Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

HISTORICAL FACTS: Beckett | History Defined

10 amazing covers by massive metal bands that you’ve (probably) never heard

Iron Maiden going full prog! Ghost doing the Beatles! Black Sabbath smashing Smoke On The Water! Only completists have heard these extraordinary covers

Metal Hammer

Swinney apologises on behalf of state for failures in ‘Beastie House’ report

A 75-page report published on Wednesday found several children at the centre of a Glasgow abuse ring were failed by authorities.

Evening Standard

Ghost Stories by Siri Hustvedt review – life after Paul Auster

What’s it like to lose your partner of more than 40 years? The novelist and essayist reflects on going from ‘we’ to ‘I’

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

The Scene In Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man That Left Tim Roth Thinking ‘People Are Gonna F—ing Hate Me’

I get why he thought that.

Cinemablend

The Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man ending is 'another Game of Thrones situation' — and leaves me hugely worried for the sequel spinoff series

We all wanted our own farewell for Tommy Shelby. But not only do I not think the Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man ending was the right choice, but it ruins the franchise's future.

TechRadar

Shonda Rhimes reveals the qualities her ideal life partner would have if she wrote him like a character

Rhimes has created some of TV’s biggest heartthrobs on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘Bridgerton’

The Independent UK

How to Make a Killing: Jessica Henwick Teases Behind-the-Scenes Script Shaping With the Cast [INTERVIEW]

'How to Make a Killing' is in theaters on February 20

The Mary Sue

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

What is a ward in Bridgerton season 4?

Bridgerton Season 4, Part 1, introduces Benedict's love interest, Sophie Baek, who first appears as the mysterious 'Lady in Silver' at a masquerade ball. Sophie, the illegitimate daughter of the late Lord Penwood, shares a dance and a kiss with Benedict at the ball before disappearing at midnight, leaving him…

The Independent UK

The play that changed my life: ‘Waiting for Godot revealed that less is more – it made me fearless’

A school production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, with Nigel Planer in the cast, provided a lesson in forgetting about failure

The Guardian - UK

Jane Goodall’s grasp of chimpanzees and ‘alpha males’

Brief letters: A primatologist’s legacy | Beckett’s influence on Macron | Left over what? | Gilbert & George | A call to Noah Vale

The Guardian - UK

Sheriff finds ‘systemic failure’ by council after death of girl, 13

Robyn Goldie died in July 2018.

Evening Standard

Council found at fault in case of girl who lay dying while mum went to pub

Child protection measures should have been put in place before Robyn Goldie’s death, inquiry finds

The Independent UK

The Cave review – dark-humoured tale of brothers’ emotional descent

Tommy Tiernan and Aaron Monaghan are given comedic free rein as a pair of hapless, homeless siblings in Kevin Barry’s Beckettian take on rural dysfunction

The Guardian - UK

Pamela Rabe shines in this hypnotic revival of Samuel Beckett’s classic play Happy Days

Samuel Beckett is justly regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century – and unquestionably one of the most demanding. Few of his works illustrate this more clearly than Happy Days, first performed in 1961, and currently playing at the Sydney Theatre Company.

The Conversation

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Krapp’s Last Tape review – Gary Oldman’s arresting one-man Beckett is a startling piece of theatre

Oldman gives an emotional encounter with his past selves as he single-handedly directs, set-designs and performs Samuel Beckett’s existential monologue

The Guardian - UK

The Life, Old Age and Death of a Working-Class Woman review – a son confronts his mother’s decline

Didier Eribon’s guilt and shame fuels an angry and eloquent meditation on our attitudes towards the elderly and the end of life

The Guardian - UK

Carol McNicoll obituary

Ceramic artist whose richly decorated everyday objects such as cups or jugs were given a surreal twist

The National (Scotland)

New Scotland 'top judge' appointed following 'long and distinguished' legal career

SCOTLAND’S new second top judge has been appointed following a “long and distinguished” legal career ...

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Metal Hammer

"The perfect soundtrack for moshers who like to party...this feels like the beginning of something special." Alt Blk Era's Rave Immortal has officially announced one of the most exciting new bands in alternative music

Formed of sisters Nyrobi and Chaya Beckett-Messam, Alt Blk Era are spinning metal, hip hop and EDM into irresistibly fun new shapes

The Guardian - UK

Scottish child abuse gang members jailed for between eight and 20 years

Seven people, said by the judge to have plumbed ‘the depths of human depravity’, will be monitored for life

Evening Standard

Seven child abuse ring members jailed and warned they may never be released

A judge said their crimes inflicted ‘terrible suffering’ on their young victims.

Evening Standard

Child abuse ring members jailed for terms ranging from 20 to eight years

The seven were part of a gang which was said to have ‘plunged the depths of human depravity’.

Evening Standard

Woman who assaulted child in drugs den spared further punishment

Marianne Gallagher was found guilty of hitting and kicking the child.

The Independent UK

Sentencing of members of ‘depraved’ child abuse ring postponed until new year

The two women and five men were convicted of a range of offences last year which the trial judge said plunged ‘the depths of human depravity’.

Metal Hammer

“I just had to tell him, ‘You’ve outdone me, you bugger!’” Iron Maiden used to merely hint at their prog credentials… now they flaunt them

A selection of the NWOBHM veterans’ longest, deepest and weirdest tracks – and they weren’t all written by Steve Harris

1 2 3 4

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

North Lanarkshire Council

Sydney Theatre Company

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.