2 h. ago New proposals to cut PIP and disability benefits ahead of full review

The Centre for Social Justice has called for emergency measures to be brought in to reduce the number of people currently on the benefit

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4 h. ago House Democrats call for urgent review of deadly Texas flooding as Trump tours disaster zone

‘I’ve never seen anything like it. A little narrow river that becomes a monster,’ president says

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7 h. ago The Script emotional TRNSMT moment as Danny O'Donoghue pays tribute to dead bandmate

"I like to think there is a big festival up there and they are all drinking whisky"

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8 h. ago Donnie Wahlberg’s Blue Bloods spinoff recasts longtime actor after 14 seasons

Wahlberg will return as Danny Reagan in the crime procedural spin off

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11 h. ago Justin Bieber: Swag review – inane lyrics undermine a gorgeously produced R&B passion project

(Def Jam) The surprise seventh album from the former tween idol is musically expansive, abetted by a host of star producers. If only he’d thought about the words a bitIn the mid-2010s, pop music changed. Instead of hounding the listening public with focus-grouped, machine-tooled crowd-pleasers, the biggest stars began releasing expansive, experimental albums that played to their own tastes and interests. These were records that were artistically self-indulgent, mostly in a good way: Rihanna’s sleazy, sultry Anti, Beyoncé’s densely referential Lemonade, Lady Gaga’s soft-rock-heavy Joanne, Miley Cyrus’s psychedelic Wayne Coyne collaboration Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (I may be the only person who holds that example in such high regard.)With his fourth album Purpose, Justin Bieber was adjacent to this shift. Leaning into the ascendant tropical house genre, collaborating with Skrillex and pursuing a sound you sensed a 21-year-old might actually like, it spelled the end of Bieber’s ...

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12 h. ago Prodrive’s racing simulator review: A £60,000 thing of beauty

Prodrive’s new driving simulator champions the very best of British design

Economics

13 h. ago A middling Oasis gig where the Gallaghers might as well be holograms: TIM DE LISLE gives his VERY brutal review of the brothers' reunion tour

The atmosphere is heaving. The fans are mad for it. Half of Cardiff is wearing a bucket hat. The roof feels as if it's about to blow off. The Oasis reunion can't fail, can it?

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14 h. ago Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern: 'helps broaden understanding of Indigenous cultures'

Kngwarray’s first major solo museum exhibition in Europe is a revelatory joy with an important role to play

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14 h. ago Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 review – a gnarly skating time capsule

PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch/Switch 2; Iron Galaxy Studios/ActivisionThis remake is a nostalgia fest of grabs, spins, flips and skids – and a stiff, even occasionally humiliating test of skillIt’s almost insulting how easily this skating-game remake pushes my millennial nostalgia buttons. The second that Ace of Spades comes on over a montage of skaters on the title screen, I am forcefully yanked back to the early 00s, when I spent untold hours playing one Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater game or another in the gross bedrooms of my teen-boy friends. More than 20 years later, I can almost smell the acrid lingering odour of Lynx body spray.In 2020, the first couple of Tony Hawk’s games were polished up and re-released as the first wave of Y2K nostalgia hit. The two games were packaged up as one, with consistent controls and a new look that preserved the grungy feel of the originals, and the same is true for 3+4: levels, skaters and parks from both 2001’s THPS3 and 2002’s THPS4 rock...

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16 h. ago The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare in the Squares (Cleveland Square, London) Review

The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare in the Squares (Cleveland Square, London) Review  Theatre & Tonic

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16 h. ago MOVIE REVIEW: We find out if sequel 'Jurassic World: Rebirth' is a roar

Soaring set pieces and on safer ground with island return but still falls into similar traps to its immediate predecessors.

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18 h. ago BBC 'faces being sued by up to 60 MasterChef contestants who fear Gregg Wallace's final series will never now be aired'

The sacked presenter, 60, was banned from working for the Beeb yesterday in a scathing dismissal letter following a damning independent review and a nine-month sexual-misconduct investigation.

Culture

19 h. ago Kokoroko: Tuff Times Never Last review – ruminative jazz outfit get stuck in a relaxed rut

(Brownswood)The London collective have an easygoing, ruminative sound – briefly lifted here by moments of lively counterpoint – that can feel all too placidSince breaking out with their 2018 track Abusey Junction, London jazz collective Kokoroko have become known for a soothing brand of improvised instrumentals. Blending whispered melodies with muted horns, downtempo hand percussion and shades of highlife guitar, theirs is an easygoing, ruminative sound. Their 2022 debut album, Could We Be More, continued in the same vein, full of warm brass and gently layered vocal harmony.So does their latest effort, Tuff Times Never Last. Across its 11 tracks of , tempos rarely exceed 100bpm, wallowing in tranquil bass lines and languorous grooves. The group establish a confident and comforting tone, playing through the lullaby vocal harmonies of Never Lost, the slowed guitar of Closer to Me and Rhodes piano reverberations on My Father in Heaven. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Phase Space: Degrees of Freedom review | Safi Bugel's experimental album of the month

(Phase Space)Switching wonky techno for spacious abstraction, Gwenan Spearing debuts a new alias on an EP of uncanny generative electronicsAfter establishing herself as a techno DJ in some of the wonkiest corners of underground dance music, Gwenan Spearing has spent the last few years settling into slower, more abstract territory. Alongside her club sets, she co-organises an ambient deep listening series in Berlin and spends her spare time experimenting with modular synthesis. Phase Space is the latest expression of this interest, a project rooted in generative electronics and real-time responses.Degrees of Freedom is Spearing’s first outing under this new alias: an EP of meandering ambient tracks that blur the lines between electronic and acoustic as instruments are sampled, warped and overdubbed through her synthesiser. On the subaquatic opening track Sync, cowbells are stretched and delayed beyond recognition against a pulsing analogue rhythm. Towards the end of Some Pluck, a den...

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21 h. ago Bless Me Father by Kevin Rowland review – the Dexys Midnight Runners frontman tells all

A picaresque story of massive success and deep despair that Rowland narrates with an impressive lack of self-pityIn the summer of 1979, Dexys Midnight Runners were a band you would have been hard-pushed to describe as anything other than unique. Their sound was a pugilistic update of classic 60s soul, topped with frontman Kevin Rowland’s extraordinary vocals, impassioned to the point that he permanently sounded on the verge of tears. It was fervent and a little retro, perfect for a musical climate in which mod and ska revivals were already bubbling. But Dexys’ image threw a spanner in the works. “I wore a white 1930s shirt and big baggy light-grey trousers tucked into white football socks just below the knee to give the effect of ‘plus fours’,” writes Rowland of a typical outfit. “I wore pink Mary Jane ballet shoes and my hair swept back, Valentino style.”Other members appear on stage clad in jodhpurs and satin harem pants. The disparity between how they sound and how...

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22 h. ago Josh Barrie On the Sauce at Dante: Take two icons and serve over ice

A New York legend comes to Claridge’s. Josh Barrie goes in for a Garibaldi

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28 h. ago Skirly Crag by Helen Percy: Chaplain who found solace with a different kind of flock

Helen Percy's beautiful new book sheds light on life as a shepherdess and the interesting ways in which washing up liquid can be used when birthing a lamb.

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28 h. ago Super Stimulated by Nicklas Brendborg: The secret super stimuli behind your bad habits

Can't stop scrolling or snacking? You're not weak-willed, you're being manipulated by big business, says a top scientist

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28 h. ago Unforgettable and impossible to resist: The best Thrillers out now: A Murder in Paris by Matthew Blake, Love, Mom by Iliana Xander, Deadline by Steph McGovern

Geoffrey Wansell reviews the best Thrillers out now.

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28 h. ago Brilliant contemporary novels to read this summer: Bitter Sweet by Hattie Williams, Food Person by Adam Roberts, The Greatest Possible Good by Ben Brooks

Sara Lawrence reviews the best contemporary novels out now.

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