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Femi Koleoso: ‘This is the solution to almost every social justice issue we have’

The Ezra Collective drummer’s cultural highlights, including a skate park with football pitches, Mexican food and Nigeria’s answer to City of God

Friday, 26 December 2025

Christmas traditions are our greatest gift

Why what we do at this time of the year becomes what we must do every year

Wednesday, 24 December 2025

The big picture: Yolanda del Amo’s companionable couple

Still and silent, with a riot of colour and pattern around them, the Argentinian husband and wife from a bygone age

Thursday, 25 December 2025

Father Christmas: a short story

In a new seasonal tale from the award-winning author, three daughters wrangle over who gets to host Dad on the big day

Saturday, 20 December 2025

Lee Friedlander’s festive fixation

Seventy years of over-the-top shopfronts, snowy yards and roadside curiosities

Saturday, 20 December 2025

Thea Sharrock: ‘One Battle After Another is an instant classic’

The theatre and film director’s cultural highlights, including the latest Paul Thomas Anderson flick, Lily Allen’s bravery and an ‘exquisite’ restaurant

Saturday, 20 December 2025

The grid: Wilson Bentley’s snowflakes

No two snowflakes are alike – and the same is true of the American meteorologist’s singular photographs

Saturday, 20 December 2025

The big picture: Kate Moss’s 25th birthday party

Richard Young gets a front row seat at a star-studded celebration

Saturday, 20 December 2025

How the media made Nick Fuentes

The rise of the far-right US activist is all down to a dereliction of editorial duty

Friday, 19 December 2025

In search of the ghosts of Christmas past

Meet the intrepid historians resurrecting the ghoulish tales lost to history

Friday, 19 December 2025

Gen-Z forgot the spirit of Christmas: drink and be merry

The Great Lock In heralds the end of hedonistic festivities

Friday, 19 December 2025

Patricia Lockwood: ‘We’re due a return of weird literature’

The Booker shortlisted author and 2026 judge on rebuilding literature in the digital age

Wednesday, 17 December 2025

‘My son wanted me to drive a Saab and work in data’

Stellan Skarsgård on family life and the sacrifice that comes with art

Wednesday, 17 December 2025

Diary of a death sentence in Trump’s America

Journalists were invited to enter a lottery to watch as Tremane Wood was due to be executed for a murder his brother confessed to 20 years ago. My name was among those picked

Tuesday, 16 December 2025

Chloé Zhao’s year of magical thinking

How dream workshops and ‘tantric polarity play’ helped the director make Hamnet

Friday, 12 December 2025

The 25 best albums of the century so far

The most significant pop records from the last quarter of a century

Thursday, 11 December 2025

Julian Assange ‘has been in prison for his virtues, not his vices’

A new film claims to expose the real story behind the founder of WikiLeaks

Wednesday, 10 December 2025

Man discovers fire... in Thetford

The 400,000-year-old fireplace that could transform what we know about human evolution

Wednesday, 10 December 2025

The big picture: Kiana Hayeri’s displaced Afghans

Facing a future at odds with the one they were expecting, the Afghans forced into the arms of the Taliban

Friday, 12 December 2025

Women beware the rise of racist romantasy

There’s a twisted eroticism to fearmongering in the ‘Yookay’, which only serves to detract from the real threat

Friday, 12 December 2025

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