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• Green Man 2026: Highlights from this year's line-up
  Every year without fail, Green Man provides one of the highlights in the UK’s festival season calendar. Consistently selling out on its day of sale, and before any names have been announced, it’s
• Preview: Boomtown Festival 2026
  This August, Boomtown is due to return to Winchester after sixteen years of expansion. This year, the festival's organisers have been promising that 2026 will be the most expansive iteration of the fe
• Preview: Reading Festival 2026
  Reading Festival is returning this year with one of their best line-ups in recent years. It features some of the biggest and best names in the world right now, among them some of the greatest new tale
• 'Music, Fashion, Film': The most misunderstood album of 2026?
  At the beginning of May, Charli xcx released ‘Rock Music’. Swapping the electronic influences of BRAT for an experiment in grunge, the song proved divisive: The Guardian called it “very funny, i
• 'Film is like a fluid glass of water. It changes shape and evaporates a bit': An interview with stop-motion filmmaker Leo Wright
  It is mid-May and Leo Wright has invited me to Yamination Studios in Birmingham, the production site of his upcoming film. He is quite an animated character himself, greeting me with an excited smile,
• ‘Asylum isn’t the objective’: Sudanese students challenge UK visa ban narrative
  On 26 March the UK Home Office imposed a ban on study visas issued to nationals of Sudan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Afghanistan. As justification for the ban the Home Office claimed that study visa abuse
• How casual game design philosophy changed over time
  What 'pop' is to music, 'casual' is to video games. Broad, accessible, familiar, and widely appealing. There's no one set formula to make a casual game, unlike an RPG or a 2D platformer. Casual games
• Interview: In conversation with Leif, Manchester's new kids on the block
  Leif are a four-piece band of friends who met during university in Manchester. They are made up of first-year Finlay Smithies (lead vocals and guitar), second year Osian Owain (backup vocals and lead
• 'Now's The Time': Jon Onabowu on going solo and the future of jazz in the UK
  The title of British-Nigerian drummer, composer and bandleader Jon Onabowu’s debut album Now’s The Time feels remarkably fitting. As an artist who has toured and performed with a plethora of mains
• A Chat with STAT
  “...and that’s always the thing, it’s deeper than aesthetic, I mean, partly that’s why I wanted to do it, it’s quite provocative, because, like, why would you be defending this –” �