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As You Like It review – French aristocratic trappings bring fresh comedy to Arden
A revival of As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe in London reimagines the play’s opening court scenes with the flamboyant costumes and gestures of Versailles under Louis XVI, before characters shed their finery for simpler disguises once they escape to the Forest of Arden. Directed by Sean Holmes and Charlie Josephine, the production prioritises…
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Chineke!/ Heyward/ Angel Blue review – belated premiere for forgotten Black composer
A Chineke! Prom at the Royal Albert Hall gave the belated premiere of Ballet, a 1918 three-movement work by Edmund Thornton Jenkins, a Black composer from Charleston, South Carolina, who died in Paris aged 32. The performance formed part of the orchestra’s ongoing effort to rediscover music by forgotten Black composers, reconstructed from incomplete manuscript…
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Onshore windfarms surge as North Sea oil woes and bus strikes hit Britain
Windfarm applications hit a ten-year high while North Sea decline tests the PM, Arriva bus drivers plan a strike, First Bus curbs under-16 travel, Nevada’s Hawk Fire prompts a state of emergency, and Lincoln City lose on their Championship return.
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West Brom surge back to floor Flemming-less Burnley amid transfer speculation
West Bromwich Albion came from behind to beat Championship promotion favourites Burnley 3-1 at the Hawthorns, with Isaac Price scoring twice in the second half after setting up Harry Whitwell’s equaliser. Burnley, missing injured striker Zian Flemming amid heavy transfer speculation, faded badly after the break, leaving Albion to maintain their unbeaten start to the…
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The PM is promising to fix our everyday annoyances – and I have a list to get him started | Emma Beddington
In this comment piece, Guardian writer Emma Beddington reflects on Andy Burnham’s push to tackle everyday “annoyances” – such as auto-renewed subscriptions, misleading sale prices, and capped bus fares – as a way of building public goodwill, drawing a parallel with New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s popular online campaign against the “annoyance economy”. She argues…
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What to try when an Android app keeps crashing
The article offers troubleshooting advice for Android users whose apps repeatedly crash, drawing on the author’s long experience with the operating system. It notes that crashes are more often caused by buggy app updates than by hardware problems, so the first port of call should be the Google Play Store rather than the phone itself,…
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Grand Theft Auto VI exists in its own universe
Grand Theft Auto VI has become one of the most hyped video game releases ever, and Rockstar Games appears able to weather any controversy along the way without denting public enthusiasm. Despite a huge 2022 hack that leaked 90 videos of the game, multiple release delays, union-busting accusations and the absence of a physical disc…
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Volcanoes that made history
The article explores how history’s largest volcanic eruptions have shaped Earth’s climate and, in turn, human societies, using the catastrophic 1883 eruption of Krakatau as its starting point. That explosion, which destroyed most of three islands in the strait between Java and Sumatra and killed more than 36,000 people, was the first such disaster documented…
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‘I was scared I was going mad’: Meg Mason speaks to fellow authors about the parasocial relationships that begin on the page
Author Meg Mason explores the “parasocial relationship” that readers can form with favourite writers, prompted by her own teenage bond with novelist Nancy Mitford’s books during a lonely period after moving countries. She examines why this phenomenon, recently named the Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year, appears especially strong between readers and authors, drawing on…