94 m. ago Tim Minchin: Songs the World Will Never Hear review – a bumper night with the marvellous misfit

Hammersmith Apollo, LondonMinchin embraces his oddball status – is he musician, comedian, auteur or clown? – in this three-hour showIt’s 20 years since Tim Minchin’s life-changing Edinburgh fringe in 2005, and tonight he’s singing 20 songs of commemoration. There’s a lot to celebrate: few careers are this distinctive, or this successful. And there’s a real sense Minchin has got life where he wants it tonight. With a five-strong band in tow, the balance is better than on his last tour between troubadour and rock Gargantua. And there’s an embrace, too, of his misfit status: who cares if no one knows whether he’s a musician, a comedian, an auteur or a clown – or whether tonight’s show is, as Minchin describes it, “an absolute shitshow of tonal inconsistency”?I mean, he’s not wrong. Minchin has always been a curious mix of cool and uncool, sending up rock theatrics while openly in thrall to them. He is an artist of excess, never knowingly underwritten – and for more than three hours ton...

Politics

63 h. ago I went to a 7am rave with a DJ and glow sticks in a health food shop

Dancing before breakfast was a new experience for me

Society

5 d. ago David Ellis reviews Acme Fire Cult: This may just be the perfect summer restaurant

This is dining out as imagined by Quentin Tarantino, says David Ellis

Events

6 d. ago Soaring food costs drive shop prices higher for first time this year

Overall shop prices are rising for the first time in almost a year after food price inflation accelerated last month, the new figures suggest.

Economics

9 d. ago Popular farm shop announces 'hardest decision' to close after 18 years

After 18 years the popular farm shop is preparing to close for good

Politics

1 week ago Wimbledon 2025: London’s outdoor screenings and the best places to watch the tennis

Can’t make it onto Centre Court? Mike Daw and David Ellis have the next best thing

Politics

1 week ago Things to do in London this weekend, from a flower show at the Saatchi Gallery to a new French bistro

Josh Barrie and David Ellis pick the very best of what to do in the capital this weekend

Politics

1 week ago David Ellis reviews Belly: A wobbly start, but there's time to shape up

Omar Shah is the king of Kentish Town. His latest restaurant needs a little more thought, says David Ellis

Politics

1 week ago Ironheart: Marvel show ‘review bombed’ on Rotten Tomatoes before anyone could even watch it on Disney Plus

Ironheart was negatively reviewed by users before anyone could even watch it 😫

Events

1 week ago Ironheart review – the small screen can barely contain the energy of this Black Panther spinoff

This rapid-fire new Marvel Cinematic Universe show for a younger audience is packed with cartoonish violence and flashy effects. Dominique Thorne’s reprisal of her Wakanda Forever role is stunningly charismaticAmid the usual welter of pre-emptive criticisms, hopes, dreams, doubts and hostilities that suffuse the internet whenever a new addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe – or any other alternative world beloved of a fandom – is announced, Ironheart (the 14th TV series in the MCU and following on from the events in 2022’s film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) has at last arrived.In the film, Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne, reprising the role on the small screen, which can barely contain her charisma or energy) was the genius MIT student who invented the vibranium detector that rather kicked off the whole vibranium power struggle, then the metal exoskeletal suit that aided the Wakandans in their face-off with Talokan. At the end, she returned to MIT and that is where we find her...

Politics

1 week ago Harrods shopper spends £8 on Too Good To Go bag and is startled by what's inside

A shopper was stunned recently after getting two Too Good To Go bags from the UK's most luxurious shop, with food items worth £51.75 - and they insist others should follow suit

Economics

1 week ago When to shop for reduced food at Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, Asda and Sainsbury’s

Full list of times UK supermarkets start selling reduced yellow sticker food

Politics

2 w. ago Famous pink sweet shop is doing something brilliant after 80 years in business

The Pink Shop in Pontypridd, now known as Pinc, has been open since the 1940s and is one of the oldest of its kind in south Wales

Economics

2 w. ago World Martini Day: The Connaught Bar shares its lesson for the perfect cocktail

The master of the martini, Agostino Perrone, mixes things up with David Ellis

Politics

2 w. ago I visited Jeremy Clarkson’s farm shop 90 minutes from Wales — I took one look and made an instant decision

Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat Farm Shop has been a central part of the Amazon Prime Video phenomenon — I wanted to see what all the fuss is about

Politics

2 w. ago The ghost Burger King on a Welsh roundabout which was built but has never opened

The fast food giants won the right to set up shop after an appeal in 2023

Politics

2 w. ago David Ellis reviews Lai Rai: One thrilling step beyond street food

Lai Rai looks faintly make-believe, but has the feeling of being the place to be, says David Ellis

Politics

2 w. ago Expedition to ‘real home of the pirates of the Caribbean’ hopes to unearth ships and treasure

Exploration of Bahamas seabed will be first time notorious New Providence hideout has been searchedThe Pirates of the Caribbean is a $4.5bn swashbuckling film franchise and Blackbeard and Calico Jack Rackham are among marauding buccaneers who have captured imaginations over the centuries.But almost nothing is known about the life and times of actual pirates. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago UK's best fish and chip shop with stunning beach views and seals as dining pals

Cash-only and chip-free this fish and chip shop is one of a kind but absolutely worth the hassle

Politics

2 w. ago Too Many Critics 2025: charity event raises £130,000 for Action Against Hunger

Held at hit restaurant Roe, among those cooking was the Standard’s David Ellis

Economics