By Sara Bright When 39 girls filed into the old Surrey Street Music Hall in Sheffield on 12 March 1878, nobody could have predicted that…
By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic Endless Column by Hank Willis Thomas, previously exhibited in Regent’s Park, London. (Creative Commons) While wandering through…
By Sara Bright Only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still stands. The Great Pyramid of Giza, built around 2560 BCE for…
By Alexander Stone In the spring of 2026, a 10,000-word New York Times investigation by John Carreyrou – the journalist who dismantled Theranos – named…
By Sara Bright In the summer of 1834, a steamship carried two of France’s most celebrated writers from Paris to Venice. Alfred de Musset, the…
By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic Pelted with herring, lampooned by editors, and ignored by Queen Victoria herself, William McGonagall became the worst…
By Alexander Stone When Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy, emerged from a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow in March 2025, he was carrying…
By Sara Bright In 1965, at the Württemberg State Theatre in Stuttgart, John Cranko unveiled a ballet that had no right to exist. The intendant…
By Alexander Stone When Rihanna and A$AP Rocky first stepped in front of a camera together for Fenty Beauty’s noir-inspired short film Born to Steal:…
By Sara Noah When the crescent moon appeared over London on the evening of 28 February, it triggered something far more significant than the start…