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Alma Singer: ‘Art can challenge what’s going on in the world’
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Alma Singer: ‘Art can challenge what’s going on in the world’

When Carla Nizzola was reborn as artist alter ego Alma Singer, she discovered the confidence to use humour in challenging what’s going on politically, socially and environmentally.

The evolution of Mean Girls on screen… from Heathers to Sex Education
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The evolution of Mean Girls on screen… from Heathers to Sex Education

In her new book, Unlikeable Female Characters, Anna Bogutskaya examines the female archetypes pop culture wants you to hate. She argues that bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women from having to be nice. Here she delves into the transformation of the Mean Girl from villain to something more human.

Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders on their Sheffield shows: ‘It feels like a victory lap’
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Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders on their Sheffield shows: ‘It feels like a victory lap’

Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders on the band’s huge Hillsborough Park homecoming shows and what fans can expect

Chevalier: Kelvin Harrison Jr on being a ‘soldier’ for overlooked Black history
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Chevalier: Kelvin Harrison Jr on being a ‘soldier’ for overlooked Black history

‘I got a letter saying I had a six-year-old son I knew nothing about. One of us had to grow up’
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‘I got a letter saying I had a six-year-old son I knew nothing about. One of us had to grow up’

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From benefits cruelty to child hunger, The Full Monty shows a welfare system stripped bare
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From benefits cruelty to child hunger, The Full Monty shows a welfare system stripped bare

First western band to play war-torn Ukraine The Tiger Lillies say it’s their ‘duty’
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First western band to play war-torn Ukraine The Tiger Lillies say it’s their ‘duty’

Aleister Crowley and the secret history of UK witches in World War II
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Aleister Crowley and the secret history of UK witches in World War II

Gina Yashere: For UK Black comics it’s a nightclub policy – ‘one in, one out’
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Gina Yashere: For UK Black comics it’s a nightclub policy – ‘one in, one out’

Robert Carlyle says the UK has had enough of the Tories as The Full Monty arrives on Disney+
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Robert Carlyle says the UK has had enough of the Tories as The Full Monty arrives on Disney+

The governments who called on sci-fi writers to predict the future
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The governments who called on sci-fi writers to predict the future

Goodbye Eastern Europe: Finding the remains of a lost world
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Goodbye Eastern Europe: Finding the remains of a lost world

Top 5 books about queer teenage romance, chosen by Helen Palmer
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Top 5 books about queer teenage romance, chosen by Helen Palmer

How classical music is finally taking Pride in its LGBT+ composers
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How classical music is finally taking Pride in its LGBT+ composers

Quiet Fires by andriniki mattis review: Realities of living as a transgender Black person in America
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Quiet Fires by andriniki mattis review: Realities of living as a transgender Black person in America

A Flat Place by Noreen Masud review: Finding a sense of self in landscapes
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A Flat Place by Noreen Masud review: Finding a sense of self in landscapes

The Little Mermaid modernises the story by going back to the 1837 original, says director Rob Marshall
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The Little Mermaid modernises the story by going back to the 1837 original, says director Rob Marshall

Can Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse save us from multiverse fatigue?
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Can Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse save us from multiverse fatigue?

Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Kitchen disco heroine challenges what it means to be a working mum
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Kitchen disco heroine challenges what it means to be a working mum

The Gallows Pole ‘reflects what the country is going through now’ says Shane Meadows
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The Gallows Pole ‘reflects what the country is going through now’ says Shane Meadows

Sydney Sweeney on the Reality of life as a whistleblower
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Sydney Sweeney on the Reality of life as a whistleblower

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Shirley Collins tells how ‘heartbreaking’ divorce stole her singing voice
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Shirley Collins tells how ‘heartbreaking’ divorce stole her singing voice

Top 5 books set in Berlin, chosen by Emma Venables
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Top 5 books set in Berlin, chosen by Emma Venables

Big Swiss review: For once, a genuinely hilarious comic novel
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Big Swiss review: For once, a genuinely hilarious comic novel

Monsters review: Do we separate the art from the artist, or boycott the work entirely?
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Monsters review: Do we separate the art from the artist, or boycott the work entirely?