Culture

Benjamin Britten represents old-fashioned values we’d d...

Despite his reputation as a conservative figure, the composer’s ability to explo...

Spyro the Dragon returns with a new game after almost t...

90s PlayStation fans, rejoice: California studio Toys for Bob is making Spyro: R...

Who Are the Kurds?

Kendal Nezan / President of the Kurdish Institute of Paris

Judge urges Melbourne orchestra and pianist to resolve ...

A judge has urged the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) and an acclaimed pianis...

Maybe only a Russian can bring out the soul of Russian ...

It’s an old superstition, but it was given more fodder by the Royal Philharmonic...

'Comrade' by Hevin Halo Najat

Michael EJ Phillips

Norman Balon, notoriously rude landlord of the Coach an...

Balon was immortalised in Michael Heath’s Private Eye cartoon, The Regulars, and...

How Dire Straits became an overnight sensation with tod...

From TikTok dance videos to a backlash against formulaic pop, there’s more to th...

Lego launches Pokémon ‘smart’ bricks equipped for inter...

Tie-up between blockbuster toy brands offers hi-tech play sets that will allow f...

45 things you didn’t know about Marilyn Monroe

From the secrets of her love affairs to intriguing on-set curios, fabulous facts...

What every Englishman owes to the Venerable Bede

He was a remarkable historian who sought his sources from around the world – wit...

The 140-year struggle of the Sagrada Família – will it ...

Delayed by war, politics and cash shortage, Gaudí’s vast basilica is nearing end...

How ‘one note’ Daniel Radcliffe beat the child actor curse

Nominated for a second Tony, the once-troubled Harry Potter star has defied the ...

Eric de Bellaigue, man of letters who published a book ...

His book Guarded Words examined the work of the likes of Alexander Solzhenitsyn,...

Patrick Campbell-Lyons, musician who was co-founder of ...

Nirvana were pioneers of psychedelic pop; in the Nineties they took Kurt Cobain’...