By Tessa Nolan Two years ago, a forecast for British design in 2024 predicted a future built on eco-friendly materials, smart city technologies, and personalisation.…
By Tessa Nolan When the 68th BFI London Film Festival closed on 20 October 2024, the numbers told a story that even the most optimistic…
By Tessa Nolan On 11 February 2024, during Super Bowl LVIII, Beyoncé stepped out of a Verizon commercial alongside Tony Hale and surprise-released two singles…
By Tessa Nolan When Mattel unveiled its “Women in Film” Barbie range in January 2024 – just three months after the Writers Guild of America…
By Tessa Nolan On 20 March 1988, a reggae track written by two of pop’s most prolific songwriters and originally buried as a B-side on…
By Tessa Nolan On 11 September 1979, a fifteen-year-old Lisbon boy boarded a flight bound for Moscow, carrying a scholarship, a head full of socialist…
By Tessa Nolan When Angie Kim’s debut novel Miracle Creek landed in 2019, it arrived with the quiet authority of a book that had been…
By Tessa Nolan In July 2025, Amy Sherald did something no artist of her stature had done before at the Smithsonian: she walked away. The…
By Tessa Nolan Something peculiar is happening to Agatha Christie on British television. The Queen of Crime, whose novels have sold more than two billion…
By Tessa Nolan I drove up to the Lake District expecting rain. I got it, of course. That relentless, misty drizzle that seems to seep…