‘This made me smile’: our readers’ favourite coronavirus street art
Houses, roads and shops all over the UK have been redecorated and reinvigorated during lockdown
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The 100 greatest UK No 1s: No 19, Lil Nas X – Old Town Road
The TikTok phenomenon was a knowingly silly ode to the underdog that spawned a thousand memes – and laid bare bigotry in the country music establishment
The best films of 2020 so far
Adam Sandler is a gem of jewellery dealer, Dev Patel is inspired casting as David Copperfield, while Keira Knightley disrupts the 1970 Miss World contest in these top picks from the UK release schedule this year
Forget Titian, here’s a talking dog! Is this digital art’s big moment?
A film noir about a cluttered flat, an animated canine, Yesterday whistled in a corridor … artists in coronavirus lockdown are making the leap to digital. Can they stop people switching over to Netflix?
Betty Wright, US soul, funk and R&B singer, dies aged 66
Singer with remarkable vocal range had been sampled by generations of hip-hop and R&B artists, including Beyoncé and Mary J Blige
Lockdown diary: ‘There’s a gran isolating in a tree communicating by catapult!’
Like man buns on scooters and ukulele busking, Covid-19 has now spread to the north from London – inspiring a coronavirus soapcom from our self-isolating comedy-writer
Miriam Margolyes: ‘The government is utterly deplorable. The world is in chaos’
Promoting a show about travelling Australia from lockdown in London, the British-born actor shares her views on both her home countries
Linda Boström Knausgård: ‘I would like to be seen as a person and author in my own right’
The Swedish author, whose life was laid bare in controversial novels by her ex-husband, is successfully reviving her own career
‘Visual poetry’: taking physical languages beyond the Deaf community
Here/Not Here, a new film by Bim Ajadi, is aiming to bring the visual vernacular art form in to the mainstream
Sunday with La Roux: ‘I miss my family, but daily walks help’
The singer and songwriter on dealing with solitude, her favourite cafe and why she’s hooked on Frasier
Through my lockdown lens: 11 leading photographers capture their confinement
Acclaimed photographers from around the world share a single image reflecting on their experience of the coronavirus outbreak
‘I came face to face with Dennis Nilsen’: poet laureate Simon Armitage
The former probation officer tells Desert Island Discs of the time he was in ‘a tiny room’ with the serial killer