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    Doctor Who
    Even the haters will find it impossible to resist Ncuti Gatwa

    The Fifteenth Doctor is magnetic and charming as he flashes great knowing smiles and explains sci-fi nonsense elegantly. Consider me a convert!
  • Chaka Khan

    The Q&A
    Chaka Khan: ‘Someone said there were too many black people in our band. He put some white guys on stage with us’

    The singer on being impatient, mourning the death of the planet, and why sleep is her favourite thing
    • Street view of the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, a pub on the bottom floor of an old brick building with flower baskets and event posters hanging on the facade

      Eurovision
      Viewing parties in England cancelled over Israel’s participation

    • Beabadoobee.

      Beabadoobee
      ‘I don’t have time for death threats. I’ve got a mortgage to pay’

    • Bodkin actors

      ‘Irish cliche bingo’
      Critics pan Obamas’ Netflix comedy drama Bodkin

    • Colm Tóibín.

      ‘This is much more intimate’
      Colm Tóibín on writing a sequel to Brooklyn, 15 years on

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News

  • Joost Klein at desk with red fabric over head

    Eurovision
    Netherlands’ entry disqualified due to incident involving female member of production crew

    Dutch singer and rapper Joost Klein out because of incident involving female member of production crew
  • The Mona Lisa

    Mona Lisa
    Mystery of where masterpiece was painted has been solved, geologist claims

  • Staff rolling out a red carpet on white steps beneath a large poster for the Cannes film festival

    Film
    Cannes festival faces strike disruption over seasonal workers’ rights

  • Music
    Taylor Swift debuts new tracks as she returns to The Eras Tour

  • Eurovision 2024
    Israel qualifies for Eurovision song contest final despite protests

  • TV
    ‘Inspiration’ for Baby Reindeer stalker character says she received death threats

  • Music
    Judge places Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson in conservatorship

  • Film
    Peter Weir to receive Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at Venice film festival

  • Music
    Spanish investigation into Shakira’s alleged tax evasion dropped

Reviews

  • Renaud Capuçon, Igor Levit and Julia Hagen on stage.

    The week in classical
    Igor Levit, Renaud Capuçon, Julia Hagen; Manchester Camerata: Disruptors – ringing successes

  • Demonstrators take part in a protest in Rochester, New York, in September 2020.

    Books
    Morning After the Revolution: a bad faith attack on ‘woke’

    Nellie Bowles seeks simply to stoke ‘communal outrage’, whether over protesters, the unhoused or trans people
  • Woman wearing red stand in front of US flag and White House sign

    Books
    Say More: Jen Psaki on Biden, Trump and how to make your point

    White House press secretary turned MSNBC host offers advice, a little dish and barbed critiques of Republican predecessors
  • Migrants board a smuggler's boat near Dunkirk, in an attempt to cross the English Channel.

    Books
    Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten – a madcap satire on the refugee crisis

  • James Baldwin in 1979.

    Audiobook of the week
    The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin audiobook – from the civil rights frontline

  • Kings of Leon

    Music
    Kings of Leon: Can We Please Have Fun review – polished but tired

  • A studio shot of Yaya Bey

    Music
    Yaya Bey: Ten Fold review – a free-ranging tribute

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Regulars

  • Sheer class and sophistication … Dusty Springfield on Ready Steady Go! in 1966.

    Dusty Springfield
    ‘Full of secrets and promises’: Dusty Springfield’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

    Sixty years after her debut album, we rate the pop singer’s best tracks, from a song recorded in a stairwell to a Pet Shop Boys collaboration
  • Ian MchShane in 2019.

    Film
    Ian McShane: ‘When I was about to get it on with Richard Burton, he said I reminded him of Elizabeth’

  • ‘What made it was the fans outside’ … Schumacher photographed by Nicholson, from the book Macchina.

    My best shot
    Michael Schumacher on the phone in Japan: Jon Nicholson’s best photograph

  • How we made
    ‘I thought it was a speech by Kurt Vonnegut’: Baz Luhrmann on making Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

  • On my radar
    On my radar: Andrew O’Hagan’s cultural highlights

  • Film
    Post your questions for Jane Asher

  • Film
    Go ape! Killer simians in cinema – ranked!

Staying in

  • The Doctor will see you now…

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: space babies, the Bogeyman and the Beatles … it’s Doctor Who

  • The Blackening.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    The Blackening to Mean Girls: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    A funny and knowing Juneteenth-set slasher about a sinister board game, plus Tina Fey’s hilarious Plastics are still teen movie royalty
  • André Holland as Huey P Newton in The Big Cigar.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    The Big Cigar to Bridgerton: the seven best shows to stream this week

    An utterly gripping drama about Black Panther Huey P Newton being smuggled to Cuba, plus Nicola Coughlan finally takes centre stage in the hit Regency romance
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Pictures & video

  • A black-and-white photo of a child standing beside a washing machine in a laundrette, with a baby in a pram just outside the window

    The last gasp
    Hull life during its fishing industry’s death

    In 1971, photographer Alec Gill began documenting the lives of Hull’s Hessle Road fishing community, as the city witnessed the downturn of its main trade
  • ‘I was fascinated by the sheer volume of people’ … Street corner, Sydney, Australia

    ‘My monument to human kind’
    Earth, but not as you know it

  • 3) Karabo Mooki, Unified, Rockville, Soweto, 2016. Courtesy of the artist “Members of Free x Money are joined on the mic by TCIYF’s Thula 'Stroof' Sizwe. TCIYF have realised that since the shows don't come to them, they need to bring the shows to the township, bridging communities and giving birth to a cross- pollination of talents beyond racial and economic borders. Although the visit may seem taboo or unusual and new to many, there is a deep sense of hospitality and appreciation from both the hosts and the visiting residents.”

    Jumpin’ Johannesburg
    Soweto’s Afropunk skaters

  • Bookkeeping with a bang
    Manchester’s stage spectacular The Accountants

  • The eyes have it:
    LensCulture portrait awards 2024 – in pictures

  • First class posts
    David Hurn’s Instagram highlights – in pictures

  • Off the wall
    A miraculous Magnum print sale

  • Art and design
    Joan Wakelin Bursary Prize at 20

  • Outlaw attitude
    Skaters, saunas and spontaneous stripping

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You may have missed

  • Six hundred years of wonders … the five works chosen by Jonathan Jones.

    Insight! Sensitivity! Genius!
    Our critic picks the top five masterpieces in the National Gallery

    It started from scratch – and became one of the world’s greatest collections. As the National Gallery celebrates its 200th birthday, we pick five sublime works – from a serene statesman to Van Gogh’s blazing blooms
  • Egg and pants man … Teemu Keisteri, AKA Windows95man, performing No Rules! for Eurovision 2024.

    ‘He growls death metal in his pants!’
    The Eurovision 2024 bangers to watch out for

  • ‘They censored the beauty of a young girl’ … Zafreen Zairizal in Tiger Stripes, which the rest of world can see uncut.

    ‘It was terrifying – but screw it'
    The director who disowned her film in order to get an Oscar nomination

  • ‘I get messages all the time saying, “I’m out – thanks for playing my voice”’ … Lady Unchained, the host of Free Flow.

    ‘I feel super gassed’
    Lady Unchained, the prison radio host playing inmates’ raps

  • Clashes … officers clear a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, campus.

    Tunnels, treehouses and tensegrity towers
    Landmarks in protest architecture, from UCLA to Hong Kong

  • ‘After two minutes, the radio switchboard was going crazy’ … Luhrmann, who turned Mary Schmich’s column into a global phenomenon.

    Baz Luhrmann on Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
    I thought it was a speech by Kurt Vonnegut

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