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One Album, Two Takes: ‘Renaissance’

Beyoncé’s album is a disco dazzle made for the dance floor

With a music career spanning 30 years, the Texas-born artist has made us cry, dance and fall in love

A countdown of Beyoncé’s 10 biggest tracks

With a music career spanning 30 years, the Texas-born artist has made us cry, dance and fall in love

Beyonce performs onstage during the ‘On The Run II’ Tour at Rose Bowl on September 22, 2018 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Larry Busacca/PW18/Getty Images for Parkwood Entertainment)

What you think of Beyoncé doesn’t matter, so enjoy the music

Beyonce takes no sit-down interviews and responds to no one on social media. The goal? To have us focus on the music, which we should all do

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Renaissance – The album drop of the year

Queen B fans are used to her usual surprise album drops at midnight, but this time the announcement has us looking back at her body of work

The harrying of Kathleen Stock

The bitterly polarised controversy over the status of transgender people has spawned attacks on freedom of thought and speech at British and South African universities

Doctors and nurses of Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade take part in a  farewell ceremony before travelling to Andorra to help in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, at the Central Unit of Medical Cooperation in Havana, on March 28, 2020.  (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images)
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Political pragmatism is required to survive Covid-19

Political ideologies — communism, capitalism, liberalism — and an unrealistic view of the world as we’d like it to be got us into this mess

Leonardo da Vinci, the matchmaker?

Five hundred years ago, your best bet for a dream match would have been getting your portrait done by Leonardo da Vinci.

Mary Magdalene painting the work of Titian

A painting of Biblical ”sinner” Mary Magdalene has been revealed as the work of Italian Renaissance master Titian.