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The defense secretary said his prayer drew on Ezekiel, but wording closely matches Quentin Tarantino dialogue

From Noam Chomsky to Larry Summers, elite intellectuals shared more than they want to admit with Jeffrey Epstein

As Metallica et al broke through, Kreator, Sodom and Destruction were forging an even harder sound. They recall gigs in coalmines, sessions in steelworks – and boozing with Slayer

As a child, the singer loved to start fires. As an adult, he was barely less chaotic. He discusses Bez, charisma, ADHD, his new memoir – and why making music is great, even if the record industry will...

The soul sensation – who started off as a white redhead – is seemingly taking music born of authenticity and community and reducing it to code. What does it mean if we the making of music is handed ov...

Half a century ago, the famed New York venue run by a former marine and folk singer was ground zero for the punk and new wave scenes. Now the bands who played there are being celebrated on a 101-track...

Hold a Parliamentary Debate on Palantir’s Role in UK Defence, Security & Public Services

Community action stopped the climate-wrecking Whitehaven coal mine. Now, its backers are suing the government in a secret corporate court – and UK taxpayers could pay millions. Polluters should never ...

First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...

As Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights gets a boost from a new film adaptation, we survey the surprising, seditious and sensual ways in which prose has influenced pop

Gay porn in the 80s was home to beautifully moody synth music that is only now getting rediscovered – tragically too late for many of its creators

Hobbycraft removes product from sale after parent sent samples to a lab for testing but declines to issue a recall

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Why cover this song? From David Bowie's 1974 album Diamond Dogs, one of my favourite Bowie albums. Diamond Dogs divided critical opinion at the time of its release but has been favourably re-evaluat

Stockport Council says it has removed bogus planning notices which had been put up detailing a fake application for a temporary structure to provide accommodation for up to 800 asylum seekers.

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Is it a protest song? Is it anti-religious? Or is it just a song of joy and hope?

‘The control room buttons were upside-down ice-cube trays, one space suit had a dish-drying rack on it – and the special effects guy wrote the theme tune lyrics’

Music photographer Barrie Wentzell shot the world’s biggest stars between 1965 and 1975. He talks us through some of his favourite moments

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

Surf pop stomper. Pic: Venice Beach, Los Angeles, 1992 by Geoff Descartes

A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine needed to collect and format some data from a website, and he asked the latest version of Anthropic’s generative AI system, Claude, for help. Claude cheerfully agr...

As his most ambitious project comes together, the artist plans to unleash a bacchanalian festival that will be his most daring public artwork yet

• Five years after the start of the Covid pandemic, thousands remain severely ill - Many housebound or often bedbound, unable to attend school, work, or take part in daily life.  Disabled, discha...

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