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‘A little less cool’: Spotify’s listening age feature stirs delight and dismay

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Four countries to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete

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Art Basel Miami 2025: Latin American artists take center stage

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Margaretta D’Arcy obituary

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‘A joyous and emotional journey’: immersive exhibition charts Coventry’s south Asian heritage

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RSC to cut workforce by 11% as it faces ‘perilous situation’

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Josh Jones review – Mancunian comedian meanders in vanishingly insubstantial set

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Post your questions for Chrissie Hynde

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Jimmy Kimmel on Pete Hegseth, ‘our secretary of war crimes’

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From Otis Redding to Booker T, Steve Cropper was a strong yet subtle force that shaped so many soul classics

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All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles review – a deliciously sweary, prize-winning monologue

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Nash Ensemble: Ravel album review – catches the music’s dazzling light and intriguing shade

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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 review – inept game-based horror is one of the year’s worst

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‘Filthy rich, kinky and heartless’: your favourite late-arriving TV characters

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The 13 arts organisations granted new multi-year funding by Creative Scotland

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Remembering Toni Lamond: the Australian stage legend who made me fall in love with theatre

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Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray review – a vibrant ode to best friends and queer loves

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Tom Felton: ‘I agree with Barbie – blonds have more fun’

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The best memoirs and biographies of 2025

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Hope, heart and home leads at the National Indigenous Art Triennial: ‘We are going through a stage of enlightenment’

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Fallout season 2, a new Knives Out and Taylor Swift’s End of an Era: what’s new to streaming in Australia in December

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Eurovision members facing major decision over Israel's future at contest as boycott threats loom

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Pianodrome launches £50,000 crowdfunder to find permanent home

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Tell us: what is your Spotify Wrapped ‘listening age’?

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More than just Christmas everyday: Wizzard frontman Roy Wood’s 20 best songs – ranked!

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Saodat Ismailova: As We Fade review – prepare to enter an unforgettably strange psychic dreamspace

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Fallen Angels review – fizz-fuelled lust drives a Coward comedy that was almost banned

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Dove Ellis: Blizzard review – Irish indie enigma’s glorious debut justifies the buzz

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Ebony Scrooge review – effervescent hip-hop Dickens with a Caribbean twist

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Five of the best young adult books of 2025

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Jamiroquai review – hat-sporting acid jazz superstars are slick but lack substance

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‘Biggest band that ever lived’: inside the Grateful Dead art show

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The Abandons review – Gillian Anderson’s po-faced western has some very dodgy script moments

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A mass wedding in Gaza – in pictures

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Watch Simon Cowell’s TV search for a new boyband – and see how our world has changed

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Ballet star Matthew Ball on gruelling roles and getting ogled on Instagram: ‘I don’t feel precious about my body’

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‘They rose out of the ground!’: Scotland’s brutalist beauties – in pictures

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The five best romance books of 2025

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Joe Wright on Tom Stoppard: ‘He loved sweets, smoking, words and women – in the reverse order’

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I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables But the name was trademarked And my legal ordeal began

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TV Tonight: celebrating two of the best Christmas films ever

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Ghana’s Ibrahim Mahama first African to top annual art power list

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‘Embodying the zeitgeist more than ever’: German sitcom character Stromberg revived for Merz era

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Pop, smut and Swift: what Spotify Wrapped 2025 reveals about Australian tastes

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Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84

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LA doctor who sold Matthew Perry ketamine sentenced to prison

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Misha Glenny to present BBC Radio 4 ‘institution’ In Our Time

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Snow Mice! review – Christmassy critters play hide and squeak in winter wonderland

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‘I thanked him for ending my acting career!’ – theatre directors on their debt to Tom Stoppard

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Paul Anka on his incredible, star-studded career: ‘Revenge is a motivator like you wouldn’t believe’

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Jimmy Kimmel on the Trump administration: ‘They have better-quality cabinets at Ikea’

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‘It was legs out all the time!’ June Squibb on starring in Scarlett Johansson’s directing debut – and Broadway’s original Gypsy

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Alice: Return to Wonderland review – a wonderfully eccentric new rabbit hole to go down

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Dan Houser on Victorian novels, Red Dead Redemption and redefining open-world games

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An Italian powerlifter defies gravity: Mattia Zoppellaro’s best photograph

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Oh What Fun review – Michelle Pfeiffer leads Amazon’s underbaked Christmas turkey

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Private View review – slick but stifling study of queer entanglement

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Helen Garner says State Library of Victoria turned into ‘party central’, with planned job cuts to ‘bring disgrace’ on Melbourne

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Partygoers are pushing for clubs to offer free water: ‘It costs as much as a beer’

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Emerald Storm review – a delirious bar-room dance-off with shots of showmanship

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Mr Men and Little Miss feature film in the works from Paddington producers

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Illustrating the ‘postcolonial experience’: 40 years of Peepal Tree Press

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This Spotify Wrapped season, don’t outsource your love of music to AI

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With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration review – take anti-nausea pills, she’s back!

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Share your views on music produced by AI

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It Was Just an Accident review – Jafar Panahi takes us on a nightmare trip into a land of bribes and brutality

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