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Taylor Swift wedding rumours: Are the upcoming nuptials this week?
Megastar Taylor Swift is reportedly set to tie the knot with Travis Kelce at the end of this week... Or is she? Here’s everything …
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UK government leaving museums vulnerable with ‘hands-off approach’, parliamentary report says
The Public Accounts Committee scrutinises the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in its report, accusing the government depar…
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Stylish shopping: Prix Versailles reveals world’s most beautiful emporiums for 2026
Seven retail locations from around the world have been chosen by Prix Versailles as the world's most beautiful emporiums in 2026.
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Billy Budd review – Clayton’s Vere is the devastating heart of vivid staging
Glyndebourne, Sussex This revival of Michael Grandage’s atmospheric production of Britten’s opera has numerous fine performances: …
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Remembering Desmond Morris, the Surrealist painter and zoologist who explored the artistic abilities of apes
Morris's eight decades at the easel left him among the last of the original Surrealists
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Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders on fame, pressure and World Cup fever
As the Netflix show following their lives returns, the squad open up about their new-found fame.
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First Antarctic dinosaur fossil confirmed nearly 40 years after discovery
A vertebra discovered by British scientists in 1985 has been identified as the first dinosaur fossil found in Antarctica, shedding…
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Why one season of successful auctions won't transform the art market
While impressive results in New York and London suggest buoyancy at the very top end, further news of closures and downsizing illu…
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‘Nothing less than extraordinary’ – how The Bear pulled off TV’s most almighty comeback
The final season of the hit chef show is the most entertaining and purely enjoyable since the first – plus everyone ended up getti…
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Rolf Harris: Primetime Predator review – a deeply chilling look at a celebrity abuser
From his child safety campaign ‘Kids can say no’ to an awful appearance on Jim’ll Fix It, some of the things the TV star was allow…
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Dame Penelope Keith obituary: The Good Life's funny and formidable star
The life of the much-loved comedy actress best known as Margo Leadbeatter in The Good Life.
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Ubuntu Ensemble review – charged musical snapshots of South Africa’s struggle
Wigmore Hall, London Marking the 50th anniversary of the Soweto uprising, a stirring programme culminated with Leon Bosch’s double…
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Porn star turned late-night TV icon Robin Byrd: ‘Sex is a form of magic’
She was a sex-positive star in the 80s and 90s who became an ‘accidental activist’ – an HBO documentary produced by Sarah Jessica …
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Michael Jackson movie becomes highest-grossing biopic of all time
The Michael Jackson movie was questioned by critics but has been a hit with fans around the world.
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Trump renaming fiasco fuels jokes as Maher takes Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain prize
Punchlines on president’s thwarted bid to have building named after him come thick and fast at Washington DC gala Outside the John…
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‘Genuinely changed my life’: why Groundhog Day is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their favourite comfort films is a pick for a comedy that demands countless …
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'Michael' overtakes 'Oppenheimer' to become highest-grossing biopic of all time
This year's Michael Jackson biopic also became top-grossing music biopic after surpassing 2018’s 'Bohemian Rhapsody' earlier this …
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Post your questions for Ezra Collective at Love Supreme festival
The Guardian is partnering with Love Supreme this year, where we will have a live Q&A with the UK jazz heroes – leave us your …
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Raveheart by Graeme Armstrong review – ravers rebel in a Scottish political satire
A veteran techno DJ embarks on a campaign of civil disobedience in this passionate and at times hilarious tale of underground resi…
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Father Alberto and the Flying Girl by Timothy X Atack review – a fable of medieval madness
A parish priest cares for the mentally afflicted in an absorbing tale that combines antic comedy with serious moral themes In 1474…
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The Last Assassins review – shades of Blade Runner in dystopian thriller shrouded in silty-green murk
Athena Park flees futuristic marauders in a post-apocalyptic tale that looks handsome but very familiar Close to a decade after th…
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Ruhr's empty postwar churches find new life in Manifesta biennial
A new art biennial is transforming unused postwar churches in Germany's Ruhr region into public spaces, highlighting the structura…
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Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal
The Manifesto Library is located inside Livraria Lello in Porto, and is dedicated to books “that challenge power, censorship, excl…
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‘Blazing Saddles’ named funniest film of all time by AFI as Mel Brooks turns 100
Mel Brooks, who turned 100 on Sunday 28 June, has been honoured by the American Film Institute, which named his 1974 Western satir…