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★★★★★ Exhibition Review: Tracey Emin - A Second Life: Tate Modern, Open 31 August 2026. Book tickets here . [Disclosure: Our reviewer attended the press preview on 25 February for free for the purposes of this review.] Tracey Emin has described  A Second Life  as a celebration of life. Leaving the press view, I experienced the exhibition as a celebration of  survival and resilience. The exhibition traces Emin’s artistic trajectory from early works consumed by trauma to recen

★★★★★ Review: Before the Millennium, Written by Karim Khan, director by Adam Karim. At the Old Fire Station until 21 December. Book tickets here . Before the Millennium is one of the best Christmas theatre productions I’ve seen in the past ten years. As a blogger, I see a great many Christmas shows. Most are retellings of familiar Christmas stories – comfortable, reliable and commercially safe. There’s nothing wrong with that – I love a Christmas Carol adaptation. Many thea

I was fortunate enough to be awarded a scholarship to Oxford University’s Cultural Leadership Programme, held at Saïd Business School over six days in November, December, and January. I've just finished the first two days - which were an intense blend of practical workshops, discussions, and lectures. This is has been a rare chance to step back, think deeply, and challenge some of the assumptions that shape cultural leadership today. Day two focused on entrepreneurship, led

[Unless otherwise stated, all items have been bought by Quaere Ltd and gifted to people in exchange for honest feedback over the life of the product.] Commuting has quietly become one of the biggest quality-of-life factors in our week. The pandemic reshaped our habits: although many of us travel to work less often, those journeys have, in the UK at least, become significantly longer. The number of “super commuters”—people travelling 90 minutes or more each way—has doubled sin