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How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour became a near-religious experience

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, a “cultural juggernaut” remarkable for both its scale and intimacy, comes to an end this week.

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Gaudy or iconic? How leopard print took over

Worn by everyone from pin-ups and “mob wives” to Jackie O and royalty, leopard print has long divided opinion. As the festive season approaches, the

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12 of the best films to watch this December

Searchlight Pictures From a steamy age-gap thriller starring Nicole Kidman to a Bob Dylan biopic featuring Timothée Chalamet, these are the films to stream and

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Matthew Bourne on his Swan Lake with male swans, the show that shook up the dance world

Emmanuel Lafont/ Getty Images Celebrating the 30th anniversary of his legendary stage production, Matthew Bourne tells the BBC about the show that radically changed ballet

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Wicked author Gregory Maguire on the real meaning of the story that captivated the world

Universal Pictures Before it was a Hollywood blockbuster it was a megahit musical, and before that it was a 1995 novel. Author Gregory Maguire tells

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Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You went from modest 1990s hit to Christmas’s defining song

Getty Images When it was first released in 1994, it made a mere ripple – but 30 years on, it is a track that reigns

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The British politician who was caught faking his own death

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) When John Stonehouse’s clothes were found in a pile on Miami Beach on 20 November 1974, many people presumed that

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Why the poignant Kes is Britain’s greatest coming-of-age story

Alamy First released in November 1969, Ken Loach’s social-realist tale of a boy who adopts a kestrel still resonates and has become a timeless classic

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These five bizarre Surrealist artworks are not what they seem

Courtesy of SFMoMA, San Francisco (Credit: Courtesy of SFMoMA, San Francisco) Dismissed or trivialised by some as unserious and silly, Surrealist art was in fact

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The climate warnings in 19th Century paintings

John Brett, 1856. Photo: Tate A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers as they