The first rule for brown people, says the main character – played by BAFTA-winner Adeel Akhtar – in this highly entertaining ...

Wheels of Fire was Cream’s third album. Issued in the US in June 1968 and in the UK two months later, it was a double LP. One ...

A glamorous black woman sits in a Forties bar under a Vichy cop’s gaze, cigarette tilted at an angle, till two male ...

As a sometime writer of Poirot, Sherlock and Christmas ghost stories, Mark Gatiss is no stranger to enigmatic crimes and ...

There is a freshness about a show by Youssou N’Dour that never seems to get pale He still has one of the great voices of ...

The auditorium and arena were packed – and the stage even more so, bursting at the seams with players and singers: the ...

Heart of Stone (Das kalte Herz) was the first colour film produced by East Germany’s state film studio DEFA, a big-budget ...

It took until the last room of her exhibition for me to gain any real understanding of the work of Australian Aboriginal ...

What a great album – and what a great story to lift the heart in these fetid times. A story that crosses oceans and decades ...

The best-selling single so far this year in the UK is Californian singer Alex Warren’s “Ordinary”. It stayed at the top of ...

As the name suggests, the Near Jazz Experience owe a huge musical debt to jazz, but that’s not the full story by any means.

Brian Clarke died on 1 July 2025, after a long illness. He was one of the most original British artists of our time – ...