John McGinn’s deflected second-half strike gave Scotland a 1-0 victory over Haiti at Boston Stadium on Saturday, securing the nation’s first win at a men’s World Cup since 1990 and ending a 36-year wait for victory on football’s biggest stage. The result, combined with Brazil and Morocco’s earlier draw, sends Scotland to the top of […]
“Save your lips, because they are a finite resource.” Conductor Matt Dunkley addressed the London Chamber Orchestra’s brass section at Abbey Road in November 2025. The session had one half-day to record 32 minutes of music. Four hours of non-stop puffing and blowing. The composers—Alexis Smith and Joe Henderson, who work under the name The […]
The walk-on music was Elvis. “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” the cover version, not the Simon & Garfunkel original. Harry Styles emerged onto a stage carved into three interconnected catwalks, designed to make 80,000 people feel like they were in a club. The first thing he did was point next door. Wembley Arena, not Wembley Stadium. […]
The New York Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Saturday night at the Frost Bank Center in Texas, securing the franchise’s first championship since 1973. The Knicks took the best-of-seven series 4-1, closing out a title run that ended the longest active championship drought in the […]
Switzerland will vote on June 14, 2026, on a proposal to cap the country’s population at 10 million before 2050, a move that could reshape immigration policy and strain relations with the European Union. The referendum comes as Switzerland’s population reaches 9.1 million, with foreign-born residents accounting for roughly 27% of the population. The outcome […]
The mock wedding is the ritual. The stranger at the altar is the premise. The honeymoon, the shared apartment, the cameras filming almost every day—these are the mechanisms. Married at First Sight, the Australian version that airs on Channel 9 and reaches British audiences through Channel 4, has built an empire on the idea that […]
The beat is still there. Slower. Simpler. Charli XCX, who spent last summer demanding we dance all night in sweaty euphoria, now sings that the dance floor is dead. Not dying. Dead. “We’re walking on a runway that goes straight to hell,” she announces on “SS26,” her latest single. The cover of her new album […]
The room was not what you would imagine. No entourage. No velvet rope. No handlers signalling when time was up. Taylor Swift leaned against a kitchen counter, drinking white wine from the bottle, talking about Sally Rooney. The journalist she was talking to—the Guardian’s deputy music editor Laura Snapes, who has met Swift multiple times—describes […]
The TikTok video appeared on Monday. Border agents are placing people in handcuffs. People were ushered into cars, then into detention centres. The soundtrack: Ariana Grande’s 2024 hit Bye. The caption: “Bye-bye… President Trump has delivered the most secure border in history.” The song, a sleek pop departure, played under footage of enforcement operations. The […]
The Nike film runs almost six minutes. Erling Haaland waits. Channing Tatum plays his stunt double. Kylian Mbappé appears. Cristiano Ronaldo appears alongside LeBron James, both of them lit like X-Men. Kim Kardashian watches from the stands. Ted Lasso coaches. Travis Scott, Central Cee, and Blackpink’s Lisa—all of them pass through the frame. The football […]
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