‘I never thought about Oscars’: Brutalist composer Daniel Blumberg on the happiness and horror of his big win
Daniel Blumberg hands me his Oscar, as surprised as he is chuffed. Bloody hell, it’s heavy. Is it real gold? “I wish it was,” says
The Rule of Jenny Pen review – John Lithgow pulls the strings in care home horror
Film-maker James Ashcroft has created a scary and intimately upsetting psychological horror based on a story by New Zealand author Owen Marshall set in a
Spotify is trumpeting big paydays for artists – but only a tiny fraction of them are actually thriving
Since 2021, Spotify has published its Loud & Clear report, corralling data points to show how much money is being earned by artists on the
A Touch of Love review – Margaret Drabble’s single-mother drama is a vivid 60s time capsule
Waris Hussein’s earnest 1969 movie, adapted by Margaret Drabble from her own novel The Millstone, is a London-set drama about a young woman who has
Biased laws and poverty driving huge rise in female prisoners – report
Poverty, abuse and discriminatory laws are driving a huge rise in the number of women in prison globally, according to a new report. With the
‘We swept into Moscow in Gorbachev’s limousine’: Neil Tennant’s love affair with Russia – before the ‘cancer of Putin’
The journalist Andrey Sapozhnikov of Novaya Gazeta Europe, the independent Russian newspaper that now operates from Latvia in order to avoid censorship by Putin’s regime,
Toyota plans to build battery vehicles in UK and keep European plants
Toyota has said it plans to build battery vehicles in the UK in the future as it seeks to keep all of its European plants
Donnarumma denies Liverpool and Núñez to send PSG through on penalties
Luis Enrique exploded across the Anfield pitch when Désiré Doué struck the winning penalty and was still leaping on Paris Saint-Germain players and officials when
ADHD prescriptions in England have risen by 18% each year since pandemic
The number of prescriptions being issued in England for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication has risen by 18% year on year since the pandemic,
Crackdown on quangos part of radical government proposal to reform state
A radical blueprint for reforming the state is being drawn up by government officials, including a crackdown on quangos and thousands more civil service job