Sparks fly at the Celebrity Traitors round table and a 'terrifying' death march

Spoiler warning: This article reveals details from the fifth episode of The Celebrity Traitors, series two.

They asked for 80 homes – she gave them 157! Council-housing miracle named Britain’s best new building

If Andy Burnham is looking for inspiration for his great “council housebuilding comeback”, he would do well to visit Croydon. There, nestled into a steeply sloping site, sheltered by a canopy of ma…

Two 1960s London housing estates saved from demolition after decade-long battle

Two architecturally celebrated council estates in south London that have been under threat of demolition for more than a decade have been saved.

From a VR gay sauna to the gothic pile that inspired Cluedo – Fierce festival storms back

The phrase “two things can be true” is a frequent refrain in popular psychology and it’s also a frequent response, I find, to witnessing the farther reaches of live art. Hmm, is this performance co…

Frieze review – you’ll see more avant garde wonders in the Bake Off tent

Naked people climb out of the earth and run around waving their arms and screaming, while someone with a bird’s head and wings plays the bagpipes. It’s my favourite artwork at this year’s Frieze bu…

Vermeer by Andrew Graham-Dixon audiobook review – a sharp and authoritative guide

In the decades after the death of the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in 1675, few knew his name or work. He was so unknown that his paintings were sold with the forged signatures of more popular art…

Kartal wins again as impressive comeback continues

Britain's Sonay Kartal continued her impressive comeback from long-term injury with a comfortable win over former Wimbledon finalist Jasmine Paolini to reach the Wuhan Open quarter-finals.

Pope.L review – savage satire from Y-fronts-wearing trickster famed for gruelling ‘crawl’ across New York

Seven squares are pinned to the wall, each one painted in the high style of American minimalism: pure, austere variations on a theme. At the centre of each is printed the phrase “negro idea” follow…

Man Utd a circus after Martinez comments - Keane

Former captain Roy Keane says Manchester United are "like a circus" after defender Lisandro Martinez criticised the club's hierarchy.

A tour around Amy Winehouse’s private junk: five free art exhibitions to see

Alex Margo Arden: Nothing Personal

Pretty in pink: the best of PhotoMonth 2026 – in pictures

This year’s London photography festival takes you from the colourful streets of Kolkata to the grim isolation units of Guantánamo Bay

Her royal heilness: Berlin show revisits the artist who turned the Queen into a Nazi

Christoph Schlingensief certainly knew how to provoke. “Fury at German play that shows Queen as a Nazi,” read the Sunday Express’s headline after Kaprow City first premiered at Berlin’s Volksbühne …

Southgate does not see return to Premier League management

Former England manager Gareth Southgate says he does not see himself returning to club management in the Premier League.

The World Cup co-hosts where rugby league is a national obsession

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Guardiola's return, Man City's defiance - and a game of glorious chaos

Guardiola's return, Man City's defiance - and a game of glorious chaos

Brooklyn novelty shop reeling from 'surreal' row with Kelly Clarkson over mechanical bird

On a rainy Wednesday afternoon, a novelty toy and games store in the quiet Brooklyn neighbourhood of Cobble Hill was seeing much busier foot traffic than usual.

‘I must continue until I die’: inside the fight to bring Iran’s thriving art scene to the world

When the call came early one morning, Tehran resident Elham Issari knew it must be urgent. The voice on the line was offering something precious. “Miss Elham,” he said excitedly, “I have a single t…

A dominatrix and her tightly bound client: Giada Ripa’s best photograph

Ten years ago, my dad called to say he had found these amazing images hidden under piles of maps and stuff in an attic in our family home in Piemonte, northern Italy. He had come across a leather-b…

Big scorelines, one-sided games - are Women's World Cup play-offs working?

One of the main reasons for Tuesday night's results was that only one team from the league phase groups received automatic qualification.

‘At war with the obvious’: the everyday genius of William Eggleston – in pictures

As a new exhibition looks at how the pioneering photographer sparked a colour revolution, his son, William Eggleston III, explains his father’s unique approach

Russell T Davies criticises BBC boss's 'clumsy' AI Doctor Who comments

Longtime Doctor Who writer and showrunner Russell T Davies has criticised the new BBC director general over comments he made about an AI-generated episode of the show.

Lena Dunham's Girls to return for limited HBO run

HBO's award-winning show Girls will return to screens for a limited run ten years after the series finale aired.

Our memorial garden helps us grieve - a cemetery felt too far away

Image source, Emma Moore

Saka responds to Arteta's challenge with 'huge impact'

Bukayo Saka responded to the challenge set by Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta as he proved a game-changer in the 3-0 Champions League win over Lille.

'Unplayable' Stanway a free-scoring warrior for Lionesses

Stanway's strikes in the last five days capped off a season in which she finished as England's top scorer and netted 11 times in her last 11 matches.

Writer Yiyun Li lost both of her sons. When words fell short, she turned to music

Yiyun Li won the Pulitzer Prize for her 2025 memoir, Things in Nature Merely Grow. Hannah Yoon/Macmillan hide caption

How Breaking Bad's RJ Mitte changed the way we see cerebral palsy

Figure caption, 'Disabled or not, everyone deserves an opportunity,' RJ Mitte says in 2015 BBC interview

Larger Than Life review – Wallace, Gromit and the gang say cheeeese for hilarious Aardman origin story

Nothing is safe from the scourge of immersification. They’ve turned Gustav Klimt and Vincent Van Gogh into vast, projection-mapped digital environments; they’ve told the stories of the moon landing…

50 years on from Arts Britain Ignores: how much has changed for black and Asian artists?

It is 50 years since cultural historian Naseem Khan’s challenge to the British arts establishment was first published, and the question of who and what counts as British continues to be contested.

Our Bodies Have Been Bridges review – riveting portraits and the story of the first woman on Earth

In the 1990s, the late Chicana artist Laura Aguilar was living with depression. A friend took her on a road trip to New Mexico, where Aguilar made some nude self-portraits in the mystical landscape…

Georg Baselitz: The Heroes review – astonishing paintings take a savage swipe at history

When the German painter Georg Baselitz died this year a chunk of Europe’s rapidly diminishing historical memory went with him. Baselitz was born in 1938, experienced Hitler’s Germany and the second…

Does Norris-Piastri crash show 'papaya rules' failing? - F1 Q&A

Red Bull's Max Verstappen dominated the Singapore Grand Prix weekend, winning the main race and the sprint.

Home is where the jellyfish glows: Finland finally warms to nature-loving modernist Alvar Aalto

In the early 1950s, Alvar Aalto built a boat to get to his remote summer residence on an island in Lake Päijänne, about 200km north of Helsinki. But the celebrated Finnish architect was not a happy…

Is Man Utd's Fernandes issue a symptom or reason for their form?

It is only seven weeks since Bruno Fernandes stood in the Manchester Opera House and spoke of his pride at being named PFA Player of the Year for 2025-26.

I lost my hair to MS treatment - now my wigs are worn by Naomi Campbell and Serena Williams

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Tarek Atoui’s Turbine Hall review – hallelujah, it’s raining musical instruments!

On the floor of the Turbine Hall, there are wide water basins and huge flattish rough-hewn rocks you might see on moorland or in a desert. You can sit or stand or climb on them. But if you look up,…

Zverev secures year-end number one ranking

Alexander Zverev is guaranteed to finish the 2026 season as world number one after Carlos Alcaraz's surprise defeat in the Shanghai Masters.

A job that changed me: As a jeweller, I wanted to avoid sweatshops. Then I realised I’d built one for myself

I’ve been a jewellery maker for some 30 years, making silver and gold pieces that are influenced by my visual arts background. Initially I sold my jewellery at markets in Adelaide and in some bouti…

Prem Sahib: Chamber review – master of unease twists the city into terror and pleasure

Prem Sahib turns the city inside out, twists it around and rips it apart. His show at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, a sort of mid-career survey for the 44-year-old English artist, is full of …

Gabrielle Goliath: Elegy review – devastating lament is a furious, single-note call to action

The sound of mourning spills out into the streets. A single, endless wailing note echoes out of the basement of Ibraaz, a relatively new cultural centre in London’s Fitzrovia. This is Gabrielle Gol…

Chagall or Lenepveu or both? Row over Paris opera house dome enters legal arena

In 1962, the then French culture minister, André Malraux, reportedly bored by the ballet he was watching at Paris’s opera house, raised his eyes to the classical ceiling and decided it needed a mak…

‘We’re in a brotherhood now’: the Bill Pickett rodeo – photo essay

The image of the cowboy widely portrayed in westerns and popular culture has long been almost exclusively white. Yet Black cowboys hold an important place in the history of the American west. After…

What happens to sports kit that never gets worn?

What happens to sports kit that never gets worn?

Pine cones, glitter and a hip-hop head for sale: red-hot artists reveal their Frieze stunners

First held in 2003, the Frieze art fair is a giant art supermarket that descends on Regent’s Park, London, every October. Some detest it for its blatant commercialism, others relish it as the oppor…

Robert Pattinson on new film Primetime and how hunting predators became hit TV

Robert Pattinson is having quite the year.

‘Enough of this suffering!’ Joana Vasconcelos on why she is fed up with women’s art defined by pain

To interview the Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos is to jump on to a moving train. She is telling me why she uses needlework to make huge things: 15-metre doilies, say, or a tree 13.5 metres tal…

Sacha Baron Cohen to star in Quentin Tarantino's West End play

Borat actor Sacha Baron Cohen will star in a new play in London's West End from Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino.

Winless and an 'easy touch' - what's happened to the Anfield fear factor?

It is early days but Andoni Iraola will know that if his time at Liverpool is going to be a success, then he must make Anfield a fortress again.

Sensational Smith, relentless quicks - Australia veterans serve reminder

First Test, Durban (day three of five)

Cherki sparkles but who must do more? - player ratings for Liverpool v Man City

Alisson: Could do nothing to keep out Erling Haaland's strike then beaten by a beauty from Jeremy Doku and some solid footwork from Rayan Cherki. 5