Category : Focus

Uber makes changes to Super Bowl ad after backlash

The firm has edited its advert that was criticised for making light of food allergies.

Emma Gladstone obituary

Dancer and artistic director of the Dance Umbrella festival known for being an innovative force in the industryEmma Gladstone, who has died of cancer aged 63, was a woman of impeccable taste. As artistic director and chief executive of the London fes...

Ex-minister: I wish I had asked more questions about Post Office

Labour's Pat McFadden admits MPs' concerns about the Horizon scandal were raised when he was a minister.

Contents of Charles Darwin’s entire personal library revealed for first time

300-page catalogue details thousands of books, journals, pamphlets and articles in naturalist’s libraryDetails of Charles Darwin’s vast personal library, from a paper on epileptic guinea pigs to the Elizabeth Gaskell novel he adored, are being publis...

Thong-wearing protesters bare their bums in opposition to calls for G-string ban

Throngs of thong-wearing protesters bared their bums on Australia's Gold Coast as they showed their opposition to calls for a ban on G-string bikini bottoms.

The Settlers review – Leone-inspired western packs a venomous bite

A landowner in Tierra del Fuego sets three men to clear a ‘safe route’ through native lands in this menacing shakedown of colonialism and its revisionistsFrom its thunderous score, which sounds at times like someone dismantling an orchestra with a ma...

Seiji Ozawa obituary

First Japanese conductor to gain recognition in the west who achieved superstar statusSeiji Ozawa, who has died aged 88, was one of the leading conductors of his generation. Though his place in the pantheon of truly great conductors was questionable,...

Scrap trigger warnings for theatre audiences, says Ralph Fiennes

Audiences should be ‘shocked and disturbed’ by the impact of theatre, says Schindler’s List and Harry Potter actorTrigger warnings for theatre audiences should be scrapped because people should be “shocked and disturbed” by what they see, the actor R...

‘I will always choose laughter’: Izuka Hoyle on Big Boys, Boiling Point and feeling brave

Having won a Scottish Bafta for Boiling Point, closely followed by a& pitch-perfect comedy performance in Big& Boys, Izuka Hoyle is red hot. Here, she tells Hayley Campbell why now is the time for big decisionsIt was last New Year’s Eve, on a yoga ma...

Cillian Murphy: ‘I’d happily appear in Peaky Blinders again’

The Bafta and Oscar-nominated actor says he would like to reprise his role as the Birmingham gangster Thomas Shelby The Oscar and Bafta-nominated Cillian Murphy, a hot contender to win best actor awards for his portrayal of Robert Oppenheimer in Chri...

‘It’s frustrating’: Fleabag star Andrew Scott urges West End to slash ticket prices

Actor says seats costing £150 are driving away young people and risk keeping theatre ‘elitist’Actor Andrew Scott has suggested cheap theatre tickets should be put on a “sale rack” so that young people can see West End productions without having to sp...

Jamiroquai bassist Derrick McIntyre dies in car crash

Tributes paid to 66-year-old musician after Hertfordshire police confirmed he died in collision last weekThe bassist Derrick McIntyre, who was part of the band Jamiroquai and lent his strings to songs by Emeli Sandé, Will Young and Beverly Knight, ha...

Occupied City review – a mantra-like meditation on Nazi-occupied Amsterdam

Steve McQueen’s four-hour-plus documentary, with commentary of life in the Dutch city during the second world war set to images from the present, feels more like a gallery installationSteve McQueen’s latest project – a marathon documentary about the...

On my radar: Dave Eggers’s cultural highlights

The American author on whale watching, Kehinde Wiley’s hypnotic paintings and an indispensable Canadian singer-songwriterDave Eggers was born in Boston in 1970, raised in Illinois and now lives in San Francisco with his wife, the novelist Vendela Vid...

Sharon Osbourne: ‘I’ve always been magnet for drama’

The TV personality, 71, on getting into shape, worrying too much and moving back to the UK with OzzyI’m someone who’s always said what’s on her mind – then it’s gone. But other people won’t let it go. They don’t like confrontation and they don’t like...