Author: Emily Davis
Labour challenges Badenoch to back billions for public services and tax rises
Labour has thrown down an immediate challenge to the new Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, to back Rachel Reeves’s budget plans for big increases in tax, [more…]
‘We deserved to lose’: Mikel Arteta has no complaints after Newcastle defeat
Mikel Arteta had no complaints about his side’s defeat at Newcastle but refused to concede that the title race is all but over. “I am [more…]
Liverpool back on top after Salah completes comeback win over Brighton
Battered and bruised for 48 first-half minutes by Brighton, top of the Premier League after 96: Liverpool’s mentality monsters live on. A second-half transformation, another [more…]
Antoine Semenyo makes difference as Bournemouth topple Manchester City
Manchester City could not play through their pain barrier. As a run of 32 Premier League matches unbeaten came to its end, they creaked. Ageing, [more…]
Michael Mayo: Fly review – a bravura fusion of original work and jazz standards
The fluctuating divide between soul and jazz has become more blurred than ever, as this young American singer first attested on his acclaimed 2021 debut, [more…]
Robot retrieves radioactive fuel sample from Fukushima nuclear reactor site
A piece of the radioactive fuel left from the meltdown of Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been retrieved from the site using [more…]
Laura Marling review – a sumptuous performance, with strings attached
The first night of Laura Marling’s five-show residency at Hackney church on Tuesday seems, perhaps, the wrong gig to be reviewing. The atmosphere is rapt, [more…]
Death toll rises as protesters rage against Mozambique election result
Silvio Jeremias was on his way home from his job at a petrol station on the night of 25 October, in Mozambique’s capital Maputo, when [more…]
‘I am the industry!’: Keke Palmer on being Hollywood’s queen of content
In an era when social media has turned us all into products to promote, Keke Palmer is the whole damn corporation. As a one-woman multimedia, [more…]
Bill Nighy: I stole complete works of Shakespeare to help me get into drama school
Bill Nighy once stole the complete works of William Shakespeare from a library to help him get into drama school – but says he now [more…]