Edinburgh Book Festival 2026: 604 Events, a £21 Ceiling, and the August Ticket the Fringe Can’t Match
Nothing at the Edinburgh Book Festival 2026 costs more than £21. Not John Grisham. Not Gordon Brown, not the former
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Saturday, September 19, 2026
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Reading Festival 2026: Camping Has Sold Out, and the £125 Sunday Ticket Is the Bargain of the Bank Holiday
Reading Festival 2026 is down to its last three ways in. All camping: sold out. Weekend non-camping: sold out. Every
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UK Box Office 2026: The Record £178m July That Killed Britain’s ‘Cinema Is Dying’ Story
Forty thousand people stood in an online queue last month for the chance to watch a three-hour adaptation of Homer.
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Ariana Grande O2 2026: Ten Sold-Out Nights Begin Saturday – and Not One of Them Is in a Stadium
On Saturday night in Greenwich, the most scrutinised voice in pop walks onto a British stage for the first time
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The Rapture BBC Review: Ruth Madeley and India Amarteifio Hand the BBC Its Most Unnervingly Timed Drama of 2026
Somewhere in Britain last Sunday night, someone watched a drama about a country cooking in 40-degree heat while their own
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Best British Audiobooks 2026: Nine Listens Worth Your August, from a 200-Actor Hogwarts to One Man and a Microphone
The most ambitious British production of 2026 isn’t on television. It’s an audiobook – a Deathly Hallows with more than
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Notting Hill Carnival 2026: The Free Weekend That Costs £5.6 Million to Stay Free
The best-value weekend in British live music doesn’t sell tickets. Notting Hill Carnival 2026 runs over the August bank holiday
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Van Morrison Tour 2026: On Sale Today, and Proof the Small Room Is Winning British Live Music
Van Morrison tour 2026 tickets went on sale today: ten dates, a 3,800-seat London residency, and proof the small room is winning British live music.
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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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