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Kimberly’s story: the tragedy that changed British legal history
On the night of 27 July 2023, Kimberly Milne jumped to her death from a road bridge.Her suicide came after months of mental health crises, compounded by a campaign...
A moment that changed me: I saw a big cat on Dartmoor – and no one believed me
I was 11, with a handful of friends on a school trip to Dartmoor. We’d set up our tents near the edge of a camp, which was mostly empty.The...
Trailblazers, trumpets and the theramin: 10 soundtracks that changed the way we listen to movies
The music of cinema’s earliest years played a crucial role in how audiences – with a live pianist or organist soundtracking the silent movie – experienced the stories on...
Super League at 30: how the sport has changed for matchgoing fans
The first season of Super League kicked off on 29 March 1996, when 17,873 people watched Paris Saint-Germain beat Sheffield Eagles 30–24 at Stade Charléty. The opening fixture might...
Come at the king … HBO changed TV forever, but is its crown under threat in the age of streaming and Trump?
It’s not TV. It’s HBO.” It might have seemed like a hollow brag at the time, but this aggressively assertive tagline marked the beginning of a new era in...
A moment that changed me: I applied mucous-tinted mascara – and loved the reaction
I wore makeup for the first time just after I turned 12: a tube of green mascara from a pound shop in my home town in south Wales. This was...
And the winner is … all of us? How the Oscars have changed for the better
Last year, as the major fall film festivals took place around the world, it was hard to make out the sound of audience applause. It wasn’t an attendance issue...
Ireland’s basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck | Caelainn Hogan
I won the lottery. Out of around 8,000 artists, my name was randomly chosen to be one of the 2,000 who the Irish government would pay a basic income....
A moment that changed me: I was planning to be a musician – then I had my ears syringed
The first sign that something was wrong was a static noise that emerged suddenly in my left ear. It was 2008 and a doctor had just syringed my ears,...
The play that changed my life: ‘There were cheers, screams and gasps at our story – we couldn’t believe it!’
I’d never heard of The Boy at the Back of the Class before I was asked to adapt it in 2023. My son had just turned one when Onjali...