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People have lived on the South Pacific islands of Tuvalu for 3,000 years, but rising sea levels mean it could be the first country to vanish from the face of the earth. That’s why, at risk of being swallowed by the ocean, Tuvalu is moving to the clou

Black ash still comes through Virginia Sang’s kitchen window, six years on from the Grenfell Tower disaster. It blows in off the scorched shell of a building that still stands, wrapped in plastic, a reminder that the Lancaster West estate, where she’

I left school when I was 16. Because I honestly just couldn’t wait to get on with it. I wasn’t academic. I wasn’t stupid, I just didn’t like school. So I left home to go to study business. I went to Brighton, stayed at the YMCA, occasionally turned u

As a child, Zakia was drawn to the shapes and colours of the natural world around her in Dhaka, Bangladesh where she grew up. It was this passion for the wonders of the landscape that led her to pick up pencils and brushes, playing with colour and sh

Christopher McQuarrie – the screenwriter turned director who has overseen the last three Mission: Impossible movies – is a generous raconteur happy to answer filmmaking queries on social media and podcasts. He is fond of saying that making a Mission:

Bellies, the debut novel from Nicola Dinan, is a fresh and compelling literary romance that hopefully signposts exactly where the much-saturated genre is heading in the future. It begins when Tom meets Ming at a university drag night and the two boys

Susanna Hoffs, former lead singer of The Bangles, is 64 years old but looks about 40. She never fancied Botox or surgery so her youthful appearance must be down to good genes, a teetotal lifestyle and a continued creative passion which has seen her r

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Ever had the feeling you’re lost? The sat nav on your phone thinks you’re somewhere 500 miles away, you don’t recognise the buildings around you and nine times out of 10, you’re late to where you’re supposed to be. It’s much the same if you’re like m

For two decades, street artist My Dog Sighs has been stalking the streets, cleaning up lost and discarded objects, turning them into eye-catching street art. It began in the early 2000s, with a mild-mannered teacher from Portsmouth inspired by an acc

Known for his ‘Jane Doe’ paintings of beautiful women, which examine the tension “between beauty and decay”, Rone – an internationally renowned street artist based in Melbourne, Australia – has been creating immersive art installations in abandoned b

Go to Stratford, East London, come out of the station and you’re presented with the Westfield shopping centre. Across over 2.5 million square feet, nearly 300 retailers submerge you in the horrors of life in a modern city. But in June if you turned t

A week before Covid hit and the world closed in 2020, my band The Howl & The Hum were playing a gig in Ireland for the-long-running TV show Other Voices. Huw Stephens, introducing us, made a joke about our debut upcoming album, at the time awaiting r