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One of the world's greatest living composers, John Adams, has a new opera, and the prompter keeps Anthony and Cleopatra from flying off the rails.

Ron Gittins' imaginative creations transformed his otherwise normal looking house

The genre-splicing pair’s sharp, concise songwriting makes for a mindblowing blast of distorted noise-pop – and destroys the narrative about who gets to make rock music

'Assassin's Creed: Origins' turns back to clock to when The Brotherhood and Cleopatra were born

Boris Johnson’s predicament is as inevitable as the asp at Cleopatra’s breast. Boris, who is an old friend of mine, has a penchant for the classics and one only wishes he had paid them more heed. His career has a symmetry with the plotlines of Oedipus and the Iliad. The…

Opera singer with a remarkable theatrical presence once described as ‘the Cleopatra of the lyric stage’

The very sight of emeralds inspires one’s imagination, stirs the senses, and offer endless miles of winding trails to enjoy walk through the woods any day of the year. The garden scene is incomplete until the light illuminates the shards of the garden floor as you peep into the windows…

For people looking to press pause on ageing, it hasn’t always been as easy as it is today. Throughout history people have used all sorts of outlandish anti-ageing skincare techniques – such as bathing in donkey’s milk as Cleopatra supposedly did, or applying mercury directly to the skin, as the…

Our reporter spent the Bank Holiday weekend at Pontins and said it has stood the test of time