2 h. ago Solicitor sparks fury after hosting a 'council estate dinner' themed party with Fray Bentos pies, turkey dinosaurs and Viennetta ice cream

Sophie Murgatroyd was branded 'tone deaf' after sharing details of the meal on social media, where she wrote: 'I love cooking for my friends the theme of tonight's meal was 'council estate dinner'.

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3 d. ago Oasis bank £300m from comeback tour but band are beaten to top earning spot by female solo star

Industry figures show Oasis earned £303 million from their comeback tour, with £8.4m per show making them 2025's second-highest earners globally

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6 d. ago The Last Dinner Party at O2 Academy Brixton: 'Rock operatics with feeling'

The Last Dinner Party prove they are one of the best, and least classifiable, bands in the country

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6 d. ago The Last Dinner Party at O2 Academy Brixton: They've earned their spot at the Indie top table

The Last Dinner Party prove they are one of the best, and least classifiable, bands in the country

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1 week ago Mary Berry's 'exceedingly good' fish pie recipe includes 2 ingredients for added flavour

Mary Berry's fish pie recipe is a hearty and comforting dish that is perfect for a family dinner or a dinner party

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1 week ago BRYONY GORDON: Last week I spent two days in floods of tears because my friend didn't invite me to a dinner party. You may think I'm stupid, but this is the hidden reason for my breakdown

The other week, I spent two days in tears. From the moment I woke up to the moment I went back to bed, I couldn't stop sobbing.

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1 week ago London's unmissable gigs and club nights this weekend, from The Last Dinner Party to Jamiroquai

Maddy Mussen rounds up the hottest music nights in London this week

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2 w. ago CMAT finally made it to Brixton Academy — and was crowned the new queen of high camp

Alan Carr was headbanging on the balcony as Dunboyne Diana led the crowd in the Woke Macarena

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2 w. ago Ravneet Gill and Mattie Taiano’s recipes for a Friendmas sharing menu

The husband and wife team cook up a winter storm with lamb shoulder, dauphinoise and brown sugar meringues – just don’t ask them who’s doing the cleaning upWhen I first started seeing Mattie, there was a constant dinner party at his mum’s house,” recalls pastry chef Ravneet Gill. “There were loads of people there all the time, being fed with massive bowls of home-cooked food and a big block of parmesan.” There was an open-door policy, with pastas and roast meats on heavy rotation, confirms her now-husband and fellow chef, Taiano. And it’s this sentiment that has carried through to the couple’s restaurant, Gina, which opened in Chingford, east London, earlier this year, a process they documented in their newsletter, Club Gina.Named after Taiano’s late mother, it is very much a neighbourhood joint, Gill points out, with the food – from pithiviers and vol au vents to Gina’s pasta with tomato sauce, half a roast chicken with little gems and aioli to share on Sundays, and slabs of “Ravi’...

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2 w. ago ‘Cool and quirky is part of our brand’: how New Zealand became a hothouse for indie games

Kiwi developers are punching well above their weight thanks to a unique government support program that offers more than just grantsThose not immersed in the world of gaming might not be familiar with Pax Australia: the enormous gaming conference and exhibition that takes over the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre every October. My favourite section is always Pax Rising, a showcase of indie video games and tabletop, the majority Australian – but there has been a recent shift that was particularly notable this year: many of the standout titles had crossed the Tasman, arriving from New Zealand.At the booth run by Code – New Zealand’s government-funded Centre for Digital Excellence – 18 Kiwi developers demoed their forthcoming games in a showcase of the vibrant local scene that was buzzing with crowds. In the comedic Headlice, I controlled a parasitic headcrab monster which could latch on to people’s brains and puppet them. How Was Your Day?, a cozy time-loop game set in New Z...

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2 w. ago Add to playlist: Storefront Church’s cinematic baroque pop and the week’s best new tracks

Californian singer-songwriter Lukas Frank is picking up rave reviews for his second album’s epic choruses and lush orchestrationsFrom Los AngelesRecommended if you like John Grant, Scott Walker, Father John MistyUp next A cover of Duran Duran’s The Chauffeur is out now, with another single due in FebruaryAfter several years of perseverance, things are happening for Storefront Church. The audience at this month’s sellout gig at St Pancras Old Church in London included Perfume Genius and members of the Last Dinner Party and the Horrors and their self-released second album, Ink & Oil, is picking up rave reviews. One used the term “emotional flood” to describe the album’s epic, baroque pop, big pianos and drums, sweeping choruses and Travis Warner’s lush, cinematic orchestrations. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago David Beckham showed true colours with gesture at Gordon Ramsay’s dinner party

David Beckham and Gordon Ramsay have been close friends for nearly 20 years with the former England captain making a big impression at a dinner party hosted by the chef

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3 w. ago David Beckham's telling gesture at Gordon Ramsay's dinner party as true colours are revealed

David Beckham, who is known to be good pals with Ramsay, did something rather surprising at one of the chef's dinner parties

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3 w. ago David Beckham's gesture at Gordon Ramsay's dinner party speaks volumes about who he really is

David Beckham did something other guests didn't while dining at Gordon Ramsay's house

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3 w. ago ‘Agony uncle’ Bill Nighy leads rise of the celebrity podcast

Ill-advised, in which 75-year-old actor doles out advice and his innermost secrets, is fast becoming cult podcast of the yearBill Nighy is single. He has never read a self-help book, had no intention of becoming an actor and briefly went deaf after putting toilet paper in his ears to get to sleep. He has shutters, not curtains, in his bedroom, but has no idea what time he wakes up. If you invite him to a dinner party he will bring you exfoliating products, except don’t invite him, because he won’t come. He is good at making custard, but doesn’t cook because he lives alone “and it would be too sad”.The Surrey-born actor is as renowned for his suits as he is his singular ability to inhabit a role while remaining recognisably himself throughout. But almost 50 years into his career, Nighy is finally playing himself. A new podcast called Ill-advised casts the 75-year-old as an agony uncle, doling out advice and his innermost secrets to listeners from Italy to Mongolia to Scotland. The ac...

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3 w. ago FKA Twigs album Eusexua and Bob Geldof among Rolling Stone UK Awards winners

Other winners included Irish rock band The Cranberries, who received the icon award.

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3 w. ago Joy Crookes says UK and Ireland in ‘dark time’ amid rise of far

Musician’s Brixton and Dublin performances go viral after she performs Sinéad O’Connor’s anti-racism anthem Black Boys on MopedsThe UK and Ireland are entering a “dark time”, according to the singer Joy Crookes, who said the influence of far-right ideology on mainstream politics was comparable to the 1970s when the National Front was at its peak.Crookes, who has just played two sold-out shows at the O2 Academy in Brixton, said the recent wave of nationalism and the far-right march through central London in September made her feel unsafe in the UK. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The Dinner Party by Viola van de Sandt review – a formidable debut

An intimate soiree builds to a horrific climax in this visceral novel about a young woman tasked with hosting a meal for her fianceLiterature loves a dinner party. From Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway to more recent offerings such as Sarah Gilmartin’s The Dinner Party and Teresa Präauer’s Cooking in the Wrong Century, an intimate soiree provides the perfect recipe of claustrophobia and choreography into which a novelist can sink their teeth. The preparations are usually unduly stressful, the guest list dynamic unpredictable, the quantity of alcohol borderline obscene – in short, as a device it has all the ingredients for total, delicious carnage.The latest entrant to this literary Come Dine With Me is Viola van de Sandt, whose debut The Dinner Party centres on Franca, a shy young woman from the Netherlands tasked with hosting a meal for her English fiance Andrew and his two male colleagues. To make matters more challenging, it is the hottest day of the year, the menu is rabb...

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4 w. ago Nurse dies days after being sent home from A&E with indigestion tablets

Paula Ivers, 47, was found dead at her home in Denton, Tameside, just days after being sent home from A&E with a diagnosis of severe chest pain

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4 w. ago I've lost an astonishing 4 stone on Mounjaro and still eat like a queen, says ROSEMARY SHRAGER. These are the delicious, filling dishes that help you lose weight fast

Weight-loss injections are changing the way many of us eat, which begs a question for anyone who loves to wine and dine: how do you throw a dinner party when appetites are medically suppressed?

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