The most outrageous rock doc ever
Shout Films (Credit: Shout Films) The week’s best arts and culture reads – including violence against women in crime fiction and whether The Beatles owed their success to hype. Documentary | In search of Amy Amy, a new documentary film about the short and troubled life of Amy Winehouse, by Asif Kapadia, shows her to […]
Labour’s Harriet Harman to run for Commons Speaker
Harriet Harman told Today she will run to become the next Commons Speaker Harriet Harman has confirmed she will run to become the next Commons Speaker. The Labour MP and Mother of the House – the longest continuously-serving female MP – made the announcement after the current Speaker, John Bercow, said he would stand down […]
Trump’s NHS pledge, and online gambling fears
US President Donald Trump grabs the newspapers’ attention with his denial of interest in the NHS – even “on a silver platter”. By contrast, the Guardian reports that the Labour leader is using the issue to “pile pressure” on the Conservatives. The Daily Mirror argues that Mr Trump’s denial could be taken as confirmation the […]
The rebel spirit of British style
KTZ SS/2015 (Getty Images) British menswear is known for pushing boundaries. How does this radical tradition affect fashion today? Lindsay Baker takes a look. Flamboyant radicals and unkempt rebels have long been part of Britain’s sartorial history, from louche, pantaloon-clad dandies to anarchic punks in bondage trousers. In fact youthful disruption and rebellion are as […]
Truss backtracks on public worker pay plan after backlash
Liz Truss: “I never had any intention of changing the terms and conditions of teachers and nurses.” Liz Truss has scrapped a plan to link public sector pay to local living costs following a backlash from Tory MPs and opposition parties. The Tory leadership candidate had proposed regional pay boards, in a bid to save […]
Mexico earthquake and May’s UN speech
Hello. Here’s your morning briefing: Many dead as earthquake hits Mexico The epicentre of the earthquake – which follows another measuring 8.1 earlier this month that left 91 dead – was near Atencingo in Puebla state, about 120km (75 miles) from Mexico City. Phone lines are down in the capital and about two million people […]
Building a city from scratch
(Milla Kontkanen/Alamy) Oscar Niemeyer designed a metropolis where none had stood previously when he envisioned Brazil’s capital. Jonathan Glancey looks at the success rate of ‘new cities’. The view from high hotel windows along Brasilia’s Monumental Axis, or principal street, is surely one of the most surreal to be had of any major city. Laid […]
The official briefing Tony Blair got on his first day in No 10
PA Tony and Cherie Blair arrive in Downing Street after Labour’s landslide win A warning that he and Cherie may have to spend more on clothes. An explanation of which drinks in No 10 he will have to pay for – as well as plenty of policy advice, including the need to avoid the Belgian […]
Sexism in tech is like ‘a thousand little cuts’
Stanford graduates Lea and Sasha are only just starting on their professional journey in the technology industry and they are already battle-scarred. From bosses “staring” at their breasts, to so-called “bro culture”, they say there is still a long way to go before women in Silicon Valley offices are treated the same as men. They […]
50 years of the Mustang: Design in motion
(Getty Images) Ford had specific demands for the car’s designers – it must be inexpensive and fuse European and US virtues. What they created is a true design classic, writes Jonathan Glancey. Few screeching Hollywood car chases have ever been so dramatic. For close to eleven minutes Steve McQueen’s Highland Green V8 Mustang GT390 hurtles […]