7 h. ago Sacred Mysteries: London life when opera stars sang at church

Sacred Mysteries: London life when opera stars sang at church  The Telegraph

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21 h. ago How Labour sucked the life out of London’s luxury neighbourhoods

How Labour sucked the life out of London’s luxury neighbourhoods  The Telegraph

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50 h. ago London museum tells forgotten story of African and Indian troops in second world war

National Army Museum’s Beyond Burma exhibition examines stories of soldiers from Britain’s coloniesThe forgotten story of African and Indian troops who fought in south Asia against Japanese forces during the second world war and who have largely been omitted from the official history is to be brought to life in a London exhibition.The National Army Museum’s Beyond Burma: Forgotten Armies show includes rare items from Indian and African soldiers who toiled in some of the harshest conditions seen anywhere during the conflict. Continue reading...

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67 h. ago Life support for man in vegetative state must continue due to his spiritual beliefs in healing, judge rules

A judge heard evidence about contact with the man through a medium and the impact of Reiki healing

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5 d. ago Boy, 17, fighting for life in hospital after stabbing in south east London

Boy, 17, fighting for life in hospital after stabbing in south east London  News Shopper

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6 d. ago This abandoned art deco hospital in west London is getting a new lease of life with hundreds of new homes

This abandoned art deco hospital in west London is getting a new lease of life with hundreds of new homes  Time Out Worldwide

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7 d. ago Alien life comes to Earth at London's Natural History Museum

Alien life comes to Earth at London's Natural History Museum  Natural History Museum

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7 d. ago Dan Snyder Builds Life in London After $6 Billion NFL Team Sale

Dan Snyder Builds Life in London After $6 Billion NFL Team Sale  Bloomberg.com

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9 d. ago The only way to afford life in Britain is to leave it – so I ditched London for Berlin

The only way to afford life in Britain is to leave it – so I ditched London for Berlin  The Telegraph

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1 week ago Woman fighting for her life after crash with bus outside South London McDonald's

Woman fighting for her life after crash with bus outside South London McDonald's  MyLondon

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1 week ago Millet: Life on the Land review – phallic forks and suggestive wheelbarrows enliven a landscape of toil

National Gallery, LondonThere’s a undeniably erotic charge to Millet’s paintings of gloomy hard work – reminding us that, behind the hoes, these are real people with real desiresThe figures in Jean-François Millet’s 1859 painting The Angelus, a French icon that’s come to the UK on loan from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, seem extremely odd on close inspection. Their faces are obscure, their bodies intriguing under their shapeless work clothes. What age are they? How are they related? The man is quite young, his top shirt button loose, although his legs are as stiff as a doll’s, inside thick, rough-cut trousers. It’s harder to tell the woman’s age because she stands in profile, a breeze pressing her heavy skirt against her legs, as she clasps her hands. They might be a married couple or, as this painting’s unlikely fan Salvador Dalí claimed, mother and son. Their physicality is intense. The phallic prongs of a thick wooden potato fork and wheelbarrow shafts add to the feeling that, now ...

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1 week ago Consumed review – mothers and daughters clash in Women’s prize for playwriting winner

Traverse theatre, EdinburghBuried trauma surfaces at a family reunion in Karis Kelly’s darkly funny Northern Irish drama that attempts to capture a broader history of violenceKaris Kelly’s drama won the Women’s prize for playwriting in 2022 and you can see why. Set amid a family reunion dinner in Northern Ireland, only the women are present here. And in the way of many such theatrical reunions, it leads to an almighty blow-up, yet there is no hint of cliche. Kelly is a talented playwright navigating between black humour and pain.At the head of the table is Eileen (Julia Dearden), a foul-mouthed matriarch whose 90th birthday they are celebrating. Gilly (Andrea Irvine) is her daughter and the mother of Jenny (Caoimhe Farren), who left long ago for a life in London. Muireann (Muireann Ní Fhaogáin), the youngest, is Jenny’s London-born-and-raised daughter.At the Traverse theatre, Edinburgh, until 24 August. Then touring from 3 September.All our Edinburgh festival reviews Continue readin...

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1 week ago Rob Brydon’s life in posh West London suburb he described as ‘no man’s land’

Rob Brydon’s life in posh West London suburb he described as ‘no man’s land’  My London

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2 w. ago From Zooey Deschanel to Captain Kirk doing Dylan: the best songs by actors, ranked!

As Margaret Qualley moves into music, we rate 20 tracks by stars of film and TV, with Ryan Gosling doing ghost-rock and Jamie Foxx bringing the funkIt perhaps stretches the definition of “actor”: Parker starred in a soap opera, but was better known as pornographic actor Wade Nichols. However, Like an Eagle is incredible, a soaring, euphoric mid-tempo disco epic produced by his then-partner, Jacques Morali – and infinitely cooler than Morali’s biggest successes with Village People – so let’s bend the rules. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘I love England so much’: From TV to pop, film to fashion, the UK is enjoying a cultural resurgence

Three decades on from Blur and Oasis, a new and more diverse wave of stars is celebrating British identityIn the opening episode of Lena Dunham’s Netflix show Too Much, a heartbroken New Yorker moves to London to live out her fantasy of British life and love stories. Jess is quickly swept up in her feelings for an indie musician, dreamily referring to him as “My Mr Darcy, my Rochester, my Alan Rickman”.Produced by the team behind Bridget Jones, Notting Hill and Love Actually, the show was inspired by Dunham’s own move to London in 2021. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago London Diamond League: Noah Lyles on life after Olympic gold

London Diamond League: Noah Lyles on life after Olympic gold  BBC

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4 w. ago Thunderstorms set to batter Britain: Met Office issues amber alert for 'significant' flooding and up to FOUR inches of rain in London and South East

The Met Office has issued an amber thunderstorm warning for London and South East England from 4am to 11am tomorrow amid concerns up to four inches of rain could fall in just a few hours.

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4 w. ago Danger to life warning as thunderstorms are set to batter Britain: Met Office issues amber alert for 'significant' flooding and up to FOUR inches of rain in London and South East

The Met Office has issued an amber thunderstorm warning for London and South East England from 4am to 11am tomorrow amid concerns up to four inches of rain could fall in just a few hours.

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last month Humble peasants or an odyssey of sex and death? The Millet masterpiece that electrified modern art

Van Gogh saw compassion for the rural worker; Dalí saw phalluses and a child’s grave. As The Angelus comes to the UK, our critic celebrates a painting so deep it could even induce hallucinationsIt was Salvador Dalí who turned a small, intense rural scene called The Angelus, painted by Jean-François Millet in 1857-59 and hugely popular in its day, into a totem of modern art.In the original, a pious peasant couple have heard the Angelus bell from a distant church, the Catholic call to prayer, and paused their work digging potatoes to lower their heads and pray. But from Dalí’s writings, we know he saw far more in the painting, from obscene sex to family tragedy. In one of his many versions of it, Atavism at Twilight, the couple sprout agricultural implements from their bodies. In his surreal drawings these good country people become mouldering, mummified husks, or are transformed into fossils by time and sadness. Now that the original painting is being lent by the Musée d’Orsay to the...

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