Category : Focus

Post Office exec regrets 'malcontents' comment

Patrick Bourke said he now regretted describing sub-postmasters as self-indulgent "malcontents".

‘I am gross, animal and carnal’: Luna Carmoon on her disturbing, stinky-scented new film

She sprays her sets with scent made from sweat, saliva, blood and sperm – and her unearthly debut about a hoarding mother is bagging awards and acclaim. We meet the wildly talented young director whose next film will be ‘an anti-man manifesto’To reac...

‘Otherworldly’: spiked clay sculpture by unknown Mexican ceramicist wins Loewe Foundation craft prize

Starry awards ceremony honours Andrés Anza as artisans notice increased interest in their workOn Tuesday night in Paris, a front row of Pharrell Williams, designers Rick Owens and Michèle Lamy, and Delphine Arnault, chief executive of Christian Dior,...

The village that fell into a river: Sim Chi Yin’s best photograph

‘One woman heard tree branches snapping and jumped out of bed – just in time to see her mattress float away as the back half of her house melted into the darkness’I started my Shifting Sands series seven years ago to look at how the world is running...

Pushing Buttons: Big studios are making big cuts – but indie gems like Animal Well are still out there

A wave of innovative indie games bring a sense of optimism to an industry in urgent need of a confidence boost• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereIt’s a deeply unhappy time for game developers, as anyone paying attention...

Renters in race for homes as listing time slashed

Two-bedroom flats were listed for 35 days before the pandemic, but the average has dropped to 25 days.

Easing US inflation stokes interest rate cut debate

Consumer prices in the US rose 3.4% over the 12 months to April, easing from 3.5% a month earlier.

Jonathan Yeo’s portrait of Charles III review – a formulaic bit of facile flattery

A psychedelic sea of lurid reds and a clunking monarch butterfly cannot save this superficially observed and carelessly executed bland banalityIt’s hard to be objective about an artist you like as a person. I recently met the painter Jonathan Yeo – w...

Steve McQueen: Bass review – ‘Like an underground shooting gallery of dub’

Dia Beacon, New York StateDefying narrative, the artist mixes LED lights and colour with ricocheting music inspired by West Africa, resulting in a throbbing show that sucks the air from your lungsThere are neither images nor narrative in Steve McQuee...

Rome, Open City review – Rossellini’s blazingly urgent masterpiece from a city in ruins

Roberto Rossellini’s 1945 neorealist drama is unsparing in its depiction of the heavy price of both resistance and collaboration with the Nazi occupationRoberto Rossellini’s 1945 film is a blazingly urgent and painful bulletin from the frontline of I...

More than 200 authors renew call for Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuel

Fossil Free Books’ statement also demands that the book festival sponsor stops investing in ‘companies that profit from Israeli apartheid, occupation and genocide’More than 200 authors including Naomi Klein, Sally Rooney and George Monbiot have signe...

Brighton festival: Lived Fiction/Fault Lines review – revolutionary dance

Corn Exchange/Dance Space, BrightonStopgap and Lîla Dance deliver poetic and political work at this year’s festival, displaying bold innovation and evocative visions‘It’s impossible to create art that meets the needs of everybody. There may be moment...

Period trackers 'coercing' women into sharing risky information

Research finds poor data management practices such as not being able to delete data about abortions.

UK Israeli film festival to go ahead despite calls for boycott

Organisers of Seret international film festival say it has been a challenging few months but ‘we are not going to cave’The organisers of an Israeli film festival that is due to open in the UK on Thursday have pledged to push ahead with the event desp...

‘Reading her stories is like watching a virtuoso pianist perform’: Alice Munro remembered

The Ontario-born writer turned the ‘classic New Yorker-style short story’ into the highest form of literature, by taking an obsessively detailed interest in the people who lived in her small Canadian townAlice Munro, Nobel winner and titan of the sho...