Published on 28/04/2026 – 13:52 GMT+2 Tony Wilson, who was best known as one of the founding members of the British soul band Hot Chocolate, has died aged 89. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Wilson’s family confirmed that the songwriter and bassist died on Friday (24 April) at his home in Trinidad. “He left a lot of music…
American Idol entered its Taylor Swift era on Sunday night (April 27), with the remaining contestants taking on songs from Taylor Swift’s catalog for the show’s first episode dedicated entirely to the pop superstar. Explore See latest videos, charts and news The theme night featured seven contestants performing tracks spanning Swift’s career, from early country…
Fade in with the dark synth tunes. Cue the DeLorean-ish flying car with the winged doors, the body splicers, the street gang and the crooked cops. Spotlight the nefarious multinational corporation pulling the strings. Arrange these elements around a ghostly buddy story about a sentient A.I. and its creator. Punctuate the completion of story beats…
PROJECT MAVEN: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare, by Katrina Manson Science-fiction authors have long fantasized about wars where machines aim the weapons and pull the triggers. In “Project Maven,” the Bloomberg News tech and national security reporter Katrina Manson claims the era of “killer robots” is here. The fusion…
For all its concerns with Germany’s future, it is perhaps most fruitfully read as a novel about fathers and sons. Judejahn (the name translates roughly to “Jew hunter”), an extraordinary monster of insecurity and wounded pride, greets his semi-estranged son’s religious turn with incomprehension and mockery. Pfaffrath, a politician formerly under the Nazis who is…
The 1850s have been called the American Renaissance, the decade when distinctive new voices emerged in prose and poetry. The great works were remarkably concentrated: from The Scarlet Letter (1850) to Moby-Dick (1851), to Walden (1854), to Leaves of Grass (1855). In her seminal 1846 essay on American literature in the New York Tribune, Margaret Fuller had called…
Kae Tempest’s new novel is dedicated to “you”, the reader. It also comes with a plea: “Be gentle though.” But to whom or what should we be gentle? The book or the writer? Having Spent Life Seeking is Tempest’s second novel, arriving a decade after his first and following a period of considerable personal change,…
Both Emily Brontë and her only novel Wuthering Heights have been called “deranged”, “crazed” or (especially online, in the wake of the recent film) “unhinged”. So it’s a relief to read a biography where she comes across, instead, as more grounded, steady, sane. Deborah Lutz, whose 2015 book The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects made…
Half Man 10.40pm, BBC OneRichard Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer comes to regular telly, having premiered on iPlayer last week. Mitchell Robertson and Stuart Campbell are both superb as weak Niall and violent Ruben, a duo of 1980s schoolboys. We flash forward to glimpse Jamie Bell and Gadd himself playing them as adults – who…
Megan Thee Stallion will be departing the cast of Moulin Rouge! The Musical early. On Monday, the Grammy-winner announced that her final performance as Moulin Rouge’s owner and MC, Zidler, will be on May 1. Megan was originally slated to stay with the production until May 17. “It’s been such an honor to be part of thee…
