By Maria Bregman I was reading about Michael Dell this morning. You know, the computer guy. The man whose beige boxes sat on every office…
The 74th Miss Universe pageant, held in Nonthaburi, Thailand, in November 2025, was supposed to be a triumph of global glamour. Instead, it played out…
By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic So, it’s finally done. Or at least, the handshake has happened. On Saturday, while most of us…
By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic I was sitting in a coffee shop in Shoreditch the other day, listening to two screenwriters panic.…
By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic I stuck Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men on the TV the other night. I haven’t seen it in years.…
By Sara Bright The Grand Egyptian Museum is opening. The announcement, when it finally came, felt less like news and more like the punchline to…
By Sara Bright So the news comes through about a museum heist in California. And your mind immediately goes to the movies, doesn’t it? The…
By Sara Bright It’s Kim Kardashian’s birthday. And the internet does what it always does. It rolls out the timeline, the highlight reel. The same…
By Maria Bregman I saw another one of those lists the other day. You’ve seen them. ‘Stars Who Grew Up in the Countryside’. It’s a…