2 h. ago Brit Awards 2025: When is it, who is performing and who will win?

Charli XCX is the most nominated artist of the night, while Sabrina Carpenter and Jade are set to perform at the awards’ 45th ceremony

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5 h. ago All eyes on Wandsworth: why the London Borough of Culture 2025 is the place to be

Loyal locals rave about their leafy south-west London home

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6 h. ago Comedy Rich List 2025: Here are the 17 wealthiest comedians on the planet

Being funny can lead to earning a lot of money - none of these performers will be overly concerned about the rate of inflation.

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13 h. ago Arts sector’s use of unpaid interns for some roles could be illegal, experts say

Concerns also raised that practice prevents young working-class people from finding paid work in creative industriesArts employers could be breaking the law by relying on unpaid interns to perform roles that should be left to paid workers, preventing young people from working-class backgrounds from gaining a foothold, experts have said.Institutions are getting away with exploiting carve-outs in employment legislation to keep interns working for free, they said, which stops working-class people from finding paid work in the industry. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Drag kings strut the stage in They Will be Kings – in pictures

Drag show They Will be Kings celebrates masculinity through a transmasculine, non-binary and lesbian lens as part of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi GrasThey Will be Kings is on at the Loading Dock Theatre in Darlinghurst, Sydney until 28 February 2025 Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Pictured: Man, 34, who died after being restrained by police outside bar near London Bridge

IOPC director Amanda Rowe appealed for anyone who saw Adam Tidman being detained to come forward

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26 h. ago Oil rig horror Still Wakes The Deep leads 2025 Ukie Video Game Awards nominees

Set aboard an oil rig off the north coast of Scotland, Still Wakes the Deep is up for several awards including UK Game of the year.

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30 h. ago Exciting programme of cultural events as Wandsworth becomes London Borough of Culture

Exciting programme of cultural events as Wandsworth becomes London Borough of Culture  Yahoo News UK

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56 h. ago SAG Awards 2025: The full list of winners from the Screen Actors Guild Awards

Jessica Gunning took home the prize for best actress in a limited series for her role as stalker Martha in Baby Reindeer.

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3 d. ago ‘I stripped away this caricature that I created’: Pamela Anderson on makeup, activism and gardening

The star of Baywatch and The Last Showgirl answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including Stella McCartney, Liam Neeson, Ruby Wax and Naomi KleinPamela Anderson, makeup-free and beautiful in a floral Westwood suit, is making a fuss of my dog. My dog likes her. I’m not a particular believer in the idea that animals are great character judges but, in this case, me and the dog are aligned. I like Anderson too. She combines openness with a kind of vulnerability, and you warm to her immediately.Settled on a sofa in a small dressing room off a photography studio, she asks for a coffee and promptly spills it everywhere. “I strive for imperfection,” she jokes. “I strive for it, and I just hit it every time.” Cortado mopped, she takes a breath, before talking excitedly of a new phase in her eventful life. “A door opened, and I walked through,” she says. “It’s hard to believe.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Culture wars: Trump’s takeover of arts is straight from the dictator playbook

US president’s attempt to control or dismantle cultural institutions plays into a long history of authoritarians using arts to push their agendaIn 1937, leaders of Germany’s Third Reich hosted two simultaneous art exhibitions in Munich. One, titled the Great German Art Exhibition, featured art viewed by the regime as appropriate and aspirational for the ideal Aryan society – orderly and triumphant, with mostly blond people in heroic poses amid pastoral German landscapes. The other showcased what Adolf Hitler and his followers deemed “degenerate art” (“Entartete Kunst”). The works, chaotically displayed and saddled with commentary disparaging “the sick brains of those who wielded the brush or pencil”, were abstract, profane, modernist and produced by the proclaimed enemies of the Reich – Jewish people, communists or those suspected of being either.The Degenerate Art exhibition, which later toured the country, opened a day after Hitler declared “merciless war” on cultural disintegrati...

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4 d. ago Revealed: the most popular sex toy sold in every London borough

Revealed: the most popular sex toy sold in every London borough  Time Out London

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4 d. ago London borough that desperately needs council homes may have to sell some to repay £40m bailout

London borough that desperately needs council homes may have to sell some to repay £40m bailout  Yahoo News UK

Economics

5 d. ago City Hall rejects plan for London art trail blaming lack of funds

A new artwork would have been commissioned for each London borough under the proposals

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5 d. ago The Sims at 25: a terrifying facsimile of life, death and the endless cycle of work

Launched in an era when voyeurism reigned supreme, The Sims was both a curious pleasure and a Lynchian oddity. A new program in Melbourne celebrates its legacyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email“Who would you put in your pool these days?” asks my friend while we stand in a giant lime-green dollhouse. We’re at Acmi’s celebration of The Sims’ 25th birthday, inside a Y2K-inspired pop-up styled by the interior designer influencers and diehard Simmers Josh and Matt. There are a couple of blocky PCs where people can play the original Sims. There is also a grim reaper and a llama wandering around.The pool question makes a lot of sense to anyone who has ever spent hours on the blockbuster game. Any dedicated player knows the terrifying death by drowning that awaits their Sim if they take away the pool ladder. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Parking fines set to increase across London after councils say they aren’t a deterrent anymore

London Councils says that it has been 13 years since the penalty charges were last reviewed

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5 d. ago Best Stephen King Films 2025: Here are the 11 most critically

With The Monkey now in cinemas we’re taking a look at the best films based on Stephen King books.

Culture

6 d. ago Full list of London council tax bills as virtually every borough seeks maximum increase

Revealed: Why Wandsworth can set the cheapest bills but Kingston’s are biggest in the capital

Economics

6 d. ago Laverne Cox’s Clean Slate offers a nuanced, hilarious view of Black trans life

The show delivers a refreshing depiction of the relationship between a trans woman and her fatherBlack sitcoms have long featured sincere and thoughtful arcs on myriad issues, including adoption, grief and racial profiling. But many shows have failed to deliver meaningful storylines about transgender characters. Shows such as The Jeffersons and The Parkers, for instance, have leaned on tired, transphobic tropes: the process of transitioning is typically reduced to a single operation that characters get off-screen; trans women are often outed by accident, the punchline in a joke about gender; or trans people are abandoned once a cisgender character who’s initially expressed romantic interest in them suddenly discovers their gender identity and bolts.Across television programs, trans characters (usually played by cis actors) function as punchlines, villains or have no legitimate storyline to begin with. But Clean Slate, a new Prime Video series loosely based on the actor Laverne Cox’s...

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6 d. ago BFI Future Film Festival 2025: Jury, nominees, and £15,000 in prizes announced for UK’s top filmmakers event

With Sony gear, exclusive mentorship, and global streaming, the festival has become the premier platform for young talent

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