top 5 children's books for summer

Blur: To The End review – poignant new music film shows a band of brothers reunited
Alex James and Damon Albarn in new documentary blur: To The End
Film

Blur: To The End review – poignant new music film shows a band of brothers reunited

'Future is as shaky as its ever been': Will Baillie Gifford funding row kill our book festivals?
Books

'Future is as shaky as its ever been': Will Baillie Gifford funding row kill our book festivals?

How books can help children understand the crushing challenges of poverty
Books

How books can help children understand the crushing challenges of poverty

Why Sasquatch Sunset is so much more than just a gross-out comedy in Chewbacca drag
Jesse Eisenberg and Christophe Zajac-Denek in Sasquatch Sunset
Film

Why Sasquatch Sunset is so much more than just a gross-out comedy in Chewbacca drag

After the pandemic years, audience are more appreciative of intimate musical experiences than ever
Aurora Orchestra
Music

After the pandemic years, audience are more appreciative of intimate musical experiences than ever

Emilia Clarke feared being fired from Game of Thrones after brain injury
emilia clarke
Emilia Clarke

Emilia Clarke feared being fired from Game of Thrones after brain injury

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I wondered why Western media called the Yemen conflict an 'invisible war'. Then I saw it for myself
A child joins his father at a tribal meeting in Hasaba, where pro-Houthi tribes gather to show their allegiance
Photography

I wondered why Western media called the Yemen conflict an 'invisible war'. Then I saw it for myself

Bradley Riches on Heartstopper, new musical Babies and how coming out helped him embrace his autism
Theatre

Bradley Riches on Heartstopper, new musical Babies and how coming out helped him embrace his autism

Furiosa star Tom Burke: 'It stung when someone said I didn't have a face for TV'
Tom Burke.
Letter to my younger self

Furiosa star Tom Burke: 'It stung when someone said I didn't have a face for TV'

Top 5 empowering teen novels, chosen by YA author Rebecca Westcott
Empowered teen
Books

Top 5 empowering teen novels, chosen by YA author Rebecca Westcott