Marriage review – Sean Bean and Nicola Walker are pitch perfect
This clever drama about a 27-year relationship is full of slow, steady reveals that are sparse and deeply affecting. The actors’ rich, detailed performances will...
‘The house was freezing’: life during blackouts of 1970s Britain
With winter power cuts a possibility amid energy crisis, some Britons remember them as ‘very ordinary’
When Judy Young first saw the government’s response to concerns...
Cassie and the Lights review – family drama glows in the darkness
Underbelly, Edinburgh
Alex Howarth’s hugely moving play has plenty of humour and a homemade aesthetic, while asking tough questions about parenting and the law
When Cassie and...
Hanoi brings back loudspeakers as old-school propaganda methods return to Vietnam
Speakers to be installed across capital for daily pronouncements as government’s plan labelled ‘archaic and redundant’
Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi is famous for its noise pollution,...
What the Marble Arch Mound architects did next: a skyscraper shaped like Albania’s national hero
A building with the aquiline profile of a 15th-century warrior is the latest proposal by MVRDV to transform Tirana, the capital of Albania. But not...
Wind, hydrogen, no demolitions: how next PM can put UK on net zero path
Boris Johnson’s plans are behind schedule and the CBI says Britain is falling behind Europe and the US
There is little mention of Boris Johnson’s...
‘I was very shaky when I started acting’: Hannah Einbinder on Hacks, standup and sexual identity
After building a career in comedy, the 27-year-old landed her first screen role in the series about the relationship between two female comics. And after...
‘It’s madness’: Ukraine holds breath as Putin turns nuclear plant into frontline
Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe’s largest, being used as cover by Russians firing missiles into Ukraine-held territory
On one side of the...
‘The west doesn’t want Russians partying in the streets of Europe’: calls grow for a visa ban
As EU politicians debate a ban from the beaches, Russian exiles fear a return to Soviet-style isolation will be dangerous for them
Ukraine says it will target Russian soldiers at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
Volodymyr Zelenskiy vows troops based at Europe’s largest nuclear plant will become ‘special targets’
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said his forces...