The effectiveness of the government’s culture recovery fund has been called into question by a new report highlighting how music festivals are currently teetering on the brink of collapse.The Public Accounts Committee is calling for…

The government is to launch a consultation into the privatisation of Channel 4 as part of shake-up of British television, ministers have confirmed.The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport announced the move on Wednesday…

The first time I watched the film Airplane! as a very young child, I laughed so hard that I choked and nearly passed out by falling head first onto a table. I thought of Airplane!…

Billie Eilish has apologised after a video resurfaced which shows her mouthing a racial slur, saying she is “appalled and embarrassed”. An edited compilation of multiple videos went viral on TikTok last week, one of…

June Osborne is officially back. After being delayed by the coronavirus pandemic – like practically every film and TV series under the sun – The Handmaid’s Tale has finally returned for a fourth season. What an agonising wait…

In 1996, hip-hop was an irresistible cultural force determined to overtake the 1970s originators as the genre’s “golden era”. Where Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Public Enemy and others defined the first musical evolution, the likes…

Bruce Springsteen fans who have had the AstraZeneca vaccine will be turned away from his comeback shows on Broadway, it has been announced. The musician is returning with a five-night run at the St James…

Thunderstorms expected through to the weekend (Getty)What could be the hottest day of the year so far is set to end with torrential downpour and thunderstorms with warnings in place across large parts of England…

Boris Johnson is looking ahead to a life outside the EU for the UK (EPA)Boris Johnson has said that a future path must be cleared through a “thicket of burdensome and restrictive regulation” to fulfil…

Boris Johnson will be warned by Joe Biden not to put peace in Northern Ireland at risk, as the UK heads for a Brexit trade war with the EU over sausages.In their first face-to-face meeting,…