Music can lift mood, foster community and even rewire brains – but does it need to have a purpose?
Growing up, I never questioned the intrinsic value of classical music. My father practising classical and jazz guitar was the aural wallpaper to my childhood,
Eclipse review – Tom Conti stars in intriguing but elusive tale of a mysterious death
Simon Perry’s elusive, lugubrious, faintly bizarre psychodrama from 1977, based on a novel of the same name by author and travel writer Nicholas Wollaston is
UK MP refused entry to Hong Kong accuses China of ‘hidden blacklist’
A Liberal Democrat MP refused entry to Hong Kong to see her young grandson has said her experience should be “a wake-up call for any
Ministers scramble to keep Scunthorpe steelworks running – UK politics live
refused entry to Hong Kong to see her young grandson has said her experience should be “a wake-up call for any parliamentarian”, given that it
British Steel to deploy emergency measures to save Scunthorpe furnaces
British Steel is to deploy emergency measures in a race against time to save the blast furnaces at Scunthorpe, as the business secretary refused to
Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action
1 Newcastle’s relentless press results in crucial win Among several excellent individual performances, it was Newcastle’s collective endeavour that was most impressive against Manchester United,
The Balcony Movie review – funny/sad film that offers a view into strangers’ lives
Polish film-maker Paweł Łoziński has curated this amusing, cumulatively melancholy documentary which he has shot from the first-floor balcony in his flat in the Saska
‘No winners’ in a trade war, proclaims China’s Xi, as he heads to Vietnam on charm offensive
Chinese president Xi Jinping warned there would be “no winners” in a trade war and that protectionism “leads nowhere”, as he began a three-nation trip
Octopus and its customers ask Treasury to back zonal electricity pricing
Octopus Energy has rallied thousands of its small business customers to back an overhaul of Great Britain’s electricity market. The largest energy supplier in Britain
Viagogo failing to prevent potentially unlawful practices, say campaigners
The ticket resale platform Viagogo has been accused of failing to prevent “misleading and potentially unlawful” practices on its platform, despite facing intense scrutiny as