Netflix Overtakes the BBC: The 2026 TV Headline That Falls Apart in a Footnote
“Netflix overtakes the BBC” made an irresistible headline this week, and most of the press ran some version of it
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Charli XCX Music Fashion Film Review: The Best British Pop Record of 2026 Missed the Mercury by a Week
The Mercury Prize shortlist arrived this morning with twelve albums on it, and the most argued-about British record of the
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Booker Prize 2026 Longlist: A Man in a Black Bag, a Magic Prison and the Strangest Booker Dozen in Years
One of the novels on the Booker Prize 2026 longlist is about an actor who spends a university term zipped
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Mercury Prize 2026: Why Britain’s £25,000 Album Award Sounds Better in Newcastle
At half ten on Thursday morning, someone on 6 Music will read out twelve album titles, and by lunchtime a
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Edinburgh Fringe 2026: Why the Best Ticket at Britain’s Biggest Arts Festival Costs Nothing
There are 3,649 shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2026, and the best ticket among them costs nothing. Not “nothing” in
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Reading and Leeds 2026: The £325 Weekend That Stopped Pretending It’s a Rock Festival
The most revealing name on the Reading and Leeds 2026 poster isn’t a headliner. It’s Skepta b2b Prospa – a
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Tramlines Festival 2026: How a Sheffield Park Sold Out the Summer That Closed 20 Festivals
Every face-value ticket for Tramlines Festival 2026 has gone. Not the Friday. Not the Saturday, which went first. All of
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WOMAD 2026: The Festival That Cancelled a Year, Moved House and Sold Out Its Launch Day in Hours
Next Thursday, a Wiltshire estate that has never hosted a public event of any kind opens its gates to one
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Best Summer Books 2026: The Eight Reads Britain Will Actually Finish
The bestselling novel on Britain’s beaches this summer is about a Hungarian bodyguard who answers most questions with the word
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The Dark ITV Review: The Strongest Crime Launch of 2026 – And the One Decision That Lets It Down
Ten minutes into The Dark, a man walks across a Highland moor with a naked body slung over his shoulder,
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