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Mindboggling Magritte, artists respond to a world in peril and a squished Citroën – the week in art

The French surrealist still confounds, artists look at the past, present and future of the planet and Rachel Kneebone’s crazed delights blend into the Wallace Collection – all in your weekly dispatch This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte The confounding, mind-boggling genius of Magritte is explored through remarkable loans of his paintings plus contemporary responses by Sarah Lucas, Matthew Barney and more. • Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London, from 24 September until 12 December Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Jonathan Jones18 Sept

Fear and loathing linger as Millwall and West Ham resume ferocious rivalry

The Metropolitan police have been granted special powers to tackle violence as the south and east London teams meet again on Saturday after 14 years Absence has not made the heart grow fonder. Millwall and West Ham meet for the first time in 14 years on Saturday, but it is not going to be a joyous reunion at the Den. The atmosphere will be ferocious and the main hope is that the focus is on the football rather than any nonsense away from the pitch. These two have plenty of previous, even though they so rarely play each other. The most glaring example is the shocking disorder inside and outside Upton Park when Millwall lost in the second round of the League Cup at West Ham’s old ground in August 2009. A 44-year-old man was stabbed in the chest as trouble raged outside and riot police struggled to maintain order during the game, with play suspended briefly when home supporters invaded the pitch after one West Ham goal. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Jacob Steinberg18 Sept

‘It was a mess. I had to do something’: the personal struggle that inspired rap star Giggs to start a special needs school

After a battle to get his autistic children properly assessed, the London MC has co-founded a specialist centre in Kent to help neurodivergent kids realise their potential It has been a busy few weeks for the London rapper Giggs. Two weeks ago, he was in New Jersey with his fiancee Valerie as she gave birth to the couple’s daughter, Noa. The next day, he flew home and went straight to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to guest on stage with Jay-Z. “Yeah, it’s been crazy,” he smiles. Remarkably, as soon as Noa was delivered, he also found time to livestream from the US hospital to the launch event for his latest project: not an album, but a specialist school and assessment centre for neurodivergent children. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Ian Gittins18 Sept

Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? review – Jarvis Cocker’s wit and warmth upstage the hits

Wonderful archive footage charts the Sheffield outsiders’ unlikely rise, but the distant camerawork struggles to capture the thrill of their triumphant O2 gigs In 1978, in the classroom of a comprehensive school in Sheffield, a skinny, shortsighted 15-year-old wrote a mission statement in the back of an exercise book – a masterplan for reaching the top with the band he had recently formed with some classmates who, like him, weren’t picked first for sports. In 2023, after a hiatus of a decade, his band Pulp started touring again, and last year played to 20,000 people at each of two nights at the O2 in London. This film features concert footage from those gigs in which a still lithe, still-got-it-at-60-odd Jarvis Cocker sings his hit art-pop anthems backed by most of the classic lineup and a 10-piece string section. And interspersed with the concert footage are autobiographical musings, nostalgic archive footage, interviews with Jarvis’s mum and gran, and Cocker narrating the story of how he got from there, almost half a century ago, to here. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Laurence Phelan18 Sept
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British Airways NS27 Intercontinental Network Changes – 17SEP26

Published at 0100PDT / 0800GMT 18SEP26 British Airways yesterday (17SEP26) announced planned intercontinental network adjustment for Northern summer 2027 season. Planned operation changes include the following. London Gatwick – Kilimanjaro – Zanzibar eff 29MAY27 3 weekly 777-200ER, new route BA2163 LGW0905 – 2020JRO2120 – 2225ZNZ0025+1 – 0755+1LGW 777 257 London Heathrow – Buenos Aires Ezeiza – Santiago de Chile eff 28MAR27 1 daily 777-200ER, Buenos Aires becomes nonstop terminator instead of 1-stop via Rio de Janeiro Galeao, Santiago de Chile becomes 7 weekly 1-stop instead of 4 weekly nonstop. BA previously operated London Gatwick – Buenos Aires Ezeiza – Santiago de Chile until July 2000) BA245 LHR1925 – 0525+1EZE0715+1 – 0830+1SCL 777 D BA244 SCL1010 – 1310EZE1510 – 0830+1LHR 777 D London Heathrow – Cape Town eff 29MAR27 Increase from 7 to 10 weekly, A350-1000/787-8 operating BA043 LHR2110 – 0950+1CPT 788 146 BA059 LHR2230 – 1100+1CPT 351 D BA058 CPT1850 – 0530+1LHR 351 D BA042 CPT2325 – 1015+1LHR 788 25 BA042 CPT2340 – 1030+1LHR 788 7 London Heathrow – Las Vegas eff 30MAR27 Increase from 13 to 14 weekly, 777-200ER/A350-1000 BA271 LHR1215 – 1455LAS 777 x2 BA271 LHR1220 – 1515LAS 777 2 BA275 LHR1715 – 2000LAS 351 D BA270 LAS1705 – 1115+1LHR 777 2 BA270 LAS1720 – 1115+1LHR 777 x2 BA274 LAS2210 – 1605+1LHR 351 D London Heathrow – Rio de Janeiro Galeao eff 28MAR27 1 daily 787-8 nonstop terminator, replacing service extension to Buenos Aires with 777-200ER BA249 LHR2220 – 0550+1GIG 788 D BA248 GIG1900 – 1010+1LHR 788 D London Heathrow – San Jose (Costa Rica) eff 28MAR27 Service extends to year-round, 3 weekly scheduled in summer with 787-8 BA233 LHR1415 – 1845SJO 788 357 BA232 SJO2035 – 1345+1LHR 788 357 Other service changes: London Heathrow – Dubai eff 28MAR27 2 daily 777-200ER, instead of 3 daily London Heathrow – Singapore eff 28MAR27 1 daily A380 service maintained, instead of initially filed 777-300ER London Heathrow – Tokyo Haneda eff 28MAR27 BA005/006 A350-1000 replaces 787-9 (Overall 2 daily A350-1000)

AAeroRoutes•AeroRoutes - Jim Liu18 Sept
  • neutral toward British Airways · 99%

‘I toured with a hole in my brain. I don’t regret a thing’: punk duo Lambrini Girls on fighting extreme times with extreme measures

Their debut stormed the charts and wowed Iggy Pop, but health crises threatened to derail the Brighton duo. Now they’re back, taking aim at the manosphere, fascism and the ruling class At a last-minute surprise show in London, the British punk duo Lambrini Girls are sharing their stage with a continuous tide of crowd surfers. They move almost as one, a jumble of limbs rippling over a sea of bodies – emboldened, perhaps, by the band’s vow to double up as security guards. “If you don’t feel safe, tell us and we’ll punch them in the dick!” shouts Phoebe Lunny, the lead vocalist and guitarist. She also requests that people pick up anyone who falls over in the moshpit and goes around with the mic asking fans to introduce themselves if they are “queer legends” (there are many). “This show is as much yours as it is ours,” Lunny announces, before she and the bassist Selin Macieira-Boşgelmez pummel everyone with shouty rants, furious beats and sludgy grunge. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Kate Hutchinson18 Sept

Slowly then all at once: this emboldened Celtic alliance could spell the end of the UK | Simon Jenkins

It’s something akin to a quiet earthquake: home nations jointly declaring their wish to be freed from English domination. A big move needs a big response Monday must have been a historical first. Never before have three of the four “nations” of the United Kingdom jointly demanded freedom to vote for its dissolution. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have lost confidence in England. They declared in Cardiff that the unionist government at Westminster is “coming to an end”. There was no such Celtic alliance against the Normans, Edward I or Cromwell. Celtic MPs have never formed a voting coalition in parliament. The Victorian Liberal party advanced “home rule for all”, but that was not independence and it got nowhere. Ireland rebelled, but it did so alone. When this eventually succeeded, Britain said good riddance, kept hold of Belfast and continued to centralise power in London. Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Simon Jenkins18 Sept

American Airlines AA293 to New York diverted to London Heathrow during the night

LONDON — An American Airlines flight bound for New York made an unscheduled overnight landing at London Heathrow Airport after a medical emergency arose mid-flight over Europe. American Airlines Flight AA293, operated by a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner (registration N837AN), departed Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on September 17, 2026, at 11:15 PM local time […]

AAIRLIVE•AIRLIVE contibutors18 Sept
  • neutral toward American Airlines · 99%

Million Dollar Quartet review – jumping jukebox show reignites rock’n’roll classics

The Arts at Marble Arch, London Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis’s 1956 get-together is respun with an unsubtle script but some vigorous performances With the Arts theatre currently closed for major works, it has established a larger base next to Marble Arch. This temporary new home is now given over to some golden oldies with a jukebox musical combining the stories of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. It is almost 70 years since they wound up together one December afternoon at Sam Phillips’ Sun Studios in Memphis and recorded 40-odd songs. “Million dollar quartet” ran the caption that accompanied their picture in the newspaper. Did this impromptu supergroup share vocals on Blue Suede Shoes and did Cash and Perkins mash up My Babe and Sixteen Tons as they do here? All the evidence suggests not. They chiefly laid down gospel and spiritual numbers amid some breezy chatter kept on the recordings. Two of those, Down By the Riverside and Peace in the Valley, are kept from the original session – along with Chuck Berry’s Brown Eyed Handsome Man – in a show that uses the occasion to rotate instead through some of their greatest hits including Great Balls of Fire, which wouldn’t be recorded at Sun for another year. Even Libby Watson’s design, which turns the modest studios into a sort of checkerboard-floored rock’n’roll diner cum fairground, has a colourful arch resembling a retro jukebox. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Chris Wiegand17 Sept

Human remains discovered in London parkland identified as missing woman Joanne Sheen

56-year-old man arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder following discovery of woman reported missing in 2020 A body found in an area of London shrubland that was partially cleared of foliage by a wildfire in August is that of a woman who disappeared from Hampshire nearly seven years ago, police have said. A man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the remains were identified as mother-of-three Joanne Sheen. She was reported missing in February 2020 – having last been seen the previous December. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Kevin Rawlinson and agency17 Sept