Mad Men recap: season seven, episode five The Runaways
Mad Men: notes from the break roomTelevisionMegan's bitterness could curdle milk, mum's the word on Ginsberg's treatment – and Betty's lost her maternal statusSpoiler alert: This blog is for those who are watching season seven of Mad Men. Don't read on if you haven't seen episode five.
Catch-up with Zoe Williams' episode four recap
This is an office made out of people who have problems with authority …For a while it seemed as though this might be the Political episode , the bit where the personal bleeds into the public.
The 1917 Russian Revolution: then and now in pictures | Russia
St Isaac’s Square 1917 and 2017 Composite: Getty/Amos Chapple/REFLThe events of 1917 changed the course of history in Russia and indeed the rest of the world. But as these remarkable pictures show, pockets of Russia’s two largest cities have endured almost unchanged through a century of revolution and the fall, rise, and fall of empire
by Amos Chapple/RFE/RL and Matt FidlerThe Russian Revolution consisted of two revolutions in 1917 that ended Tsarist rule and eventually replaced it with a communist state.
The Sugar Syndrome review Lucy Prebble's dark encounters still connect
TheatreReviewOrange Tree, London
Oscar Toeman directs a striking revival of the 2003 play about the relationship between a teenage girl and a paedophile Since Lucy Prebble’s award-winning first play premiered in 2003, the drama of online existence has been staged in bigger and ever more original ways, especially at the Royal Court in London, where The Sugar Syndrome was originally directed by Marianne Elliot. Last year, Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner tackled online racism, misogyny and the tyranny of social media with theatrical bravura, while Midnight Movie reflected on the connections and liberations that internet forums can offer those who are ill, isolated or bedridden.
Unsuk Chin: Edition album review a perfect introduction to her magical soundworld
Classical musicReviewGerhardt/Hannigan/Kim/Tetzlaff/Berlin Philharmonic/Chung/Harding/Oramo/Rattle
(Berlin Philharmoniker, two CDs & Blu-Ray)
A ravishing range of colour and texture is on display in these archive performances of the South Korean composer’s work
In 2017 the Berlin Philharmonic released itsJohn Adams Edition, taken from concerts by the orchestra. Now it has done the same with its archive of performances of Unsuk Chin’s beguilingly coloured music, recorded between 2005 and 2022. It’s a collection of six works, handsomely presented and scrupulously documented, and including a Blu-Ray Disc with videos of all but one of the performances, as well as an interview with the composer.
Weyes Blood: That I ended up making beautiful, feminine music is a surprise | Music
‘You can imagine that in a different time she might have been consulted as an oracle’: Natalie Mering. Composite: Suki DhandaThe US musician’s Titanic Rising saw her hailed as the ‘millennial Joni Mitchell’. She talks about her religious upbringing, playing in noise bands, and her new album examining our turbulent times
by Kathryn Bromwich“This music is so ominous,” says singer-songwriter Natalie Mering, better known as Weyes Blood. The LA-based artist creates sumptuous, sinuous songs that take in everything from technological alienation to the oncoming climate apocalypse.
Dolly Parton at Glastonbury 2014 review ridiculous, yet sublime
Glastonbury 2014ReviewDolly Parton rewarded Glastonbury with a performance that surely calls for a redefinition of the word "crowdpleaser"
See all our Glastonbury 2014 coverage here
Where and when: Pyramid stage, 4.20pm Sunday
Dress code: Rhinestones, more rhinestones, and an extra sprinkling of rhinestones.
What happened: Converting an entire festival full of sinners is a thankless task, particularly on the final day of debauchery, but if anyone could bring Glastonbury-goers to the light with a well-timed “can I get an amen?
Government declares the Webb Ellis is in South Africas kant | Rugby World Cup 2023
Rugby World Cup 2023 This article is more than 2 months oldGovernment declares ‘the Webb Ellis is in South Africa’s kant’This article is more than 2 months oldStatement references Mbonambi-Curry controversyWorld Rugby decided ‘insufficient evidence’ for actionThe South African government has declared that “the Webb Ellis is in South Africa’s kant” after the Springboks’ World Cup final victory against New Zealand on Saturday.
The Afrikaans word “kant” translates as “side” and it is an interesting choice of phrase by the South Africa government in congratulating the Springboks, given how widely it has been used in the past week.
Gunter Sachs obituary | Germany
GermanyObituaryGunter Sachs obituaryIndustrialist, playboy and former husband of Brigitte BardotThe term "playboy" was more than a century old before Gunter Sachs, who has taken his own life aged 78, ordered the first magnum of champagne to be sent up to his suite, yet he defined the job description during its era of optimum use, the 1960s. He later took seriously his roles as a photographer, documentary film-maker and industrialist, but fellow Germans thought of him as the crown prince of pleasure, living it up internationally on their behalf while they were at work on the production line, bolting together the postwar German miracle.
Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy by Frank Close review
Bruno Pontecorvo was an authority on the behaviour of sub-atomic particlesBruno Pontecorvo was an authority on the behaviour of sub-atomic particlesBiography booksReviewWas this Oxford nuclear scientist, dubbed ‘Mr Neutrino’, spying for the Soviets? A new biography meticulously traces his disappearance and life in Russia
Of all the precious military secrets of the second world war, none was guarded more zealously than the Manhattan Project. Winston Churchill was determined that neither the German enemy nor even the Soviet allies should know anything about the gigantic, American-led venture to build the first nuclear weapons.
Impossible to hold him accountable: DeSantis signs laws to ease 2024 run | Ron DeSantis
The fight for democracyRon DeSantis This article is more than 8 months old‘Impossible to hold him accountable’: DeSantis signs laws to ease 2024 runThis article is more than 8 months oldMeasures would let him campaign while serving as Florida governor and shield travel records from public
Ron DeSantis is using the final weeks before he reportedly launches a presidential campaign to modify Florida law to allow him to run while serving as governor and reduce transparency over political spending and his travel.