Reform snowflake Zia Yusuf demands safe space from ITV’s racism hunters
How can it be right that undercover reporters failed to ask permission to expose party’s racist and misogynist views? The world has gone mad. What has happened to the country…
Surfing faces a cultural reckoning as women’s voices grow louder over sexual abuse allegations | Lucy Small
A culture of silence has buried the stories of women who allege sexual assault in surf industry settings When news broke last week that a surfer had been provisionally suspended…
Tom Skerritt, Alien and Top Gun actor, dies aged 93
Actor also had roles in M*A*S*H, A River Runs Through It and Picket Fences in career spanning 60 years Tom Skerritt, the actor known for roles in Alien and Top…
With albums under threat, Raye’s Mercury win is a triumph for grand statements | Alexis Petridis
Her winning album has its longueurs, but there’s something heartening about its risk-taking – and the Mercury prize needs big bold records like this to stay relevant It was generally…
Inter Alia by Suzie Miller review – an urgent play about rape and justice is undermined by its novelisation
Bogged down by extra padding and a poorly crafted narrator, Miller’s book dilutes the potency of the original and diminishes its scope Suzie Miller’s acclaimed 2019 play, Prima Facie, was…
‘Jane Austen is for everyone’: novelist Diana Reid on adapting Sense and Sensibility – and surprising Brits with her accent
The Australian author of Love and Virtue says her nationality didn’t give her pause when she wrote the script, but Ang Lee’s ‘perfect’ 1995 film did The summer Diana Reid…
Republican leader embarrassed by Ali G film says he plans to sue Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘A liar and a pervert’
Exclusive: Michael Aboud, whose actions in what he believed to be a documentary are likely to come under considerable scrutiny, has expressed anger at the film-maker • This article contains…
I longed for my big break. Then a Nobel winner and my girlfriend showed me why success isn’t everything | Rebecca Shaw
I was reducing a creative life down to public recognition. Anne Carson’s career deserves more respect than that, and so does mine I am one of those funny little people…
Glee’s pro-LGBTQ+ vision captured 2010s hope. Can a reboot handle Trump’s America? | Alim Kheraj
The beloved high school TV show is returning in a different political climate. I’m skeptical that Ryan Murphy has the nuance this moment needs For months, Ryan Murphy has been…
In allowing coal expansion in the Hunter, Chris Minns is pouring fuel on the climate fire. His decision will come back to hurt us all | Jack Egan
The high court found NSW is responsible for emissions from burning exported coal. What message does it send when the government can step in and bypass the law? Sign up…