2 h. ago Ruben Amorim handed new Lisandro Martinez message as Man Utd return hint emerges before Everton

Lisandro Martinez has been out of action since February due to a serious knee injury, but the Manchester United defender has been pictured in training with Joshua Zirkzee.

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4 h. ago ‘Pictures unite!’: how pop music fell in love with socialist infographics

When Austrian philosopher Otto Neurath invented the visual language of Isotypes, it was to democratise education. As a new exhibition shows, it ended up influencing pop art, graphic design and electronic musicians from Kraftwerk to OMDWhen Otto Neurath died in Oxford some 80 years ago, far away from his native Vienna, he was still finding his feet in exile. Like many a Jewish refugee, the economist, philosopher and sociologist had been interned as a suspected enemy alien on the Isle of Man, along with his third wife and close collaborator Marie Reidemeister, having chanced a last-minute life-saving escape from their interim hideout in the Netherlands across the Channel in a rickety boat in 1940.Thanks to Neurath’s pioneering use of pictorial statistics – or “Isotypes” as Reidemeister called them, an acronym for “International System of Typographic Picture Education” – he left behind an enormous legacy in the arts and social sciences: it is the language through which we decode and an...

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3 d. ago Alex Scott's sad confession about famous girlfriend after BBC star fell in love with team

BBC presenter Alex Scott is set to enter the I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! jungle on Sunday and the Arsenal icon has endured her fair share of heartache in her personal life

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3 d. ago ‘I once said there’s no way I’ll still be playing Baggy Trousers at 30’: Suggs’s honest playlist

Prince Buster’s Al Capone changed the Madness singer’s life and Aretha Franklin is his go-to at karaoke, but what song makes him cry?The first song I fell in love with Judy Teen by Cockney Rebel. I’d seen Steve Harley on Top of the Pops and liked his look, with the mascara and bowler hat, like Alex from A Clockwork Orange. One day, me and my mates decided to cycle to Salisbury Plain. I had a transistor radio tied to the handlebars and Judy Teen came on. Unfortunately, the batteries ran out when we got to Swiss Cottage [in north London] and my legs ran out at the same time!The first single I bought The Wall Street Shuffle by 10cc, from Woolworths in Camden Town. Later on, we used to pinch records, but I paid my dues for a while. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Lisandro Martinez: Manchester United handed major injury boost as star pictured training

Defender has been out since February

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7 d. ago Five arrests made outside Bob Vylan gig as protests take place

Officers said the arrests in London took place at two protests prior to the performance.

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7 d. ago The Welshman who fell in love with a stranger on Married at First Sight UK

The couple debuted late to the experiment, and immediately hit off from the moment they met.

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8 d. ago Bob Vylan singer interviewed by police over comments on stage at Glastonbury

Police said a man in his 30s, understood to be Bobby Vylan, real name Pascal Robinson-Foster, had voluntarily attended an interview on Monday.

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1 week ago ‘Anastacia is a big inspiration for me – raspy, raw and heartfelt’: Ella Eyre’s honest playlist

The singer was inspired by her mum’s love for Basement Jaxx and spent 69p on Jamiroquai, but what does she put on when she’s feeling down?The first song I fell in love with The first song that I remember really feeling inspired by was Good Luck by Basement Jaxx. My mum had all their CDs. Good Luck was the first song I sung for my managers before they took me on board, so I still have a big love for it.The first single I bought My mum gave me money to go and buy Feels Just Like It Should by Jamiroquai for 69p from HMV in Oxford Circus. It was the first time I’d bought a physical CD. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Happy Mondays star shares health update after being rushed to hospital over mystery illness

Keeping her health cards close to her chest, The X Factor legend Rowetta posted a picture of herself on a ward wearing red Manchester United pyjamas

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1 week ago ‘It’s impossible not to have contradictions in a contradictory world’: Catalan pop visionary Rosalía on critics, crisis and being ‘hot for God’

With a towering new album about female saints in 13 languages, she’s pop’s boldest star – and one of its most controversial. She revisits her spiritual breakthroughs, and explains why we need forgiveness instead of cancel cultureRosalía Vila Tobella is just as bored as you are of pop music functioning as gossip column fodder, with lyrics full of hints of rivalries and betrayal. “I’m tiring of seeing people referencing celebrities, and celebrities referencing other celebrities,” she says. “I’m really much more excited about saints.”The 33-year-old Catalan musician and producer’s monumental fourth album, Lux, draws on the lives of dozens of female saints, inspired by “feminine mysticism, spirituality” and how lives of murder, materialism and rebellion could light the way to canonisation. Rosalía reels them off. Her gothic, operatic new single Berghain borrows from the 12th-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen (cited like Madonna these days by experimental female musicians). “She ...

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1 week ago Hatchie: Liquorice review – dizzying dream pop with welcome flashes of depravity

Eschewing the fairyfloss hooks of her earlier work, the Australian’s third album is both more mature and less immediately palatableGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAlmost all of Hatchie’s music could slot frictionlessly into a coming-of-age film. Her songs, mostly, are misty-eyed ruminations on puppy love and its ensuing devastation; they yearn for a redamancy that feels both fated and vexingly out of reach. You can imagine Harriette Pilbeam’s millefeuille harmonies soundtracking a high school prom dappled with a disco ball’s refractive glimmer, or picture her fleecy guitars over a montage of light teenage debauchery. These are tracks prefabbed for telegraphing big feelings; everyone knows the outsize melodrama of a first, second or 20th crush.Liquorice, the title of Pilbeam’s potent third album, winks at her 2018 breakout EP Sugar and Spice. That formative work was a candy blast of dreampop, emphasis on pop – indebted as much to Carly Rae Jepsen as Cocteau Twins, whose co...

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1 week ago Hatchie: Liquorice review – dizzying dreampop with welcome flashes of depravity

Eschewing the fairyfloss hooks of her earlier work, the Australian’s third album is both more mature and less immediately palatableGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAlmost all of Hatchie’s music could slot frictionlessly into a coming-of-age film. Her songs, mostly, are misty-eyed ruminations on puppy love and its ensuing devastation; they yearn for a redamancy that feels both fated and vexingly out of reach. You can imagine Harriette Pilbeam’s mille-feuille harmonies soundtracking a high school prom dappled with a disco ball’s refractive glimmer, or picture her fleecy guitars over a montage of light teenage debauchery. These are tracks prefabbed for telegraphing big feelings; everyone knows the outsize melodrama of a first, second or 20th crush.Liquorice, the title of Pilbeam’s potent third album, winks at her 2018 breakout EP, Sugar and Spice. That formative work was a candy blast of dreampop, emphasis on pop – indebted as much to Carly Rae Jepsen as Cocteau Twins, whose ...

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2 w. ago I travelled on the new Star Princess cruise and fell in love with its stellar design

On the latest offering from Princess Cruises, Marc Shoffman was dazzled by expansive panoramas and immersive performances

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2 w. ago The Year I Lost My Dad, Found London And Fell in Love with Wicked

The Year I Lost My Dad, Found London And Fell in Love with Wicked  Good Things Guy

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2 w. ago Lonely woman, 48, says creating AI family has saved her life including son, 5, and lover who she has 'sex' with

Lonnie DiNello fell in love with her three AI boyfriends and said that her virtual family helped her stop taking her antidepressants.

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2 w. ago David Duchovny: 'I fell in love with London while filming – but my jaw dropped watching Naked Attraction'

As The X-Files star returns in Prime Video’s twisty new thriller Malice, David Duchovny talks Greek mythology, British TV obsessions and why he’s happier filming in London than Hollywood

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2 w. ago Man United star Amad hits out at 'pregnant wife' picture claim

Amad Diallo has responded after a tweet emerged that he had visited his 'pregnant wife' after scoring for Manchester United in the draw at Nottingham Forest

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2 w. ago Olivia Bowen fans break down in tears watching traumatic scenes as she recounts near

OLIVIA Bowen fans have broken down in tears watching traumatic scenes as she recounted her near-fatal labour. The TV personality, 31, - who met and fell for husband Alex on Love Island in  2016 - gave birth to baby Siena in August. Opening up recently about her ordeal, Olivia and Alex exclusively told The Sun...

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2 w. ago David Harbour says he 'fell in love' with 'extraordinary creature' Winona Ryder on the set of Stranger Things as it's revealed she has been his shoulder to lean on after Lily Allen split

The actor, 50, has been at the centre of a media storm after his ex-wife Lily Allen dropped her West End Girl album - in which she appears to unpack their toxic relationship and accuse him of cheating.

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