Culture Editor's Choice

Peter Kay, Utilita Arena, Birmingham, review: Kay’s rare common touch shines through

Technology
Laura Adams

Peter Kay was set to enter British entertainment’s annals last month as “the first artist in the world” to perform at Manchester’s ...

Why Macron and the French elite still worship Gérard Depardieu

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Sophie Anderson

Within the French film industry, opinion on Depardieu remains starkly divided, with plenty of support for Macron’s point of view. One petition ...

Magic Pill by Johann Hari, review: the truth about Ozempic

Health
Sarah Carter

If you type the names of the weight-loss drugs Wegovy or Ozempic into a search engine, sponsored links dominate the page. “Starts ...

why did Belle Gibson fake cancer? For likes, of course

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Sophie Anderson

Everyone on Instagram is a con artist to some degree. All those curated images selling the lie of a perfect lifestyle. Sitting ...

warning – this show has reached hokum overload

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Sophie Anderson

You don’t tune into Midsomer Murders (ITV1) expecting verité film-making, but even so The Blacktrees Prophecy touched the very heights of hokum. ...

this tennis love triangle is full of racquet-twanging steaminess

Entertainment
James Parker

All right, who’s for mixed doubles? Cinema has brought us love triangles in the world of professional tennis before – perhaps most ...

Ben Miller’s awkward detective makes for uncomfortable viewing

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Sophie Anderson

Professor T (ITV1) is a strange series about an odd fish. It’s back for a third run, which must mean that quite ...

Kris Marshall’s golden age Agatha Christie whodunit

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Sophie Anderson

Beyond Paradise (BBC One) defied all expectations to become British TV’s third most-watched drama last year, attracting a whopping 7.4m viewers. Cultural ...

Jason Watkins makes Channel 5’s latest far-fetched thriller worth watching

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Sophie Anderson

Coma (Channel 5) is one of those thrillers in which an ordinary person makes a split-second decision that has terrible consequences. For ...

A new space race has begun. If we don’t act now, it could trigger a war worse than WWII

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

For millennia, the Moon has been an object of wondrous speculation: deified as a goddess, hymned in poetry and blamed for madness. ...