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From megalomaniac rabbits to lessons for young men: These are the best children’s books of 2024
Children's books

From megalomaniac rabbits to lessons for young men: These are the best children’s books of 2024

Drag star Le Gateau Chocolat: ‘As a Black drag queen, I’m political… even when I don’t want to be’
Drag

Drag star Le Gateau Chocolat: ‘As a Black drag queen, I’m political… even when I don’t want to be’

Danny Dyer says people looked at him ‘like scum’ while he sold the Big Issue in London
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Danny Dyer says people looked at him ‘like scum’ while he sold the Big Issue in London

How can Netflix top sexy snowman caper Hot Frosty?
Film

How can Netflix top sexy snowman caper Hot Frosty?

Ruth Jones and James Corden: ‘Gavin & Stacey finale might not be what you’re expecting…’
Exclusive

Ruth Jones and James Corden: ‘Gavin & Stacey finale might not be what you’re expecting…’

Steven Frayne, formerly known as Dynamo: ‘I didn’t know where Steven ended and Dynamo began’
Letter To My Younger Self

Steven Frayne, formerly known as Dynamo: ‘I didn’t know where Steven ended and Dynamo began’

Top 5 weird fiction books, chosen by short story writer Lena Valencia
Books

Top 5 weird fiction books, chosen by short story writer Lena Valencia

Rom-com master Richard Curtis on Christmas, Love Actually and criticism: ‘You change with the times’
Christmas

Rom-com master Richard Curtis on Christmas, Love Actually and criticism: ‘You change with the times’

How consumerism and colonialism helped make dogs the pets we know and love today
Dogs

How consumerism and colonialism helped make dogs the pets we know and love today

Grand Theft Hamlet: Why these unemployed actors staged a Shakespeare play inside a video game
Film

Grand Theft Hamlet: Why these unemployed actors staged a Shakespeare play inside a video game

Rumours review – an absurdist satire of the G7 summit that should make us all a bit afraid
Film

Rumours review – an absurdist satire of the G7 summit that should make us all a bit afraid

Ripcord by Nate Lippens review – acid-tongued meditations on middle-aged homosexuality
Books

Ripcord by Nate Lippens review – acid-tongued meditations on middle-aged homosexuality

Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse review – language pared back almost to the bone
Books

Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse review – language pared back almost to the bone

House of the Spirits author Isabel Allende: ‘I have regrets – I hurt my family badly’
Letter To My Younger Self

House of the Spirits author Isabel Allende: ‘I have regrets – I hurt my family badly’

Top 5 new queer books, chosen by author Rachel Dawson
Books

Top 5 new queer books, chosen by author Rachel Dawson

People expect the deep ocean to be filled with monsters. This is what it’s really like
Environment

People expect the deep ocean to be filled with monsters. This is what it’s really like

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The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas? review – spine-tingling scenes alongside camp and chaos
TV

The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas? review – spine-tingling scenes alongside camp and chaos

‘Alcohol felt like home to us’: A mother and daughter’s story of alcoholism – and how they overcame it
Alcoholism

‘Alcohol felt like home to us’: A mother and daughter’s story of alcoholism – and how they overcame it

BBC 6 Music’s Deb Grant: These are the albums, gigs and books that brought me joy in 2024
Music

BBC 6 Music’s Deb Grant: These are the albums, gigs and books that brought me joy in 2024

Keane’s Tom Chaplin: ‘There’s a natural sense of perspective that comes with getting older’
Music

Keane’s Tom Chaplin: ‘There’s a natural sense of perspective that comes with getting older’