The end of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Taliban advance in Afghanistan, forest fires in Greece and protests in Bangkok – the most striking images from around the world this week Continue reading…
Una Stubbs: a life in pictures
Una Stubbs – the actor whose long career took in Summer Holiday, Worzel Gummidge, Till Death Us Do Part and most recently Steven Moffat’s Sherlock – has died aged 84.Una Stubbs, actor in Sherlock and Till Death Us Do Part, dies aged 84Una Stubbs obitua…
Hindemith: Mathis der Maler review – vivid version of an unmistakably political opera
Wolfgang Koch/Kurt Streit/Manuela Uhl/Vienna SO/Bertrand de Billy(Naxos, Blu-ray or 2 DVDs)The visionary story of an artist caught up in social turmoil still resonates in this superbly conducted productionMathis der Maler is easily the best known of Pa…
Una Stubbs obituary
Sparkling actor whose long, eclectic career ranged from Shakespeare to SherlockUna Stubbs, actor in Sherlock and Till Death Us Do Part, dies aged 84Una Stubbs: a life in picturesBright and bubbly, tart and twinkly, Una Stubbs, who has died aged 84, was…
The Guardian view on the Edinburgh festivals: signs of rebirth | Editorial
They may be smaller and quieter than they once were, but Scotland’s capital has its summer arts events, and even some visitors, backThe Edinburgh festivals are back – but not as we know them. Last year was the first time since their founding in 1947 th…
Don’t Breathe 2 review – dull and dingy home invasion horror sequel
A follow-up to 2016’s sleeper smash reunites us with the murderous blind antihero yet fails to recapture even the slightest bit of tensionAs box office continues to be wounded by both hybrid release strategies and the Delta variant (The Suicide Squad i…
Scottish island castle, with barrel organ and rot issues, seeks caring new owner
Nature agency needs community-minded buyer to save Kinloch Castle, on Rum in the Inner HebridesWith red sandstone battlements, a sprung-floor ballroom, and a prized orchestrion organ said to have been made for Queen Victoria, Kinloch Castle on the Inne…
Una Stubbs, actor in Sherlock and Till Death Us Do Part, dies aged 84
TV and film actor, who also starred in Worzel Gummidge, ‘passed away quietly with her family around her’Una Stubbs obituaryUna Stubbs: a life in picturesUna Stubbs, the actor whose long career took in Summer Holiday, Worzel Gummidge, Till Death Us Do P…
Brandon Flowers’ teenage obsessions: ‘I considered an Oasis tattoo’
As the Killers release a new album, their frontman recalls his youthful love of Cheers, the Goonies and bonding over Bowie in Las VegasI grew up in Henderson, just outside Las Vegas. When I was eight, we moved to Nephi, this rural town in Utah. So at t…
Sabaya: the shocking documentary filmed inside Syria’s notorious al-Hawl camp
With car chases and shootouts, it may feel like a Hollywood action flick, but, as the director, Hogir Hirori, explains, the film is really about the exploited women and girls thereIn August 2014, after Islamic State (Isis) militants attacked the Sinjar…