Culture

We speak to the writer and curator Ekow Ekshun, and John Brandler, who collects pieces by Banksy.

Two pelicans appeared overnight on the wall of an east London chip shop: the fifth Banksy mural in five days.

The politician who led a parliamentary inquiry into reality TV told us the BBC had failed to adhere to its own duty of care policies.

We asked Giovanni Pernice and the BBC Director General Tim Davie to respond to Amanda Abbington’s allegations.

The actor Amanda Abbington says she first complained to the BBC about her dance partner Giovanni Pernice within days of starting Strictly Come Dancing.

Dame Zandra Rhodes has been a leading figure in British design for the past six decades – dressing everyone from Princess Diana to Freddie Mercury and Marc Bolan. 

The novelist and screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce has been named the new children’s laureate. At a ceremony in Leeds today, the author behind critically acclaimed children’s books like ‘Millions’ and ‘Framed’, was handed the prestigious medal by his predecessor Joseph Coelho. Mr Cottrell-Boyce has vowed to use his two years in the role to champion the…

High fashion and the headlines collide as Naomi Campbell becomes the first supermodel in history to have a retrospective at the V&A. We met its star and yes, she was fashionably late. Minnie Stephenson: It’s very rare for anybody to have an exhibition about their entire life when they’re still alive in the way that…

Barclays has become the latest big corporation to bow to pressure and cut ties with a string of UK music festivals.

Likes, shares, engagement: in this general election the battle for hearts, minds and limited attention spans is being fought on social media, not just the doorstep.

She’s been described as the Black British Bridget Jones – and now the fictional character Queenie is making the leap from the printed page to TV.

Now it’s any parent’s nightmare – your child goes missing on a walk to school.

She may have played a virtual assistant in the film ‘Her’, but Scarlett Johansson is not happy that ‘Sky’ – one of the voices of OpenAI’s new chatbot – sounds “eerily similar” to her. The chatbot was meant to herald a revolutionary new chapter in the development of Artificial Intelligence – a virtual assistant with…

It began with a single punch which led to the tragic death of 28-year-old James Hodgkinson. 

We spoke to Yungblud at The Hawley Arms in London, a pub synonymous with stars like Amy Winehouse and many more. And it is his local.