30 h. ago Who is the UK entry for Eurovision 2025? Meet the band already making waves

The UK will be represented by Remember Monday at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland - but who are they and how did the band form?

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30 h. ago Who is the UK Eurovision entry? All you need to know about the band and where you have seen them before

The UK will be represented by girl pop country group Remember Monday at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, with the trio set to perform What the Hell Just Happened?

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4 d. ago UK Eurovision hopefuls Remember Monday reveal special tactic to avoid Rylan Clark

EXCLUSIVE: UK's Eurovision entry, pop group Remember Monday plan to avoid host Rylan Clark for one particular reason as part of plan for winning at the contest's finals later this month

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6 d. ago Eurovision 2025 start date, full list of contestants, UK entry and favourite to win

Eurovision 2025 is soon set to begin, with 37 countries competing to be crowned the winner of the international music competition - here's all you need to know

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6 d. ago Judd Trump doesn’t hide his feelings on Mark Williams as he drops five

Judd Trump and Mark Williams meet in the semi-finals of the 2025 World Snooker Championship, and 2019 champion Trump has had his say on what he thinks of his upcoming foe

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7 d. ago Model/Actriz: Pirouette review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(True Panther Sounds/Dirty Hit)Inspired by Mariah and Kylie but full of jackhammer rhythms and noise, the quartet’s second album could attract a big followingYou can see why Model/Actriz’s 2023 debut album Dogsbody attracted a lot of approving critical attention. In an era when rock music largely leans towards familiarity – where originality has essentially come to mean rearranging recognisable sounds from the past in a relatively fresh way – here was a band who genuinely didn’t seem to sound much like anyone else.The Brooklyn quartet had released a handful of noisy singles pre-Covid, which attracted vague comparisons to the notoriously challenging clangour of the late 70s no wave movement or the frenetic dance-punk of Liars, an outlier band on the far left field of the early 00s New York scene that gave the world the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. But on Dogsbody they honed their sound into something entirely their own. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago VE Day 2025: 50,000 kids write heartwarming letters to veterans as some meet King

A campaign to connect the generations before next week's VE Day celebrations has seen unprecedented success as more than 50,000 children have connected with a Second World War veteran by mail

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8 d. ago The Alienation Effect by Owen Hatherley review – meet the brutalists

The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by émigré architects, filmmakers and writersThe Englishness of English Art sounds like something a parish-pump little Englander might like to bang on about, but it is in fact the title of an arresting study by the German Jewish émigré Nikolaus Pevsner. “Neither English-born nor English-bred,” as he put it in his foreword, he nevertheless pinned down with startling precision the qualities that characterised English art and architecture: a rather twee preference for cuteness and compromise, for frills and fripperies.This shouldn’t surprise us. Newcomers are typically better placed than natives when it comes to deciphering unwritten social codes. Unencumbered by textbook propaganda and excessive knowledge, the stranger’s-eye view very often has the merit of freshness, even originality. Bertolt Brecht dubbed this the Verfremdungseffekt, or alienation effect, from which Owen Hath...

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9 d. ago UK's Eurovision entry gives unique take on hit song from Netflix show

Remember Monday have recorded a cover of a track from the Netflix film about the competition

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1 week ago Who is JJ? Meet Austria’s Eurovision 2025 contestant who appeared on The Voice UK

Musician made his TV debut on ‘The Voice UK’ back in 2020

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1 week ago Will Jacob Kiplimo be the first to run a marathon in less than two hours?

Hugh Brasher, the London Marathon race director, certainly thinks so but the Ugandan faces stiff competition from Eliud Kipchoge and Tamirat TolaEarlier this year Jacob Kiplimo produced a performance so staggering that it sent the jaws of even seasoned track and field watchers crashing to the floor. It came on the streets of Barcelona, where the 24-year-old Ugandan covered 13.1 miles in 56min 42sec – a half marathon time 48 seconds quicker than anyone else in history.Little more than two months later, Kiplimo is in London for his full marathon debut and the noise has only grown louder. Could he break the world record on Sunday? Could he even become the first man to break two hours in an official race? It is speculation that the event director, Hugh Brasher, is more than happy to stoke. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Eurovision 2025: when is it, list of contestants, UK entry, and how to watch

The song contest’s grand final will be held in St. Jakobshalle, Basel, Switzerland, on Saturday, May 17

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2 w. ago Noble cause: meet the drag kings holding court in Australia’s queer spaces

As drag queens find a place in the mainstream spotlight, their counterparts are taking back the underground scene with theatrical performances that celebrate a marginalised communityGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIt’s just past 11pm on a warm Wednesday night at Sircuit bar in Smith Street Collingwood, in Melbourne’s inner north. The venue is filling up with an assorted crowd of predominantly punky and boyish-looking people of all genders. There’s no shortage of fauxhawks, baseball caps and mullets in the room.Holi Dae Knight, introducing the drag king show tonight called SlayBoy, has just taken to the stage in a green sequined dress, hot pink hair and a full moustache and bushy beard performing Cher’s Believe. It’s the last night of a three week season of SlayBoy and the crowd is here to see drag kings. The first performers are Justin Sider and Johnny Cocksville doing a version of Right Said Fred’s I’m Too Sexy – they strut wildly on stage simulating raunchiness but it’s...

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3 w. ago Ireland’s Eurovision entry Emmy wants to ‘bring happiness’ amid ‘hard times’

The singer said it is ‘really important’ for the Eurovision Song Contest to deliver light-hearted entertainment.

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4 w. ago Meet the WAGs of the Masters 2025: A Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, a rising tennis star, the daughter of a hockey legend and two high school sweethearts

Most of the Masters focus will be on the course but the players' wives and girlfriends will be attracting attention too. Mail Sport takes a look at the glamorous partners set to steal the show at Augusta.

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4 w. ago Germany to send ‘clear signal’ of ‘strong, effective government’ under new coalition, says Friedrich Merz – Europe live

Presumed future chancellor says coalition has ‘strong plan’ after negotiations as polling shows popularity of far-right AfDEarlier today I brought you Donald Trump’s comments overnight on “major” tariffs to be announced “very shortly” on pharmaceuticals (9:20).My colleague Lisa O’Carroll looked at the risks such measures could pose for Europe:Pharmaceutical companies in the EU have warned of a “risk of exodus” to the US as stocks in the sector slid around the world on the back of Donald Trump’s renewed threat to impose tariffs on US drugs imports.Drugmakers’ shares across Europe and India, another foreign drugs hub, slipped on Wednesday after Trump indicated further carnage was on the way in addition to the 20% “reciprocal tariffs” on imports that kicked in overnight. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago When is Eurovision 2025? All you need to know as we approach the semi

The Eurovision 2025 is set to captivate audiences with 37 countries vying for the top spot. Find out when the semi-finals and grand final take place, and discover the UK’s entry in this year's competition

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4 w. ago Ireland’s deputy PM to meet US secretary of commerce as EU finalises first part of response to Trump’s tariffs – Europe live

Simon Harris to meet Howard Lutnick as EU member states vote on final list of €21bn of goods facing retaliatory tariffsUS president Donald Trump continues to rewrite the rules of global trade, as his sweeping tariffs take effect.Rates on imports to the United States from dozens of economies rose further from 12.01am (0401 GMT) on Wednesday, with tariffs imposed on Chinese products since Trump returned to the White House reaching a staggering 104%. The new tariffs include rates of 20% on the European Union, 26% on India and 49% on Cambodia. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Meet your London Eurovision Party 2025 hosts! Alexandra Rotan and Kaleen join Paddy O'Connell for #LEP2025

Meet your London Eurovision Party 2025 hosts! Alexandra Rotan and Kaleen join Paddy O'Connell for #LEP2025  Wiwibloggs

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