A new era for the Ballon d’Or in the post-Messi and Ronaldo landscape | Alex Reid
The Ballon d’Or, football’s most famous individual prize, was not always the gold-plated standard for tedium it has become during the past 16 years. From
Sick of overpriced gig tickets? Here’s the Cure | Stewart Lee
The first time I saw the Cure was on 29 April 1984. The Birmingham Odeon show opened with a set from rural Worcestershire’s pre-Raphaelite goths
On my radar: Jacques Audiard’s cultural highlights
Jacques Audiard was born in Paris in 1952, the son of the prolific screenwriter and director Michel Audiard. He began writing films in the mid-1970s
‘We just have to keep fighting’: a shocking new film on the danger of US abortion laws
In August 2022, Amanda and Josh Zurawski were 18 weeks into a much-wanted pregnancy with their first child when her water broke early. The complication
Marcel Desailly: ‘I don’t know if I was a star, but I’m now a legend’
“I love watching the Championship,” Marcel Desailly says. “Usually I don’t watch a full 90 minutes unless I’m working on a game in the studio.
Jack Draper battles past Musetti to reach ‘biggest final yet’ in Vienna
Jack Draper continued to build on his excellent breakout season by producing another stellar performance to reach the biggest final of his career at the
‘There is no money’: Cuba fears total collapse amid grid failure and financial crisis
Maria Elena Cárdenas is 76 and lives in a municipal shelter on Amargura Street in Havana’s colonial old town. The building has an elegant past,
No more Mr Nice Guy: how Hugh Grant transformed himself into an edgy national treasure
This week sees the release of Heretic, Hugh Grant’s 45th feature film. Few critics would have predicted that length of career after his pouting 1982
The Cure: Songs of a Lost World review – as promised, ‘very, very doom and gloom’
The Cure have long dwelled in a kind of rarefied artistic blue zone in which the years pile up but the end of the band
Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey appointed Commonwealth secretary general
Commonwealth members have appointed Ghana’s foreign minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, as the new secretary general, on the final day of the group’s summit in Samoa.