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Finding Harmony: A King’s Vision review – some of Charles’s ideas are strangely trippy

Jeff Bezos gives yet another powerful person an uncritical profile. The point of this one: if we’d listened to the king, there would be no climate crisis – even if some of his ideas are a bit woo-woo

The Guardian - UK · Feb 6

‘Dior is drama’: Jonathan Anderson goes for the jugular at Paris fashion week

All eyes were on the Northern Irish designer’s debut – not just to reinvent Dior, but to jolt fashion itself out of its slump

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2025

Conspiracies, costume changes, and three-hour deep dives: inside the wild west of YouTube video essays

Mixing dense political ideas with allusions to Twilight and Donald Duck, these films have become a thrilling DIY artform – one entirely conceived, written, filmed and performed by their stars

The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2025

Shifty to The Waterfront: the seven best shows to stream this week

Adam Curtis offers up another startling deep dive into recent British history – and the new show from the creator of Dawson’s Creek is like Succession … for a fishing dynasty

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2025

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real

If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

The Guardian - US · May 22, 2025

Jon Ronson: ‘Elon Musk epitomises despicability’

The author and journalist behind ‘The Psychopath Test’ is about to kick off a UK tour revisiting his 2011 bestseller. He talks to Daniel Dylan Wray about Trump, Musk, and how aspects of psychopathic behaviour are becoming more and more acceptable in our society

The Independent UK · Oct 11, 2024

‘Kick in the teeth’: Pub landlords say Starmer’s garden smoking ban would hit industry hard

Smoking will be banned in pub gardens, and outside football stadiums, restaurants and hospitals under new government plans

The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2024

The week in TV: The Way; Breathtaking; Boarders; Joe Lycett vs Sewage – review

Michael Sheen, James Graham and Adam Curtis create a chaotic vision of Welsh revolution; ITV’s Covid three-parter favours realism over drama; and race, class and privilege collide in the BBC’s cracking new public school satire

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2024

The Way review – Michael Sheen’s thrilling new drama is like nothing else on TV

The power and ambition of this Adam Curtis-directed, James Graham-written series about Welsh revolution is utterly innovative. It’s so fresh and different you have to take notice

The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2024

‘Destroying your home town is quite satisfying’: inside Michael Sheen’s explosive Welsh revolution thriller

New TV series The Way sees Sheen team up with documentary legend Adam Curtis and Sherwood writer James Graham – to start a rebellion. The team talk dirt, destruction and civil war

The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2024