By Sara Bright Margaret Thatcher would have been 100 this week. And the country, as always, will split neatly down the middle. There will be…
By Sara Bright An artist takes a Soviet MiG-21 fighter jet, a decommissioned killing machine, and covers it in 35 million tiny, hand-threaded beads. It’s…
By Sara Bright So, another Luca Guadagnino film is out. After the Hunt. And you know what that means. Beautiful people in beautiful places having a…
By Sara Bright Paris Fashion Week 2025, the world’s largest fashion show, is drawing to a close. Renowned designers and fashion houses presented their creations…
By Sara Bright So, it’s finally happened. The dam has broken. It’s now apparently okay, in polite society, to say that you don’t like the…
By Sara Bright So Jilly Cooper is gone. And with her, it feels, goes the key to a certain room in the English house that…
By Sara Bright So, Aimee Lou Wood has a new show out. Film Club. BBC Three. The premise is one of those things that sounds lovely…
By Sara Bright So, Taylor Swift has a new album out. The usual tidal wave of attention, the broken records, the breathless analysis. But we’re…
By Sara Bright So, the October film lists are out. The usual glossy round-ups of what we’re supposed to be watching. And you look at…
There is a moment in Olivier Dahan’s La Vie en Rose (2007) when Marion Cotillard, as the aged Edith Piaf, sits hunched in a chair…