Star of Only Fools and Horses became part of sitcom aristocracy and was also a classy raconteurThe used-car dealer whose forecourt it would be wise to drive past at speed is a social and cultural stereotype. However, the comedy Rolls-Royce of the profe…
Roland Mouret and Rejina Pyo defy convention at London fashion week
With diving models and female-directed Greek odysseys, this years event felt anything but ordinaryLondon fashion week is back, but not back to normal.Roland Mouret, whose regular pre-pandemic fashion week turn was a catwalk show at the National Theatre…
The weekend’s best photos: London fashion, KyivPride and a skinny dip
The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading…
Nino Castelnuovo obituary
Actor best known for playing Guy Foucher in the French musical film classic The Umbrellas of CherbourgThe actor Nino Castelnuovo, who has died aged 84, starred in one of the indisputable masterpieces of 1960s French cinema: Jacques Demy’s heartbreaking…
Lindsey Buckingham: Lindsey Buckingham review – the sunniest pop and its flipside
(Reprise)Exiled from Fleetwood Mac, the singer-guitarist’s sparkling latest album foreshadows his recent troublesLindsey Buckingham’s seventh solo album was originally slated for a 2018 release, but three years of personal tumult saw it repeatedly push…
Only Fools And Horses actor John Challis dies aged 79
Man who played Boycie in the beloved BBC sitcom had cancer and died ‘peacefully in his sleep’The Only Fools And Horses actor John Challis has died “peacefully in his sleep, after a long battle with cancer”, his family have said.Challis was best-known f…
National Trust: outcry at plans to fence-off Wiltshire park for private tenant
Critics say loss of public access to 31 acres of Dinton park goes against charities’ core valuesFor years, the rolling landscape of Dinton park has been a favourite haunt of dog walkers, runners and seekers of tranquility. When it snows children sledge…
Always Red by Len McCluskey review – bluster of a righteous brother
Candour and insight play second fiddle to a romanticised history of the left in the former Unite leader’s memoirLen McCluskey is a chess enthusiast. During his 11-year tenure as the general secretary of the 1.4 million-member “super union” Unite, he ke…
Tion Wayne: Green With Envy review – a bid for rap’s top table
(Atlantic)The chart-topping MC tilts at the mainstream with mixed resultsGirls, gangs, guns, Edmonton Green: Tion Wayne (Dennis to his mum) is the ladies’ hard man who boasts about boning as much as he does defending the block. Previously best known fo…
Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty review – the most sublime show of the year?
Dulwich Picture Gallery, LondonSlow, determined and infinitely hard-won, the woodcut prints of the late American artist transcend their rigid medium with visions of radiant liberationThe show of the season, if not the year, is a sequence of 36 visions …