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The Independent UK

Jarvis Cocker and Mary Beard announced as Booker prize judges

The historian is set to lead a ‘stellar’ 2026 panel featuring the Pulp frontman and other acclaimed writers, as the search begins for next year’s standout work of fiction

The Guardian - UK

Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker and broadcaster Mary Beard among Booker Prize judges

The literary prize panel will also feature Patricia Lockwood, Raymond Antrobus and Rebecca Liu.

Evening Standard

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Mary Beard and Jarvis Cocker join judging panel of 2026 Booker prize

Raymond Antrobus, Rebecca Liu, and Booker Prize-shortlisted author Patricia Lockwood make up the rest of the ‘stellar’ group

The Independent UK

Civilisations: Rise and Fall review – TV that will make you despair for our own plummeting society

The mightily stressful and incredibly close-to-the-bone BBC show traces the demise of four ancient worlds – and it’s wildly prescient stuff. Will we never learn?

The Guardian - UK

Caravaggio’s Medusa: why we need to look the Gorgon in the eye

The image is stark and shocking. A decapitated head, her eyes open, her mouth agape in a silent scream, her hair a nest of still-hissing snakes. Blood pours out from her severed neck. She is not quite alive, but she is not yet dead either.

The Conversation

Mary Beard: ‘I’m having the time of my life’

Classicist Mary Beard discusses co-hosting a new podcast on ancient Greece and Rome, ageing, and how you sustain a 40-year marriage.

The Independent UK

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“I was unusually nervous… You may be doing exactly the same set, but it can have a completely different vibe.” When David Gilmour revisited Pompeii and faced the ghosts of Pink Floyd

Safer pyrotechnics, local hero status and the benefit of a Wallace & Gromit movie helped make his 2017 concert movie a very different experience from Floyd’s 1972 release

Louder

Simon Schama: ‘Britain is a much more tolerant place now. I’m Mr Sunshine on this’

The historian on taking the social pulse of the nation in his new TV series, why we’re such word addicts, and his fear that the needle in the US is moving towards red

The Guardian - UK

As resolutions go, Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘nothing in moderation’ is a stinker

Between Elon Musk, a free-for-all Facebook and Donald Trump, truth and decency are likely to have a hard time of it in 2025

The Guardian - UK

Bookworms rejoice! The Waterstones Boxing Day 2024 sale is here

Read it and weep

Evening Standard

Famous Dames and women who have received royal honours, decorations and medals

From acting legends to women who have smashed through glass ceilings, the royals have honoured these pioneers and icons

Woman & Home

‘The best advice I’ve ever been given’: celebrities share their wisdom

Words of encouragement, words of courage, wise words… Some of our most influential figures share the advice that’s helped them most

The Guardian - UK

Best books on Roman history, from Romulus and Remus to the decline of Empire

A curated list for those who can’t stop thinking about ancient Rome

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Juliet Stevenson: ‘I didn’t read Alan Rickman’s diaries ... I know what my relationship with him was like’

The actor on channelling grief in her new film, speaking out about Gaza, and why she loves working with young directors

The Guardian - UK

Don’t call me a job blocker. We can’t all afford to retire

Letters: Readers respond to Mary Beard’s defence of Cambridge University’s mandatory retirement age

The Guardian - UK

Is Cambridge University right to enforce a retirement age? I think so – who wants to be a ‘job blocker’?

Some say it’s ageist, and they have a point. But whether in academia or elsewhere, it’s only fair for younger colleagues, asks former Cambridge professor Mary Beard

The Guardian - UK

The Missing Thread; Table for Two; Cinema Speculation – reviews

A female-focused history of the classical world by ‘the next Mary Beard’; Amor Towles’s elegant collection of short stories; and Quentin Tarantino’s provocative film criticism

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The Guardian - UK

Garrick club chair says ‘exceptional lady members’ may be fast-tracked

Christopher Kirker tells members that normal waiting times will apply for most women as concerns raised about tokenism

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: The Regime; Defiance: Fighting the Far Right; Baby Reindeer; Shōgun – review

Kate Winslet and co are all at sea in Sky’s directionless political satire; British Asians recall the bleak 1970s; a stalker steals a very dark comedy; and heads roll (and bounce) in Disney’s Samurai epic

The Guardian - UK

George Osborne clashed with No 10 over selection of British Museum director

Museum chair rejected demand that Rishi Sunak be able to pick candidate from shortlist of two

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant’s divisive political satire

The Regime is HBO’s latest star-studded drama – but could it be a stinker? Plus: it’s the last ever episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Garrick Club asked to consider membership for seven leading women

A group of men at the club who hope the male-only rule will change have nominated a set of possible new members

Louder

"It's like being forced by Mary Beard, wielding a vicious riding crop, to watch never-ending episodes of The Time Tunnel": Saxon's Hell, Fire And Damnation

Biff Byford lines up the history lessons on Saxon's 24th studio album Hell, Fire And Damnation

The Guardian - UK

Was Roman emperor Elagabalus really trans – and does it really matter?

Teenage ruler has become genderqueer icon but historians including Mary Beard advise caution over ‘tall stories’

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