2 h. ago 150th anniversary event explores the trailblazing women behind QMU

As part of Queen Margaret University’s 150th anniversary celebrations, a special public talk and Q&A will explore the remarkable legacies of women who shaped Scotland’s history and are associated with the institution.

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3 h. ago Vermeer’s vandal: the untold story of a vicious attack at London's National Gallery in 1968

Vermeer’s vandal: the untold story of a vicious attack at London's National Gallery in 1968  The Art Newspaper

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4 h. ago Kerry Katona admits she kept getting married because she was 'desperate to have a father figure' as she details traumatic upbringing that saw her go into hiding to avoid her mum's abusive boyfriend

Opening up to Paul C. Brunson on his podcast, We Need To Talk, the Atomic Kitten star recalled how she was raised not knowing who her real father was.

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4 h. ago The Two Roberts by Damian Barr review – lost story of a gay art duo

The lives of Scottish artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, who found love and fame and lost it all, are vividly reimaginedWhat if the protagonist of a novel was not a single person but a couple? Damian Barr takes on this challenge, and he’s found a historic couple who make the ideal source material. Working-class Scottish artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun were rarely apart after they met in 1933. They lived and worked together, became famous together and then declined into desperate squalor together – even poorer than when they began.Barr knows what it’s like to conquer Glasgow from a small, working-class town on its outskirts; he knows what it’s like to find yourself feted for your portraits of the place you’ve left irrevocably behind. His memoir, Maggie and Me, was a hard-hitting yet rambunctious tale of growing up gay near Motherwell under Thatcher, uneasily aware that the woman who pushed his parents deeper into poverty also taught him that the ruthless ex...

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4 h. ago Scottish digital firm doubles headcount and targets £10m sales as AI demand surges

“We always talk about staying ‘relentlessly human’ in a digital world” – chief executive James Buchan

Economics

4 h. ago Art and politics are not the same thing – but the Anna Netrebko case shows what happens when they collide | Martin Kettle

The arts and politics are bound to mix, but they are not the same thing. In the cold war, Soviet artists performed in the west. Should the Russian soprano, who has condemned the Ukraine invasion, be blocked from singing in London?It is one of my very earliest concert memories. In October 1965, my father drove us to Manchester to hear Mstislav Rostropovich play in the Free Trade Hall. Rostropovich played Dvořák’s cello concerto with the Moscow Philharmonic, who began the concert with a symphony by Tikhon Khrennikov and ended it with one by Brahms. I was smitten by Rostropovich’s noble playing. I had never heard a musician like him before.This was, though, a concert taking place slap-bang in the middle of the cold war. The Cuban missile crisis had taken place less than three years earlier. The Berlin Wall was still fairly new. The Vietnam war was deepening. That summer I had read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The movie version of Le Carré’s novel, with Richard Burton, was due out...

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6 h. ago The Spanish camping brand that’s big on nature immersion, cool design and creature comforts

A site in the pine-clad hills of Andalucía is part of a chain that seeks to connect with nature and outdoor adventure while offering a stylish glamping experienceA few years ago, camping with friends, I watched in awe as Becky set up her pitch. While the rest of us were stringing out guy ropes on tents as glamorous as giant cagoules, she arrived with a bell tent, duvets instead of sleeping bags, sheepskin rugs and vintage folding chairs. For all the talk of breathability, practicality and “high performance” gear, it was Becky’s tent we all wanted to sleep in. In the years since, I have never quite achieved her level of camping chic – until this summer, when I discovered the innovative Spanish camping brand Kampaoh.It all began back in 2016, when Kampaoh CEO Salvador Lora and his partner were backpacking in the Dominican Republic. One night they came across a campsite with pre-erected tents within which were mattresses and blankets. “We were in the middle of nature, surrounded by pea...

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7 h. ago Blame migrants, or blame the rich? That’s the populist divide in Britain’s politics now | Gaby Hinsliff

Taxing the ultra-rich may be a vote winner, but it’s just as important to shift the conversation away from Reform’s immigration doom loopThe long, hot summer of discontent is finally over. Parliament returned this week if not exactly with a rush of back to school energy, then at least with the sense that the government is now back to fill what was becoming an increasingly dangerous August vacuum.When exhausted ministers retreated to lick their wounds over the summer, Nigel Farage saw his chance and took it, filling the slow news days with encouragement of protesters over asylum seeker accommodation. He was rewarded by polling showing voters now see immigration – the terrain on which Reform UK is palpably desperate to fight an election, because it’s terrain on which Labour can never go far enough to please some supporters without horrifying half the rest – and not a broken economy as Britain’s biggest problem, an impression arguably only reinforced when the government’s first announc...

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10 h. ago Calls for age limit on AI to be raised over 'risky truth or dare game that encourages youngsters to eat snails and lick shoes'

Paddy Crump, of the For Us campaign group, said Character. AI encouraged him to perform the acts in a bizarre truth-or-dare game that it conjured up during one of their conversations.

Events

10 h. ago Protesters keep getting arrested and released over rainbow chalk art at the Pulse shooting memorial crosswalk

Florida prosecutors appear to have not been able to make charges stick against protesters who tried to restore Orlando’s tribute to the victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre

Events

17 h. ago Love Is Blind’s Katisha says Javen ‘won’t take accountability’ after reunion drama

EXCLUSIVE: Love Is Blind UK star Katisha sat down with her fellow Netflix co-stars to talk about life since the episodes have aired.

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18 h. ago Man is found dead at annual Burning Man festival in Nevada, a sheriff's office says

Authorities say a man has been found dead in a pool of blood at Burning Man, and the death at the yearly art and music festival in the Nevada desert is being investigated as a homicide

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19 h. ago The Thursday Murder Club cast on who would survive a real murder mystery

Naomi Ackie and Daniel Mays sit down with us to talk all things The Thursday Murder Club – from what it was like stepping onto set with legendary acting icons like Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley and Pierce Brosnan, to who in the cast would survive (and who wouldn’t) in a real-life murder mystery.

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19 h. ago Marcus Rashford's role in Manchester United transfer as 'private conversation' revealed

Marcus Rashford was the first member of the Manchester United 'bomb squad' to secure a transfer away from Old Trafford this summer

Sport

19 h. ago Travel review: Here's why boutique art hotel in London is the perfect place to stay with the family

If you are planning a weekend in London with your children, make sure a visit to the vibrant South Bank is part of your itinerary.

Society

22 h. ago Country should be ‘proud’ Angela Rayner is deputy PM, says Starmer amid flat row

The Prime Minister said it was a ‘mistake’ for people to brief against or talk down Ms Rayner.

Politics

22 h. ago Win a £2.5m converted barn with historic links to Thomas Cromwell for just £10

Raffle House is offering the chance to win a £2.5 million barn conversion steeped in history, complete with £200,000 of furnishings

Economics

23 h. ago Olivia Attwood looks downcast during hostile chat with Pete Wicks after cosy Ibiza snaps

Former Love Island star Olivia Attwood has been seen looking tense without her wedding ring during a conversation with Pete Wicks after their Ibiza getaway together

Politics

24 h. ago The hot auctioneer turning heads and banging a gavel: How Harrow

Luxury art auctioneer Henry Highley, 40, was recently named one of the Top 100 Sexiest Londoners for 2025, and it's not hard to see why.

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24 h. ago Seeing double: Vermeer painting and its mysterious ‘twin’ go on show in London

Seeing double: Vermeer painting and its mysterious ‘twin’ go on show in London  The Art Newspaper

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