The Last Kingdom: episode by episodeThe Last KingdomThe Last Kingdom recap: season one, episode four – heathens can waitUhtred gets a wife, although all is not straightforward, while the rest of the episode was a delicately paced cat-and-mouse game between Alfred and Guthrum
Spoiler alert: this blog is for those who have watched the fourth episode of The Last Kingdom, showing on BBC2, Thursday nights in the UK; please refrain from posting any spoilers if you’ve seen more of the series. Read More...
‘A sceptic-converting firework display’: Adrianne Lenker fronts Big Thief at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Photograph: Andy Hall/The Observer‘A sceptic-converting firework display’: Adrianne Lenker fronts Big Thief at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Photograph: Andy Hall/The ObserverKitty Empire's artist of the weekBig ThiefReviewShepherd’s Bush Empire, London
Great on record, hair-raising live, the four-piece come to vivid, pulsating life on stage with songs full of ecstasy and frustration
One of the biggest stealth success stories of recent years has been Big Thief, a US four-piece who have blossomed from scratchy beginnings to become one of the most prolific and adored leftfield guitar bands of recent times. Read More...
From the Guardian archiveSimon HoggartFrom the archive, 31 March 1979: Car bomb kills MP Airey NeaveThe banned Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility for assassination of Tory Northern Ireland spokesman
The bomb exploded at just one minute to three. It made a cataclysmic noise and the echo crashed from wall to wall in New Palace Yard for several seconds.
In the chamber where Mr Peter Rees had just begun to speak on the Credit Unions Bill, it came as a dull rumble, and so thick and massive are the walls that in some recesses of the House it could not be heard at all. Read More...