But for the Munich air disaster, Duncan Edwards would have played in the 1966 World Cup. Bellingham is his natural heir

I decided to get a good night’s sleep instead of staying up to watch England v Mexico. That was a mistake

Tech bro opposition to a new tax initiative in California sheds light on the presiding philosophy of the extremely wealthy everywhere

The first-ever staging of How It Is last for six hours and embraces the city’s life-loving seduction

The author and children’s laureate on the dangers of the digital world and the reading divide

The artist, who has died aged 88, always embraced colour and vibrancy, from his early days in sepia-toned Bradford to his Californian adventures

From K-Pop to kimchi, Korean culture seems all the rage in the west. A show of rare national treasures will explore the country’s creative stirrings

A cliff-top walk in Cornwall leads to the birthplace of wireless communication

On a tour of George Michael’s haunts in Highgate and Hampstead, the author talks about writing a book about his childhood idol, and why his bestsellers Empireland and Empireworld will be his last word on colonialism

The Illuminated Man, begun by Christopher Priest and completed by his widow Nina Allan, is a poignant meditation on pain and art

In 1989 Prince’s take on Donald Trump was a jester-like response to American capitalism. Almost 40 years on, the irony is still lost on Trump

In her defiant portraits, the photographer recasts the narrative around victimhood, giving the women and their relatives the humanity they deserve

In this episode, the editor of The Observer's New Review Tim Adams speaks to trailblazing publisher, editor and author Margaret Busby about her illuminating new book Part of the Story. Drawing on six decades at the heart of British publishing - from being the UK's youngest and first Black female publisher to championing overlooked voices across the African diaspora - Busby reflects on a career of breakthroughs, barriers and bold choices. 

The playwright on the ‘extraordinary forgiveness’ behind his play Punch

Four decades ago, David Cope became one of the first to develop a computer programme that could compose music. The industry reacted in horror – can art truly be art if it was created without feeling?

Full of the joys of spring, In Bloom offers an illuminating history of plants in painting

Leaked deposition videos reveal how young ideologues, armed with AI and contempt for expertise, set about dismantling American public services

The Epstein files were meant to bring transparency. Instead they left us sifting through fragments – images, emails, stray recordings – that raise unsettling questions about knowledge, curiosity and the limits of what anyone seemed willing to ask

The Peaky Blinders creator tells how childhood memories and myths of old Birmingham villains inspired a career that now includes a film studio on the site of his dad’s old smithy

Uncovered studio reports reveal Hollywood once rejected Ian Fleming’s books as implausible nonsense. As studios increasingly turn to AI, it’s a useful reminder that nobody, then or now, has the faintest idea of what will be a hit