Culture

Swiftonomics: This is what happens to a local economy when Taylor Swift comes to town
Music

Swiftonomics: This is what happens to a local economy when Taylor Swift comes to town

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is a statistician’s fever dream, with eye-bulging numbers raining down like a ticker tape parade
'Pinkwashing' or 'unifying?' Why fans are boycotting Eurovision – and why some are watching anyway
Eurovision

'Pinkwashing' or 'unifying?' Why fans are boycotting Eurovision – and why some are watching anyway

Top 5 queer love stories, chosen by Justin Myers aka The Guyliner
Queer love: Two men standing under a rainbow umbrella in front of a field
Books

Top 5 queer love stories, chosen by Justin Myers aka The Guyliner

Doctor Who star Millie Gibson on hope for Ruby Sunday and lessons learned from 'magical' Ncuti Gatwa
TV

Doctor Who star Millie Gibson on hope for Ruby Sunday and lessons learned from 'magical' Ncuti Gatwa

From 00s pop to cutting-edge electronica: Here's the best UK music festivals in summer 2024
Festival guide

From 00s pop to cutting-edge electronica: Here's the best UK music festivals in summer 2024

Delta Goodrem on 'angel' healthcare workers and advice Olivia Newton-John shared after cancer diagnosis
Music

Delta Goodrem on 'angel' healthcare workers and advice Olivia Newton-John shared after cancer diagnosis

Filmmaker Melanie Manchot explains how her drama Stephen can offer hope to addicts
Stephen Giddings in Stephen
Film

Filmmaker Melanie Manchot explains how her drama Stephen can offer hope to addicts

Making your mind up: The long history of Eurovision, politics and Israel, explained
Israeli technicians prepare the scoreboard for the Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem, 1979
Eurovision

Making your mind up: The long history of Eurovision, politics and Israel, explained

These Letters End in Tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere review – love in the face of hate
Books

These Letters End in Tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere review – love in the face of hate

From the highest mountain to the smelliest flower: This is why people are fascinated by the extreme
Books

From the highest mountain to the smelliest flower: This is why people are fascinated by the extreme

Heaven by Emerson Whitney review – a memoir with fearsome grace
Books

Heaven by Emerson Whitney review – a memoir with fearsome grace

Eurovision star Olly Alexander says he's 'ambivalent' about the 'divisive' Union Jack
Eurovision

Eurovision star Olly Alexander says he's 'ambivalent' about the 'divisive' Union Jack

Sananda Maitreya: 'You don't have to suffer. You can just choose happiness'
Sanada Maitreya
Letter To My Younger Self

Sananda Maitreya: 'You don't have to suffer. You can just choose happiness'

Why do people love Bridgerton so much? Because it gives us the gift of society as we wish it was
TV

Why do people love Bridgerton so much? Because it gives us the gift of society as we wish it was

Those wounded by the Troubles still walk among us. Their pain is as relevant today as ever
Art

Those wounded by the Troubles still walk among us. Their pain is as relevant today as ever

Top 5 books about women and water, chosen by The Tidal Year author Freya Bromley
Women and water
Books

Top 5 books about women and water, chosen by The Tidal Year author Freya Bromley

She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany: 'Fear is not necessarily the worst thing to feel'
Tatiana Maslany Image: Alexei Hay
Film

She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany: 'Fear is not necessarily the worst thing to feel'

Much Ado About Dying filmmaker on social care and why we should all be exposed to 'good deaths'
Uncle David in Much Ado about Dying
Film

Much Ado About Dying filmmaker on social care and why we should all be exposed to 'good deaths'

Love Lies Bleeding director Rose Glass on why women's muscles are still 'shocking and subversive'
Katy O’Brian and Kristen Stewart sitting close together in a gym, in Love Lies Bleeding
Film

Love Lies Bleeding director Rose Glass on why women's muscles are still 'shocking and subversive'

Marge starts a union and fights for workers' rights in powerful new episode of The Simpsons
TV

Marge starts a union and fights for workers' rights in powerful new episode of The Simpsons

Night Train to Odesa by Jen Stout review – finding defiant beauty amid devastation of war
Books

Night Train to Odesa by Jen Stout review – finding defiant beauty amid devastation of war

Is Taylor Swift making song lyrics more important than ever?
Taylor Swift and some of her lyrics
Analysis

Is Taylor Swift making song lyrics more important than ever?

'Star Trek teaches us we can be better than we are': Finding comfort and optimism in Star Trek
William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek in 1967
TV

'Star Trek teaches us we can be better than we are': Finding comfort and optimism in Star Trek

Artist Rhiannon Faith: 'I refuse to live in a society where someone feels so alone they lose hope'
Rhiannon Faith, choreographer and artistic director of Rhiannon Faith Company
Dance

Artist Rhiannon Faith: 'I refuse to live in a society where someone feels so alone they lose hope'

Uncanny USA podcast host Danny Robins on Bigfoot, UFOs and why Americans scare differently to Brits
Danny Robins on set for Uncanny USA sitting on a rusty car
Podcasts

Uncanny USA podcast host Danny Robins on Bigfoot, UFOs and why Americans scare differently to Brits