15 m. ago Sweden’s national security adviser quits over dating site images one day into job

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said the information should have come to light a long time ago

Events

25 m. ago Former EastEnders star Danny Dyer reunites with soap legend for new season of popular comedy

The pair have not been seen on the Albert Square programme since 2022

Culture

29 m. ago Why is The Four Seasons so good? It’s the opposite of The White Lotus

Yes, both of them feature a shock death, but there’s a lot going on underneath the surface of this rich-person comedy

Events

76 m. ago Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville set to star in second series of huge Netflix hit

The actor, 61 - who played Robert Crawley in ITV 's Downton Abbey between 2010 and 2015 - has bagged himself a role as a new character in the action comedy.

Events

84 m. ago Trans Labour councillor quits party and accuses Starmer of ‘throwing transgender people under a bus’

Dylan Tippetts said Labour no longer ‘supports his fundamental rights’

Politics

87 m. ago Ocean review: At 99, David Attenborough still wants to change the world

It’s a heartbreaking irony – one not lost on Sir David Attenborough – that in his long lifetime scientists’ knowledge of the natural world has increased dramatically while nature has suffered devastating losses over the same period. Meanwhile, our appetite for David’s powerful storytelling is as insatiable as ever and his new film and book make a formidable case for change.

Politics

89 m. ago Grisey: Vortex Temporum album review – bold, assertive interpretation of a masterly score

Ukho Ensemble Kyiv/Gaggero(Kyiv Dispatch)Gérard Grisey’s extraordinary, performed here by Ukraine’s leading new-music group, is one of the finest compositions of the late 20th centuryUkho Ensemble Kyiv is Ukraine’s leading new-music group, founded in 2015 by the Italian conductor Luigi Gaggero. Since the Russian invasion of the country in 2022, its members have inevitably been dispersed and its activities curtailed, but it has continued to perform a wide range of 20th and 21st-century repertories outside Ukraine. This performance of what is one of Gérard Grisey’s most important achievements, and one of the finest scores of the final decades of the last century, is taken from concerts the group gave in Stuttgart in December 2022.Grisey completed Vortex Temporum, for two winds, three strings and piano, in 1996, two years before his shockingly sudden death. If the work that followed it, the extraordinary Quatre Chants pour Franchir le Seuil, suggested that Grisey’s music was about to e...

Politics

1 hour ago Expert reveals the secret to preventing seagulls from stealing your chips

There's nothing quite like sitting on the beach licking an ice cream, or tucking into fish and chips. But an enjoyable day out can quickly be ruined by seagulls diving to steal your food.

Events

2 h. ago Can robots make the perfect Aperol spritz? – Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 review

From 3D-printing with bacteria to cocktail-mixing humanoids, from the future of space suits to reassurances about climate change, this mind-boggling rollercoaster of a show could do with a more focused curatorial visionA teetering wall of gungy green bricks greets visitors to this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, forming an imposing blockade near the start of the show. The blocks are made of bio-cement, incorporating fishing nets and algae dredged from the depths of the Venetian lagoon. The wall’s steeply sloping gradient follows the curve of global population growth over the last millennium, terminating abruptly near the ceiling to represent the coming peak of humanity. “What awaits us on the other side of the hill?” asks Carlo Ratti, director of this year’s biennale, as he stands in front of the momentous cliff. The answer is a great heap of gunge. A festering mountain of mould-like gunk is piled up against the back of the wall, apparently an allegory for microbial intelligenc...

Events

2 h. ago Vantrue E1 Pro Dash Cam review: Tiny but mighty with 4K clarity

Motoring writer Gareth Butterfield tests the latest dash cam from Vantrue - and it’s a mini marvel

Politics

4 h. ago Here We Are at the National Theatre, Lyttelton review: should this have been staged at all?

Stephen Sondheim’s posthumous musical has no songs, only a stellar cast save it from being completely unenjoyable

Politics

4 h. ago Netflix fans urged to watch 'fantastic' comedy with 99% Rotten Tomatoes score

Netflix viewers who love a coming-of-age drama should watch this film next

Sport

4 h. ago Gary Lineker says BBC didn’t have ‘great desire’ to renew his contract

Ex-footballer will leave the corporation after hosting its 2026 World Cup coverage

Politics

4 h. ago Emma Jane Unsworth: ‘I blush when I think of Miranda July’s All Fours. I became a changed woman’

The author of Slags on Patricia Highsmith, Judy Blume and her lifelong reaction to YeatsMy earliest reading memory Probably a Garfield book when I was five or six. I loved Garfield. Mostly because he was funny, but also because he was an iconic ginger. He introduced me to lasagne, which I pronounced “la-sign”. It was the 1980s. I got told off all the time for reading at the dinner table.My favourite book growing up After my nanna’s Mills & Boons, stolen from her bedside table, I’d have to say Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. Another iconic ginge. Also Anne and Gilbert were the greatest “will they/won’t they?” until Mulder and Scully in The X Files. Continue reading...

Politics

5 h. ago I stayed at the Hoseasons Darwin Forest for a long weekend family staycation

Before booking your next UK holiday read my honest review to see what it’s really like.

Politics

6 h. ago Billy Woods: Golliwog review – one of the most engrossing, unnerving records you’ll hear this year

(Backwoodz Studioz)The New York rapper confronts trauma and state-sanctioned terror with his latest release, pulling out innumerable images of inhumanityGolliwog has the ambience of a horror movie: dissonant strings, like nails on a chalkboard, form the basis of the track Star87; agonised screams are sampled throughout; every so often, an ominous drone will fill a song to the point of overwhelm. On that level alone, New York underground icon Billy Woods’ latest album would be a feat of sound design, and one of the year’s most engrossing, unnerving records. Of course, this being a Billy Woods record, that’s just scratching the surface.Golliwog’s horror aesthetics are a counterpoint to its tales of real, everyday nightmares. Through samples, guest verses and his own lyrics, Woods unearths innumerable images of inhumanity: stories of CIA torture methods, “12 billion USD hovering over the Gaza strip”, a class of professional “zombies” willing to turn a blind eye to the working class tha...

Politics

7 h. ago Lido Pimienta: La Belleza review – Gregorian chant meets dembow rhythm in a work of remarkable depth

(Anti-)Inspired by the music of Luboš Fiser and Catholic requiem mass, the instrumentals are deft and surprising, but Pimienta’s captivating, flawless vocals steal the showFive years since her Grammy-nominated breakthrough record Miss Colombia, singer and producer Lido Pimienta has taken a radical shift in direction. On Miss Colombia, Pimienta combined sprightly electro pop with cumbia rhythms and soaring vocals to critique racism and misogyny – now, her fourth album La Belleza (The Beauty) is a nine-track orchestral suite touching on everything from Gregorian chant to strings-laden love songs and dembow rhythms.Inspired by Catholic requiem mass music and the luscious harpsichord folk of Czech composer Luboš Fiser’s score to 1970 film Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Pimienta and producer Owen Pallett began writing and arranging for the 60-piece Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra during the Covid lockdowns. The result is a moving work of remarkable depth. Continue reading...

Politics

7 h. ago Murderbot to Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story – the seven best shows to stream this week

Alexander Skarsgård leads a funny AI sci-fi comedy, while a new documentary fills in gaps about the shockingly grotesque crimes of the notorious couplePerfectly in tune with our current state of low-key but persistent AI panic, this sci-fi comedy stars Alexander Skarsgård as the titular, self-named security cyborg. Skarsgård’s bot has managed to hack itself, but having overridden its programming, it’s unsure of what to do with its freedom. After all, one false move and its semi-autonomous state will be revealed. The tone is wry rather than dystopian. Murderbot has been hired as security by a shambolic gaggle of space-travelling environmentalists – but while it does have the capacity to go on a killing spree, it really just wants to be left alone to watch soap operas and ponder its place in the universe. Dryly funny and existentially intriguing. Apple TV, from Friday 16 May Continue reading...

Events

8 h. ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Tasha Ghouri 'almost quit' as she was left in 'bad place' during dance dream

The former Love Island star made it all the way to the final of the BBC One dance contest last year alongside professional partner Aljaz Skorjanec

Politics

9 h. ago Long Way Home review – Ewan McGregor’s latest motorbike adventure is mesmerising slow TV

The actor’s new travelogue with Charley Boorman is far from action-packed – and could do with fewer episodes. But watching them ride eventually becomes entrancingThey’ve gone Round, Down and Up, and now, for their fourth season, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are attempting to ride the Long Way Home. In 2020, the long-running blokes-on-bikes travel series was revived by Apple after a 15-year gap, and it set its stars the task of travelling from the southernmost tip of South America to Los Angeles on electric motorbikes. Not all fans of the previous seasons were enamoured with it, not least because it lacked the everyman appeal of their earlier runs. Having a big team at Harley-Davidson design and custom-build vehicles for the job, and getting a company to install charging points along the route for them, wasn’t quite the same as two old mates jumping on their bikes and camping wherever the mood dictated.It makes sense, then, for Long Way Home to take it back to basics. It certain...

Transport