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Blitz and the truth about London’s greatest wartime horror

Apple TV+ Oscar-winner Steve McQueen’s latest film offers a new perspective on life in the capital during the devastating 1940-41

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The boy who lived a secret life in World of Warcraft

Netflix When Mats Steen died at the age of 25 in 2014 from a degenerative muscular disease, his parents, Robert

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The Booker Prize-winning writer whose novels unbutton the sex lives of Britain’s gay social elite

BBC (Credit: BBC) Ever since his 1988 debut The Swimming-Pool Library caused a stir, Hollinghurst has captured the hedonism of

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How Monet’s paintings changed the way we see London

Christie’s Images A new exhibition charts how Claude Monet’s revolutionary, fog-shrouded visions of the Thames would “irreversibly alter how London

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How James Cameron’s ‘science-fiction slasher film’ predicted our fears about AI, 40 years ago

Alamy Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the 1984 blockbuster The Terminator has become synonymous with the dangers of superintelligent machines. But it

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How a shocking drag queen became a mainstream icon

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) The late muse of director John Waters, Divine delighted in inspiring outrage and disgust on

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Six books to help understand the US and its politics

Bloomsbury Press, University of California Press, W W Norton & Company (Credit: Bloomsbury Press, University of California Press, W W

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Rivals review: ‘Racy, glamorous, camp

Hulu/Disney+ (Credit: Hulu/Disney+) The TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster is full of “terrible people” and “inappropriate jokes” – it’s

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Why Gang of Four’s Entertainment! was the most blistering debut album of all time

Andrew Corrigan (Credit: Andrew Corrigan) The British post-punk band’s 1979 LP was a revolutionary mix of abrasive guitar and subversive

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Leigh Bowery and the taboo-busting subculture that shocked 1980s London

Brendan Beirne/ Shutterstock (Credit: Brendan Beirne/ Shutterstock) From shocking performances to extraordinary costumes, how performance artist and style icon Bowery,