Tell Me – A Bold Fusion of Chinese Pole, Dance and Theatre Exploring Life with HIV in the 21st Century
January 20, 2026 – Following the ★★★★★ international success of The Chosen Haram, Sadiq Ali Company and Turtle Key Arts present Tell Me, a visually stunning and emotionally powerful production...
Award-winning producer Ellen Kent returns to Theatre Royal Brighton this January with Opera International Kyiv, Ukraine presenting stunning classical productions Bizet’s Carmen on Tue 27 Jan 2026 and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly on Wed 28 Jan 2026. For the 2026 tour, Ellen Kent celebrates the Farewell Opera Tour, seeing the opera company embark on its last UK tour.
Ellen Kent’s Madama Butterfly, winner of...
Since the outbreak of the current wave of protests in Iran, two sharply competing narratives have emerged to explain what is unfolding in the streets.
For the ruling establishment, the unrest is portrayed as a foreign-engineered plot. They argue it is an externally-driven attempt to destabilise the state through manipulation,...
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery is inviting visitors to brighten up January with a 2-for-1 adult entry offer. From today (Tuesday 13) to Friday 30 January, adults can enjoy two tickets for the price of one, either in person or online using the code BEATTHEBLUES. The museum’s galleries are...
Weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro work primarily by reducing hunger. They mimic a hormone the body already produces called glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), which helps regulate appetite and feelings of fullness.
By slowing how quickly food leaves the stomach and acting on appetite centres in the brain, the...
Growing up in rural India, my grandmother would feed the village dog half a chapati and a bowl of milk each afternoon, surely insufficient for its needs. The dog survived by scavenging from nearby homes. Years later, living in Delhi, I encountered street dogs refusing biscuits, overfed by households...
Most of us have experienced it: a deadline approaches, the task is perfectly doable, yet instead of starting, we suddenly feel compelled to tidy a drawer or reorganise the apps on our phone. Procrastination feels irrational from the outside but gripping from the inside. Although it’s often framed as...
One of the first modern coworking spaces, C-Base in Berlin, was launched 30 years ago by a group of computer engineers as a “hacker space” in which to share their tech and techniques. Similarly, many of the people we first encountered in our anthropological research into the emerging world...
A marathon pushes the human body close to its limits. Legs tire, lungs burn and the heart works hard for hours on end. For years, that strain has raised an uncomfortable question: does running 26 miles actually damage the heart?
The strongest reassurance comes from a new ten-year study of...
Daniel Kelly, Sheffield Hallam University
For more than 80 years, men have been told that testosterone helps prostate cancer grow. But a very different picture has emerged over the past two decades.
The prostate is a small gland that sits just below the bladder. Its job is to produce the fluid...
