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Wallace & Gromit’s Overlooked Spinoff Is Officially Switching Genres With Its Next Movie
Aardman’s Shaun the Sheep film franchise is heading in a spookier direction with its next instalment, Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, which takes the traditionally family-friendly series into Halloween horror-comedy territory. The film matters as a fresh outing for one of Aardman’s most enduring but comparatively overlooked properties, sitting alongside the studio’s…
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Every Baby Boomer Alive Remembers These 4 Must-Hear Soft Rock Hits From 1973
An article looks back at four soft rock songs from 1973 that it says will resonate strongly with baby boomers, highlighting the genre’s popularity during that period. The piece serves as a nostalgic retrospective rather than a report on new developments, focusing on chart performance and background details for each track. – “Daniel” by Elton…
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Here’s what Charli XCX played as she invited Underscores on stage to kick off ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ headline tour in Philadelphia
Charli XCX opened her North American ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ tour in Philadelphia, playing a career-spanning setlist that mixed new material with fan favourites. The show marked the live debut of ‘Persona’ and saw the singer bring tour support act Underscores on stage for a duet, continuing celebrations of her latest album released in July. The…
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Germany’s hard-right AfD party wants arms factory in their state that can provide ‘appropriate resources’ to deport immigrants
A senior figure in Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has said the party would welcome weapons manufacturing in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, arguing the output could supply resources for mass deportation and repatriation campaigns. Ulrich Siegmund, likely to become the state’s next leader after the AfD’s historic election result, made the comments…
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‘I love a bit of mischief!’ Liza Tarbuck on why she’s swapping her Radio 2 mic for a potter’s wheel
Liza Tarbuck has spoken about leaving her long-running Radio 2 Saturday evening show, joining a wave of high-profile presenters departing the BBC station. Her 14-year tenure had built a devoted following, and her exit prompted an outpouring of grief from listeners, making her the latest in a string of big names to leave Radio 2…
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Trump begins Ireland visit with government talks and golf
US President Donald Trump has arrived in Ireland for a two-day visit, one of the largest security operations in the country’s history. He will hold a courtesy call with Irish President Catherine Connolly and a bilateral meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin, before attending the Amgen Irish Open golf tournament at his own Doonbeg resort in…
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‘Immature playground boasting’: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI’s latest scalp
Mathematicians have reacted with unease after OpenAI announced that its latest AI model had solved a Millennium Prize Problem, a class of notoriously difficult mathematical puzzles that had resisted human effort for decades. The breakthrough came not from a flash of insight but from deploying vast computing resources at the problem, prompting concern about what…
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
Author and activist Naomi Klein has released a new book, End Times Fascism, co-written with Astra Taylor, which argues that the world’s super-rich are exploiting climate breakdown and financial instability to entrench their own power in a “post-democratic” future. In an interview, Klein describes how extreme concentrations of wealth produce a “deranging” psychological effect that…
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Reform could be the biggest party if Burnham calls an early election, leading polling expert says
Sir John Curtice, the UK’s leading polling expert, has warned Andy Burnham that calling an early general election would be risky because Reform UK could still end up as the largest party in the House of Commons, despite recent turmoil within Farage’s party. Although Labour has surged since Burnham became prime minister, Curtice said current…
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Deportation-anniversary reflections, coal plant ruling, Trump dollar coin and Irish MRSA outbreak lead
Twenty-fifth anniversary tributes to 9/11 survivors feature alongside a court ruling against Trump’s Michigan coal plant order, brisk sales of the new Trump dollar coin, and an MRSA outbreak in Ireland traced to a bouncy castle; plus AI in courts and Irish civil service.