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How the Great Exhibition of 1851 still influences science today
More than three million people visit the Science Museum every year, and the site is UK’s most popular destination dedicated to science, technology, engineering. Yet this figure seems almost modest...
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Banned, burned, or simply life changing: what are the best dangerous books?
Patrick Ness, Author of The Chaos Walking trilogy and latest book The Rest of Us Just Live Here I worry that once you share a Dangerous Book, it’s not dangerous anymore. The best ones are ones you...
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Visitors to Banksy's Dismaland asked to bring ID as touts try to cash in
Visitors to Dismaland, Banksy’s “bemusement park” project, are being asked to bring ID to confirm they have not bought their tickets from touts, as touted tickets fetch up to £600 a pair online. The...
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How to put on a mega-gig
I suppose my job is one of the most peculiar involved in a mega-gig: I design and decorate unusual microphones, mic stands and the like, covering them with rhinestones or whatever, and put sparkle on...
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Ballett Zurich at Edinburgh festival review – poetry in motion
A beautiful courtliness exhales from this luminous double bill. Related: Moving sonnets: Zurich Ballet dance Shakespeare’s intimate poems Wayne McGregor’s Kairos strobes a clutch of dancers into our...
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Muhammad biopic director calls for more movies about the prophet’s life
It had the potential to be one of the most inflammatory film projects of recent times. Yet the world premiere of Iranian director Majid Majidi’s biopic of the prophet Muhammad not only passed mostly...
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The year of the Amstrad: how writers learned to love the computer
Even by the standards of the bulbous grey contraption that was the 1980s computer, the Amstrad PCW 8256 was an unlovely thing. The poet Hugo Williams, deciding to stick with his old Adler typewriter,...
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Mona Hatoum: ‘Each person is free to understand what I do in the light of who...
Mona Hatoum is wary of simplistic, ready-made judgments, all the more so because she has often had to endure their extreme brutality. Born in Beirut in 1952 of Palestinian parents, the British artist...
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Danny Baker: 'People assume I must be hiding some dark secret'
If there is one thing Danny Baker wants you to know about his character, it is that he is a very shallow man. In fact, the radio DJ, comedy writer, TV presenter and all-round loudmouth is proud of...
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Holiday guide to Almería, Spain: best hotels, restaurants and things to do
If you want to scramble down to a cove and jump into crystal clear water the colour of sapphires, spend a night drinking mojitos in the desert, lounge on the vine-covered terrace of a cortijo, eat...
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