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MAY 23. 2025

The man turning plastic trash into treasure

Enzo Suma’s Archeoplastica project turns pollution into art shaped by the sea – to make a point

How Gaza struck Cannes

In Cannes, the story of a photographer killed by an Israeli air strike and a lo-fi thriller offer different visions of tragedy and retribution in the Middle East

The rise of British Nazis

More and more far right extremists are being jailed - and shrill language by politicians must be partly to blame

The hidden war crime

The Imperial War Museum London’s vital, deeply uncomfortable exhibition about sexual violence in conflict

New Reform councillor already tires of “dull and boring” meetings

Just weeks after being elected, a Reform councillor asked constituents whether he should step down after failing to enjoy his first meeting

Give Trump the Nobel Prize, Tory peer pleads

A Conservative peer has written to government ministers urging them to get behind a call for the US president to win the Nobel Peace Prize

Imelda Staunton and Jenny Seagrove, the great pretenders

Two of our British theatre’s finest are outstanding in Mrs Warren's Profession and The Anastasia File

MAY 22. 2025

PR is the way to stop Farage ever becoming PM

If Keir Starmer is serious about keeping Reform out, he should reform the electoral system - and STV would boost calls for rejoin, too

Boris Johnson is finished – so of course he’ll be back as Tory leader

The disgraced ex-PM’s Brexit reset verdict was an embarrassment, but his true believers will have loved it

Ari Aster’s Eddington is not the great Covid movie we’ve been waiting for

The Hereditary director ropes Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone into a misanthropic failure of a conspiracy thriller

Corny country musical Shucked is no Book of Mormon

The Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s US hit is a sub-prime Oklahoma

Wild camping is a holiday for the soul, and now it’s legal

Landowners' pitch to ban enjoyment of the great outdoors is rightly slapped down by Supreme Court

MAY 21. 2025

PMQs Review: U-turn if you want, the lady’s not listening

Keir Starmer today performed the first screeching u-turn of his premiership. Fortunately, the leader of the opposition wasn't paying attention

Is Blackpool’s new Reform pub all it seems?

London journalists are flocking to a Lancashire hostelry dedicated to Nigel Farage's party. Pity it has an unfortunate history