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Craig McLean meets the twenty-something pioneers
The National Theatre's production of the Greek tragedy 'Medea' features music from the art-pop duo. Holly Williams goes backstage
The director remains wary about on-demand services
There’s something we make on these islands that we export in great quantities: television shows.
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Bartholomew Beal reinterprets TS Eliot's famous poem in a new exhibition
Veep writer Simon Blackwell gives his tips on conquering the US TV market
But who cares what one snobby critic thinks when box office takings are going through the roof, asks Archie Bland
Melissa McCarthy takes all the pratfalls in erratic comedy
Review: Imaginative storytelling returns with vigour
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Let me ask you this: 'Why are superheroes often orphans?'
Though I am not an expert on either ancient mythology or modern superheroes, I'll mix some metaphors and suggest that family loyalty could too easily be an Achilles heel.
Latitude 2014: Redefining the music festival
Latitude, now in its ninth year, continues to push the boundaries and be a source of inspiraton
Jung Chang: The author of 'Wild Swans' on ruthless empresses, English pubs, and why email monitoring is nothing new to her
In Wild Swans, you speak about being encouraged to inform on people from a young age. How did that culture leave its mark on you?
British politics are now 'too bland' for good comedy, says Armando Iannucci
Iannucci is to concentrate on Veep, his hit HBO series following a hapless vice president played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Ancient Egyptian statue's £15.8m auction is 'catastrophic' for Northampton, says Watchmen writer Alan Moore
This is the latest in a trend of councils looking to raise money by selling their arts collections
Potential ban of same-sex partners in ballroom dancing competitions may amount to 'illegal discrimination', say equal rights campaigners
Currently there is nothing to prevent same-sex couples from competing against mixed-sex partners at any of Britain's ballroom dancing events
Medea: How Goldfrapp scored the Greek tragedy
The National Theatre's production of the Greek tragedy 'Medea' addresses itself to the modern condition, helped by music from the art-pop duo. Holly Williams goes backstage
The Week in Comedy: Why the vote's no laughing matter for Scottish stand-ups
If you're visiting the Edinburgh Fringe next month, you might expect comics to be cracking jokes about the referendum for Scottish independence, which takes place just weeks after the festival ends. But for many stand-ups it will be a case of, as the Scots say, haud yer wheesht on the subject. One funnyman from north of the border told me it has become "toxic" and there are even some No supporters among stand-ups who genuinely fear violence if they go public on how they will vote.
Is maverick master builder Bjarke Ingels the world's smartest architect - or just the craziest?
From a power station topped with a ski slope, to a flood-defence park in Manhattan - there's no such thing as 'can't' for this architect- 1 Game of Thrones author George RR Martin says 'f*** you' to fans who fear he will die before finishing Westeros saga
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- 3 PornHub begs users to stop uploading video clips of Brazil getting beaten 7-1
- 4 Why I'm on the brink of burning my Israeli passport
- 5 L'Oreal cuts ties with Belgium supporter Axelle Despiegelaere after hunting trip photographs
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Sustained immigration has not harmed Britons' employment, say government advisers
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Australia facing international condemnation after turning around Sri Lankans at sea
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7/7 memorial defaced on anniversary of 2005 attacks with ‘Blair lied thousands died’ graffiti
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Even when it brutalises one of its own teenage citizens, America is helpless against Israel
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Socialist Worker called to apologise over ‘vile’ article saying Eton schoolboy Horatio Chapple's death is ‘reason to save the polar bears’
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Emergency data law: David Cameron plots to bring back snoopers’ charter
Topman: Tips from top stylists
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