By Alexander Stone The Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival returns for its eighth year on Thursday 8 October, running four days through to Sunday 11…
By Alexander Stone A great on-screen kiss is a piece of storytelling. It can be a goodbye, a beginning, or the moment an entire story…
By Alexander Stone Ten years ago, scientists found a planet called Kepler-452b. It’s often called Earth’s twin. It orbits a star like our sun. Its…
By Alexander Stone When Charlotte Emma Aitchison walked down the aisle at Hackney Town Hall on Saturday 19 July 2025, she was wearing something most…
By Alexander Stone On the weekend of 12 July 2025, a visitor at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in eastern France detached a banana from a white…
By Alexander Stone With a face that can look like a saint or a gargoyle, Willem Dafoe has built a career on playing characters no…
By Alexander Stone Ozzy Osbourne, the legendary frontman of Black Sabbath, has died. He was 76. His family confirmed the news this morning in a…
By Alexander Stone We are drowning in data, yet thirsting for meaning. We live in an age of supposed perfect recall, our lives documented in…
By Alexander Stone Architecture used to be about shelter. Then, for a few glorious centuries, it was about art, power, and God. Now, it is…
By Alexander Stone Awards are rarely just awards. At their best, they are coded messages, cultural signals sent up like flares against a darkening sky.…