Charli xcx Music, Fashion, Film tour review – an electrifying and deafening pop evolution
Barclays Center, Brooklyn The tireless star brings her latest, somewhat over-explained album to the stage for a dazzling and euphoric show For more than a year now, I have often…
Mascots, merchandise and Mixue: the new wave of Asian fast food chains in Australia
Since 2023, a slew of fast food and quick service restaurants from east and south-east Asia have debuted in Australia, capturing the youth market and ‘little treat’ culture On a…
Macklemore pledges his $1m Ed Sheeran tour salary to Palestine
Ed Sheeran and Robert Kraft will also reportedly donate $2m each after Kraft was challenged by the rapper, who was dismissed from the tour after speaking in support of Palestine…
Earl Spencer’s memoir claims Prince Charles said of Diana: ‘We’ll forget her soon enough’
Charles Spencer’s book, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister alleges comments were made during argument over Princess of Wales’ funeral arrangements Prince Charles told Earl Spencer days after the death of…
The ‘apex predator’ of fires choking south-east Asia – podcast
Indonesia is in the middle of a climate emergency, experiencing what Nasa calls the ‘apex predator’ of wildfires. It’s burning an area three times the size of Singapore and choking…
Maiden Matt Renshaw ODI century sets up Australia win in Zimbabwe
Australia 294-8; Zimbabwe 235 | Australia win by 59 runs Batter scores 109; Nathan Ellis has figures of 5-31 in 9.1 overs Australia’s Matt Renshaw scored a maiden one-day international…
Polling turns politics into one big game. There are too many of them – and that does us no good | Jonathan Liew
Surely that’s the lesson the Reform polling furore should teach us. Politics should be about actually helping people, not mastering the line on a graph Solemn faces all round. We…
Are you outraged by Sydney Sweeney – again? More fool you | Marina Hyde
Today it’s a silly sports betting ad, but I can’t see anything she’s done that’s worth this ire. She’s in her 20s: she does dumb things. Enjoy! Would it be…
As the politicians play catchup the tech bros agree: we may only have a decade left | John Crace
US president insists that fears expressed by top experts are a hoax – and that humanity can sleep easy while he’s at the wheel We can all sleep easy. In…