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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
After years of skits and Shakespeare, the Black Country performer has found his biggest audience yet on Saturday Night Live UK. Phil Wang and others hail his ‘pure comedic instinct’
A cast of unknowns…
19 days ago
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Installed in my home, Bert is a conversation starter like no other. It usually begins with: ‘What on earth is that thing?’
I came across something that makes me happy every day. It’s a figurine of a c…
28 days ago
Conflict pushes companies struggling with rising costs in sectors such as steel and chemicals to the edge
In its 160-year history, Somers Forge’s furnaces in the Black Country have cast steel columns …
68 days ago
We don’t have a single verb to express smelling something nice. Welsh and Croatian, by contrast, are never caught short when something fragrant gets right up your nose
I remember the first time I reme…
4 months ago
Alison Bechdel and Joe Sacco return; plus Black Country cowboys, vengeful gods and an angling classic reimagined
Many of 2025’s best graphic novels looked to the past with mixed emotions. Growing up i…
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
It can feel wrong to encourage young people to shoot for the stars – yet if no one did, our world would be empty of the artists, actors, athletes and visionaries who give it so much pleasure and mean…
5 months ago
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8 months ago
Unlike other rock stars of the 70s and 80s, Osbourne talked like a bloke from Birmingham should talk. The teenage me loved it
In the olden days, you could listen over and again to your musical heroes …
10 months ago
I can’t explain what was going through my mind my when I splashed out on them. But I’ve spent three years trying to make amends
One day in my late teens I found a pair of jeans that fitted me nicely. …
11 months ago
Fifty years ago, the Black Country legends made Slade in Flame, about a band screwed by the music business. It tanked and almost finished them. Now, as it’s re-released, the film is being seen as a p…