Britney SpearsBritney Spears denies reports of a new album: ‘I will never return to the music industry’Following rumours that Charli XCX and Julia Michaels had been approached to present songs for a new album, the pop star said that she only writes for fun or for other artists
Britney Spears has denied reports by Page Six and the Sun claiming that the pop stars Charli XCX and Julia Michaels had been asked to write songs for a new album by the singer. Read More...
BooksFood for thoughtAs a child, he was deeply affected by an encounter with famine victims. Now an Oxbridge academic and Nobel prize winner, he has spent a lifetime fighting poverty with analysis rather than activism. Known in his native India as the Mother Teresa of economics, his ideas have had a global impact. Jonathan Steele reportsAmartya Sen went to a school in Bengal which promoted curiosity rather than exam results, and he has never forgotten how one of his teachers summed up a classmate: " Read More...
Edinburgh festival 2022ReviewAssembly Rooms, Edinburgh
Lester Purry is at home performing the late playwright’s breezy yet purposeful collection of stories from his youth, in its European premiere In the hands of a lesser playwright, you can imagine this memoir by the late August Wilson to be fodder for the chatshow circuit. Here is the anecdote about his first teenage crush. Now, the one about his string of dead-end jobs. Next comes his friendship with a junkie poet, his three days behind bars and his life-or-death encounter with a jealous husband. Read More...