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Jewellery, buttons and a conceptual bra: how the Royal Mint boss found a new source of money
In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower in September, throngs of fashion elites were flocking to a makeshift catwalk along the French capital’s Avenue de Saxe.
Paris fashion week was in full swing. But as the likes of
Vogue
editor Anna Wintour and Olympic diver Tom Daley took their …Rob Brydon: ‘Ruth Jones is the closest thing I have to a sister’
Born in Baglan, south Wales, in 1965, Rob Brydon’s father was a car salesman and his mother a teacher. He attended the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama but left aged 20 to work for BBC Radio Wales. Jobs followed on regional TV, shopping channels and advert voiceovers, before …
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It might seem odd to award the number one slot in the best films of 2024 list to a picture I first saw in May 2023, but Jonathan Glazer’s piercing portrait of the family of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf …
From Charli to Jilly to Moo Deng the hippo: the faces we won’t forget from 2024
POLITICS
Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel’s longest-serving prime minister ends the year under an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, and taking the stand in a long-delayed corruption trial at home.
is also in a …‘She won’t disappear’: Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyers on what she will do next
It took just over four years, and 67 days in court, but Gisèle Pelicot is said to feel “relieved and appeased” about the judges’ decision to convict all the men accused of raping or sexually assaulting her while she was drugged and unconscious.
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‘We’re figuring out cool ways of storytelling’: how TikTok is changing the way we watch musicals
When Jorge Rivera-Herrans released part of
Epic: the Musical
last Christmas, he managed to push Taylor Swift off the top of the US iTunes album charts. So there is a lot at stake when the final instalment of his musical retelling of the Odyssey is released on Christmas Day. …Letters from Lord Byron, Elizabeth I and Benjamin Franklin among collection discovered in British stately home
Baron Edmond de Rothschild was one of Europe’s richest and best connected men. But his lifelong hobby – hunting the autographs of the famous – was more akin to that of an idolising youngster.
Nine decades after his death, more than 220 letters he collected over 60 years have just …
Fury channels destructive intentions for deeply personal Usyk rematch
This has been a year like no other for Tyson Fury. He has again earned vast fortunes but, as he prepares to climb into the ring to once more face Oleksandr Usyk in the early hours of Sunday morning in Riyadh, 2024 has until now been defined most clearly by …
Oscar Wilde was vibing before the Beach Boys | Letters
Jess Cartner-Morley provides an insightful and witty history of the mercurial concept of “vibes” (
‘It’s game over for facts’: how vibes came to rule everything from pop to politics, 14 December
). “The story of vibes begins with the release of the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations in 1966,” …