8 h. ago Labour's Lisa Nandy blasted BBC over why nobody was fired for airing Gaza documentary

The BBC is set to publish a review into the controversial Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone which was aired in February and was pulled from the broadcaster after it was revealed the 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official

Events

67 h. ago Former bar owner lines up 'first ever' event for Manchester's Gay Village harking back to 'that classic energy'

'Just good music, great people, and that classic energy we’ve been craving'

Science

3 d. ago Shoppers beg for return of classic drink as they tell Coca Cola to ‘bring it back’

Shoppers have called for the drink to be re-introduced after it "disappeared without a trace"

Politics

4 d. ago To Catch a Stalker review – a charity tells one woman to abandon her toddler and flee

Calling the interviewees in this documentary survivors suggests their ordeals are over – but due to paltry laws and police reluctance, that is appallingly far from the caseHello and welcome to part 86,747,398,464 of the continuing cataloguing via television documentary of the apparently infinite series Ways in Which Largely Men Terrorise Largely Women and Prevent Countless Millions of Them from Living Their Lives in Freedom and Contentment. This one comprises two episodes and is entitled To Catch a Stalker.It comes from the corporation’s most youth-oriented arm, BBC Three, which mandates a telegenic presenter better versed in sympathy with the programme’s interviewees than interrogation of wider issues, and who has usually come up through the ranks of reality TV rather than journalism. Here, it’s Zara McDermott (Love Island, Made in Chelsea, The X Factor: Celebrity), who previously fronted entries in the infinite series on “revenge porn”, rape culture and eating disorders. Continue ...

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6 d. ago Olivia Rodrigo’s Glastonbury headliner was a killer show and therapy rolled into one

Pop star has the crowd so deeply in their feelings that it feels like any deadbeat ex in the vicinity would burst directly into flames

Events

6 d. ago Review: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at Manchester Classical 2025

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra took to The Bridgewater Hall to perform songs of life, love and death on Saturday, June 28

Politics

6 d. ago Rod Stewart’s Glastonbury legends slot feels like wringing out the dregs of a career

The first cut may be the deepest, but the first note isn’t even the flattest. It’s an earache, more like

Events

7 d. 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

Politics

7 d. 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

Politics

7 d. 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

Politics

7 d. 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”

Politics

8 d. ago Despite Matty Healy’s nerves, The 1975 are at the height of their powers for their Glastonbury headline set

There are evidently nerves bubbling under the surface that, in certain moments, spill over onto the Pyramid Stage. Yet the band still deliver on their unique ability to create an inner-circle intimacy

Politics

8 d. ago Alanis Morissette gives her audience permission to let rip during a spectacular Glastonbury debut

It’s hard to find fault in Morissette’s pride here: her lyrics raised a generation, giving voice to feelings that many of us possess but tend to lay dormant

Events

9 d. ago London’s Philharmonia Orchestra Launches New Arts Management Training Program

London’s Philharmonia Orchestra Launches New Arts Management Training Program  The Violin Channel

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9 d. ago Manchester Classical 2025: festival to celebrate city's classical music this weekend

The festival will be opened with a concert featuring Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood

Culture

1 week ago Amol Rajan Goes to the Ganges review – ‘I miss his love. Oh god, I loved him so much’

In this deeply moving and cathartic film, the presenter confronts his father’s death by going on a holy pilgrimage and ends up releasing his soul in the sacred river. BeautifulThree years ago Amol Rajan’s father died unexpectedly of pneumonia. Ever since, as the BBC journalist and broadcaster puts it at the start of Amol Rajan Goes to the Ganges, “I’ve been in a bit of a funk.” I get it. As a fellow second-generation kid of Indian immigrants (and journalist from southwest London to boot) I, too, have been in a funk since my mother died (two years before Rajan’s father, at the same age, 76, as him). In Rajan’s case, his grief plunges him into a search for belonging and an attempt to reconnect with his Hindu roots. Where might such a quest take him? To the largest gathering of humanity on earth. The Kumbh Mela, where over 45 days at the start of this year half a billion Hindus gathered on the sacred banks of the Ganges. The question Rajan poses, and it’s a pertinent one for many, is w...

Events

1 week ago Superdrug shoppers race to buy 'classic for a reason' £70 perfume reduced to just £34 online

"This perfume is a classic for a reason"

Economics

1 week ago Philharmonia Orchestra player’s £150,000 violin stolen from London pub

The violin, which disappeared from the Marquess Tavern in Islington, is around 300 years old.

Economics

2 w. ago In the Arena: Serena Williams review – there is just no one in the world that matches up to her (and her sister)

This eight-part docuseries about one of tennis’s most decorated players paints a picture of an astonishing woman – and an even more astonishing sibling relationshipSerena Williams, holder of 39 grand slam titles and four Olympic gold medals, who spent 319 weeks as tennis’s world No 1 and became the highest-earning female athlete in history, never thought she was that good when she was a young player. That was because she was always training against her older sister, Venus (“she was the prodigy of prodigies”), the only person in the world who could really challenge her. A year younger, Serena remembers being shorter and weaker and resorting to cheating on line calls at practice so she could occasionally beat her.In the Arena: Serena Williams (the title comes from President Roosevelt’s 1910 speech to the Sorbonne – “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the ...

Politics

2 w. ago Heston Blumenthal’s BBC documentary My Life with Bipolar ought to be a wake

Celebrity chef opens up about being sectioned in this one-off programme that is most arresting when looking at the bigger picture

Politics