By Tessa Nolan On 11 June 2026, the Royal Institute of British Architects announced that Rockbund Shanghai – a meticulous, nearly two-decade restoration of eleven…
By Anne Fry When Lila Vogt’s Dangerous Secrets premiered in March 2025, the European Court of Justice had just penalised five member states – Germany…
By Alexander Stone There is a particular kind of cruelty that doesn’t look like cruelty at all. It looks like love. It looks like a…
By Anne Fry In April 1923, a 27-year-old man named Homer Morehouse collapsed on a dance floor and died. He had been dancing for 87…
By Sara Bright When Natalia Osipova swept onto the Covent Garden stage as Tatiana in early June, something shifted in the auditorium. The final run…
By Alexander Stone When Nazir Afzal, the chancellor of the University of Manchester, co-authored the Class Ceiling report in January 2026, he expected confirmation of…
By Sara Bright The UK creative industries generate £123bn in gross value added to the economy and employ 2.42 million people. They are, by the…
By Alexander Stone When Blue Origin announced on 30 January that it would pause New Shepard flights for at least two years, the company framed…
By Tessa Nolan Two years ago, Chappell Roan was working at a donut shop in Los Angeles, seriously considering giving up on music. This February,…
By Tessa Nolan In the modern music industry, careers are supposed to follow a predictable arc. An artist breaks on TikTok, surges through algorithmic playlists,…