96 m. ago Charli xcx at Glastonbury review – a thrilling hostile takeover by a pop star at the peak of her powers

Other stagePlaying to a dizzyingly huge crowd, for many this is Saturday’s true headlining set: a bawdy and uncompromising icon playing alone with no frillsFor my money, one of the best pop tours of the 21st century was Kanye West’s Yeezus tour. Like the album it was supporting, the Yeezus tour was abrasive and minimal and totally spectacular: West stood in front of gigantic bright-red screens and blasted arenas with some of the harshest, most acidic sounds ever considered mainstream. That tour was unrelenting and uncompromising and, as a result, totally compelling.Charli xcx’s Brat tour may be the only clear successor. It is a show whose main components are a curtain, a few stadium strobe light rigs, and one star whose vision is so specific and so well realised that the “necessities” of an A-list pop show – dancers, set pieces, etc – suddenly seem like crutches for anyone less in tune with themselves. This makes sense, given that Charli is also our clearest successor to West himsel...

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1 hour ago Neil Young at Glastonbury review: the 'ghost' show rocks hard for the lucky few

Neil Young’s headline slot on the Pyramid Stage was untelevised and not hugely attended but still rocked

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2 h. ago If Charli XCX is over Brat summer, she doesn’t let it show during her full

The glaring lack of cameos aside, tonight’s set is a gyrating, floor-spitting party

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2 h. ago Lost temple found in mountains reveals secrets of civilization that vanished 1,000 years ago

Archaeologists have discovered a site where 'goods and gods crossed paths' hiding deep in the mountains of South America.

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2 h. ago Doechii’s Glastonbury performance sees her triumph over a biblical set clash

Choosing to spend your Saturday headline slot with her doesn't feel like a consolation prize. In fact, you’d be forgiven for thinking Doechii had been playing to festival crowds for decades

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2 h. ago Neil Young thunders through a mighty Glastonbury setlist in front of a surprisingly sparse crowd

Young’s idea of a special guest is Hank Williams’s guitar, while his pyrotechnics are strictly of the fretboard variety and generally aimed into a circle of bandmates

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2 h. ago The Shakespeare Ladies Club by Christine & Jonathan Hainsworth: The women who made Shakespeare great

Imagine a world in which no one cared about Shakespeare - that was the case in the 1600s, until four pioneering women reinvigorated the bard's reputation.

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2 h. ago The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis: In search of genius? Don't look in East Anglia

What does it mean to be a genius? Are they cleaver, entrepreneurial, or inventive? The answer, as Helen Lewis's new book shows, is that no one knows.

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3 h. ago Glastonbury fans say 'sort it out' as Scissor Sisters performance 'ruined'

Technical difficulties meant that fans couldn't watch the band perform

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6 h. ago Pulp (Patchwork) at Glastonbury review: secret set shows the genius of Jarvis

Patchwork were Pulp of course, and Jarvis and co delivered a Saturday night set that had the festival bouncing

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7 h. ago Kneecap’s contested Glastonbury performance was forceful, urgent – and impossible to suppress

They’re good technical rappers – switching dextrously between English and Irish-language lyrics – but their performance excels most in its pure kinetic energy

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8 h. ago Kneecap at Glastonbury review – sunkissed good vibes are banished by rap trio’s feral, furious flows

West Holts stageFrom Rod Stewart to Keir Starmer, no one is safe from the Irish group’s ire, as the weekend’s most talked-about set became a mosh-heavy, provocation-filled meleeMosh pits and mayhem: Kneecap play Glastonbury – in picturesIt is perhaps worth recalling Kneecap’s appearance at last year’s Glastonbury, a lunchtime set in the Woodsies tent that saw the band widely acclaimed as bringers of boozy, edgy hilarity, complete with songs called Get Your Brits Out and Rhino Ket. Twelve months and some provocative onstage comments about Palestine and Conservative MPs later, they’re both folk devil and cause celebre, whose appearance at the festival is the most hotly debated of 2025 – both the prime minister and the leader of the opposition have had strong opinions about it.It’s a perfect example of how quickly stories can become overheated in the 21st century: vastly more people now have a opinion about Kneecap than have ever heard their music, which is, traditionally, a tricky and...

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8 h. ago Kneecap at Glastonbury 2025 review: fiercely, unapologetically themselves

The Irish rap trio took a victory lap of the West Holts stage with chants of “f*** Keir Starmer”

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9 h. ago Inside the Hotspur Press building before blaze left it in ruins

The historic former mill in Manchester city centre was destroyed by fire just days ago

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9 h. ago Toddler, 2, fighting for life after being stung 150 times by wasps while riding toy car

Beckham Reed was with his cousins in Georgia when he accidentally hit a yellow jackets nest

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9 h. ago Oscar Piastri shows true colours after being denied chance to fight Lando Norris for pole

A Pierre Gasly spin ruined the laps of the likes of Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen late in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix while Lando Norris produced a fine pole lap

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10 h. ago Kari Lake rescinds layoff notices sent to hundreds at dismantled Voice of America

Notices sent out after staff found errors in documents outlining layoff terms, which could nullify or delay attempts to fire employees

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11 h. ago Man charged with murder after a woman 'known to him' stabbed to death at east London home

The victim, a woman in her 40s, was attacked at an address in Tower Hamlets on Tuesday

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11 h. ago Silent tower fan with 'impressive cooling abilities' now 18% off on Amazon

"This is an excellent fan, it works exceptionally well to cool warm air. Levoit customer service is amazing."

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11 h. ago 'I tried to watch Netflix on my fiance's iPad but what I found ruined my life'

A woman has been left devastated after uncovering a disgusting family secret.

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