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London pulls further ahead as A-level regional divide for top grades hits record
This year’s results expose a widening gap in students achieving top grades in London and north-east England
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Chelsea Wolfe: The Dark review – existential reflection goes from whisper to gothic scream
The genre-blending Californian artist casts off past toxic influences with a powerful set of tender, brooding and emotionally charged songs that wouldn’t feel out of place as festival anthems
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James: Getting Away With It review – hippies, hardnuts and dreamers unite
Auto-hagiography it may be – most of the interviewees were in the band at some point – but this portrait of the seminal Manchester indie group is charming stuff
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‘I feel like I’m at war’: are we losing the battle against machine-made music?
Despite outcry from musicians, AI slop is creeping into the charts as record labels scramble to adapt to a new normal where hits can be made at the click of a button
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‘I wanted to capture the range of British culture at the time’: the photographer who documented late nights on the 90s London tube
In the 1990s, the photographer captured punks, partiers and late-night lovers on the underground. His images show city life before smartphones – when people still had to rush to make the final train
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Sailors, shadows and a dog in a dress: heroes of the street – in pictures
From dazzling shifts in perspective to astounding tricks using shade, reflections and rain, these winning images from the Pure Street Photography awards all capture ‘marvellous moments of fleeting serendipity’
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Can Nothing Save Us? by Irvine Welsh review – US family saga is a late-career triumph
The Scottish author focuses on gun culture and generational conflict in this darkly satirical tale about a great power in decline
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Phoebe Bridgers Lost Weekend: Planetarium album experience comes to Armagh
Armagh Planetarium hosts an early album listening party for American singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers.
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Jason Arday is now the stick the right will use to beat back racial equality. Don’t let that happen
The UK is far from equality in academia or society. You don’t need a Cambridge degree to see that Arday’s story is being used to stop any progress in its tracks, says journalist and academic Afua Hirsch
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Travis Kelce says wedding to Taylor Swift was 'the best night of my life' in first official comments
Kelce’s remarks on his marriage to Swift at Madison Square Garden comes weeks after the event, which remains shrouded in mystery
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EJ Swift wins the 2026 Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction
The writer – who was also shortlisted in 2023 – has won the prize for her book When There Are Wolves Again, a speculative work of eco-fiction set in near-future Britain
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Dolly Parton just gorgeous' recalls The One Show Alex Jones
The One Show host recalls meeting an "absolutely striking" Dolly Parton with no make-up or wig on.
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Post your questions for Amy Lee of Evanescence
The metal icon is here to answer your questions about the band’s 90s origins, MTV fame and being trailblazer in a male dominated genre
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Cambridge agrees to hold independent inquiry into Jason Arday appointment
Vice-chancellor Deborah Prentice says she recognises the ‘difficult case’ has damaged the university
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Eurovision Song Contest changes rules for countries at war
Organisers say countries engaged in armed conflict will be automatically disqualified from hosting.
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Buggers review – phenomenal flesh and blood portrait of Francis Bacon and George Dyer
The painter and his lover are played with real intensity by Alistair Hall and Peter Clements, in a visceral psychodrama of contained violence and sadness
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What’s a wedding without a dirtbike doughnut? Hark1karan’s best photograph
‘On the day the youngest brother got married, they were out doing doughnuts and burnouts at eight in the morning’
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‘Today’s Brazilians have no idea what it feels like to lose democracy’: Joyce Moreno on her battles to become a Latin musical great
After her defiant femininity outraged many in Brazil, she lived through a military dictatorship and was boycotted for years. But after more than 30 albums, she explains how she kept going
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Jason Arday’s life may be a warped fantasy. But so is this conversation around DEI
Cambridge’s youngest Black professor has resigned. But the discourse around his departure is rooted in its own distorted reality
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Lucy Davis: Comedian Jasper Carrott says he is 'so proud' of daughter following her cancer diagnosis
The actress, best known for playing Dawn in The Office, has revealed she has incurable breast cancer.
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I share concerns over Arday appointment, says Cambridge University head
Vice-chancellor Deborah Prentice acknowledged the "anger and anxiety around this damaging and difficult case".
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Nicholas Hoult joins Harry Potter TV show - see the cast so far
Hoult, known for his roles in X-Men, Superman and Mad Max: Fury Road, will play Gilderoy Lockhart.
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Something Like Happiness by Tom Newlands review – a tender take on hard times, anger and autism
A twentysomething Scottish couple care for their autistic son in the bleak follow-up to Only Here, Only Now
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Rod Stewart calls off US tour after 'routine' heart procedure
The 81-year-old singer has been advised by doctors to recuperate for the next four weeks.
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